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| Separatist camp in Kashmir continues to be a divided house | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 7: That the separatist camp in Kashmir is a divided house is evident from the way hardliners and moderates have adopted diverse postures on Chief Minister, Mufti Mohd. Sayeed's recent statement in which he had given credit to Pakistan, militants and separatists for having created a conducive atmosphere for peaceful polling and for high polling percentage.
Soon after the Mufti aired his views on the issue both the JKLF Chief, Mohd. Yasin Mailk and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads Hurriyat Conference (G), a conglomerate of hardliners, criticized him for having given credit to separatists and militants for ensuring peaceful polling. Malik said that the central Government had initiated stern steps for forcing people to cast their votes.
And the camp, led by Geelani, said that peaceful poll process and high polling percentage were possible only after the Government jailed many senior separatists and placed under house arrest others which prevented them from campaigning in favour of their poll boycott call. In fact the Geelani camp described Mufti Sayeed's statement as ridiculous as it was not based on facts.
Surprisingly moderates among the separatists, headed by Molvi Umar Farooq, has appreciated Chief Minister, Mufti Mohd. Sayeed for having credited the Hurriyat Conference and Pakistan for the successful conduct of the elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Another area of differences between the two camps. After Mufti Mohd. Sayeed indicated that he would persuade Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resume talks with Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists APHC Chairman, Molvi Umar Farooq, announced that he and his colleagues were willing to hold talks with Modi. He made it clear that he was ready to hold talks with the Government of India, particularly with Narendra Modi, for the peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue. He added that it all depended on the political will to solve the Kashmir issue. Be it A.B. Vajpayee or Narendra Modi "We have no problem in entering into a dialogue with anybody. He also favoured trilateral talks so that separatists were involved in the talks between India and Pakistan.
Against this the hardliners are silent over the issue. In the past these hardliners have not evinced any keen interest in holding talks with the previous central Government, one led by Atal Behari Vajpayee and the other headed by Manmohan Singh. The talks with the Kashmir separatists stand suspended since 2006 and Manmohan Singh opted for a round table conference of all political leaders, including separatists. But separatists, both moderates and hardliners, did not attend the roundtable conference on the plea that there was no fun in sharing the table with those whose views on the Kashmir issue were well known.
In the past, Geelani has stated that he was willing to hold talks provided India accepted that Kashmir was a disputed territory. He had stated that he would be glad to join talks with New Delhi provided Delhi supported the UN resolution on Kashmir which provides for holding a plebiscite which would allow people of the state to exercise their right of self-determination.
Molvi Umar Farooq makes it clear that talks could succeed in resolving the Kashmir issue if they were held among leaders of Delhi, Islamabad, Srinagar and Muzaffarabad. However, the hardliners have yet to make their stand clear. |
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