November 21, 2019
The nature of the gambit would have been too huge
Pulwana was again a one off incident though it was the first car bomb attack in
the region. But it is one thing to send a strong a message to Pakistan that its
restraint should not be taken as weakness, a point Islamabad also makes.Giving
him a picturesque location in the hills akin to his home in the Valley, Sheikh
Abdullah was kept in a pretty little cottage named Kohinoor on the road leading
to the Kurunji Andavar temple.The politics of Kashmir have been even more
tortuous than the snakes and ladders game it seemed to be in the time of the
"Sher-e-Kashmir".
Pakistan even hints at another war. Now it has done away with
it thanks to its majority in Parliament. Likewise, China, which holds Aksai
Chin, has also always been with Pakistan. Pakistan also made a futile attempt to
take the issue to the UN Security Council, which, after a closed door meeting,
dispersed without any decision, but upholding India&famous Aluminum extrusions profile
suppliers39;s stance that it is a bilateral matter to be settled with
Pakistan in accordance with the spirit of the Shimla Agreement.
Also US
President Donald Trump, after offering twice to mediate between the two
countries to defuse tension, piped down at last for now, after a meeting with
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G17 summit. The people of Kashmir, by voting
in successive elections, have shown that they are already integrated with India.
The Indian Navy, Coast Guard and the Air Force have been put on maximum alert
following intelligence reports that a group of Pakistani commandos and
Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists trained in underwater attack, have infiltrated
through Kutch. His fortunes were to improve since his stay in Tamil Nadu as he
struck a bargain with the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi in a formal pact
of 1974 and ruled Kashmir as CM again. Having failed to get the US to mediate on
Kashmir, Pakistan is reported to be planning a 26/11 type Mumbai attack. Even
otherwise, incidents of terrorism are at the lowest in last five years, though
the killing of terrorist Burhani unleashed very violent street protests. So also
its leaders like Farooq and Omar Abdullah who have had held posts in Central
Ministries and Mehbooba Mufti whose PDP shared power with the BJP until the
marriage of convenience ended in a divorce.
When it comes to external threat,
India stands as one as it has always been. Now Jammu and Kashmir which Maharaja
Hari Singh acceded to India is no longer thsere.The justification that the
valley has to be centrally administered to fight terrorism is questionable.
(Photo: PTI) What Tamil Nadu political parties think about the abrogation of
Article 370 and 35A may mean little in the larger scheme of things in a high
stake gambit. He had been out of favour after Nehru's death but only in 1971 was
he brought to Kodaikanal when he was exiled from the # Valley for about a year
and a half.
The nature of the gambit would have been too huge to contemplate
until its time came in 2019 with the second government of Prime Minister of
Narendra Modi that has opened itself to challenge abroad diplomatically and at
home politically and legally with the Supreme Court forming a five- judge
Constitution bench to go into the issue. The truth is the people of Kashmir were
with India in the four previous wars between the two countries. To add muscle to
it, Pakistan has test fired a surface-to-surface limited range Ghaznavi missile.
The US has always had a strategic interest in Pakistan. But by unleashing stern
measures in the valley after the repeal of 370 like deploying thousands of
troops, clamping indefinite ban orders, snapping telecommunication lines,
shutting schools and colleges and, most importantly, by jailing moderate leaders
like Umar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and thereby silencing the voice of
moderation, the Modi Government may have risked giving a new legitimacy to
terrorism, which it seeks to bring down through direct rule from Delhi. The fact
is that Jammu and Kashmir was the only Muslim majority State in India and the
BJP always opposed its special status.As is to be expected, Pakistan Prime
Minister Imran Khan has stepped up his war rhetoric. Imran also called for
street protests in POK in support of the people of Kashmir. It only has a penal
code.
More so now as the US plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan. As a
result, security has been beefed up in Gujarat ports.(The writer is a senior
journalist based in Chennai). Is it not a violation of the treaty of accession?
As for 370, it has already been whittled down over the years and most of the
Central laws are already applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. It has taken several
decades after his death in 1982 for an idea that was probably being shaped
around that time that equality had to prevail. A view of A deserted Lal Chowk
area in Srinagar Wednesday. It would have seemed unimaginable then that the
special status of his Kashmir would have been taken away in Sheikh Abdullah's
time. But Tamil Nadu's connection to the Kashmir question goes back a few
decades as Sheikh Abdullah, once the Prime Minister and then Chief Minister of
Jammu & Kashmir, was incarcerated in the salubrious hill station of
Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.he people of Kashmir, by voting in successive
elections, have shown that they are already integrated with India.
It does not
have a constituent assembly, a Prime Minister or a President or a
flag.Parliament, through two resolutions in mid-1990s, said the only unfinished
agenda in regard to Kashmir was retrieval of the territory under Pakistan's
control. It is also understandable that India cannot be complacent as Pakistan
is a failed state and Imran Khan is under pressure from home to do something
after what BJP supporters call another surgical strike in Kashmir
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