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Naare Vizee Krur Khannun ; Dig a well when house is on fire



By B L Saraf


There is a guiding principle in the Military Manuel “ Make investment in peace : Draw dividend in war .” For effective governance , this principle could well be extended to any form of the government . Government of India has had number of occasions in Kashmir to put the dictum in practice . Alas, long spells of peace were a wasted occasion ! Instead of being awake to utilize the moment by trying to address the simmering discontent in the Valley , GOI fell in slumber under a mistaken belief that everything was honky dory . This happened and keeps happening . They believed that if anything untoward happened the situation could be managed by the power brokers in Valley, by buying peace in material terms . Probably, time has gone for the formula to work . Peace ,in real terms, has proved elusive . There is no hint to suggest that , in the given situation , if at all peace returns it will hold good for long . Nobody knows how much more human blood will be spilled .




We see a glimmer of hope in the statement of PM Modi that “ Kashmir is a political issue and the development aspect alone won’t work .” At least , some urgency is seen at his end to address the issue . Modi must rue his inaction when the Valley got devastated by the floods in 2014 and needed him most . Common Kashmir looked up to him , keeping his image as builder of earth quake ravaged Kutch Gujarat in view . But the PM failed him miserably , thus lost an opportunity to gain faith of fair number of Kashmiris . An occasion to invest was lost which may have paid some dividend, today, when GOI is grappling to come to terms with the volatile situation in Kashmir . Like a drowning person the Indian state is looking for straws to reach the shore . In persisting with the same old practice , it will end up catching waves only, with no chance to swim across .






It is evident that on Kashmir so far PM Modi has heard only those who are attached to his office . It is unfortunate that on issue like Kashmir such a person is sought after whose vision starts at some place in Doda and ends up in Kathua , in the Jammu province . And , whose political belief is premised in the polarization . Ram Madhave and Indresh may be good Pracharks and party workers ,but they are ill suited to the political climate of the Valley . BJP has yet to travel thousands of miles and cross number of path hindering psychosocial and political hurdles , before it reaches Srinagar .



PM Modi had god gifted opportunity to assuage the hurt feeling of the Kashmiris ( Pandits including ) His association with PDP could be beneficial to both . But working of that relationship has left lot to be desired . Still , everything is not lost . The alliance government , though in tatters, is holding on .The need is to have a look at the Agenda of Governance which envisages talks with all stake holders .





Home Minister is talking to the persons who are already on board . Need of the hour is to bring other stake holders along with . For durable peace , Hurriyat’s presence in the meeting room is must . Talking to them won’t be a blasphemy . After all it was the diehard nationalist LK Advani who went into the talking business with an important section of the Hurriyat . Talks were held under the benign watch of PM AB Vajpayee . To have them now will be in line with the statement of Modi when he invokes AB Vajpayee to address the K issue .



Reference to Baluchistan and GB may serve purpose to dislodge Pakistan from the high moral ground . But to link Kashmir issue with them won’t work in the long run . Pakistan has a role in fomenting trouble in J&K . It is a party to the issue . But then it is the internal unrest that gives the country a cause to intermeddle . If local dimension of the problem is addressed the external may lose the locus .



We have had enough of ‘ Kashmir experts ‘ . It is time to put ears and eyes to the ground . Have a look at the terms arrived at by the interlocutors and road maps presented by the Kashmir centric mainstream political parties . Agreeable solution may come up .


Job can’t be left to the security forces, alone. A sustained and comprehensive political initiative is required.




(The author is a Former Principal District & Sessions Judge.Feedback- [email protected] )



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