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| Dixon Plan: Moves appear afoot to divide Jammu on communal lines | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 15: Three, on April 24, 2010 Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, who was Pakistan's Foreign Minister between 2002 and 2007 told The Time of India in Lahore that "had not the anti-Musharraf upsurge triggered by the sacking of the chief justice convulsed Pakistan", the "deal that was cobbled together through secret parleys held in India, Pakistan and several foreign capitals for more than three years" would have been given as effect to - deal that "could have resolved the sub-continent's thorniest security and political dispute." Kasuri had also said, "he has never spoken of this track-II success earlier, other than saying that he knew of a possible way to resolve the Kashmir problem that was acceptable to both countries".
What exactly Kasuri revealed as far as the solution worked out by India and Pakistan were concerned? He, according to The Times of India, revealed: "Negotiators from Islamabad and New Delhi had quietly toiled away for three years, talking to each other and Kashmiri representatives from the Indian side as well as Kashmiris settled overseas to reach the only possible solution to the Kashmir issue".
Kasuri further told the said English language national daily that the "two sides had agreed to full demilitarization of both Jammu & Kashmir as well as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which Islamabad refers to as Azad Kashmir. In addition, a package of loose autonomy that stopped short of the 'azadi' and self-governance aspirations, had been agreed on and was to be introduced on both sides of the disputed frontier. We agreed on a point between complete independence and autonomy".
Kasuri did not stop here. He went on to say that "both countries, realizing the
sensitivity of such a deal, had agreed not to declare victory or tom-tom the negotiations." According to Kasuri, "hardliner separatist Syed Ali Shah Gilani was the only Kashmiri leader who refused to come on board. He would accept nothing but merger with Pakistan, which ironically is something we too wanted but knew wasn't practical. I once had a seven-to-eight hour meeting with him and even Musharraf met him but he refused to budge…"
As per Kasuri, "almost all the actors on the Kashmiri stage were on board the accord that was to be signed during a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Islamabad that was scheduled for February-March 2007 but never happened."
Not just this, Kasuri also disclosed: "I advised the president that inviting the PM (Manmohan Singh) at that time would not have been possible. And that we should wait for a more peaceful moment to announce the plan otherwise all the hard work of three years by the two sides would be wasted…Since the Opposition was on a roll against Musharraf at that time, any peace plan would have been rejected by them as a sell-out to India".
Four, on more than one occasion, All-Party Hurriyat Conference - Mirwaiz (APHC-M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has also admitted that a solution to the Kashmir issue had been worked out. In fact, he is one of those Kashmiri separatists who ha been consistently hailing the four-point Kashmir formula as suggested by Musharraf, saying it appears to be the only feasible solution considering the situation as it prevails in India and Pakistan.
And, five, A G Noorani, who is the mouthpiece of both Islamabad and Kashmiri separatists, has been hinting at this type of solution since 2007. He has written a number of essays on the Musharraf formula and repeatedly urged the Indian establishment to accept and implement it forthwith, saying such a gesture on the part of New Delhi would end the 63-year-old impasse between the two countries and also satisfy the Kashmiri Muslims.
But these are only five of the several such instances which serve to prove that there are elements in the Indian establishment and Islamabad, as also in the Indian Kashmir, who are working day and night to ensure the implementation of the Musharraf formula, notwithstanding the National Assembly assertion of Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi that Musharraf had damaged the Kashmiri cause and that there was no question of the Musharraf formula being implemented. Besides, these examples vindicate the stand of the founders of the Forum Against Dixon Plan (FADP) - Bali Bhagat of BJP, Hari Om of Congress, Ajay Chrungoo of Panun Kashmir and Ch Abdul Rouf of Jammu State Morcha (Progressive) - that moves are afoot to divide Jammu province along Chenab River on communal lines. (To be continued)
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