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| KU: House of learning or den of anti-India activities | | Seminar On Shared Sovereignty -- II | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 19: What transpired during the seminar? Wajahat Habibullah preached "Azadi" for the people of Kashmir in his own typical way and denounced the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the Public Safety Act (PSA). He described the AFSPA draconian and asserted that the Army under this Act enjoys power which even the Prime Minister and President of India don't enjoy. He referred to that clause in the Act under which a soldier can shoot without obtaining prior permission from higher authorities. He did not think it desirable to also refer to the very hostile environment in which the Army and paramilitary forces are operating to defeat the enemies' evil designs. He also sought to motivate the people of Kashmir to put pressure on the state government so that the PSA is revoked, saying the PSA is a state law and New Delhi cannot intervene. Besides, he told some media persons that the people of Kashmir "mistrust India". He did not say that Kashmir is the most prosperous region of the country. Nor did he say that the people of Kashmir, who have been ruling the state since October 1947, the most prosperous community in the country. He did not refer to the woes and pains of the people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh region.
National Conference leader and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather used the occasion to advocate the autonomy doctrine. He took on New Delhi and overlooked the sentiments of the people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh region. He said that New Delhi has eroded the state's autonomy by bringing the state under the jurisdiction of central laws and institutions and that the National Conference's autonomy demand enjoys universal support in the state. He even went to the extent of asserting that the National Conference had contested the 1996 assembly elections on the plank of autonomy, which was not the case. Autonomy was one of the planks, and not the main plank. He also accused New Delhi of not honouring the promises it had made with the Kashmiri people from time to time and re-stated that if New Delhi wishes to restore perfect peace in Kashmir, it has no other option but to bind up its politico-constitutional shop in Kashmir. He also thought it advisable to not refer to the sentiments of the people of Jammu and Ladakh.
Some of the participants openly advocated a solution to the so-called Kashmir issue which should be - apart from the Musharraf's Kashmir solution -- based on the autonomy formulation and self-rule doctrine and this solution should also be coupled with "confidence-building measures". The one who put forth this solution was a non-Muslim. One of the salient features of this solution was that the solution, when implemented, would give a real say to Pakistan in "Kashmir region". This participant, whose ancestors left Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the communal partition of India in 1947, obviously didn't say anything about the needs and urges of the people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh region. It is different that the organizers of the seminar asserted that it was perhaps for the first time that people from all the three regions participated in a seminar on Jammu and Kashmir and expressed their views freely and frankly.
It is still not clear what other speaker spoke in the seminar. But one surely say that other speakers must have used the opportunity to paint the Indian state black, condemn the Indian state for "human rights violations in Kashmir" and express the view that the people of Kashmir cannot have any kind of truck with the Indian constitutional framework.
All this should serve to demonstrate that the University of Kashmir is not a house of learning; it is a den of anti-India intrigues. What is the Chancellor of Kashmir University doing? He is the Governor of the State. He cannot allow the universities under him to indulge in anti-national activities. (Concluded)
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