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| 'Core issue is appreciation of Jammu's political appreciations' | | India only stakeholder | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 17: Ever since the BJP-led NDA Government took U-turns on its stand on dialogue with Pakistan on November 30 at Paris (France), December 6 at Bangkok (Thailand) and December 9 at Islamabad and declared that talks and terror could NOT go hand-in-hand, Kashmiri separatists have upped their ante and demanded their inclusion in the dialogue process.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have said so. Yasin Malik also followed their footsteps and demanded involvement of "true representatives" of Kashmiri Muslims in the dialogue process. And on Thursday, Shabir Ahmad Shah also came out with an obnoxious statement that India-Pakistan dialogue would be a futile exercise in case the Kashmiris were not involved to resolve what he called "Kashmir dispute".
"All the Confidence Building Measures between the two countries will prove futile if the issue related to peace in the region is not addressed," he said in a statement issued to the press in Srinagar. He added "until sincerity is not shown by both nations and the core issue is not addressed, the peace in the South Asia will continue to remain a dream".
"If (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi wants to create history, he should involve all the stakeholders of the Kashmir dispute which will result in peace, progress and prosperity of both nations. The freedom struggle of Kashmiris is just and right of the people and maintained that the future if this territory is yet to be decided. 'The right to self-determination of Kashmiris' is actually in favour of India…Pakistan will continue its firm stand on Kashmir," Shah also said.
All of his suggestions were perverted, outrageous and anti-India and they suggested that Kashmir is the only factor in the State's political situation that needed to be recognized. Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik and Shah, or for that matter all Kashmiri leaders, who advocate a solution that ends the Indian presence in the State, are not the stakeholders. They are fanatics, who represent a minority view, which has no taker in the country. Similarly, over-fed, over-empowered and over-appeased Kashmir is not the core issue in the State. The issue was settled way back on October 26, 1947.
The real stakeholders in J&K are India and the Indian nation. It was the Maharaja of the State who acceded his State to India under the relevant law and it was India which accepted the accession offer, sent Army to J&K to expel the Pakistani invaders and integrate the State into India. The Indian Army would have expelled all the Pakistani invaders in early 1948 itself, had the Congress Government of Nehru not ditched the nation by enforcing ceasefire at a time when the Indian forces had the Pakistani invaders on the run.
The view that the UN resolutions on J&K talk of plebiscite in the State is an out-dated view. Plebiscite is just not possible. For, Pakistan has already violated the UN resolution by not vacating the aggression from PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, as also be ceding a part of the State territories in Gilgit-Baltistan in the Akshai Chin region to China. Even the United Nations now no longer talks about plebiscite in J&K.
As for the core issue in J&K, it is the failure of the Indian political class to address the issue of nationalist Jammu and nationalist Ladakh. They and the Kashmiri nationalists like Kashmiri Hindus represent India in the State and it is they who have been suffering enormous losses ever since the State's accession to India both at the hands of New Delhi and the Kashmiri ruling class consisting of members of one particular religious sect. It is the people of Jammu and Ladakh who have been denied the right to lead the State Government despite the fact that they constitute more than 88 per cent of the State's land area and contribute more revenue to the exchequer. They constitute the core issue, which needed to be addressed at the earliest in the national interest.
It is a matter of regret that even the BJP subverted the Jammu's, Ladakh's and refugee camps' mandate, ditched its own constituency and established that it was no different from the Congress or similar other "secular" parties. It also established that it knows nothing about statecraft and that it would be more ruthless against Jammu and Ladakh in case it was needed to please Kashmiri separatists and Kashmiri ruling elite. |
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