Historically, it has been proved every time that pricking Muzaffar Hussain Beig is easy but managing him is very difficult when he decides to react. That is exactly what happened last week.
A spokesman of the ruling NC had alleged that Beig had acquired property during the Jagmohan’s rule when he was J&K’s advocate general. In reaction, Beig called a press conference and demand a “high power judicial commission” to probe into the allegation.
“If it is proven,” Beig said, “I will kick politics and I will voluntarily blacken my face and walk on the streets of Srinagar.”
At the same time, however, Beig, the erstwhile top taxpayer of the state said the same commission must investigate Abdullah family’s wealth accumulation.
An unstoppable Beig said that he has been suggested to read history,so be it. ‘With a heavy heart’, he said, Sheikh Abdullah was an‘opportunist’. He accused NC founder for crating an ethnic conflict between various language groups, and fragmenting Kashmir in Sher-Bakra factions. Besides, he accused the party of creating mistrustbetween Kashmir and Jammu. Beig talked about the flip-flops in NC’shistory and told how it was initially part of the accession and laterset up Plebiscite Front after losing power. NC, he said, was the main contributor to the trust deficit bet ween Delhi and Srinagar.
Beig got at three generations of the first family holding Dr Abdullah directly responsible for militancy. “He rigged the election.” Beig alleged that that Omar Abdullah during his last visit to Islamabad “tendered apology to the Pakistan for the role of his grandfather”. He dubbed Omar a mis-governor who heads a corrupt and murderous system with dubious standards.
A day after Beig was on the newspaper front-pages, NC spokesman reacted. NC shifted the debate from history to mental health. The statement said that Beig’s “baseless utterances deserve no cognizance because he suffers from psychological disorder and gets into spells of unstable behavior.” The spokesman said Beig’s “erratic behavior” was “well known” and was a “sad fallout of his serious illness”. The party, said the spokesman, “feels it fit to take no notice of what he (Baig) has said because his maverick behaviour shows streaks of lunacy and the only thing he deserves is sympathy and better medical aid.”
The last time, when Beig could not get time in the assembly, he created a situation that forced the chief executive of the state to get a character certificate from the CBI. Is this time for Beig to get one from mental health practitioners?
To
The Editor
Sub:- Yasin Malik should first be loyal to Kashmir
Ref:- (i)- Yasin should realize his potentials & appeal and need not become another Kashmiri Pundit (KP)
(ii)- Yasin & his should-be-launched all India political Party should contest October 2013 election on Kashmir unification plank.
(iii)- If Pakistan is averse to independent Kashmir then how can India be different especially after collapse of two nation theory in 1971.
(iv)- Yasin need to understand that only unification of Kashmir is the Kashmir solution
(v)- Only India can unify Kashmir and Yasin need not bother about its ramifications because there are people and countries that will take care of it.
(vi)- For change sake Yasin should cast his lot with India and should ask for takeover of POK militarily by India.
(vii)- Merely saying that ~ 1 Lakh people have lost lives for Kashmir solution, not enough
(viii)- Yasin owes to his ~ 1 Lakh killed ex – colleagues too, that Kashmir solution is achieved
(ix)- Yasin can easily become tallest Secular leader of India (from Muslim community)
(x)- Yasin can easily dominate 2013 J&K elections and 2014 Parliamentary elections if :-
(A)- His Party works for rehabilitation of KP with the help of people from rest of India (especially Hindus)
(B)- His Party shows mirror to Indian Military that they are showing ‘bravery’ on Indian citizens in J&K (even through AFSPA) but has no courage to take POK
(C)- His party gets justice to Indian Muslims regarding reservation, Babri – Masjid demolition and Gujarat 2002 massacre and to victims in N-E & Naxal infested areas.
Dear Sir
This refers to interview published on Sunday in ‘The Dawn’ (the prominent media of Pakistan) given by Yasin Malik, the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to Gowhar Geelani in which Yasin has shed his customary tears for Kashmir cause without giving any solution especially when faced with demoralizing fact that now Pakistan is no more interested in Kashmir issue (notwithstanding its lip service to Kashmir as was given by passing resolution in Pak National Assembly against hanging of Afzal Guru) as was complained by Yasin in this interview that “[Once the Pakistan Foreign Office used to be Kashmir-centric, but unfortunately Kashmir is missing from this election campaign]”.
Though Yasin is exceptionally perspicacious in this interview when he says that – “[people had picked up the gun but were persuaded by the diplomatic community to give up arms and then promised the issue will be resolved through negotiations. Now, the Kashmiri people have been given a clear message that ‘you have been defeated’]” and “[Having 25-year long close association with them, I have come to a discomforting conclusion, and it is my honest belief now, that the Indian state uses members of civil society as ‘firefighters in Kashmir’. It has become an unfortunate routine that in crisis time they (civil society members) come to Kashmir, accuse their own government, sell big dreams to the people of Kashmir; but as soon as the crisis is over they pack their bags]” and “[They manage the conflict through two C’s: Corruption and Coercion. These are the two weapons which India has used in Kashmir constantly since 1947]” and “[When I arrived in New Delhi, I was, as usual, manhandled by Hindu extremist forces. I have a 13-month old daughter; she has not visited Kashmir until now. My wife and family are not granted a visa to come to Kashmir. I have not been given the passport. When I went to Delhi recently for a hunger strike, you can see for yourself (alluding to the neck-collar), how I was treated there by police officers, not ordinary soldiers!]”
But one reason why Yasin has been getting frustration & humiliation all along is due to simple reason that he has not been able to understand the basic fact that even during 1947 partition no people (whether Punjabis or Bengalis) speaking same language and practicing same religion were expected to live on two sides of the border. Whereas Kashmiris speaking same language and mostly practicing same religion Islam, are forced to live on two sides of the LOC. Therefore first Yasin need to understand that only the unification of Kashmir is the Kashmir solution and loyalty for Kashmir demands that instead of wasting his time in day dreaming Yasin should primarily try for unification within time bound period of (say) two years and this can easily be achieved as given below:-
(1)- By this time Yasin must have understood that only India (and not Pakistan) can unify Kashmir. Here Yasin need not bother that what will happen if India tries to take POK militarily (with likely conflict between two nuclear powers) for the purpose of unifying Kashmir. Because there are people and countries (USA & its European Allies and other world powers like Russia, China etc) that will take care of its ramifications. Otherwise also the last word on India’s partition is yet to be written.
(2)- Moreover Yasin should realize his potentials & appeal and need not become another Kashmiri Pundit (KP) who are victims of huge violence and terrorism and at the same time can easily solve their problem and can get rehabilitated easily (as I have mentioned in my earlier letters) but will not do it for the reasons best known to KP only.
(3)- Similarly Yasin can easily solve Kashmir problem if he launches all India level political party and contests 2013 J&K election and 2014 Parliamentary elections which he can easily dominate if :-
(A)- His Party works for rehabilitation of KP with the help of people from rest of India (especially Hindus)
(B)- His Party shows mirror to Indian Military (through public meetings in entire J&K and in about ~ 600 districts of India) that they are showing ‘bravery’ on Indian citizens in J&K (even through Armed Forces Special Power Act) but has no courage to take POK militarily, though Pakistan 1/6 th of India’s size tried so 5 times (in 1947, 1948, 1965, 1971, during Kargil and through on-going proxy war)
(4)- Here it is needles to mention that Yasin can easily become tallest Secular leader of India (and that too from Muslim community) for the simple reason that what to talk of other parties even Congress of Sonia and Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav (which are biggest beneficiary of Muslim votes) do not have leaders from Muslim community who can muster courage to get justice to Indian Muslims regarding reservation, Babri – Masjid demolition and Gujarat 2002 massacre – (though this justice can easily be got by filing proper court cases and which Yasin party should file) and also Yasin Party should get justice to the victims of terrorism in N-E & Naxal infested areas (as all has been mentioned in my previous letters).
(5)- Apart from loyalty to Kashmir, there is one more reason that Yasin should try for Kashmir solution. Merely saying in said interview that ~ 1 Lakh people have lost lives for Kashmir solution is not enough. Because these ~ 1 Lakh killed people were his ex – colleagues (many of them were fundamentalists who got free from cold war in Afghanistan and came to Kashmir). Hence Yasin owes to his ~ 1 Lakh killed ex – colleagues too, that Kashmir solution is achieved.
(6)- It is high time Yasin comes out of his delusion as he revealed when he said in said interview that – “[I have visited many cities, universities and colleges in Pakistan. I have interacted with the cross-section of people there. My belief is that Pakistani people have a romantic attachment with the Kashmir cause and our people. Political leaders have their views. But when I talk to the common Pakistanis on the streets, I find their love for Kashmir unconditional. I have a request to them that they must not forget that Kashmiris are suffering]”.
(7)- It must be fresh in the memory of Yasin that when asked to stop terming terrorists in Kashmir as freedom fighter by USA after 9/11 these same Pakistanis (not merely politicians who always matter the most in such issues but even Pakistani people including in colleges and universities) took no time in ditching Kashmiris.
(8)- Yasin must also be knowing the condition of Kashmiris in Pakistani side of Kashmir (POK) where (on the basis of information collected from POK Election Commission and Rehabilitation Department and provided to me by Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani, the Secretary General – JKCHR), total camps established in different parts of POK are 20 in which total number of 37,774 people (7,265 families) are still living.
(9)- Moreover Indian side of Muslim Kashmiris, who are never tired of singing the necessity of Article 370 of Indian Constitution allegedly in the interest of protecting ‘Kashmiriyat’ by retaining demographic composition of Kashmir – did not utter a single word and never objected to Pakistan when in POK (where as per reports 42 terrorist camps are operating) demography has been altered hugely not only by people from other provinces of Pakistan but also from other counties (who are essential parts of these 42 terrorist camps).
(10)- Yasin should also keep one very important fact of international law in view that with separation of Bangladesh in 1971 from Pakistan every basis of India’s partition has collapsed and what to talk of J&K, India is entitled to assimilate even entire Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were carved out on the basis of two nation theory and on the basis of which Yasin and his ilk have been clamoring naively so long for independence, plebiscite, liberation, self – determination etc. If India has so far not done it (even in case of Bangladesh in 1971) then it is mainly due to reason that so long only political parties with communal mindset have ruled in Centre at Delhi which do not want Hindu overwhelming majority to be diluted in India under the pressure of Hindu communal forces (with demoralized Indian Muslim population offering no resistant to this Hindu rabid communalism) – which is at the cost of mother land and which ironically these Hindutva forces are never tired of eulogizing with high sounding words like ‘Akhand Bharat’ etc.
(11)- Therefore justice, international law and wisdom demands that Yasin should cast his lot with India thinking that if ~ 250 million Muslims can live in India (in some what demoralizing and humiliating condition which Yasin & his party can easily rectify as said above) then there is no reason why ~ 9 million Kashmiri Muslims (~ 6 million in India and ~ 3 million presently on other side of LOC) cannot live in peace, prosperity and harmony in India.
It is hoped that Yasin Malik will come out of his self-imposed, ridiculous and self-defeating exile from political field and will immediately without any further delay take plunge in politics through should-be-launched all India political party in order to shape the destiny of South Asia for the better by electrifying J&K elections 2013 and Parliamentary elections 2014, as mentioned above.
Yours truly
Hem Raj Jain
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