The reported remarks of Syed Ali Shah Geelani in a planned meeting at Srinagar Airport on 22nd April, 2007 and the Government of India's total silence on this important issue of national security, the status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indo-Pak relations.
The meeting took place on the 22nd of March. Syed Ali Shah Geelani was under treatment in a hospital and he, thereafter, travelled to Srinagar. The preparations that were being made at Srinagar Airport, building of platforms, microphones, receiving hand, were not being done in a secret way. Thereafter, Syed Ali Shah Geelani landed at Srinagar Airport and he was escorted to this pre-arranged built dais upon which he addressed the assembly. Anti-India slogans were raised there also there and were flags demonstrating the support to Lashkar-e-Taiba.
We know that the Lashkar-e-Taiba is an organization which committed a grave act of terrorism a few weeks back, where two hundred plus citizens of India lost their lives on a Bombay train. On the very day Syed Ali Shah Gilani was making the statement, threats were received and two LeT terrorists were also arrested here in Delhi. If the Government of India two or three days later, orders that Sayed Ali Shah Gilani is to be kept under house-arrest and some one or two people are also taken into custody, the question is why was, in the first instance, a meeting permitted at Sri Nagar Airport? And, if the meeting was permitted, knowing that the he was going to address it, it stands to reason, that the Central Government has something to explain to account for.
The Prime Minister in his speech recently spoke of the new State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The Prime Minister has also spoken, time and again, of soft borders and making borders irrelevant, etc. One needs to remind the Prime Minister that on the 22nd of February, 1994 a unanimous Resolution was passed that the State of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. In addition, it had also firmly declared then that any attempt to separate it from the rest of the country will be strongly resisted by all necessary means. The House then also demanded that Pakistan must vacate the areas of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir which they have occupied through aggression.
The State of Jammu and Kashmir comprise the whole of Ladakh and also the entire Pak-occupied Kashmir. When has Parliament addressed this Resolution again and changed its mind about our declared status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir?
Recently in one of the States, the Chief Minister of the State asked for the withdrawal of the Army. The Prime Minister, thereafter, appointed three committees to decide whether it should be withdrawn or not. This is really the most dangerous way to do it. It is a decision of the Ministry of Defence or the Prime Minister who is the head of the National Security Council or the Cabinet Committee on Security.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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