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Kashmir
interlocutors' report likely by February end
Wednesday February 09, 2011 11:17:48 AM,
IANS
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Jammu: The three
interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir are likely to submit their
final report to the union home ministry by the end of this month,
according to highly placed sources in the government.
The Omar Abdullah government is keen to have a "final assessment"
of the interlocutors on the situation and their possible "way
forward" on Kashmir. This has been taken up with union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram, who visited Jammu early this month.
"The chief minister had taken up this issue with the home minister
and suggested that an early roadmap would help in injecting
confidence among the people who have been waiting for something to
happen," an official told IANS.
The interlocutors -- journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academician
Radha Kumar and economist M.M. Ansari -- who were appointed in
October last year after the summer unrest in Kashmir Valley in
which over 100 people were killed, will take another trip to the
state this month.
They would attempt to reach the separatists who, so far, have
refused to talk to the interlocutors.
"Whatever be the case, whether the separatists meet them or not,
the interlocutors will give their report as they have inputs from
all other sections of the state," the official said.
At this point of time, the fear is that in the absence of the
interlocutors' report, people might get frustrated and the
situation might deteriorate like in last summer.
"The people need to be given some hope," the official explained as
earlier the interlocutors were given one year's time to submit the
report, which was reduced to April this year and now it has been
further cut to this month-end.
The ruling National Conference (NC) and the main opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started upping the ante on
their respective formulas for a solution to the Kashmir crisis.
The National Conference is pitching for the restoration of greater
autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, a near sovereign status for the
state in which barring defence, communications and external
affairs, it has control over all other matters and its own heads
of the state and government.
The PDP is asking for self-rule which devolves powers to the
grassroots level and seeks to have a similar arrangement on either
side of the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
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