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| Will peace return to Kashmir after Friday? | | | Will peace return to the Kashmir
valley after Friday, the last day of
the shutdown for which the separatists have given a call ? Well possibilities seem to be bleak for the restoration of peace because since July 8, when Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani, was killed, separatists have been extending the dates for the shutdown. And since July 8 not a single day has passed without any incident of violence notwithstanding the fact that the valley has responded to the separatists' call for shutdown.
What seems to have buttressed the morale of the separatists is the shutdown in Banihal and its adjoining areas and the protest demonstration in Rajouri in sympathy with those killed in police action in Kashmir.
It has been an unending scene assuming the shape of a Hollywood movie in which one has lost the count of the dead and those injured in 27 days of violence and shutdown because each day many get injured and one to two people get killed. The impact of the shutdown has been felt by those students from the valley who are studying in professional colleges and universities in some states in India.
These hapless students have not been able to pay their tuition fee and other college/university dues. Many are upset because they have not been able to clear the hostel dues as they have failed to receive money from their parents. Not that their parents have disowned them but prolonged shutdown in banking operations have made these parents helpless in sending money to their wards as they have not been able to operate their accounts. The State Government has assigned the task to Deputy Commissioners to act as Nodel officers for these students studying outside the state and arrange money for them so that they are not faced with severe financial problems. This way people should remove the illusions that those Kashmiris who are out of the valley are better placed. See the fate of those running restaurants and dhabas in Delhi. These restaurants would remain flooded with customers who wanted to relish Kashmiri cuisines. The owners have not been able to get fresh stocks of kashmiri spices with the result the quality of cuisines has been affected. The owners have witnessed rapid fall in their business and couple of owners say that instead of cooking 50 to 60 kgs of mutton each day they were simply cooking three to five kgs of mutton. Besides drop in quality of the cuisines non-muslim clients have stopped visiting these restaurants because of the veil of suspicion and misgivings, the result of violence in Kashmir and that too over the killing of a dreaded militant.
All sections in Kashmir have suffered because of the shutdowns and violence. If there is any section which has remained unaffected is that of the separatists who have been thriving on turmoil because they find peace being their enemy. What about the poor porters and ponywallas? They too have suffered severe financial losses because of drop in the tourist arrivals. What about the hoteliers and houseboat owners ? They too fear facing hard weather in case the autumn tourism too fails. This means that hoteliers and houseboat owners fear that violence and shutdowns may get prolonged thereby crippling peoples' economy.
Well if the people of various walks suffer because of shutdowns they too are to be blamed. They must build resistance against the separatists thereby rejecting their calls for shutdown.
But these people in Kashmir are helpless because if separatists are able to see their writ runs in the valley it is because of the support from militants. Hence a major section of people fear they may be attacked by militants if they start opposing separatists for derailing peace and for paralyzing normal life in Kashmir. And if people continue to fear militants peace may elude Kashmir despite the fact that violence s going to wreck the economy in the valley and its people. |
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