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| "Kashmir is Jammu & Kashmir' | | Nasty suggestion | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Aug 12: Opinion-makers in Kashmir Valley are not happy with the regional parties. They say they have failed to provide justice to the people of Kashmir Valley and that it is the people of Jammu region who dominate the state polity. They want these parties to be thrown out lock, stock and barrel and urge APHC-M of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to form a regional party to end the Jammu domination over the state polity.
"It's a fact that our regional parties, the NC, in particular, have failed to fight for regional aspirations. This has resulted in a strong polarization between the three regions -- Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. Three of us feel cheating on one another, though the fact is that Kashmir is the most deprived region among the three. Most of the time, one finds the people of Jammu region talking about discrimination against them by the Kashmiri leaders, though the fact of the matter is that Kashmiri leaders care more about them than they care for Kashmiris. An example of this 'care' is withholding the cancelling of the fake state-subject certificates whose beneficiaries are more in Jammu than in Kashmir," opinion-makers in Kashmir say.
Anyway, Kashmir based parties have failed to fulfill regional aspirations, there is a dire need to look for a more viable and representative party to take the State out of this morass of hopelessness. In this regard, we could lay our eyes on the moderate Hurriyat. Let them (read Mirwaiz Umar Farooq) shun the half-hearted approach to the problem, asking for tripartite roundtable talk to find a solution. This isn't going to happen because the Kashmir problem will have to be decided between India and Pakistan. Kashmiris weren't consulted when Shimla Agreement took place and we had no role to play when the Indira-Sheikh Accord was signed. Dulat wants us to believe that many in the moderate Hurriyat wanted to fight elections. If that's true, they must be encouraged to do so, so that a more vibrant regional party gets established," they also say.
Opinion-makers in Kashmir like Prof Muhammad Aslam not only want Mirwaiz to float a regional party in Kashmir and participate in the electoral exercises so that he formed government in the state but also humiliate and ridicule the people of Jammu province and Ladakh by saying that Kashmir means Jammu & Kashmir. "When we talk of Kashmir, we don't mean the valley only. It refers to the entire State, including the parts that are under Pakistan and China. When we talk about its being a tangle, we mean that it involves Kashmiri Muslims and non-Muslims living in Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh and across the globe. Therefore, a workable solution has to be found by taking everybody on board. Those who talk of Kashmir becoming a part of Pakistan, or the State getting an independent status must formulate such an opinion only when they have achieved a consensus among the stakeholders. Just us, Muslims, only talking about these things is meaningless. Kashmir belongs to Muslims, Dogras, Bodhs, Sikhs, Christians and all those who are born here (in Jammu & Kashmir). Let the moderate Hurriyat expand itself and become an all-inclusive party, and a force to reckon with," they say.
All this suggests two things. One is that Kashmir based parties have outlived their utility and it is time for the APHC-M leadership to replace them. The other is that opinion-makers in Kashmir mislead the international opinion by saying that Kashmir means the entire State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
They are at liberty to have their own view they can also suggest that let the APHC-M contest elections, form the next government and evolve policies that satisfy the regional aspirations of the people of Kashmir, notwithstanding the fact that it is the people of Jammu region who have suffered gross discrimination during all these more than 67 years at the hands of the New Delhi-backed Kashmiri ruling elite - a fact that was candidly acknowledged by various commissions appointed to look into the complaints of the people of Jammu region that they never got what they legitimately deserved as part and parcel of the state society. But they cannot dismiss the people of Jammu region and Ladakh in the manner they do. Jammu and Ladakh are two distinct political entities. They have their own political, social and economic aspirations. These two regions just cannot be put under the rubric Kashmir. Kashmiri opinion-makers cannot and must not speak for and on behalf of Jammu and Ladakh regions, where the people are capable of talking about themselves and about their aspirations, needs and compulsions. Don't they know that the people of Jammu and Ladakh regions have nothing to do with those in Kashmir who have been demanding autonomy or azadi? They must know it. They would do well not to poke their communal and separatist nose into the affairs of Jammu and Ladakh regions. |
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