It was on August 15, 2009 when Dr. Manmohan Singh , the Prime Minister of India, while addressing the Indian nation from the ramparts of Red Fort, said that Assembly elections of Kashmir had rendered the resistance leaders of Kashmir “irrelevant.” I felt astounded and shell-shocked . “Is it lapsus linguae of the suave, self-possessed, sagacious and discreet leader trying to divest himself of the horror created by the fictitious and fabulous problems in and outside the establishment ;and have the hawks held him as hostage against sine qua non—acquiescing in of the supremo?” , I murmured and grumbled with my own intuitive paroxysm . After all , who made him feel so estranged and insecure as to belie and falsify what history and UNO have already accepted as a stark reality sanctified by the promise (Vachan) made by Pt. Jawahirlal Nehru and Pak leaders too. Yes, Kashmiris have yet to exercise their right to self -determination through free and fair referendum.
The truth and sooth of Kashmir resistance movement cannot be equivocated and forfeited by compulsive rhetoric of the adversaries around. Kashmir-related realities are intact unless UNO as the world forum becomes irrelevant and redundant for good. Transient and flippant overtures and gestures of friendship cannot be a substitute to the serious volition and resolve to solve the outstanding issues which have bedevilled and embittered relations of the two nuclear powers of South Asia . Tantalizing the already mortified and benumbed Kashmiris; dabbling at and stereotyping Kashmir issue is an obnoxious monolithic monotony morbid and unpalatable indeed.
Notwithstanding the dichotomic contradictions of the top brass my resilient optimism makes me feel enamoured and enthralled; and I soon start looking at the leaders of India and Pakistan with pity and compassion too. In fact, it is the elite which ,despite knowledge of vulnerability and susceptibility of South Asia in an environment of horrifying nuclearization, feels nostalgic about the regressive obscurantism and chauvinism which blurs and blinkers the vision of the leaders on whom lies the onus of prospective guidance and decisive diktats for ensuring global peace and stability .No skulduggery can guarantee deliverance and retrieval from the mire and morass of uncertainty, commotion and consternation that has enveloped the civil society of Asia. So instead of envenoming this society more and more through myopic policy of brinkmanship consecrated constructive efforts should be put in to detoxicate it to ensure
peace ,tranquillity and reconciliation between groups and nations pitted against one another.
Senator Akram Zaki of Pakistan, while dilating on global politics with veridical approach in his interview published in an English daily on August17, 2009 , alluded to Saarland, a piece of a land that had become a bone of contention between France and Germany as an aftermath of 2nd. World War. Rationalism and stoicism of the contending parties eventually facilitated the free and fair referendum in Saarland in 1955 consequent on which the disputed territory got annexed with Germany ; and today the bonhomie of the two powers is vividly conspicuous in European Union. The precedent should coax and cajole India and Pakistan to have tryst with a similar example of objectivity and realism. Why should truth become a casualty when the visionary leader Mr. Jaswant Singh, the ex-foreign minister of India ,tries to be vocal in his assertion for truth thereby unveiling what remains shrouded by bigotry and irredentism ?Yes, I too subscribe to Mr. Singh’s viewpoint that M.A . Jinnah was a nationalist, not a communalist, and he was pushed to the wall by the parochialism of Indian National Congress and subsequently he was “demonized” as a recalcitrant and intractable dissident hell-bent on the vivisection of India.’ (unquote). As a high profile self –respecting conscientious Muslim leader Jinnah Saheb did what one million
books on decommunalized politics could not elucidate . Now peaceful coexistence between India and Pakistan is prioritized by exponents of stratagem of modus vivendi . The two countries should bury the hatchet for good, if suicide is not an option . Mr. Jaswant Singh will discern a like- minded friend in late Abul Kalam Azad ,Congress stalwart, whose book ‘India Wins Freedom’ is a magnum opus for the students of history . Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpaye as the Prime Minister of India, jotted down in the visitors’ book at Mizar-e-Pakistan that stability and integrity of India depended on the stability and integrity of Pakistan .The message is loud and clear for the irredendists of India.
Kashmir issue , as Prof. Dr. Anand Kumar of JNU in an informal interaction with me in my cottage a few days back maintained , has the inherent potential of turning out to be casus belli of a nuclear holocaust in South Asia . This is, of course, a nightmarish prognosis for humanists of East and West. So the two countries India and Pakistan should, without further digression and dilatory detour, be prompt for brass tacks— substantive dialogue for the final amicable settlement of Kashmir problem. That
Kashmir is ‘atoot ang of India’ or ‘political shahrag of Pakistan’ is a travesty of truth . Well, it is a different story that rivers originating from Kashmir have accorded to Kashmir the title of “economic jugular vein of Pakistan.” Stated position of the either country did not prove of any help; rather it proved counterproductive. Instead of negativism a prospective and perspicacious approach should be adopted for a discursive and substantive debate and discourse on Kashmir. This is an altruistic way to ameliorate the lot of millions of pauperized people of South Asia. Of late, Pakistan declared that “Pak was not averse to the concept of Independent Kashmir.” India should seize the opportunity to mollify bruised Kashmiris. God Almighty will not leave us in the lurch. He will certainly come to our rescue.
Aug. 23,2009
Nageen,Hazratbal M. Azam Inqilabi
Srinagar. Patron JK Mahaz-e-Azadi
The truth and sooth of Kashmir resistance movement cannot be equivocated and forfeited by compulsive rhetoric of the adversaries around. Kashmir-related realities are intact unless UNO as the world forum becomes irrelevant and redundant for good. Transient and flippant overtures and gestures of friendship cannot be a substitute to the serious volition and resolve to solve the outstanding issues which have bedevilled and embittered relations of the two nuclear powers of South Asia . Tantalizing the already mortified and benumbed Kashmiris; dabbling at and stereotyping Kashmir issue is an obnoxious monolithic monotony morbid and unpalatable indeed.
Notwithstanding the dichotomic contradictions of the top brass my resilient optimism makes me feel enamoured and enthralled; and I soon start looking at the leaders of India and Pakistan with pity and compassion too. In fact, it is the elite which ,despite knowledge of vulnerability and susceptibility of South Asia in an environment of horrifying nuclearization, feels nostalgic about the regressive obscurantism and chauvinism which blurs and blinkers the vision of the leaders on whom lies the onus of prospective guidance and decisive diktats for ensuring global peace and stability .No skulduggery can guarantee deliverance and retrieval from the mire and morass of uncertainty, commotion and consternation that has enveloped the civil society of Asia. So instead of envenoming this society more and more through myopic policy of brinkmanship consecrated constructive efforts should be put in to detoxicate it to ensure
peace ,tranquillity and reconciliation between groups and nations pitted against one another.
Senator Akram Zaki of Pakistan, while dilating on global politics with veridical approach in his interview published in an English daily on August17, 2009 , alluded to Saarland, a piece of a land that had become a bone of contention between France and Germany as an aftermath of 2nd. World War. Rationalism and stoicism of the contending parties eventually facilitated the free and fair referendum in Saarland in 1955 consequent on which the disputed territory got annexed with Germany ; and today the bonhomie of the two powers is vividly conspicuous in European Union. The precedent should coax and cajole India and Pakistan to have tryst with a similar example of objectivity and realism. Why should truth become a casualty when the visionary leader Mr. Jaswant Singh, the ex-foreign minister of India ,tries to be vocal in his assertion for truth thereby unveiling what remains shrouded by bigotry and irredentism ?Yes, I too subscribe to Mr. Singh’s viewpoint that M.A . Jinnah was a nationalist, not a communalist, and he was pushed to the wall by the parochialism of Indian National Congress and subsequently he was “demonized” as a recalcitrant and intractable dissident hell-bent on the vivisection of India.’ (unquote). As a high profile self –respecting conscientious Muslim leader Jinnah Saheb did what one million
books on decommunalized politics could not elucidate . Now peaceful coexistence between India and Pakistan is prioritized by exponents of stratagem of modus vivendi . The two countries should bury the hatchet for good, if suicide is not an option . Mr. Jaswant Singh will discern a like- minded friend in late Abul Kalam Azad ,Congress stalwart, whose book ‘India Wins Freedom’ is a magnum opus for the students of history . Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpaye as the Prime Minister of India, jotted down in the visitors’ book at Mizar-e-Pakistan that stability and integrity of India depended on the stability and integrity of Pakistan .The message is loud and clear for the irredendists of India.
Kashmir issue , as Prof. Dr. Anand Kumar of JNU in an informal interaction with me in my cottage a few days back maintained , has the inherent potential of turning out to be casus belli of a nuclear holocaust in South Asia . This is, of course, a nightmarish prognosis for humanists of East and West. So the two countries India and Pakistan should, without further digression and dilatory detour, be prompt for brass tacks— substantive dialogue for the final amicable settlement of Kashmir problem. That
Kashmir is ‘atoot ang of India’ or ‘political shahrag of Pakistan’ is a travesty of truth . Well, it is a different story that rivers originating from Kashmir have accorded to Kashmir the title of “economic jugular vein of Pakistan.” Stated position of the either country did not prove of any help; rather it proved counterproductive. Instead of negativism a prospective and perspicacious approach should be adopted for a discursive and substantive debate and discourse on Kashmir. This is an altruistic way to ameliorate the lot of millions of pauperized people of South Asia. Of late, Pakistan declared that “Pak was not averse to the concept of Independent Kashmir.” India should seize the opportunity to mollify bruised Kashmiris. God Almighty will not leave us in the lurch. He will certainly come to our rescue.
Aug. 23,2009
Nageen,Hazratbal M. Azam Inqilabi
Srinagar. Patron JK Mahaz-e-Azadi
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