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| Peace cannot be achieved by an intelligence operation' | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 22: What do people of Jammu want? And, what do the people in the Valley want? Neither New Delhi nor Islamabad is bothered to know that. Both want to talk on all outstanding issues including Jammu Kashmir but without taking them (people of Jammu Kashmir) on board. The people in Jammu have been voicing their concern about `implementation of Dixon Plan in Jammu region'. In Valley, the focus for the time being is on demilitarization and repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). In the coming days New Delhi and Islamabad will talk on terrorism, sharing of waters and other issues. But before that, they are engaged in track two exercise at a health resort in Sri Lanka. Besides two diplomats former chiefs of RAW and ISI discussed and chalked out the future course of action on Jammu Kashmir.
Nothing seems to have moved during the past six decades as far as Kashmir policy of the two neighbouring states is concerned. In 50s and 60s intelligence sleuths took vital decisions and framed the Kashmir policy and today former RAW chief A S Dulat and former ISI chief Aziz Muhammad Khan sit thousands of miles away from Jammu Kashmir, in an Island to decide what can be thrust on the gullible people of the state in the coming days in the garb of a permanent solution.
My days with Nehru by an Indian intelligence sleuth, BN Mullick is a good read. The sleuth was sent to Kashmir by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru after the theft of Holy Relic from Hazratbal shrine in December 1963 to "save Kashmir for India". Mullick discusses everything in the book. What he does not discuss is the outcome of his investigation. "It was an intelligence operation never to be made public", he makes clear while concluding the book. To this day people of Kashmir do not know who the culprits were.
Has anything changed since then? New Delhi and Islamabad have not changed a bit. But things have started moving in the state. For the first time in the past two decades, the people of Jammu seem concerned about their future. They have accused the Hurriyat Conference for not taking them (people of Jammu) on board. They have voiced their concern about the dangers of implementing Dixon Plan in Jammu region. This is a healthy development. The vested interests tried to create a wedge between Jammu and the Valley for their political considerations but notwithstanding their cheap machinations, the people of the state have succeeded in conveying the message in clear terms. The goal cannot be achieved by an intelligence operation. It has to be a political exercise with active participation of the people of the state.
There is no denying the fact that the armed forces and the intelligence agencies have succeeded in holding Jammu Kashmir at gun point for the past sixty-years but they have lost the battle for India at the psychological front. India has lost JammuKashmir if not geographically then certainly where its heart is concerned. But is anybody listening?
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