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| Jammu leadership again fails Jammu | | Indo-Pak Talks | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 8: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, who has on several occasions let down India at some international forums and snubbed some very senior bureaucrats, including former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai, to hide his failures left New Delhi for Islamabad to talk to his Pakistani counterpart the highly assertive Hina Rabbani Khar with a view to taking forward the ongoing composite dialogue process between the two countries. Even before he reached Islamabad, a number of Kashmiri separatists and some so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders took the opportunity to express their views on the scheduled talks between the two Foreign Ministers. They sought to tell the international community that Jammu and Kashmir was not a bilateral, but a trilateral issue, and the three parties to the "Kashmir dispute are India, Pakistan and Kashmir". This was the standpoint of separatists. As for the "mainstream" Kashmiri leaders, they expressed the view that the talks between the two Foreign Ministers should be result oriented. They, like the separatists, left none in any doubt that they consider Pakistan a party to the "Kashmir dispute". Neither the separatists nor the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders referred to the areas which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947-1948. They consider these territories of Jammu & Kashmir the sole preserve of Pakistan.
The point is that the separatists and "mainstream" Kashmiri leaders tried to tell the international community that they would accept only that solution that respects the views of the Kashmiri leadership and that if the international community wishes to forge a lasting peace in South Asia, it has no other option but to recognize Kashmir as a third party to the dispute. By adopting this line, they went beyond the confines of the Indian Independence Act of 1947, the Indian Constitution, the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution, and even the UN resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir. No statute book, no agreement between India and Pakistan and no resolution adopted by the UN recognize Jammu & Kashmir as a third party to the so-called Kashmir dispute.
Contrast the Kashmiri leaders, whosoever they are, with the Jammu leadership and see yourself the difference between the two. Not a single Jammu-based leader, not even the one belonging to the so-called ultra-nationalist BJP, spoke a word on the scheduled India-Pakistan talks. They, unlike the Kashmiri leadership, remained indifferent and left everything to the care of New Delhi, which toys with the idea of compromising the Indian position on Jammu & Kashmir to placate Islamabad, whose single-point agenda is to destroy and bleed India, and the Kashmiri leadership, which despises everything Indian on the ground that the things Indians are not an elixir to life bat a deadly poison. The Jammu leadership should expressed its views and told New Delhi that it will accept only that outcome of the India-Pakistan talks that enables New Delhi to take back from Pakistan the occupied territories and that they will reject outrightly any such outcome that has the potential of diluting Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir even marginally or giving legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism.
The Jammu leadership cannot act in the manner it has acted so far. It has to respect the Jammu mood, assert and neutralize the baneful influence of those in Kashmir who want the State's separation from India on purely religious grounds. It has everything to gain and nothing to lose by following a courageous policy. Will it do what is needed the post? Let's wait and see. |
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