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

Tue Mar 10 14:40:05 IST 2009

Dear Taraprakash

1. I doubt it that you will receive a direct response to your counter questions directed at Wali Arifi since your questions show up his hypocrisy. 

2. You similarly had some pointed question and comments for one M Yousuf in April 2008 (in the thread 'The Hindu on Tibet).  He never responded. In fact that is the last one saw of him on this List, at least as identifiable by his email address of  "yousufism AT gmail.com".

Kshmendra

--- On Mon, 3/9/09, taraprakash <taraprakash at gmail.com> wrote:

From: taraprakash <taraprakash at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Cunning and scheming Displaced Kashmiri Pundits(?)
To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 9:05 PM

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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