Maqbool Butt’s face glittered (by: Azam Inqilabi)

Maqbool Butt’s face glittered

By:Azam Inqilabi

When on Aug.5,2009 Mr. Abdul Basit , the foreign office spokesman of Pakistan , declared in unambiguous words that Pakistan favoured the emergence of independent Kashmir because free Kashmir would act as a “stabilizing factor” in Indo-Pak political relationship . Pensive Maqbool Butt—while feeling thrilled, elated and exalted in Jannat-ul-Firdous –murmured with a smiling face : “Bohut d’air Kee meharban aatay aatay”. This is the serious considerate official proclamation of a government which is ascribed and attributed to Bhuttoos (with special reference to martyr Z.A. Bhutoo). It was in Summer 1970 when I called on late Z.A. Bhutoo in a hotel in Rawalpindi and handed over a memorandum to him. Bhuttoo Sahab , in his proud entourage ,with a lustrous and blooming face said, “I will go through this document and apprise you of my response .” A day after ,Dr. Farooq Haider , a bosom friend of Maqbool Butt, and my host informed me that Bhuttoo Sahab has appreciated the gravamen of the blueprint on independent Kashmir. Again in 1994 AD, during my sojourn in Pakistan, I tried to meet late Benazir Bhuttoo Sahiba , the Prime Minister of Pakistan , but in vain . I simply wanted to remind her
of what the prognosticative and prospective brain of her father Z.A. Bhuttoo was visualizing about a pragmatic solution of Kashmir issue.
Kashmiris are not ingrate and ungrateful people. We are indebted to Pakistan for the sustained and consistent support which she provided to our resistance movement during the decades gone by. Yes, we express our gratitude and vail our hats off to Pak nation for the heroic role it played in displaying its indomitable and insuperable will and valour while expressing solidarity with the subjugated , vituperated , putrified and petrified people of Kashmir . Kashmiris had reposed trust in God Almighty ;they kept struggling hard for the achievement of their cherished objective-Azadi. Their unflinching faith in Province and unwavering resolve and pluck inevitably fructified . And today the visionary leaders of Pakistan , through lateral thinking indeed ,conceded to the concept of independent Kashmir . Hence bravo to this glaring bravado! So, far Kashmiris the month August is august, perhaps , because it endorses Kashmiris’ option of unfettered right to self-determination . On August 13,1948 UNCIP resolution ratified Kashmiris’ innate urge for freedom and on Aug.5, 2009 Pak establishment inversely accepted the precedence of Aug.13,1948 resolution over Jan 5,1949 resolution of United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan .Our euphoric exhilaration gets dampened and we stop raving over the ostensible positivism of Pakistan when the atmosphere is rife with the heart –rendering news that some hawks in Pak system are hell-bent on punishing sons of the soil – “
Ayub Khan should be punished for ensuring the integrity of Pakistan in 1965; Zia-ul-Haq should be punished for taking on Soviet Union in Afghanistan ; and Gen. Pervez Musharaf should ‘necessarily’ be punished for having successfully managed the warding off the threat of what the scapegoat Afghanistan faced( the hapless already war-ravaged country was ‘bombed to stone age’ in the literal sense of the Western blitz and onslaught).”Before impeaching, arraigning and impugning Pak heroes and their strategic manoeuvre in defence of Pakistan , Kashmiris should be allowed to file a writ petition in the International Court of Justice for bringing the leaders of India and Pakistan to book for their perfidy and betrayal in the backdrop of what the great forum UNO had magnanimously accepted in Aug.13, 1948 resolution and what was , with joint connivance , rejected by India and Pakistan in Jan.5, 1949 UNCIP resolution .Alas ! pertinaciousness of the two major contending parties to Kashmir issue proved instrumental in the annihilation and liquidation of thousands of Kashmiris including Maqbool Butt , Maqbool Malik , Moulvi Farooq , Abdul Gani Lone , Qazi Nisar , Sheikh Ab. Aziz , Ashfaq Majeed Wani , Jaleel Andrabi , Shabir Siddique , Dr. Gh. Qadir Wani ………(to infinity )
Lassitude, languidness and vapidity of Indian rulers in the Indo-Pak reconciliation process is visible and palpable. Their idealistic and pedantic postulations thwart a genuine breakthrough in the otherwise ineluctable and cul-de-sac situation. It is time for the political introverts of India to decide whether confraternity of one
and half billion people of South Asia should remain entrenched in the mire and marsh , crevasse and crevice of uncertainty , strife , hostility , surmise and suspicion or that it should flourish , thrive and prosper in an environment of peaceful coexistence , freedom and egalitarian justice . Peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue in accordance with the freedom aspirations of enslaved but invariably resolute Kashmiris will help you achieve the objective of distinction in the comity nations . More lapses and ineptitude cannot be condoned . God Almighty will certainly come to the rescue of those who prostrate , pronate in His court with obsecration and humility.
The present stand and stance of Pakistan vis-à-vis Kashmir has, in fact , inexorably fortified her diplomatic demeanour for any forthcoming tripartite discourse on Kashmir. Pakistan, through her approach to Kashmir tangle , has explicitly conveyed to the free world that
Pakistan
(i) has no territorial ambitions in Kashmir;
(ii) wants to mitigate and alleviate the sufferings of Kashmiris;
(iii) genuinely believes in the peaceful , amicable and practicable settlement of Kashmir issue;
(iv) is determined to cooperate with USA as strategic ally to holistically and judiciously deal with the culture of violent dissent all over the globe to eventually ensure global peace and ataraxy .
Now is the time for India
to reciprocate in Kashmir-centric policy with magnanimity, political acumen and altruistic realpolitik characteristic of her democratic commitment. For Kashmiris all democratic outpourings are mere fanfarnade and braggadocio unless the promise to concede to Kashmiris’ right to self-determination is fulfilled without further dilatory and procrastinative tactics . Wisdom of Dr. Manmohan Singh , the Prime Minister of India , is in the dock .

Aug.7,2009 M.Azam Inqilabi
Nageen, Patron JK Mahaz-e-Azadi
Hazratbal,
Srinagar.