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Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 1: It’s too much. Indeed, it’s blatant interference in the internal affairs of India and it just can’t be tolerated. Kashmiri Pandits, who were hounded out of their original habitat in early 1990 by Pakistani Kashmir-based agents and fanatics and believers in the two-nation theory, have natural right to return to their homes and live their as dignified Indians under the Indian Constitution. They want to lead a secure and safe life there and they have to take the final call. It is up to them to go back or not. No one can force them to go back and no one can force them to stay put in the refugee camps in Jammu and elsewhere in the country. They would surely go back once they are convinced that things in the Valley have improved, the Valley is cleared of all fanatics and Pakistani agents and a system is very much in place that empowers them to shape, mould and control fully their own political, social and economic future within the Valley and under the Indian Constitution. Such an environment can obviously be created only if the Union Government and the State government are willing to take cognizance of the circumstances which forced the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Pandits to quit their homes and hearths and concede their demand seeking separate homeland in the Valley. Had the custodians of the Indian State discharged their obligations towards the nation and not overlooked the cardinal principles of statecraft, the Kashmiri Pandits would not have vacated the Valley to become refugees in their country. Their exodus from Kashmir was the failure of the custodians of the Indian State. There should be no doubt about.
The Kashmiri parties and Kashmiri separatists cannot dictate terms and determine the time of the KPs’ return or to decide where will they live after they return to the valley. They are nobody. It is a different story that New Delhi has been behaving in a most irresponsible manner for decades now by allowing the Kashmiri parties and Kashmiri separatists to dictate terms and create a particular type of environment in the valley that frightens the minorities and nationalist forces and leads to the creation of a Muslim republic within the Indian republic. The Kashmiri Parties and Kashmiri separatists have always exploited the weak policies of New Delhi and the result is before our eyes. Similarly, their mentor Pakistan too has been exploiting to the hilt the weak policies of the Union Government.
The situation has climaxed to the point that Pakistan is openly and in a most brazen manner interfering in the internal affairs of India. Only on Thursday, Pakistan crossed the redline and opposed the idea of resettling the KPs even in “composite settlements” in the valley. It said the resettlement of KPs in separate or composite settlements would be a violation of the UN resolutions, which it itself has subverted by annexing Gilgit-Baltistan and ceding a part of the J&K territories to China, as also by not vacating the aggression.
Pakistan on Thursday said that any move to establish dedicated townships to change the demography of Jammu and Kashmir would be in violation of UN resolutions. “Any effort to establish dedicated townships or special zones to change the demographic makeup of the territory will be in violation of UN resolutions,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said at a news briefing in Islamabad. “India cannot change the population mix by settling outsiders in the Kashmir Valley,” she also said. Hers was an obnoxious statement. How could she term the KPs outsiders?
New Delhi must take note of what Tasnim Aslam said, as what she said was an affront to the self-respect of the Indian nation, as also an affront to the self-respect of the Kashmiri Pandit community. At the same time, it is the duty of the KP organizations to identify the black sheep within the community, who are acting like mercenaries act.
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