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| PoK Prime Minister asks Islamabad to forget Kashmir for the time being | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 10: Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider is under severe attack these days. The United Jihad Council (UJC) has gone to the extent of terming Haider as a man of "mean mentality." What has made the UJC and similar other terrorist organizations to denounce and condemn Haider was what he said about Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir on July 6.
What did he say that day? He said, "Pakistan government (should) not…link (the) ongoing negotiations with India to resolution of the Kashmir issue," asserting "this is not the right time as Islamabad's position is 'quite weak' due to internal vulnerabilities". He also said that "Pakistan should first resolve 'small irritants and controversial issues' before finally sorting out the 'core issue' of Kashmir." Not just this, he also said, "Pakistan and India should maintain status quo on Kashmir for some time…India and Pakistan should resolve other issues before taking up Kashmir…It would be wiser for Pakistan to wait for right time to restart negotiations on the Kashmir issue…He was giving this advise because he believes this is not the right time for Pakistan to press for a Kashmir settlement…At the moment, Pakistan is facing a 'formidable security challenge from the militants' and is not in a position to effectively fight the case of Kashmir…What I am tryiong to suggest is that this is not the right time to negotiate Kashmir with the Indians as Islamabad's position is obviously quite weak because of its internal vulnerabilities…"
Besides, Haider said, "no Kashmiri would ever accept General Pervez Musharraf's four-point Kashmir solution" and that it would be better if Islamabad confers on New Delhi the status of "Most Favoured Nation (MFN) and allow the country to use Pakistani territory as a transit route for trade, including with Afghanistan."
What the POK Prime Minister said was indeed a major policy shift. It was major departure in the sense that no POK Prime Minister had so far taken the stand Haider took on July 6 while talking to The News - stand that must have rattled the Pakistani establishment, the leadership of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen and Kashmiri separatists of all hues, particularly Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Ayesa Andrabi. They have all joined hands and created a volcanic situation in the Kashmir Valley hoping that they would be able to force down the Indian throat their pernicious ideology and seek more and more political concessions from New Delhi leading to dilution of Indian sovereignty in Kashmir. Haider not only asked Pakistan to forget Kashmir for the time being, but also termed Pakistan as a weak country, which is not in a position to negotiate a Kashmir settlement because itself has been facing a very serious challenge from militants and terrorists. What was all the more significant was his suggestion that it was time for Pakistan to give the status of MFN to India.
What he said on July 6 should refresh our policy-makers in New Delhi, make them sit up and revise their policy towards Pakistan, which has been bleeding the Indian nation with a thousand cuts everyday and seeking to provoke communal riots in India. What Haider said about Pakistan was correct. Pakistan is a failed and a rogue state and it is on the verge of disintegration. It is an unnatural formation and it is struggling to survive taking aggressive posture and using Army to the hilt to maintain the country's unity and integrity. It may put in any amount of efforts to keep the country intact, but it would ultimately fail. There should be no doubt it. It created jihadis and these Jihadis eating up Pakistan.
The condemnation of the PoK Prime Minister needs to be viewed in the context of the candid statements he made about the beleagured Pakistan, as also in the context of what he said about Kashmir and India. His well-conceived comment that status quo should be maintained on Kashmir for some time was something that must have unnerved the Kashmiri separatists, who heightened their anti-India activties in the third week of June with a view to disturbing everything in Kashmir and further their separatist and communal agenda. They had never expected that the PoK Prime Minister would make such statements at a time when they and their masters across the border had upped their ante against India. Had Kashmir ben not under curfew, the Kashmiri separatists would have unleashed a propaganda blitz against the POK Prime Minister.
What has been the response of the UJC to what the PoK Prime Minister said very boldly? It has termed his statement as a manifestation of his "shortsightedness and mean mentality"; as a "cruel joke with the sentiments and sacrifices of the people of…Kashmir; and as "an open fraud and deception with the freedom movement of Kashmir." "It does not behove the Prime Minister of PAK to issue such a statement at a time when Kashmiris had with the sacrifices of their lives drawn the international attention to the resolution of Kashmir issue," the spokesman of the UJC has, in fact, said and added that "Haider's statement is a contradiction of the traditional policy of Pakistan on Kashmir issue for which it fought three full-fledged and several other small wars with India."
It is hoped that New Delhi would make optimum use of what Haider has said. It would be better if New Delhi goes on the offensive and asks Pakistan to behave failing which necessary action would be taken against it. In fact, this is the only course left to show Islamabad and its agents in Kashmir their rightful place. The Indian nation wants action as the situation is grim by any standard and as the Kashmiri separatists have crossed all the lines.
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