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Don't worry Jihad is bearing fruits in Kashmir.Just one more push and kashmir will attain its freedom from Indian colonial rule.
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J&K: India's complete surrender?
By Maj Gen G D Bakshi | 2011-03-02 14:54:14
The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan have found this the opportune moment to shamelessly back away from our post-Mumbai stand and restart dialogue with Pakistan - in all but name.
The public in India is so preoccupied with local issues of corruption that this Peace-At-Any-Cost lobby has decided to exploit that sense of emotional ennui and exhaustion to push their pet agenda through surreptitiously.
Such an earlier attempt at Sharm-el-Sheikh had come too soon after the Mumbai massacre and caused such public outrage that the government was forced to backtrack.
This perplexing urge to resile from a principled stand goes against our national interest and global image as an emerging global power. The worst part is the callous lack of concern it betrays for the lives of ordinary Indians.
163 innocent Indians were massacred in Mumbai. What steps has Pakistan taken to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism? What has it done to bring the perpetrators to justice?
Why, then, this overarching compulsion on the part of India to resume dialogue and in fact, grovel before the perpetrators of terror? What really has changed except the Bleeding Hearts Brigade's perception that now is the opportune time to get away with it?
It is disturbing to note this cynical lack of concern for the lives of ordinary Indians that seem to matter so little to this Bleeding Hearts Brigade.
There is however a second aspect that is of equal, if not greater concern. Are we compromising on our national interests under pressure from America?
Bruce Reidel - who wields considerable influence over America's Policy, recently wrote a book called Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad. In this, he emphasised that the cancer of jihadism has spread deep into the vitals of Pakistan.
He lamented that "Nothing could be done unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved to Pakistan's entire satisfaction. That alone will make it a normal state not preoccupied with India. It would also remove the rationale for the Pakistan Army's disproportionate role in Pakistan's Security Affairs."
The construct is very disturbing. It is Pakistan that has the Jihadi cancer but it is India that is required to undergo the surgical operation of giving up Kashmir simply because the Jihadis want it and to get peace, we must tamely surrender the province.
Besides, Bruce Reidel's argument is seriously flawed. The surrender of Kashmir will only whet the Jihadi brigade's appetite to dismember India.
There is the issue of River Waters which is likely to be blown up next and maps of Mughalistan are rife in the Urdu Press in Pakistan. The Pakistani Army gains its prima donna status from the centrality of the disputes with India. Will it tamely relinquish its overarching role and power?
The J&K settlement, supposedly arrived at in Musharraf's tenure, was derailed by his conclave of Corps Commanders and the ISI. Mumbai blew up in our faces.
We can therefore, expect the next terrorist strike anytime now that we are going down the Munich lane again.
So the central premise of Bruce Reidel is seriously flawed. It has, however, apparently resulted in backdoor pressure on India to compromise and we seemed to have caved in suddenly and completely.
An article by Juan C Zarate, a former American National Security Advisor, in the Washington Post reinforces this thesis and calls for" pressure on both parties to pave the way for a constructive dialogue on Kashmir".
The Americans, of course, are solely interested in safeguarding their own citizenry. Even a single CIA operative's life is precious.
The contrast with the attitude of the India state to the safety of its own citizens could not be more stark. It is the Indian state's callous lack of concern for its slain citizenry that is cause for concern.
The Indian state is hardly six decades old. It cannot afford to dilute its sovereignty or give in so supinely to the demands of separatism. J&K is a major test case for the core Indian constitutional principle of secularism.
If we let the five million Kashmiri Muslims of the valley secede purely on the basis of a religious/communal agenda, we revive the two-nation theory.
Worse, what right will we then have to the continual loyalty of 150 million loyal India Muslims who voted with their feet at the time of partition to stay in a secular India and not migrate to a theocratic Pakistan?
A retreat from our sovereignty in Kashmir could set up dangerous precedents and models for other insurgents in the North East. How can we deny similar dilutions of sovereignty then to the Nagas or Manipuris or Assamese?
The back-channel diplomacy has proposed solutions that are dangerous. How can we demilitarise a state that has been attacked five times in the past by the Pakistanis and Chinese militaries?
Massive deployments of Pakistani and Chinese troops are still arrayed against the state. It is the presence of the Indian Army that is the check against Jihadi Is infiltration. Remove the Army and you might as well hand over the state on a platter to Pakistan.
Is the resumption of the dialogue the thin edge of the wedge of complete capitulation on the issue of Jammu & Kashmir?
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