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| KU: House of learning or den of anti India activities | | Seminar On Shared Sovereignty -- I | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 18: Is University of Kashmir a seat of learning or is it a den of anti-India intrigues? Indeed, Kashmir University is a den of anti-India intrigues. How else should one describe what transpired on June 17 during the two-day seminar on Jammu & Kashmir and the federal models of shared sovereignty", which was organized by the Kashmir University's Political Science Department, in collaboration with a well-known pro-separate Delhi-based "think-tank" Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR)? The CDR has been quite active for years now. It has organized a number of anti-India seminars in and outside the state.
The very theme of the seminar suggested that pro-separatist elements in Kashmir and their supporters outside the Valley, including Jammu and Delhi, have planned to up the ante, vitiate the atmosphere in Kashmir, motivate the Kashmiri people to intensify their anti-India activities and humiliate the people of Jammu and Ladakh by advocating non-sense.
Some of those who participated in the hate and break-India seminar included Chairman of National Commission for Minorities Wajahat Habibullah, Kashmir University's Professors of Political Science Noor Mohammad Baba and Gul Mohammad Wani, Kashmir University's Professor of Economic Nisar Ali, Jammu University's Professor of Political Science Rekha Choudhary, NC leader and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, state Samajwadi Party president Sheikh Abdul Rehman, journalists like Muhammad Saeed Malik and Syed Shujaat Bukhari, writer and columnist Jaffar Chowdhary, People's Conference chairman Sajad Lone and CPI (M) state secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami. Students of Kashmiri University were also there in the seminar in strength.
The composition and complexion of the seminar itself suggested that it was a gathering of a selected few, who are known for their perverted views or who have all along condemned New Delhi, brazenly advocated secession and soft-secession, hailed Kashmiri Muslim identity politics as exceptionally democratic and secular, misrepresented facts, and consistently sought to impose on the people of JammuPradesh and trans-Himalayan Ladakh the will of the Kashmiri separatists and communalists. The organizers of the seminar rigorously excluded Jammu and Ladakh. Yes, two persons from Jammu were there in the seminar, but they do not represent theJammu's secular and democratic ethos. One of them has been seeking to divide Jammualong the Chenab River on purely communal lines so that the so-called Chenab Valleyregion is separated from Jammu. The other is a known Jammu-baiter and pro-separatist and the one who only recently bemoaned that the interlocutors undermined the importance of Kashmir by suggesting regional councils for Jammu and Ladakh. The fact that the organizers of the seminar ensured the participation of the India-baiters or supporters of Kashmiri separatists and Kashmiri communalists is a proof that the intentions of the organizers were not novel and that their whole objective was to mislead the Indian public opinion by distorting facts and painting things in lurid colours.
Besides, the theme of the seminar also suggested that one of their objectives was to convince the Kashmiri people and the powers-that-be in New Delhi that the solution to the so-called Kashmir problem lies in the adoption of supra-state measures or in the adoption of former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's four-point Kashmir solution. The four-point Kashmir solution of Musharraf - apart from suggesting demilitarization, self-governance and irrelevant borders -- talks of joint-mechanism or joint control of India and Pakistan over the Indian Jammu & Kashmir (read shared sovereignty). In other words, the theme of the seminar suggested that Pakistan is an important factor in the political situation of the Indian Jammu & Kashmir and that if the Kashmir issue is to be resolved, Pakistan has to be taken on board and the separatist and communal urge of the Kashmiri leadership has to be fulfilled. Jammu & Ladakh have no place whatsoever in their scheme of things. (To be continued)
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