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Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 4: It was hoped that the May 23 humiliating defeat will have a positive impact on former J&K CM and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and that she will not play with fire, but it has not happened. She continues to tread the same old dangerous path and muddy Indian waters in the small Kashmir Valley without realizing that things in India have changed and changed completely; without realizing that the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh have given their verdict.
On Monday, Mehbooba Mufti, who came third in her own stronghold (Anantnag) and whose party secured only 2.35% of the total votes polled, again crossed the redline and made highly objectionable statement. Without mincing words, she said that Pakistan was a stakeholder in J&K and the problem in Kashmir was political. She urged the Prime Minister to do two things: Initiate dialogue with Pakistan and resolve the political problem of Kashmir politically.
Batting for Pakistan, Mehbooba Mufti described Pakistan as a stakeholder in Kashmir problem and urged New Delhi to "involve Pakistan too to solve the tangle". She also accused the new Union Home Minister Amit Shah of resorting to "brute force" to "quick fix" problem and said this approach was "ridiculously naïve".
As for Kashmir, she said: "since 1947, Kashmir has been looked through the prism of security by successive government. It's a political problem that needs a political redressal by involving all stakeholders, including Pakistan".
Kashmir is not a political problem; it was an issue that was resolved way back in October 1947 by the Maharaja of the state himself. He invoked the Indian Independence Act of 1947 and merged J&K with India. The only issue that still remained unresolved between India and Pakistan is the political future of the J&K's territories - PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan - which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947-1948.
The stand of Mehbooba Mufti that Pakistan is a stakeholder in Kashmir is as flawed as it is ridiculous. The UN resolutions on J&K have settled the issue and established that Pakistan was an aggressor. The only stakeholder in Kashmir is India. The other stakeholder is the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. They have been living in Jammu, Udhampur and other parts of India since their forced exodus in 1990. They are the original inhabitants; they need to be taken on board. Only on Sunday, their organization Panun Kashmir led by Agnishekhar and Ajay Chrungoo demanded reorganization of the state and creation of a separate homeland for the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus within Kashmir invested with UT status.
Mehbooba Mufti and others of her ilk in Kashmir, including Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah whose party could secure only 7.8% of the total votes polled, would do well to realize that Jammu and Ladakh, which constitute the J&K's 85% land area and house over 50% of the state population have voted overwhelmingly for India and no one could take them for a ride.
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