Separatist leader and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday said time for peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue was running out fast and warned that the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan could have fallout on Kashmir.
Malik, however, denied that Taliban from Afghanistan would make their way to Kashmir after the war there ended.
“We believe in our struggle ... this is an indigenous struggle and this will remain so,” Malik said in his first meeting with reporters after coming back from Pakistan.
Malik, a former militant commander who announced a unilateral ceasefire in 1994 and has since sat on dozens of hunger strikes on various issues, courted controversy recently during his Pakistan trip when he staged a hunger strike against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, in which Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed also took part. Saeed is wanted in India for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The JKLF leader warned the international community and the civil society in India that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan could infuse a change in the mindset of the youth who have, otherwise, opted for peaceful methods of struggle.
“When there will be withdrawal from Afghanistan, a new thinking can develop and many questions may be asked. The people here had guns but international community convinced them to give up arms and said ‘we will solve the issue’. When Kashmiri people gave up arms, the international community became silent and the issue was not solved,” Malik said.
Malik is not the first to raise a spectre of a “spill over” after the US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as several senior Indian Army Generals and chief of moderate separatist faction have in recent years warned of its likelihood.
He also questioned the role of the “Indian civil society” saying they have been used as “firefighters of Indian state” in Kashmir and laid the onus for any future violent turn in the situation in the region on them.
Malik said he would sit on a hunger strike next month at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to press for the demand of end to life sentences against separatist activists and demand the return of body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The JKLF leader termed Guru’s hanging as a “murder”.
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