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Indians, terrs say ixnay on Ashmir-Kay
 NEW DELHI India is unlikely to accept Pakistan President Pervez Musharrafs four-point solution to Jammu and Kashmir, with Indian officials expressing their disbelief to such a solution.Top South Block officials told Khaleej Times that if India agrees to this proposal then Jammu and Kashmir will get a great deal of autonomy which will only pave way to strengthen separatist movement. Such a step can never be prudent, and especially so at the time of thriving peace process aimed at confidence building between the two sides. His (President Musharrafs) proposals will surely help build up a separatist movement in demand for a separate nation. Separatists have had been fighting for this since long, and any solution aimed precisely at this would not be in the interests of India and Pakistan towards resolving the issue amicably, a top Ministry of External Affairs official said. Which is why Perv suggested it, of course. New Delhi is of the view that any move to declare troop reduction and announce the opening of LoC, as suggested by President Musharraf, will alter the administrative character of Indias sovereign state. Though India has already gone for troop reduction time and again suiting its need, it has always expressed its reticence towards granting autonomy to Kashmir. Since about fifty-teen other states within India would then ask for the same deal. President Musharrafs statement that Pakistan is prepared to give up its claim to Kashmir, if India considered four proposals is also not something that New Delhi is ready to figure out when foreign ministers of both the sides are to meet soon, said officials. Separatist leaders have anyway expressed their unhappiness over Pakistan saying that it is against independence in Kashmir. Veteran freedom movement leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik told Khaleej Times that they had been always fighting for independence, and would continue to do so even in future. This sort of statement (by Musharraf) where he talks of joint autonomy to settle his own goals, indicates that Pakistan and India are together playing petty politics against the people of Kashmir. "And it cuts me out of power!" Talking to Khaleej Times, another separatist leader "Since all the Indians want to do is kill us." Posted by: Steve White 2006-12-06 |
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