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| Pak wants resolution of Siachen, NC for resolution of Kashmir | | Indifferent Delhi | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 16: Who is looking after the sovereign interests of India? Perhaps none. Is there anybody in New Delhi who is noting who is doing what in Jammu & Kashmir to undermine the territorial integrity of India by questioning the status of Indian Jammu & Kashmir. There appears none. In fact, the situation has worsened to the extent that even those responsible for the unity and integrity of India have started using the language which even the enemy countries, including Pakistan, have stopped using for some months now. The case in the point is the unhappiness of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over the manner in which India and Pakistan have, according to him, kept the Kashmir issue on the back burner and started focusing on certain issues in isolation, including the issue of Siachen.
Omar Abdullah on June 14 bemoaned the failure of New Delhi and Islamabad to discuss the whole Kashmir issue. He criticized both the countries for focusing only on the Siachen glacier. He insisted that New Delhi and Islamabad "should not limit their talks to Siachen only but discuss the other issues of the State as well". "Why don't they want to discuss the other issues also, why only Siachen. Why don't they talk on Sir Creek. There should be a comprehensive dialogue…Siachen too can't be de-linked from Kashmir as it is very much part and parcel of Jammu & Kashmir. Pakistan can't raise it separately'', Omar said. He took on New Delhi and Islamabad publicly at Udhampur, where he had gone to inspect the passing out parade at Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy (SKPA). The upshot of his whole argument was that there was the need for a composite dialogue between India and Pakistan leading to the resolution of the so-called Kashmir issue. He was reacting to the talks on Siachen between the Indian Defence Secretary and his Pakistani counterpart, held at Rawalpindi on June 11 and 12 - talks which failed as both India and Pakistan restated their stated positions.
What Omar Abdullah said should have raised many an eyebrow in New Delhi. For, what he said was nothing but a manifestation of his distrust in New Delhi. But more than that, it was clear from what he said that he had not reformed himself and that he continued to stick to the stand he had taken on October 7, 2010. That day, he had said on the floor of the Legislative Assembly that Jammu & Kashmir had only acceded to India and not merged with it. In fact, he had challenged the very link of Jammu & Kashmir with New Delhi. The implications of what he said on June 14 at Udhampur were no different.
Shockingly, none in New Delhi took any cognizance whatever of what Omar Abdullah said. In fact, New Delhi overlooked the Chief Minister's highly controversial and provocative formulations. Had Omar Abdullah used such a language against Pakistan while in Pakistan, Islamabad would have swung into action in no time. But New Delhi is New Delhi. Its concept of nation and of nation is different. It gives unbridled freedom even to controversial persons saying we are a democratic country and everyone has the right to say whatever he/she wants. That's the reason we have in our establishment persons who hold constitutional positions but subvert the polity from within and outside with impunity and go scot-free. This is not statecraft; this is not the way the institution of state is maintained.
Will New Delhi rise to the occasion and establish its authority by ridding the establishment of all persons with doubtful credentials and taking action against those masquerading as freedom fighters in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country? But there are reasons to believe that New Delhi, which is controlled by such persons as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will not. |
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