Peace once again failed in Kashmir. May sound pessimistic for the moment but at the present conditions and the reality is somewhat very close. The principle of ‘Jamhooriat, Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat’ doctored by former Prime Minister Atlal Behari Vajpayee on which even the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti too vouched for looks to have failed the test of the time. What Vajpayee doctored at the early stage of outbreak of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir appears to have outlived its utility. Today what we are seeing on ground zero is beyond the realm of all decencies. Otherwise why should more that 200 people get injured in the two-day visit of All-Party Delegation to the State? What actually the perpetrators want to convey to the world? It looks as if they want to tell the world that India has let loose terror on the ‘innocent Kashmiris’ who have been protesting peacefully. In this context Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh terming separatists don’t believe in Kashmiriyat has proved true and not only that they don’t believe in Insaniyat too. Otherwise how could they let loose their children to the streets to take up violence and get injured? This is the same Kashmiri youth who is looking forward to join para-military forces that they have been targeting with stones at close proximity. Is it Insaniyat? Now, at least after so much of bloodshed on the streets of Kashmir, State Government should come out with an explanation where its law and order machinery erred to maintain peace and normalcy. In the present situation all the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and ‘Agenda of Alliance’ looks vague and has only worked only for government formation, which was a political compulsion for both BJP at the Centre and PDP in J and K. Till date Centre has been soft on J and K’s law and order situation with blame game flourishing to the unchecked extent. Whatever the overtures and humane gestures Central leadership may have for J and K, the reality is that ground conditions are not going to change and the mentality of the people too remains adamant that they find much closer to Pakistan than New Delhi.
