| Omar toes Mufti's line, calls for addressing external, internal dimension of K-problem | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Jan 15: Former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah had started toeing line of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed because he today emphasised on the need of addressing external and internal dimensions of vexed Kashmir problem. He argued that lasting solution of Kashmir problem was only after attending external and internal dimensions of this issue.
The demand of addressing external and internal dimensions of Kashmir problem was the thought of former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. It was Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who used to argue that without addressing external and internal dimensions permanent solution of Kashmir problem was not possible. Today Omar Abdullah has echoed view point of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in a function at New Delhi but he has not presented any formula to address internal dimension.
Both the dimensions of the Kashmir problem, internal as well as external, will have to be handled simultaneously, said Omar Abdullah.
Delivering the keynote address at a literary festival Omar said "At various points in time we have tried to address either the internal or the external dimension in isolation and we have failed. Whether it is the talks in Tashkent, whether it is the Shimla Agreement, whether it is Lahore, whether it is Agra, these were all efforts that were made to address the external dimensions of the problem between India and Pakistan, while ignoring the internal dimension."
Pointing to the efforts targeted at resolving the internal dimensions of the problem, Abdullah said "whether it was the Indira-Sheikh accord, the Rajiv-Farooq Accord or the recent Modi-Mufti agreement that created the recent state government, these are all efforts to address the internal dimension. Unless we address both the dimensions simultaneously, I dare say, a few years down the line, we will still be discussing Kashmir from the context of problem rather that from the context of peace." "There is enough scope within the Constitution of India to address to a large extent some of the sense of political alienation that exists on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir, to allow for a meaningful solution," said Abdullah. |
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