[Reader-list] Cunning and scheming Displaced Kashmiri Pundits(?)

[taraprakash]

I don't see what is unusual here. A set of goons being considered to counter 
another set of goons. Hasn't it been happening in the history?

I wownder if you had similar concerns when Pakistan based, Pakistan backed 
"jihadi" elements entered Kashmir and ruthlessly butchered moderate muslims 
andd Hindus. Wasn't it a case of ethnic cleansing? A psychological 
operation? Or just commodification of a misplaced sense of communal bonding 
used for Pakistani right wing politics?

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> With apologies for cross-posting, this is an unusual version of a 
> situation
> many have come to believe in. One wonders, is it the state, the people
> living in Kashmir or a militia the displaced KPs are looking up to for 
> their
> return or rehabilitation. Five hundred thousand Shiv Sainiks sounds like 
> the
> number of Indian soldiers already in the state! An unusual perspective 
> here!
> Is it a case of ethnic flooding? A psychological operation? Or just
> commodifying a displaced community for use in right wing politics?
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=16402
>
>
>
> Cunning and scheming Displaced Kashmiri Pundits
>
> (Hem Raj Jain)
>
> Publication Date  9/3/2009 11:41:26 AM(IST)
>
>
>
> This refers to permanent complaint of DKPs from different forums that 1.5
> million of them are refugees in their own country as they left
>
>
>
> Kashmir valley in nineties and onwards in the face of Muslim 
> fundamentalist
> terrorism in valley. The latest such complaint was heard from a Kashmiri
> Pundit lady  (during almost three hours address and question answer 
> session
> of Pakistan’s ex-President Musharraf to a prominent T.V. Channel of India 
> on
> Mach 7, 2009 evening).
>
>
>
> But very few people know that these DKPs are simply not interested in 
> going
> back to J&K, even if they are assured of their security and restoration of
> their lost properties. Rather these DKPs are allowing Government of India 
> to
> use them merely as stick to beat Pakistan (which, even as per Musharraf
> during said T.V. session, is responsible for Muslim militancy in J&K in 
> the
> aftermath of Afghanistan war of eighties, when mujahidins free from
> Afghanistan were diverted to Kashmir). This is evident from the 
> following:-
>
>
>
> (1)- In 2002 Shiv Sena (having its registered office at Sena Bhavan, Dadar
> Mumbai) participated in a meeting with Kashmiri Samiti President Sunil
> Shakdar and other members of its executive body at Kashmiri Bhavan, Amar
> Colony, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi where -
>
>
>
> (2)- Shiv Sena offered to send 5,00,000 (five hundred thousand) Shiv
> Sainiks (male & female) along with 5,00,000 DKPs (who reportedly wanted to
> go back to Kashmir valley) on one to one basis till DKPs feel secured to
> live in Kashmir valley on their own.
>
>
>
> (3)- These 5,00,000 Shiv Sainiks though were not to be a financial burden 
> on
> rehabilitated DKPs but it was expected from  DKPs that they would extend
> every possible non-monetary help, assistance & support in making 
> livelihood
> in Kashmir valley easy for these Shiv Sainiks.
>
>
>
> (4)- For this program a study team consisting of equal number of Shiv
> Sainiks and DKPs was supposed to go in Kashmir valley. Therefore 20 Shiv
> Sena office bearers participated in this 2002 meeting at Kashmiri Bhavan,
> with 20 members (mostly from executive body) of Kashmiri Samiti.
>
>
>
> (5)- But Kashmiri Samiti later on backed out from this proposal and 
> program.
>
>
>
> (6)- Shiv Sena still stands by this program and 5,00,000 Shiv Sainiks are
> still prepared to go along with DKPs in Kashmir valley.
>
>
>
> (7)- Shiv Sena does not believe in giving political sermons while sitting 
> at
> Delhi but believes in solving this problem by going in the field and 
> talking
> to other citizens of Kashmir valley so that these Hindu DKPs may live
> peacefully & harmoniously with Muslim majority population of Kashmir 
> valley.
>
>
>
> (8)-  Here it is in context to add that during this 2002 meeting, in reply
> to  Kashmiri Samiti’s query (that what is the guarantee that these
> rehabilitated DKPs will not be attacked and  killed in Kashmir by
> terrorists), Shiv Sena told that only guarantee is that the accompanying
> Shiv Sainik will lay down his life before such DKPs is killed.
>
>
>
> (9)- But the way DKPs backed out in 2002 and the way Government of India 
> is
> supporting DKPs financially and economically, the Shiv Sena suspects that
> the DKPs have clearly developed a vested interest in remaining out of
> Kashmir valley as refugees.
>
>
>
> (10)-  If DKPs believe that Shiv Sena is wrong in this inference then even
> now let these DKPs go with Shiv Sena to Kashmir valley and then only (if
> Shiv Sena fails in its commitment) DKPs should air their so called
> grievances and even  such sweeping statements by some DKPs about the 
> alleged
> impotence of entire Indian political class.
>
>
>
> (11)- Therefore, for God sake if there is a problem of Displaced Kashmiri
> Pundits (DKPs) who want to go back to Kashmir valley but cannot, due to
> violence by terrorists then (whether Sunil Shakdar of Kashmiri Samiti or
> not) Shiv Sena can still help them by sending equal number of 5,00,000 
> Shiv
> Sainiks (both male & female) on one to one basis in Kashmir valley 
> (without
> putting any financial burden on these DKPs) in order to get DKPs
> rehabilitated and to get their evacuee properties restored back.
>
>
>
> (12)- But if there is no problem of DKPs and if Kashmiri Pundits are quite
> satisfied with what India is doing in Kashmir then this bluff of DKPs 
> should
> be called off where they are making huge hue & cry and lamenting day in 
> and
> day out, in media, at various forums, political demonstrations etc. that
> they are refugee in their own country, no body helps them etc. etc.
>
>
>
> (13)- Here it is pertinent to add that the above mentioned ought to be 
> kept
> in view before Obama administration (which is reportedly committed to find
> an early Kashmir solution) chalks out its foreign policy regarding south
> Asia especially about  Indo – Pak relations in context of Kashmir 
> solution.
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