India does neither love Muslims, nor trust Kashmiri leaders

While hatred for Islam dominates world politics today, hatred for Muslims has been the hallmark of Indian standard policy pursued against Indian Muslims and particularly Muslims of Kashmir. Indian Muslims do not seek what the Kashmiris seek from Indian regime – freedom and sovereignty, because they are Indians and want to live in India. They seek mercy of Indian rulers so that they are not attacked, insulted, killed.  Kashmiris face Indian brutality as the permanent Indian response to their demand for freedom. Bullets and genocides cannot silence the committed and hence oppressed people.

The anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat state of India, which is divided from Pakistan by the roaring Arabian Sea, when PM Narendra Modi was the Hindutva BJP’s Chief Minister of that rich state and the centre’s secret decision was not to make a Kashmir Muslim the President or Vice president of India.

In an interview to Karan Thapar on his India Today TV program, former Indian external spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Chief A S Dulat has revealed that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had expressed his discontent over the 2002 Gujarat riots and called it “our mistake”.  Dulat IPS briefly mentioned about his last meeting with the former Prime Minister during which the BJP stalwart reflected about the 2002 Gujarat riots and said, “woh humare se galti hui hai (it was our mistake).” Dulat said this while recalling a meeting with Vajpayee.

Dulat, who headed the RAW till 2000 before he was appointed as Special Advisor in Vajpayee’s PMO on Kashmir issue, said Vajpayee always believed that the post-Godhra riots in 2002 was a “mistake” and the grief was “clearly visible” on his face.

The handling of the Gujarat riots when incumbent PM of India Narendra Modi was the chief minister has been at the centre of a controversy. Modi justified the riots and exonerated himself of any rule in the ghastly state crimes against Gujarat Muslims backed by essentially the Hindutva judges, who investigated the genocides of Muslims crimes when he was chief minister in Gujarat, from Hindutva point of view.

Gujarat riots made Modi very sought after leader of RSS and its offspring to lead the BJP towards national elections. The extra ordinary corrupt central government led by Congress party and anti-corruption agitation led by Kejriwal-Hazare duo very effectively  helped BJP and Modi to win parliamentary poll.

Speaking about various issues related to Kashmir, Dulat said Rubayya Sayeed, daughter of state Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who was abducted was never the target of militants in 1989. “It was Saffia, daughter of Abdullah whom they wanted to kidnap. But, as Sayeed become the Home Minister in the V P Singh government, the militants decided to take her hostage,” he said, adding this was told to him by the militant who had planned the kidnapping.

Another important issue Dulat hammered is distrust of India main for Muslim leaders in Jammu Kashmir. Indian government and political parties use Kashmiri Muslim and other leaders always to make Kashmiris accept India as their homeland. However, that Indian objective has not been realized thus far and New Delhi finds fault with Muslim leaders in the valley.

Recalling his days as Advisor in the PMO, Dulat, an IPS officer of 1965 batch of Rajasthan cadre, also said that there was a plan to make Abdullah Vice President in early 2002 and his son Omar Abdullah Chief Minister of the JK state. “The offer to make Farooq Abdullah Vice President happened at my residence at a private dinner and it was made on behalf of Vajpayee by Brajesh Mishra. Later, Abdullah told me that both Vajpayee and L K Advani had reconfirmed the offer. However, Farooq Abdullah always had doubts whether the NDA government would fulfill this promise. “I don’t trust them. I don’t trust Delhi,” were the words of Abdullah to Dulat. The other problem was that Farooq becoming Vice President was part of an arrangement whereby the then incumbent VP Krishan Kant would become President. When the latter didn’t happen the promise to Abdullah fell by the wayside, he said.

In another disclosure which Dulat has mentioned in his book “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years”, that in early 1990s, self-styled Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin had called local Intelligence Bureau chief K M Singh and sought his help in securing a medical seat for his son. “Singh approached Abdullah, who was the Chief Minister, and the work was done,” Dulat said and maintained that these favours are extended always with a hope that they would be converted into a surrender of the militants. “This is done world over by all the spying agencies,” he said.

Dulat also recalled that Vajpayee had called on Congress President Sonia Gandhi and asked her to ensure that there was no tie up with Mufti Sayeed in government formation. The reason for this, according to Dulat, was that Sayeed was more comfortable with Jamaat-e-Islamia, the political wing of Hizbul Mujahideen and that his daughter Mehbooba had links with the “terror” group itself. As a result, during a visit to Srinagar in April 2003, Vajpayee insisted that Mehbooba should not be on the stage with him and Mufti Sayeed, he said.

As of now, Indian interest in Kashmir valley lies in making Kashmiri Muslims a part of Indian state, with their help, securing Amarnath temple tour in Chinese territory through Kashmir. Apart from killing Kashmiri Muslims refuse to be Indians first, Indian military occupying Kashmir has to ensure the safe passage of and comforts for those that undertake the supposedly annual religious tour. Kashmiri Muslims promote the Hindutva objective of Indian government with ready services.

The trust deficit on Indian part for Kashmiris eventually turned to hatred for Kashmiris and Kashmir. This state hatred is readily expressed by Indian forces, enjoying special crime powers in Kashmir, through precision guns – some of them are imported from Israel that kills Muslims- the besieged Palestinians – in order to uphold the Zionist right for militarism and expansionism.

Indian bullets could not end freedom movement of Kashmiri Muslims and more Indian government and military harass them the stronger the Kashmiris become in expressing their birth right to be Kashmiris. This explains why Kashmiri freedom leaders like Geelani still refuse to be known as Indians.

Source: Weekly Holiday