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| ‘Could have made a difference but missed the bus’ | | Dulat releases Shah's autopsy report | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 6: Former RAW chief AS Dulat has been making revelation after revelation since the past one week. The latest revelation is about Shabir Ahmad Shah. Dulat has said Shah was all set to become the Chief Minister of the state in 1996 but missed the bus at the last moment.
Dulat talks about his interaction with Shah inside the jail during Narshimhao Rao's regime.
According to Dulat, Shah was made to believe that he had a monopoly with Delhi and people wanted to see him in the Chief Ministerial chair.
Dulat, the book says told Shah that he was Nelson Mandela of Kashmir and he started believing it. He was even told that he could get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dulat says he was stunned to see the rousing reception accorded to him on his release in 1994.
He says Shah's tours to Poonch, Bhaderwah and Doda and to South Kashmir was a good plan.
"By the time he reached Srinagar he was like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, everyone was following him. His each step was thronged by excited Kashmiris," Dulat writes.
Dulat writes that the former Prime Minister, Narsimha Rao was also interested in him. "He did not like Farooq Abdullah and wanted me to introduce Shah to the then Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh," the book informs.
Shah, according to Dulat had not checked Rao out. "Somehow he started thinking that his offer was for Farooq Abdullah," he writes. Rao, it may be mentioned had talked of any political arrangement before leaving for South Africa.
However, according to Dulat, Shabir had second thoughts in1995 and started backtracking. "His colleagues, Firdous Sayed came upper ground and held talks with new delhi," he writes. This, he said shocked Shabir. "He was toying with the idea that he had monopoly with New Delhi but the situation was fast changing,' the book says.
The opening of Kashmir Awareness Bureau was part of Shabir's getting known in Delhi and becoming a part of the political firmament, says Dulat.
Shabir received another setback when the government of India did not allow him to visit Kathmandu to meet Mahmood Sagar.
Dulat further goes on to write that while Shabir was in Delhi "he told us that he needed to go to Kathmandu, and ask me to facilitate the trip".
"I am going to meet Mehmood Sagar," he said, referring to his Pakistan based senior colleague in the Peoples League.
Shabir realised that New Delhi was not trusting him and he told Dulat.
"Shabir never let me forget that. He often told me, Aap humko trust nahi karte."
Dulat, however, gives credit to Shah for re-start of the political process. According to him, Shah's close associate Nayeem Khan regretted having stayed out of fray. |
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