Date: 13/05/2013
To
The Editor
Sub:- Yasin Malik should first have loyalty 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.
(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 shoud 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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