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| Pak behind Kashmir turmoil, problem needs to be tackled accordingly | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 10: The deeply concerned, shocked and taken aback authorities in New Delhi are doing their level best to break the cycle of violence in the Valley. The Prime Minister, the Home Minister, the Defence Minister, the Health Minister and a few other ministers; the National Security Advisor, the Cabinet Secretary, the Home Secretary, the Defence Secretary, senior bureaucrats working in the Prime Minister's Office and senior intelligence officials are meeting on regular basis to review and monitor the Kashmir situation. According to reports, the Prime Minister has also been meeting senior Congress leaders, "Track-II actors" and "Kashmir experts." The Congress leaders, the "Track-II actors" and "Kashmir experts" have also been meeting the Union Home Minister and suggesting ways and means that could restore peace in the Valley. The core group of the Congress party, too, has met under the chairmanship of AICC-I president Sonia Gandhi to review the Kashmir situation and discussed ways and means that could end violence in Kashmir and restore peace in the Valley, now reeling under curfew.
Reports emanating from New Delhi have clearly suggested that the authorities in New Delhi were not in favour of calling out Army in the affected areas of the Kashmir Valley and that they very reluctantly accepted the request of the beleaguered Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in this regard. It is important to note that the Omar Abdullah government had asked New Delhi in writing that the Army be deployed in the affected areas as the situation had virtually gone out of control. The authorities in New Delhi were of the view that the use of the Army in Kashmir would send a wrong signal. But, since the State Government insisted on its demand, the authorities acceded to its request and, at the same time, stated that it was for the State Government to maintain law and order and enforce curfew and that the Army could be used only as a "deterrent." There had been consensus that the Army would be used in "peripheral" areas and not in "congested areas." It's quite understandable.
However, What is more significant is the view of the authorities in New Delhi that there is a need to tell Chief Minister Omar Abdullah "not to send panic signals and be restrained in his statements and requisitions that have international and diplomatic ramifications for India" and that there is also the need to "roll some heads." That the authorities in New Delhi were not really happy with the "role and functioning of Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda and the heads of paramilitary forces in Kashmir" and that they were also not happy with the role and functioning the state's executive head and his team became quite evident during the meetings. There are numerous reports available indicating the New Delhi's unhappiness with those ruling the state and those responsible for maintaining law and order and protecting life and property of the people. That the authorities in New Delhi have not taken any action against those who had failed to perform and deliver can be understandable as this is not the opportune time to take action. To take action at a time when Kashmir is burning would be to create additional complications. The authorities in New Delhi are fully aware of this fact and that's the reason they have refrained from precipitating matters. The authorities know it full well that there are many vested interests in Kashmir, all ready to fish in the troubled waters.
That Omar Abdullah thought of Army use in Kashmir vindicated the stand of those who had been talking in these terms since long and criticizing those demanding withdrawal of the Army, the CRPF and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Kashmir. Ironically, the Chief Minister himself was a votary of a regime under which the Army, the CRPF and the AFSPA would have no place whatsoever for which he had been roundly criticized by many, many people on the ground that the criticism of the Army, the CRPF and the AFSPA would further complicate the already rather complex situation in the Kashmir Valley. Anyway, it is good that Chief Minister has finally realized the gravity of the situation in Kashmir and thought of working in collaboration with New Delhi to deal with the subversives, separatists and stone-pelting boys, who have been instigated and inspired by Islamabad, Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The intelligence agencies have accessed transcripts of conversations between the Pakistani masters and the paid agents in Kashmir all establishing links between Islamabad and troublemakers in the Valley, with one of the paid agents asking his man to ensure killing of at least 10-15 Kashmiri boys in one day.
The situation as it exists today in Kashmir could be compared with the one that existed there in 1990, when the whole lot of Kashmiri Pandits vacated the Valley. Some political pundits are of the view that the "situation is worse than what it existed in the Valley in early 1990." One cannot but agree with them. (To be continued)
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