Letter to the Editor – Farooq’s dramatics

Daily Excelsior

Sir,
Apropos DE 14 Oct news item “Kashmir integral part of India “…etc Do you know what the phrase “more loyal than the king” means. Farooq’s statement has no takers either among Pakistan’s rulers or their jihadists in Kashmir. No misconception please. We all love Farooq Abdullah essentially because he has a method in madness. But we seldom have the patience or the cleverness to scratch what lies underneath his madness. He uttered a profusion of pro-India and anti-jihadist rhetoric which he never did during past 32 years of Theo-fascist had he done so, Kashmir would not have the jihadists ruling their body and mind. Unfortunately, he, instead, chose to follow the footsteps of Mirwaiz Farooq, whom people know better from his hawala credentials.

Indian naivety takes him on his face value. It seldom tried to scratch the bottom of his methodized madness. Take the current example and try to find answer to questions like why to address the Sikhs and not Pandits of Muslims, why in a gurudwara and not in a temple or a mosque, why on a Sunday and why on politics when the occasion and the theme pertained to condolence. Let me tell you in one sentence. In connection with the killing of the Sikh lady principal in Safa Kadal School by the jihadists, a Kashmiri Sikh leader said among other things that the jihadists should not force every Kashmiri Sikh to become another Hari Singh Nalwa.

Power flows from the barrel of the gun, said Mao Zedong. In 1990 winter if only fifty Kashmiri Pandit youth had guns, the entire community would not have been forced to abandon their millennia old homeland at gun point and live as refugees in places unknown to them. The Sikh challenge to the jihadists serves the Achilles heel to the separatist movement. Fossilized issued do get resolved in the dynamics of historical process.
K N Pandita