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Vested
interests hampering Kashmir solution: Pillai
Friday January 14, 2011 07:04:40 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Home
Secretary G.K. Pillai Friday said Pakistan was a "problem" but
"vested interests" in India were also hampering a final solution
to the vexed issue of Jammu and Kashmir that has been battling an
armed separatist campaign since 1989.
The home secretary said the government, in its pursuit to find a
lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute, "has not spent enough
time in identifying road blocks and challenges".
He said vested interests within the country and outside were some
of these challenges.
"Pakistan may not be interested (in settling the Kashmir issue
forever) but there are vested interests within the country who
don't want it to be settled," Pillai said at a seminar, 'What is
the way forward in Jammu and Kashmir', organised by the Jamia
Millia Islamia University here.
"Whether it is politicians, security forces or any section of the
society, each one has developed vested interests, Pakistan is a
problem but we have problems with the country itself," the home
secretary added.
These interests need to be "counterpoised" by the people from the
state. "And that will come only through empowerment of the
people," Pillai stated, adding that the government was considering
greater devolution of power to local bodies to bring in a good
governance.
To solve the Kashmir issue, Pillai asserted, every stakeholder
within and outside the state needs to shed their stated positions.
"Everybody has to relook at its stand on Kashmir and start
rethinking on how to solve the issue."
The official said the government-appointed interlocutors -
journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academician Radha Kumar and
economist M.M. Ansari - would present their final proposal in
April this year and the government was expecting a political
solution to the Kashmir issue that is "acceptable" to people of
all the regions of the state.
The interlocutors have so far submitted three reports specifying
the "broad contours" for a lasting solution to the Kashmir issue
for consideration by the government.
"When their final report comes, we will share it with all
political parties, the union cabinet and decide on a future course
of action," Pillai said.
The home secretary said the government was not keeping the
problems in Kashmir "for discussions" as last year's summer
agitation - which left 112 people killed in firing by security
forces - was "an eye opener".
Quoting first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's remark to the
Indian parliament, he said: "It also came to the realisation that
the decision will be made in the hearts and minds of the men and
women of Kashmir, neither in this parliament, nor in the United
Nations nor by anybody else".
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