India and Pakistan should adopt a realistic approach: Azam Inqlabi

Srinagar: Chief Patron Jammu Kashmir Mahaz-e-Azadi (MeA) Muhammad Azam Inqilabi Thursday said “governments of India and Pakistan should adopt a realistic and pragmatic approach to resolve the long standing issue of Kashmir.”

He said this will guarantee long lasting peace in the south Asia.

“I as an ideological heir of martyr Maqbool Bhat want to convey few things here:

Martyr Maqbool Bhat gave revolutionary dimension to Kashmir resistance movement in 1966. For which he was hanged on 11 Feb. 1984 in Delhi’s Tihar jail. His ideological followers decided to devout themselves for a deciding battle against Indian occupation.

In 1988 under the command of Martyr Ishfaq Majeed Wani third generation of Kashmiris started armed rebellion against the Indian rule of Kashmir. We are fully aware of the fact that Pakistan’s brave general Zia-ul-Haq decided to support our national struggle.

We are also aware of the fact that Pakistani nation with full sagacity and bravery fought Kashmir’s liberation struggle in Lahore, Bangladesh and in mountains of Afghanistan. And even today it is being fought in Afghanistan.

In these circumstances Indian leadership can understand what turn the situation can take after 2014. Then India’s Agni missiles and Pakistan’s Gauri and Shaheen missiles can’t bully revolutionary Kashmir youth who will change situation as per their strategy.

Resistance leadership in Srinagar and Muzaffarabad for the last 18 years has continued peaceful democratic resistance as means to achieve the goal. And veteran leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan are symbols of this policy. Resistance leadership on either sides of ceasefire line support them in this endeavour.

We all provided Indian leadership a chance. We hoped that present Pakistani leadership as leaders of a nation with atomic power take up Kashmir issue with full vigor under a well planned strategy so as to make India budge from its traditional obduracy, but that didn’t happen. Instead they spent their entire time and energy in proving that former Pakistan’s generals particularly Ayub Khan, Zia-ul-Haq and Musharraf have dented image of Pakistan. But we fully know that they all were patriotic soldiers of Pakistan.

In these circumstances through cross-Loc barter trade an attempt was made to redirect Kashmir struggle. But resistance leadership blocked this defeatist approach. This self-defeatist policy of Pakistan has put resistance leadership in difficult position. Now even if some non-resident Kashmiris based in London or New York fight over some family matter. They visit Kashmir and issue statements to Kashmir newspapers that “Kashmir resistance leadership has failed on all fronts. They are responsible for death of a generation, they have no strategy and thus responsible for death of movement of right to self-determination.”

It is the result of this defeatist approach which has foisted buffoons on this oppressed nation.

In such a situation, therefore, the brew and stew of hatred and acrimony is quite palpable. Suppressed sentiments are craving to find a route to assert and express themselves. Youth of Srinagar and Muzaffarabad have already trampled the Loc under their foot. On 11 August 2008 Shaeedi Azeemat Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other 12 martyrs of Uri gave another lesson of sacrifice to this nation.

I appeal to the leadership of India and Pakistan to adopt an objective thinking and take all resistance leaders on either sides of ceasefire line into confidence so as to resolve this lingering dispute of Kashmir.
We hope Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Tehran NAM summit will look into the points mentioned above and through an atmosphere of optimism announce to solve Kashmir issue as per the wishes of Kashmiris.

France and Germany have already provided a precedent of reconciliation and objectivity through the settlement of Faarland which had become a bone of contention between the two countries as an aftermath of Second World War. Ultimately it was in 1955 that the issue got settled through a referendum. (KMW NEWS)