Dr. Kaul's Kaighi

What will work in #JammuKashmir: An #Honest appraisal

Will bifurcation work in Jammu & Kashmir ?

Simple answer is No it won’t.

Round about answer is yes it can.

Post is as Long as the Kashmir Issue.

For giving a just solution in J & K will need all stakeholders total participation.

The primary stakeholders are the legal residents of Jammu & Kashmir. More on them later.

POK won’t be discussed neither would Ladakh .

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Background
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Friends who know the background can skip & go directly to the solution below.

The problem in Jammu & Kashmir is not easy. It never was.

Apart from Pakistan exploiting the Sunni Muslim population of Kashmir Valley , India has always compounded the issue by pandering to the same anti national Sunni Muslim leadership. All the developmental monies for the State was provided to them as were the bribes directly from Intelligence agencies right from early 1950’s esp after PM Sheikh Mohd Abdullah was arrested for treason in August 1953.

To compound the problem further administrations had posted many throughly corrupt IAS officers whose only aim was to make money by hook or by crook.

The intelligence & security big wigs were very happy with the gravy train. If 100 crores were to be paid as bribes to Hurriyat they would pocket 90 % & its no surprise that Kashmir problem was never solved. It was a huge money making industry.

With so much money around it was no wonder Srinagar looked more like Switzerland than old war torn Bosnia or Beirut ! It was swash with money. All sorts of. Indian , Pakistani , Fake currency HQ, Hawala , drug money & rampant end user corruption via developmental monies. It was not surprising that every Kashmiri had a home . The poverty was non existent as compared to rest of India . Some households had more cars than people. Bank loans were doled out never to be returned. Income tax was non existent. Unpaid Power & water bills were picked up by the GOI . This was always the case & continued during the peak of militancy.

It was an American dream come true. Land of milk , honey , walnuts & ubiquitous AK 47s .

Only that average radicalised Kashmiri was not happy with these goodies & their heart was beating for stupid Azadi / Pakistan dream.

Degree of brainwashing was totally complete. Anything deemed unislamic was destroyed by bunch of crooks claiming to be jehadees. All cinema theatres were shut & still are but cable tv network shows all latest Bollywood flicks.

These goons had once predicted their Azadi date too. 1 April 1990. They wanted Kashmiri Hindus back but with Indian passport & Kashmiri visas. So we were told. I was thinking the famed Pampore Charas must have been delivered every morning to these gun toting dime a dozen ‘Shikaslads’.

Contrast with this : Historically the patriotic people of the state including Kashmiri Hindus , Sikhs , Dogras , Gujjar , Bakarwal , Ladakhis , Kargilis , etc were treated as third class citizens by the Kashmir Sultanate with full knowledge of Government of India. Make no mistake & read this again !

This was the Kashmir policy in a nutshell. Bribe the Kashmiri Muslim Sultanate & ignore the patriotic people of the state as if they did not exist.

It’s like you having 3 sons & you directing all your love & resources to one son only & ignoring the other two !

How would the other two sons feel ? Very happy according to GOI smoking its own cheap Weed.

There was nothing right with the GOIs Kashmir policy. It was a quick rich Ponzi scheme for few & was based on the Nashik security press printing currency specially for Kashmir.

Believe it or not !

How many countries in the world will ignore its patriotic citizens and breastfeed anti nationals for decades & decades ? Think about it again.

Kashmiris Sultanate leaders need no huge sympathy as they were fishing in troubled waters for decades. Remember my power or Pakistan post few weeks back ? Both ways Kashmiri politicians earned money.

They had unlieshed worst form of communalism on patriotic non Muslims of the state with Indian Admin looking the other way.

Kashmiri Hindus , Sikhs, Dogras and Ladakhis were abused by Kashmiri Muslim Sultanate regularly

Please don’t Even shed fake crocodile tears for the most communal Kashmiri Muslim Politicians.

Jammu & Kashmir became a state within a state. Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah practiced the most communal politics know to Post Independence India. He filled the goons on his party into places of administration. They were rabidly communal. As a first act Sheikh approved the Land to tiller act with no compensation to the owners. Kashmiri Hindus were targeted and hundred of thousands acres of land was grabbed from them and their temples. Nehru and rest of Indian administration looked the other way. It was an unwritten law not to give jobs to Kashmiri Hindus in State sector. Professional Educational institutions were communalised and Kashmiri Hindus were denied education.

Secularism does not mean selective heart beating for people just because you hate a particular group.
One must always stay with truth and honesty.

Indian administration till 5.8.19:was feeding a snake called Kashmir.

I found no Indian commentator, journalist having any kind word for the suffering non Muslims of my J&K state. These journalists are still talking only about Kashmir. Jammu does not exist for them. Dogras both Hindu & Muslims & Kashmiri Hindus are airbrushed & photoshopped by the lot.

Pathetic I tell myself. These journalists are a disgrace to their profession. Dogras made the present State of J & K and they hardly get a look in !

This is what happens when your own country ignores its patriotic people.

Like Beginning of William Shakespeare play the protagonist & entire cast is introduces as Dramatis personae .

Dramatis Personae & their interpersonal relation is honestly explained below. The relationship has been damaged over decades because unpatriotic Sunni Muslim leadership was the blue eyed boy of India.

My State of Jammu & Kashmir !

Kashmiri Muslim does not trust Kashmiri Pandit !Kashmiri Pandit does not trust Kashmiri Muslim ! Kashmiri Muslims do not trust Kashmiri Shias ! Kashmiri Shias do not trust Kashmiri Muslims ! Kashmiri have no respect for Guajar n Bekarwal ! Gujar n Bekarwal do not like Kashmiri ! Kashmiri pandit also dislikes Kashmiri pandit ! Kashmiri dislikes Dogras, Dogras pay back the Kashmiri in same coin.

If George Bernard Shaw was alive today he would have exchanged all his hundred of plays for ‘The Aamir of Kashmir ‘ play . Too many villains critics would have shouted .

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Solution
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Is there a way out ?

Of course there is.

Nothing is impossible.

What won’t work is the current plan of Bifurcation plus minus delimitation without a all stakeholders accord.

Accord is the key to everlasting peace in J & K .

You cannot club a severely anti nationals with extremely patriotic people in an legislative assembly without ironing out binding accord. Read on

I though being a Surgeon have devoted my life in conflict resolutions in the hospitals & have spent lot of time reading & understanding the Global conflicts as I grew up .

Two great conflicts which looked like they would never be solved , when I was growing up , were the centuries old Catholic / Protestant Northern Ireland conflict & the Lebanon sectarian conflict between Muslims & Christians.

Both have been solved after the famous Good Friday agreement of 1998 in Belfast & The Lebanese Taif agreement or the National Reconciliation accord of 1989.

Jammu & Kashmir needs a reconciliation accord between its intra state stakeholders. Till then all efforts must be made to select the best team to deliver it.

Nothing else will work.

An accord brings in a Truth & reconciliation and Justice under its gambit to heal past wounds amongst an unequal society to make it a level playing field for all under the outstanding unbiased leadership qualities of the person who is able to bring all parties together with no axe to grind.

Like US Senator George Mitchell who was the architect of Good Friday agreement of 1998. He was chosen for his unbiased unassuming style of leadership.

On 10 April 1998, something called the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) was signed. This agreement helped to bring to an end a period of conflict in the region called the Troubles.
The Troubles was a period when there was a lot of violence between two groups - Republicans and Loyalists. Many people were killed in the fighting.
But where did this fighting come from in the first place and how did it lead to the Good Friday Agreement?

The conflict in Northern Ireland dates back to when it became separated from the rest of Ireland in the early 1920s.
Great Britain had ruled Ireland for hundreds of years, but it split off from British rule - leaving Northern Ireland as part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland as a separate country.
Northern Ireland was a battle ground between Catholics & favoured Protestants. Thousands died till they got the sense to sign the peace accord in presence of President Clinton & PM Tony Blair.

The Good Friday accord , touch wood is still alive & kicking.

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Lebanon agreement . Charismatic Rafic Hariri the later PM of Lebanon and a successful business brought about the most difficult accord in the history of mankind.

He took no sides but worked on his charm & logic to make sworn enemies shake hands for peace.

Lebanon fighting & destruction of Paris of the east - Beirut dominated my childhood. The former French colony was totally destroyed by killing machines of Muslims & Christian militias. Syria , Israel & Palestinians also joined the fray to completely destroy the country.

The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon, lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120,000 fatalities. As of 2012, approximately 76,000 people remain displaced within Lebanon.

The Taif agreement aka National Reconciliation Accord was an agreement reached to provide "the basis for the ending of the civil war and the return to political normalcy in Lebanon.

The agreement formed the principle of "mutual coexistence" between Lebanon's different sects and their proper political representation as the main objective of post-civil war political process.

• The Parliament The number of representatives was increased from 99 to 128. It was divided equally between Muslims & Christians to make both parties share the power on fair basis.

• The President would always be a Christian & remained the supreme commander of the Army.

• The Prime Minister would always be a Muslim & received increased powers and authorities, the dominance of the President remained.

It could not be more simple an accord

I could not believe the miracle of these two famous accords and visited both Northern Ireland & Lebanon recently.

People were happy with the power sharing across the political spectrum. In Beirut I found people of different faiths living in complete harmony post accord. I also stayed at the famous Commodore Hotel which hosted all journalists during the Lebanon conflict.

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Way forwards in Jammu & Kashmir.

The core reconciliation team must clearly spell out the time bound programme

Post Abrogation scenario should be carefully planned with reconciliation to be its keystone.

1.Allocation of assembly seats after the accord must make sure Muslims , Sikhs , Hindus & Dogras get equal number of share of assembly seats like in Lebanon . They all must be the custodian of secularism in J & K along with other similar minded people of the state. Chief Minister & Governor must belong to two different religious faiths as in Taif accord.

2. Reservation should be brought for non Muslim minorities in a Muslim majority state in all walks of life to encourage equal participation in all Government & public sector jobs

3. A Patriotic Board be constituted to see anti India mindset is changed on the lines of denazification in post war Germany. For this UAE or Beirut model of modern Islam must be emulated.

4. Minorities commission board to be set up to look after minorities ie Hindus , Sikhs and Dogras of the state as a gesture of goodwill.

5. Equal fund allocation to Jammu region who were deliberately kept backward by the Kashmir admin must be the part of the accord.

6. The accord must be reviewed after five years to see if all areas of the state are progressing equally.

7. The original Son of soil ie Kashmiri Hindus must have a designated area near Martand to be their own Koshur sub culture. Martand temple must be rebuilt to its former glory. You have to heal hearts & minds of a suppressed segment of your society.

8. Indian Secularism must become more honest and robust and call out anti national activities of every unpatriotic Indian irrespective of his or her religion. Secularism must come with a huge price of sincerity and no nonsense approach. It’s ultimate test is in J & K.

9. Larger Kashmir issue needs to be sorted out vigorously with Pakistan who know by now that Modi’s India is not supine anymore now.

10. Commission of Enquiry into the Exodus of Kashmiri Hindu must be instituted so that they get the justice and rest of patriotic people also learn from our unfortunate holocaust. Commission of enquiry will have to be instituted for the innocent missing persons who Kashmiri Muslims say they never got. For healing of wounds both sides have to get a semblance of justice. Guilty must be punished . Cases against the known killers must be fast tracked.

Antagonism has no place after an elaborate accord and all commission reports must be addressed in a time bound manner.

We the patriotic people of J &K want to see peace in Jammu & Kashmir . Let’s make it a multi cultural multi ethnic heaven.

People who are tainted & who do not enjoy the faith of the people given their previous track record must not be allowed to muddy the accord.

Given a chance I would love to lead a team of Muslim , Hindu, Sikh & Dogras to ensure the best possible deal is acceptable to all people after the signing of accord which must be put to vote to the public.

Tathastu & Ameen

Vivek