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| Kashmiri separatists' propaganda based on falsehood, eggegerations | | Story for June 9 | | STARK REALITY - V
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 9: As far as the share of Kashmiri Muslims in the crucial service sector, they hold all or nearly all the approximately 3.5 lakh positions in the government and semi-government organizations, located in the Valley. Besides, they occupy nearly 20 per cent of the jobs in the regional services of Jammu and Ladakh. They not only occupy most of the higher and lucrative positions in the government, in the revenue and police administration and in the judicial and political services, but also hold a majority of ordinary and middle-level positions across the state. Besides, they control tourism, trade, commerce, transport and industry. They also own big orchards and landed estates. None of them is without a house. Similarly, the per capita expenditure on woolen clothes in Kashmir is perhaps highest in the world. Likewise, the per capita meat consumption in Kashmir is highest in the world. It is three times that of Gujarat and Rajasthan. The annual expenditure on meat in the state is approximately 6,000 crores. No wonder then that none in Kashmir till date has, unlike Bihar, UP and Orissa, died of either hunger or cold.
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Kashmir is one of the most prosperous regions of the country and that it enjoys a very special status in the Indian polity. On the contrary, the people of Jammu province nourish several grouses against New Delhi and Kashmiri leadership. Some of the issues the non-Congress, non-NC and non-PDP formations and social and professional groups consistently raise in Jammu province relate to the Union Government's indifferent attitude to the political aspirations of the people of Jammu province, their under-representation in the Assembly and Parliament, inadequate or little funds for developmental activities, less number of administrative units, inadequate power generation, poor road connectivity, acute unemployment problem, gross disparity in wages and faulty and Kashmir-centric admission policy.
The truth, in short, is that Kashmir enjoys unbridled political power and the people of Jammu and Ladakh are no more than third grade subjects, whose rights are being trampled upon ruthlessly, whose human rights are being violated ruthlessly; and whose just aspirations are being described by the Kashmiri Muslim leadership and its supporters in Delhi and elsewhere as a manifestation of communalism and parochialism. It is Kashmir that is being pampered to the hilt by the Indian political class. It is the pampered and prosperous Kashmir that has been creating troubles for India since 1947. The problem in Kashmir is not political. The problem is communal. Almost all the Kashmiri Muslim leaders stand for the state's separation from India not because of certain developmental considerations but because they believe that they are a distinct nation that cannot co-exist with the non-Muslims.
But the militant-turned-politician Firdous Syed, who has been frequently changing sides in order to become part of the Kashmir's ruling elite and who is also roaming about here and there posing as an intellectual and peace-monger, will not accept any of the STARK REALITIES as they exist in the state. He will not change his attitude towards the liberal India. Nor would he ever work for the rise of a situation under which different communities could live together harmoniously and share each other's joys and sorrows. He believes in anarchy because he sees in anarchy an opportunity that could help him gain in worldly matters.
Firdous Syed would do well to remember that the Indian nation, which has suffered huge, huge losses during all these sixty three years in order defeat the Pakistani evil designs on Jammu and Kashmir, will not allow Kashmir to go out of India or allow another partition on the basis of the two-nation theory. He would also do well to recognize the fact that if anyone takes the law of the land in his hand or work against the institution of the state, the Indian State would surely act against him. He should be grateful to the Indian State because it has not behaved like Pakistan is behaving in its tribal belt. One can only hope and pray that good sense would finally prevail and the likes of Syed would work for the restoration of peace in the disturbed Valley. Peace in the Valley is imperative and it is the likes of Syed who have disturbed it for promoting their selfish intentions. (Concluded)
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