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| Farooq, Omar digging NC's grave | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 4: The past one week has seen NC president Farooq Abdullah and working president Omar Abdullah pouring venom on India and challenging New Delhi's might, ability and capability vis-à-vis Pakistan. However, it was Omar Abdullah who on Saturday crossed all the lines and established that his role in Kashmir is one of Pakistan's spokesperson.
Omar Abdullah gave a clean chit to Pakistan and asserted that the present turmoil in Kashmir was not due to Pakistan. He blamed India without mincing words. He crossed two other red lines. One, he said the alienation of Kashmiri Muslims from India was because of the failure of New Delhi to fulfill the promises made. Which promises? Can he point out? He cannot. Two, he claimed that the people of the whole of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were one against India or they wanted the kind of autonomy the NC had been demanding since years now, particularly after it lost the election very badly.
Omar committed a faux pass when he batted for Pakistan. He forgot that his grand father Sheikh Abdullah, who was released from prison on September 29, 1947, had made two attempts to cultivate Pakistan Governor General Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Premier Liaquat Ali Khan in October 1947 but with no success. First, he sent his emissaries Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq to Lahore to negotiate accession of J&K with Pakistan. Both returned empty handed as the Pakistani leadership didn't trust Sheikh Abdullah and it was also under the influence of pro-Pakistan Jammu-based Muslim Conference, which was against the NC and Sheikh Abdullah.
When it became clear that Sheikh Abdullah had no place in the scheme of things of Pakistan, the NC working committee on October 3, 1947 adopted a resolution that favoured accession of J&K with India. However, before the NC could send the resolution to Delhi, Sheikh Abdullah was persuaded by his party leader and others, including Leftists Faiz Ahmad Faiz, to drop the idea of J&K being acceded to India. As a result, Sheikh himself went to Lahore (October 5 and 6) to negotiate J&K status with Jinnah within Pakistan. It was an arranged meeting. But much to the chagrin of Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah, who was in Karachi, didn't come to Lahore for a meeting with Sheikh and the disillusioned Sheikh returned to Srinagar.
Convinced that the Pakistani leadership hated the NC and its leaders, including Sheikh Abdullah, and that Pakistan could eliminate them, Sheikh Abdullah looked towards Jawaharlal Nehru. They met and Sheikh Abdullah's only and only condition was that Nehru should accept the accession proposal and send army to Kashmir at the earliest therwise Pakistan would annex J&K.
Omar Abdullah must read the history of the NC and his grandfather before batting for Pakistan. Even otherwise, he needed to stop anti-India propaganda. For, the whole nation has now come to believe that NC is a rank communal outfit and that Indian nation will not allow Kashmir to go out of India. It was not for this that over 70,000 soldiers and security force personnel gave their life in J&K.
Similarly, he should stop insulting the people of Jammu and Ladakh. They are not votaries of autonomy or self-rule or Pakistan or azaadi; they are votaries of India. Omar need to stop because if he continued to bracket Jammu and Ladakh with Kashmir, the NC, which is already very unpopular in these two regions, would become a story of the past. |
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