09-02-2008, 10:10 AM
Retd Col Athale on Rediff
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a television debate, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah mocked a Jammu Muslim who supported the agitation. Little does he or others realise that the Muslims of Jammu have also suffered from the stupid government policy of appeasing the separatists and kicking the nationalists. Just one example should suffice. School teachers' jobs in even remote Jammu regions go to Kashmiris from the valley. The teachers so appointed (at a good salary) are absent most of the time except on the first every month to collect their salary. The education levels among Jammu's Muslims are abysmal. In a tehsil of Mendhar in Poonch district, for example, there is not a single graduate!
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Like others, we had noted that people like Geelani are not interested in schools for kids of J & K since illiterate wahabi thugs will keep Geelani/Mufti/Omar in their gravy train.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Rajouri division, when I led a team of scientists ten years ago (in an attempt at bringing in horticulture technology to J&K to better people's life), we were aghast to see a soil testing laboratory that had a clean look about it -- all the equipment for soil testing was never used! This is the legacy of valley appeasement that the Jammu people revolted against.
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Why use science for betterment of people where outdated fanatic idealogy will suffice.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sufi shrines like the one of Baba Rishi at Tannemarg (on the way to Gulmarg) and Charar-e-Sharif were burnt down by the militants. Girls schools were destroyed and Ayesha Andrabi of Dukhtaran e Millat was emboldened to throw acid on girls daring to wear jeans. The State, such as it was, abdicated its responsibility and watched helplessly.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You ever read about this in the gazillion words spewed by the likes of Pankaj Mishra, Vir(?) Sanghvi, Karan Thapar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sarika Gose etc?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Pakistan Senate promptly passed a resolution condemning 'excessive' use of force by the Indians. It was comic since at that very time Pakistan was using helicopter gunships and fighter aircraft against its own tribals in the frontier area. The day the march to Muzaffarabad took place, over 50 Shia Muslims were killed in an attack on a hospital in Pakistan. Pakistanis were delighted that while Baluchistan and the tribal areas were in open revolt against the federal authorities, Kashmiris were clamouring to join them. Pakistanis were indeed grateful that at least someone in world thought that they were not a failed State.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mufti/Geelani/Omar/Malik won't last a day in Pakistan and they know it.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a television debate, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah mocked a Jammu Muslim who supported the agitation. Little does he or others realise that the Muslims of Jammu have also suffered from the stupid government policy of appeasing the separatists and kicking the nationalists. Just one example should suffice. School teachers' jobs in even remote Jammu regions go to Kashmiris from the valley. The teachers so appointed (at a good salary) are absent most of the time except on the first every month to collect their salary. The education levels among Jammu's Muslims are abysmal. In a tehsil of Mendhar in Poonch district, for example, there is not a single graduate!
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Like others, we had noted that people like Geelani are not interested in schools for kids of J & K since illiterate wahabi thugs will keep Geelani/Mufti/Omar in their gravy train.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Rajouri division, when I led a team of scientists ten years ago (in an attempt at bringing in horticulture technology to J&K to better people's life), we were aghast to see a soil testing laboratory that had a clean look about it -- all the equipment for soil testing was never used! This is the legacy of valley appeasement that the Jammu people revolted against.
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Why use science for betterment of people where outdated fanatic idealogy will suffice.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sufi shrines like the one of Baba Rishi at Tannemarg (on the way to Gulmarg) and Charar-e-Sharif were burnt down by the militants. Girls schools were destroyed and Ayesha Andrabi of Dukhtaran e Millat was emboldened to throw acid on girls daring to wear jeans. The State, such as it was, abdicated its responsibility and watched helplessly.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You ever read about this in the gazillion words spewed by the likes of Pankaj Mishra, Vir(?) Sanghvi, Karan Thapar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sarika Gose etc?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Pakistan Senate promptly passed a resolution condemning 'excessive' use of force by the Indians. It was comic since at that very time Pakistan was using helicopter gunships and fighter aircraft against its own tribals in the frontier area. The day the march to Muzaffarabad took place, over 50 Shia Muslims were killed in an attack on a hospital in Pakistan. Pakistanis were delighted that while Baluchistan and the tribal areas were in open revolt against the federal authorities, Kashmiris were clamouring to join them. Pakistanis were indeed grateful that at least someone in world thought that they were not a failed State.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mufti/Geelani/Omar/Malik won't last a day in Pakistan and they know it.