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SPEAKING at a breakfast meeting — with media leaders — in
Davos, President General Pervez Musharraf beamed to the orb
Saturday, a pragmatic facet that the Line of Control [LoC]
cannot be a solution to the Kashmir dispute.
Simultaneously a bold and epic soul — the symbol of the
Federation of Pakistan — aired zestfully his fabulous vision
that ‘Pakistan and India will have to go beyond their stated
position to resolve this long-standing issue.’ ‘LoC cannot be
a solution, we have fought wars on it,’ he observed and posed
a bona fide question — How can a Dispute be made a Solution?
Taking into view this legitimate perception — or one may phrase
it as interpretation of the concomitant milieu in South Asia
in the wake of ‘overtures for a thaw’ in normalization
of — to-date uptight silhouette, every realist would endorse
this outlook — as a podium of veracity.
As is often evaluated with elfin hopes — yet with an icon of
optimism — as we move in the direction of resumption of dialogue
with India, it is only helpful that we quietly clear the
cobwebs that are a legacy of a past — we better shed as good
riddance.
Paradoxically, we have tended to be content moving in ruts,
because — in the gone-bye era — we have lacked the audacity to
emerge out of the illusory security of immobility.
One such pothole is the myth about the ‘Line of Control.’
Pragmatically, this line has no political import or status,
hence without any validity or relevance to any potential
dispensation. A dauntingly great deal remains to be discussed
about the methodology of the deliberations that lay ahead — may
be next month.
Amidst a clear-cut message, beamed by the President with a
spotlight on pragmatism that there can't be any rapport with
India on any facet sans the settlement of the core issue of
Kashmir [which makes New Delhi 'upset' as n’ when a truthful
voice emerges — literally ‘disturbing’ the devious n’ cunning
mindset of the Indian headship], a need for India to bend
before the Atlas voice — peace in South Asia — becomes all the
more essential.
Nonetheless, if there is agreement on the basics of a solution
to the Kashmir dispute, progress in search of a final
settlement would be smooth and steady, if not exactly swift.
In fact, any ‘avowal on alacrity’ would manifestly be
reckless. Both sides should bring a high-minded and
big-hearted commitment to bear on the negotiations. Going by
the maneuvers, one cannot deduce at this jiffy what exactly
the solution would be? But we do spot that only a fair
solution will be sustainable with the valid support of all the
parties — involved.
In this perspective [of all concerned] — first and foremost, are
the people of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Only in the
second position jointly stand the people of Pakistan and
India. What all the related-parties can concur upon
straightaway is that whatever the solution, it has to be one
that is seen by all concerned as just, fair and equitable.
When placed in the parameters of the principles set out above,
the ‘Line of Control’ ceases to have any weight whatsoever. It
has not been drawn by the Kashmiri people. Nor can Pakistan or
India aver to be its authors.
As a matter of fact, both Pakistan and India have, in so many
ways, articulated inability to maintain the inviolability of
the ‘Line of Control.’ India stands self-confessed as unable
even to mount an effective guard on this so-called ‘Line,’
though it has 800,000-plus troops standing by.
Once we settle down to talk earnestly about a future solution
of the core dispute — on Kashmir, the ‘Line of Control’ would
simply fade out of all reckoning. That would be the moment to
address surpassingly delicate and sensitive issues,
intertwined with which is the peace of almost a billion n'
half — plus populace in this subcontinent — composed of South
Asia.
As a matter of fact, the ‘Line of Control’ is no line; it
controls no worth or essence. Not only that a resolution — still
preserved in the acme index of the UN — makes it crystal clear
that no bar — whatsoever — can be imposed on Kashmiris' mobility
within the State, as they were constrained by the India-backed
ruthless n' tyrannical Hindu Dogra Hari Singh’s rule to leave
their ancestral abode in 1947 n' in a few follow-up years,
taking refuge in Pakistan.
The grandiose n' salient 'Ceasefire Line Toor Doo' [break the
cease-fire line] movement by the top Kashmiri Leader, late Ch.
Ghulam Abbas in 1958 [in Sikandar Mirza's regime] is still
deemed as fêted the world-over, which literally jolted the New
Delhi rulers — as they have had no bona fide way to hamper or
obstruct it, specifically in view of the already — aired global
vote from the UN pedestal.
As a matter of fact, JL Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister
after the exit of British monarchs from the Sub-continent felt
a sigh of inhalation when Field Marshall Ayub Khan — taking a
basis of the environs of the then political scenario — seized
power n' eventually convinced the awe-inspiring n' vibrant
voice of Kashmiris — the late Ch. Abbas to put his crusade in
abeyance for sometime as he [Ayub] would get the Kashmir Issue
resolved in line with the ambitions of the dwellers of the
fascinating Himalayan State.
In a way FM Ayub Khan did try through sundry means including
via the Tashkant Summit — yet the vanity of India — in a
way — persisted and exists even today — as on the one hand it
speaks about 'allure for talks' yet on the other amplifies
rather magnifies the magnitude n' scale of its brutalities on
the innocent people of India-held Kashmir [IHK] with the
advent of every dawn n' hideously applies one ploy or the
other to get the lucid n’ cogent solution of the Issue tardy.
Thus New Delhi's 'zest for a dialogue' seems nothing beyond a
trick to con n’ dupe the world.
With mounting pressure from every sane nation n' more
explicitly with the unfolding of the factual reports by
world's human rights champions focusing 'the instant
settlement of the nucleus issue of Kashmir as the only way for
ensuring a durable peace in South Asia to the eventual benefit
of the globe' — India stands fully exposed — as stripped as a
natural phenomenon.
The only n' best course left for it is to bow before the
ground realities by eschewing typical rhetoric like pseudo
accusations — of miscellaneous nature — as such a polluted frame
of mind of New Delhi has not only been attested as superfluous
by time but simultaneously has been abhorred by every
pragmatic nation the world-over.
Above all such ferocious alleges of India has no significance
before the focal party — the Kashmiris, who have never accepted
a Line in any silhouette — may it be a Cease-fire Line or a Line
of Control.
Well-acquainted with Kashmiris’ obdurate resolve, New Delhi
has of-late gone into yet another vile ploy to inflict a
cavity in the fabulous ranks of the APHC — by inviting Mirwaiz
Omer Farooq and Maulana Abbas Ansari — the glamorous stars of
the indigenous struggle for freedom in held-Kashmir.
Though they did ‘oblige’ the Indian ‘aroma’ — overtly — for
pacification to bring the despotic rule in IHK to an end, New
Delhi is ought to comprehend that such a gesture — in no
way — goes in its’ favor and it should not have any chimera or
illusion on this aspect.
The epithet n’ raison d'être of such a course is perceptible.
How can these sons of a sacrosanct realm forget the great
sacrifices of their brethren, who clinched martyrdom just for
raising a genuine voice for their birth right of
self-determination — and as a consequence nipped brutal bullets
and ghastly guns, manned n’ veered by the Indian troops? Well
aware of the splendid two-nation theory, how can they enter
into a concord with India — especially when it is now being
ruled by radical BJP?
This actuality is manifested by the clear-cut avowal of their
associate, cherished Syed Ali Gilani that — in no case — India
can, any-more keep the people of the charismatic State in
bondage. Very bluntly n’ brusquely, the grand emblem of the
freedom struggle — has also hinted — to the pages of the History
of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir — which stand as a rock-solid
witness vis-à-vis the awful fate of Sheikh Abdullah and
subsequently his son, Farooq who were kicked out in a
mortifying way — the moment India’s ‘peculiar objectives’ were
clutched — with Abdullah’s naughty abetment.
Fantastically, this delusion has been confessed by the
grandson of Abdullah [the Jaffar n’ Sadiq of Kashmir] — who, in
an instantaneous retort — aired by a television network — in the
post Advani-Ansari interface remarked; ‘all this shall prove
futile — as enormous interactions did take place in the past,
yet eventually proved useless.’ It confirms — that truth does
gesticulates — one way or the other.
Its’, I believe an apposite time for the resurgence of unity
with harmony among the entire ranks of the APHC — at least for
the ultimate good of the people of the State, lest India
places Kashmiris in infinite cage.
Now when the global settings have taken an abrupt shift and
both India and Pakistan are cognizant of the ‘ground
realities’ to solve the perilous Kashmir Issue — one way or the
other — expectantly, of-course to the satisfaction of the
aspires of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, any divergence of
insight among Kashmiris’ sketch — like the inspiring APHC — may
origin a colossal harm to the Kashmir cause — which no one would
like to taste or flavor.
Alongside this, let their be no mix-up about Kashmiri’s
steadfast valor [even if a set of elfin species unknot their
decades-old stance] and that too — after making a hefty digit of
innocents — as scapegoats — who did not feel averse even in
offering supreme sacrifices of diverse nature — in millions — and
even to the point of having been uprooted from their familial
dwellings. Generations — to come shall never forgive such
creatures.
Nonetheless, every patriotic Kashmiri hopes that no-one,
dealing with their fate n’ destiny would bow before any alien
pressure of any magnitude — and even it’s’ from the solo super
power of the current epoch — the United States.
Both India and Pakistan shall — thus — have to keep this
reality — as prime — while they converse on this topic, in times
ahead — anywhere, anytime or at any-level. Whatever the decision
is agreed upon [if it so happens, despite India’s
animosity] — must reflect the aspirations of the key party to
this core Issue — in a translucent fashion n’ without any
qualms — whatsoever they might be.
Any pose or posture — negating this verity shall — in no way — be
tangible for the lawful title-holders of the Paradise on
Earth. They are perfect in their outlook — as the UN commitments
on Kashmir fully uphold this trueness — as clear as the bang n’
translucent waters of River Jehlum — with a basis of flickering
helix — like the alluring Spring of Veri Nag, flanking the
dazzling n’ mesmeric — city of Srinagar.
This will have to be acknowledged as a replica of the
Kashmiris’ mood — as an exact truth as their kick against the
Indian assailants is ought to swell incessantly — till the time
the despotic manacles are splintered for all times to come.
© 2004 Mumtaz Hamid
Rao/Pakistan Times |
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