Separatists are facilitating Use of N. arms by Pak terrorists

 

Editorial

Kashmir was known as the most peace-loving area of the sub-continent. It is no more so. On small excuses, separatists arrange hartals. Traffic comes to stand still Schools and hospitals stop working Business receives a setback Young children, hailing from non-rich families, are trained in pelting stones They are put in the front rows of violent demonstrations so that they suffer most when separatists try to stop police and other security forces from discharging their duty, Terrorists, many of them, nationals of Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries, carry guns even in religious functions Shots are fired into air Such activities are opposed to the centuries' old traditions of Kashmiri culture.

The non-peaceful and anti-social activities are undertaken, mostly, at the behest of Pakistan and its Inter Services Institute. From time to time, Pak Presidents, Prime Ministers and generals have been boasting that they have acquired enough nuclear arms for causing trouble to India.

Utterances and activities of the separatists prove helpful to Pakistan in creating instability in Kashmir Separatists do not vouchsafe for a common goal Some of their leaders seek azad, others self-rule, some J & K accession to Pakistan and still others to make Kashmir an Islam state.

Such unruly activities are a cause of concern for law-observing countries, including India. Slowly and steadily, the moral support of the friendly nations of Pakistan is waning. Last month, the Chinese Government informed Pakistan that it would not like to intervene in solving the Kashmir issue, which, the Chinese said, is to be solved only by India and Pakistan.

Pakistan's arch friend, America, too has become dismayed for Pakistan providing terrorists safe havens in their country. In the first week of this month, Pak Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif visited Washington to rebuild weakened ties with the US, He did not succeed.

US Marine Corps General Joseph Dunform, Chairman, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee: "ISI has connections with terrorist groups." America, also, informed Pakistan that it supports India's objection to the establishment of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. US said that the corridor passes through a "disputed territory" and no country should "put itself into a position of dictating" the Belt and Road initiative. US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis told the US House Armed Services Committee: "In a globalised world, there are many belts and many roads, and no one nation should put itself into a position of dictating 'one belt, one road'. United States calling out of ISI's terrorist ties was the harshest indictment of Pakistan in years. On October 5, Pakistan became compelled to admit that its Inter Services Intelligence has links to "militants".

If Kashmiri separatists continue their destabilisation policy, they would be playing into the hands of Pak terrorists who are trying to secure control over nuclear arms. Pak Government has explained that at nine places, in that country, nuclear stockpiles have been preserved. Terrorists, there, are trying to secure Eccess to these. Once, they succeed they will not mind using these. That would be a doomsday for the valley and for many areas of India and of Pakista Indian forces do not want to be the first to launch such an attack, but once Pak terrorists do so, the reply will be more severe than the Pak policy makers think

It now depends on the separatists to either have a future, progressive, valley, or make it a battle ground for the use of nuclear arms by Pak terrorists.

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Courtesy:   Jagannath Dhar Koshur Samachar 2017, October