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| Adbee Kamraz Markaz may play mischief in Poonch | | Bridging gap between Kashmiri-speaking people” | | NEHA
JAMMU, July 2: Kashmiri leaders, including separatists, have been trying to establish their foothold in the strategic Poonch-Rajouri area of Jammu Pradesh, particular since 1989, when the secessionist violence engulfed the Kashmir Valley. They have been visiting this border belt at regular intervals with a view to creating Kashmir-like situation so that they could tell the international community that their movement is not confined to the Valley and that the Muslims of Jammu Pradesh are also part of it. They go there and make controversial statements, all aimed at creating distrust between the people of this belt and New Delhi. So much so, some of them brazenly accuse the Hindus of Jammu Pradesh of neglecting the people of Poonch, Rajouri, Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban. It is they who have been trying to foment anti-Jammu troubles in these areas with a view to create an environment that induces them to join Kashmir and become part of Kashmir movement.
It is a different story that the secular and democratic people of Poonch and Rajouri, including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, have never walked into their communal trap and that they have been displaying their commitment to India almost everyday. They have been defeating the Pakistani break-India game-plans. Kashmiri leaders have been seeking to communalize the situation in this border belt by cultivating those Kashmiri Muslims who migrated to Poonch and Rajouri decades ago owing to the political instability in the Valley.
Remember, Poonch and Rajouri districts, like Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir, house people who are ethnically non-Kashmiri and who are socially, culturally and linguistically very close to the Dogras. They speak Pathowari and Gojari. The Gujjar, all Sunni Muslims, have been struggling since April 1991 to obtain political reservation as a Scheduled Tribe. The Pathowari-speaking Muslims have been struggling since April 1991 to achieve Scheduled Tribe status under the Indian Constitution. The aspirations and needs of these communities are different from those of Kashmiris, notwithstanding the fact that they are the followers of the same religion or that they are also Sunni Muslims.
Besides, there exists historical antagonism between the Muslims of Jammu Pradesh and Kashmiri Muslim leadership because the latter never considered the former as part of the movement Kashmir witnessed between 1931 and till date. The fact is the Kashmiri Muslim leadership has never reposed faith in the Jammu Muslims. Nor has it even once appointed a Jammu Muslim as president of any political formation. Take, for example, the National Conference (NC). It has been in existence for almost 80 years now, but the Abdullah family is controlling and dominating this outfit ever since its inception. Sheikh Abdullah founded it to fight against the Dogra Maharaja and Jammu Pradesh and secure segregation of Kashmir from Jammu Kingdom. He appointed his son Farooq Abdullah as its present even during his lifetime. In course of time, Farooq Abdullah himself became patron of the NC and appointed his son Omar Abdullah as party president. Sheikh Nazir, a close relation of the Abdullahs, is the permanent general secretary of the NC and Mustafa Kamaal is an additional general secretary of the party. And, still there are people who describe this sectarian formation as National Conference, as also as a democratic and secular formation. The story of other Kashmir-centric formations has been no different.
That's the reason none of the Kashmir-based formation has succeeded in establishing a strong foothold either in the Poonch-Rajouri belt or in the Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban area. (To be continued)
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