Back to dialogue

Sir,
This is in response to  K N Pandita’s writeup ‘Back to dialogue in Kashmir (DE of 28-10-2017). The observations on the obtaining scenario in Kashmir, made by the writer, are most appropriate and objectively realistic and rational.
It is for the first time that the Central Govt has taken a bold and free wheeling decision to fight to the finish the long standing dreadful Dracula of terrorism and bring peace back to the Valley.
Much water has flowed down the Jhelum ever since the movement for aazadi was launched by the separatist leaders. This movement has undergone many twists and turns from the time Pak-trained terrorists added a dangerous dimension to the struggle of aazadi by brandishing their guns and going on the rampage to terrorise people. The havoc caused in terms of men and material is too well known to be  repeated.
Yes, the present status of the separatist leaders is that they have lost their credibility. In the long-drawn out struggle for freedom, which has actually fizzled out, vested interests have been created. The policy of these leaders has been to continue violent disturbances in the calm waters of the vale of Kashmir and then fish in them. It has been revealed that these people have  amassed enormous amounts of wealth in the name of aazadi.
The socalled soft-line separatist leaders find themselves between the devil and the deep sea. For them, to be or not to be with the Moosa type ISIS inspired ideology or not is the question. They realise that in the swift changes in point of negatively charged ideologies, their original aazadi movement has been hijacked by the Moosa type votaries of caliphate type of radicalised society. If they, willy nilly side with them, they will become the targets of the “separation all out”. If they change their stance, they will face the bullets of the Jehadis. But there is still hope of coming out of this conundrum.
Mr Pandita has pointed out, things are moving fast to bring back normalcy in Kashmir. Thus the separatist leaders of different hues have a chance to put their act together, think and act afresh. They have do come out of their cocoons of self-love, and pull out the unsuspecting people in general from the quage mire of despondency which they have dragged them into, and lead them on the right path. This will provide a face saving chance for them. It will, at the same time, provide protection to them against the imminent public wrath, arising out of their unpardonable sin of having used the masses of Kashmir, especially the budding youth as grist to their mill of pelf and power.
Now enough is enough. Now conditions have to be created and that the people of Kashmir begin, once again, to  breathe in a fresh and fearless atmosphere and move afresh on the path of peace and prosperity.
Let conditions be created to let the displaced Kashmiri Pandits rediscover their roots in their native soil, and get rehabilitated, with dignity, in their ancestral land on conditions suitable to them.
Yours etc..,
Prof M L Raina
Janipur, Jammu

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