Dost Khan
JAMMU: True to their character, Kashmiri secessionists are artfully attempting to shift blame of killing employees of mobile telephony services in parts of north Kashmir to Indian agencies. This has been their major characteristic since the onset of Pak sponsored terrorism in early nineties. They have graduated in deception. By reiterating canards and speaking lies, the secessionists, in fact, make people to believe, and even start believing themselves too, what they speak. They practice what Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany Paul Joseph Goebbles had said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”.
Kashmir’s secessionist hawk Syed Ali Geelani and militant turned separatist Yasin Malik have embarked on a big mission to provide a cover to terrorists, responsible for creating terror by killing two persons connected with mobile telephony. The cowardice acts seem to have worked as most of the operators are in the process of winding up their operations. In a way, the terrorists are creating a 90s like situation when the official media like Doordarshan and Radio Kashmir were forced to shift their news rooms to Delhi. However, the story is quite different with mobile service providers. They can’t afford shifting; they can only shut their activities in the wake intimidation and fear psychosis unleashed by terrorists and their over ground faces. By maligning the Indian agencies, they are actually providing a licence to terrorists to carry out their sinister machinations.
What can be the motivation behind killing mobile telephony employees and shielding the killers? The answer is obvious. The terrorists are feeling the heat with many in Kashmir informing security forces about the hideouts or presence of terrorists in their localities. Many terrorists have been eliminated on the basis of inputs provided by invisible sources. Mobile telephones are ready communicators of messages from the messengers and hence no option but to silence them. In this game of intimidating the operators and workers, both terrorists and their sympathizers in the secessionist camp are equally responsible.
Had it not been so, Geelani would not have termed the killing of two employees in apple-rich Sopore town as acts of terrorism and doing of agencies in the same breath. It is a clever move to showcase himself on the side of victims and, at the same time, remove the smoke from ‘Mujahids’, who actually committed the cowardice acts. His reaction to Sopore killings was interesting. “Picture about the killers is unclear yet but the recent statement of the Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar that “target killings and terrorism is the solution of the militancy in Kashmir” gives birth to many questions and doubts and in this perspective we can’t rule-out the another angle of these actions that it may be the deliberate attempt to put the terrorist tag on the freedom struggle of Kashmiris,” Geelani said. It is his way of shielding terrorists because Geelani knows that people of Kashmir were generally sick of his ‘Mujahids’, who have criminalized the so-called Tehreek. He leaves the window for doubt open by asking terror organizations to carry out in-depth inquiry to find out the ‘truth’.
Geelani is trying to fit himself in the footsteps of Yasin Malik, who has made a ‘fervent appeal’ to United Jehad Council chief Syed Sallah-ud-Din to investigate and identify the people behind the Sopore attacks.
The probe sought by Geelani and Malik speaks volumes about their attempts to create confusion, especially when the terror outfits and Sallah-ud-Din himself have distanced from the dastardly acts. Had the two secessionists been sincere in condemning the killings, a call against the terror regime would have been since issued. But they did not do so; nor shall they ever do because creating terror is a plan designed by their mentors beyond the borders.
The terrorists and their mentors have stepped up their strikes after PDP-BJP took over the reins of administration. The PDP may cry from rooftops that such acts were aimed at destabilizing the government but fact remains that Pakistan and terror outfits are finding the current political environment conducive to reactivate and recreate a situation wherein service providers of premier mobile players will shut their operations so that the ultras enjoy a field day. If they succeed, Kashmir will again find itself at the crossroads of nineties when terror writ reigned louder than the democratically elected dispensations. Can India afford such a situation to develop?
