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General Pervez Musharraf's game is out: he will help the terrorist groups step up bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir, while he sends an official invitation to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee to visit Pakistan, "reiterating" his belief in resolution of all outstanding issues with India through dialogue. The hypocrisy is barbaric, to say the least. General Musharraf cannot fool anyone about his intentions. If he is intending to put India under a great deal of pressure by promoting killings in Jammu and Kashmir he is mistaken. What he will end up doing is prove to the world that the Pakistanis have not yet come out of their ugly past, that the Pakistanis are still clinging to the two-nation theory propounded by Jinnah in order to partition the undivided India. The attack on the Amarnath yatris on Saturday proves the very same thing.
The terrorist groups do talk of Kashmiris and Kashmiriyat but in real truth they are nothing but narrow Islamic expansionists. They want Islam to conquer newer and newer territories, much like the rulers and chieftains owing allegiance to this religion did in the medieval times. How can the terrorist groups and their overground galaxy, the Hurriyat Conference, have the justification to claim to be representing all the Kashmiris when their clear intention seems to be to create such a great terror that Hindus leave Jammu and Kashmir? Religious wars are a thing of the past. Pakistan has learnt it through a very bitter and shattering lesson in 1971. It is pointless sticking to a two-nation theory when the emergence of Bangladesh long buried it. If the two-nation theory were a valid formulation there should not have been a third nation.
However, Gen Musharraf, the terrorist groups and the Hurriyat Conference are together making a foolish effort to revive the two-nation theory, arguing that Kashmir must become a part of Pakistan because it is Islamic. But what happens to the Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists living in the Kashmir valley and in Jammu and Ladakh? Recently the Hurriyat Conference chief, Mr Abdul Bhat went to the extent of saying that he did not mind a trifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir along religious lines as long as they had the Muslim territory. Sometime before that Mr Geelani, another Hurriyat leader, had also said that the war in Kashmir was a religious war. After the lack of agreement at the Agra summit, the terrorist groups and the Hurriyat have shed off their thin masks and are going all-out to terrorise the non-Muslim communities in the state. And they are openly saying that these attacks will not stop until the Kashmir issue is settled - or, in other words, until Kashmir is handed over to Pakistan.
General Musharraf cannot hope to get India to agree to a peaceful resolution of the problem in accordance with its antiquated and failed two-nation theory. The cause in Kashmir is not freedom of the Muslim population from the Indian authority and their merger into Pakistan, but the political rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. When General Musharraf came to Agra he said he wanted the Kashmir problem to be solved in accordance with the wishes of the people of Kashmir. But why does he practise hypocrisy on the other hand and support Islamic expansionists who kill innocent Hindu pilgrims?
General Musharraf would do better
not to talk of the wishes of the Kashmiri people. What has he done to give
the Kashmiri people living in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir ( PoK) their
political rights? If you want to know the latest about how much General
Musharraf's heart bleeds for the Kashmiris you should go and ask the former
prime minister of PoK, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan. Recently elections were
held to the Assembly of PoK and the Sardar's party, the Muslim Conference
won a majority. In the normal democratic course the Sardar would have become
the prime minister again - as a matter of fact, the Muslim Conference's
elected members chose him as their leader - but General Musharraf has told
him he could not assume the prime ministership. General Musharraf wants
a pliable Muslim Conference man to take over the prime ministership. This
is how the life is according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people in Pakistan.
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