JAMMU: Former Member of Parliament and Senior Vice-President of the Bangla Desh-Bharat-Pakistan People’s Forum, Sheikh Abdul Rehman expressed great dismay and anguish over the present volatile situation in Kashmir Valley. He termed it a complete bankruptcy of political wisdom on the part of both Indian and Pak leadership who have miserably failed in solving the vexed problem of J and K State over the last seven decades despite fighting four wars with huge loss of men and material.
Rehman appealed to the Indian and Pak leadership to shun the path of bloodshed and hostility and create an atmosphere of peace and prosperity in the larger interest of citizens of the sub-continent.
“In fact both Pak and Indian leadership remained busy in fishing in the troubled waters of Jehlum to strengthen and enhance their political interests at the cost of general masses of the State, he told reporters.
He said that it is high time for the Indian leadership to read the writings on the wall, start meaningful dialogue with the hostile neighbour-Pakistan from the point it was left at Agra by the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and General Musharaf.
Rehman said that only solution available with government is to restore states autonomy and grant three Regional Councils for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh with sub-regional and Hill Development Councils upto Panchayat levels in favour of remote, hilly, inaccessible and snow bound regions to decentralise the powers constitutionally into the hands of public representatives.
Rehman regretted that our Prime Minister Modi reacts to the terror attacks anywhere in the world but sadly he has not spoken a single word over more than 54 deaths in Kashmir.
This silence on his part is really suspicious, he opined.
Quoting another black Act recently passed by the State Legislature curbing the basic spirit of democracy by snatching the rights from public in choosing their Sarpanchs, Rehman thanked the Governor for refusing to give assent to the controversial Bill.