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

Mon Mar 9 23:52:07 IST 2009

Let us forget for a while about DKPs issue, which is quite a sensitive
one. I believe Kashmir can  still guide its destiny in absence of
these DKPs, but there are some questions which need to be seriously
looked into.

First, why is Musharaf  in Delhi?

There is no satisfactory answer. The simpler one is: ISI wants to
restore its Kashmir agenda to divert its inner dissent. That is a
traditional line, but the question is why  Manmohan Singh Ji,
President ji and Sonia ji refused to meet him? I guess,  all this was
sorted out before hand. Musharaf, the architect of Kargil, but a
failed General cant be right choice to sort out the Pakistani mess,
and neither he is the right person to talk about the Kashmir issue. So
why is he here, and not in Bangladesh or Iran or USA etc.

I repeat, Musharaf’s visit to Delhi was sorted out at Diplomatic
level, and that is the game which I am interested. He knew that he
wont be meeting PM or President.

At highest level there are games which are played by players at
international level, and Musharaf is certainly not even its 16th man.
So why he is he  here?

I don’t know. Well said by some one, that politics is not revealed
even to those who are inside it.

So how can I know. I am not bothered to know even, but I must keep on
learning from such examples. After all, he is the man who exiled both
Nawaz and Benazir, and he is the man who was compelled to bring them
back. Surprising, he is happily living in Pakistan, and still can be
ISI’s representative to handles some international issues.

That is the state of Pakistan. Meanwhile Obama is seriously trying to
engage Good Talibans in Afganistan and Paskitan, which squarely means
that Talibans can be come to power in  both in Pakistan and
Afganistan, and who knows, Musharaf can become president again. He has
only to grow some beard, or buy some readymade from old Delhi’s Kinari
Bazar.

But wait a while, the Talibans, I heard, refused to let male
volunteers to touch the females victims in recent earth quack in
Pakistan. They believe it was against Islam to let a male touch a
female, so in the spirit of their Islam it was right to let them die
painfully under the debris in absence of a female volunteer. Sad. If a
future Taliban  president, Musharaf or any other Maulana sahib dreams
to think about Kashmir merger on those lines.

I am not some one who believes that Kashmir is eternally wedded to
India. But under the circumstances, to think ‘Indian administered
Kashmir’ as part of present Pakistan will be unfortunate.

Kashmiris have to discover their own voices from within, which has not
happened. killing poets and innocent people ( both Hindus and
Muslims), and driving entire  Pandit community  from their homes in
1990 was not Kashmiri Muslim’s agenda but it was thrust on them but
ISI and some international politics. India, I am sure knew that there
is a move to drive Pandits out of their homes. The game is such,
deeper than we all can know and believe.  I am learning by many such
Musharaf like examples.

But a genuine Kahsmiri Muslim voice will speak boldly and tell the truth.
 There has to be some new light, some new vision to guide its destiny.
A new politics. I don’t know what, but the present approach to Kashmir
Problem has only created disappointment.  Metaphorically and
literally, a Japanese scientist predicted that Dal Lake will the world
first biggest septic tank.

And we can blame Indian security forces for killing innocent Kashmiri
muslims but not examples like Dal Lake.

Where is ture Momin (a true believer ) in Kashmir. And I guess, only a
true believer , in that sense, in Kashmir can talk about Jihad. The
meaning of Jihad which poet Iqbal has lucidly explained in his verses:
A movement based on non-violence and ethics and tolerance of the other
can justify the political dissent; and with dissent comes the
responsibility.

There is hardly any body left in the world who embraces responsibility
while marking political dissent. It is a hard choice, because, it
brings into question our  absolute ways of living. It talk about
rights of women, trees birds and children. It talks about dying folk
and tribal voices, songs, poetry and dance and music. It talks about
simplicity and friendship. It talks about Love.

 I was talking to myself, more than you, Mr. Wali.

With regards
is

p.s. ho mara kaam gariboon ki himayat karan , dard mandoon ki zaifoon
ki himayat karan. ( My job to help poor, who are in pain, who are
oppressed ) by poet Iqbal

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:05 PM, taraprakash <taraprakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wali Arifi" <waliarifi3 at gmail.com>
> To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:38 AM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Cunning and scheming Displaced Kashmiri Pundits(?)
>
>
>> 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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