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Kashmiri Hindus criticise Indo-Pak peace process
Staff Report
NEW DELHI: Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, has warned that the “flawed” peace process with Pakistan could push India towards a “second partition”. *The organisation also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government of “giving Pakistan equal status to decide the future of Jammu and Kashmir”. *“It is being said that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service will develop into a cascade of peace. But we feel it can only be a prelude to India’s accepting and facilitating the creation of a porous border on its northern borders,” Chairman of Panun Kashmir Ajay Chrangu told reporters here.
Alleging that “many things” were being hidden from the people by the government, he demanded that the centre “make public the framework of understanding reached with Pakistan of which opening the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road is only a part.” Warning that the confidence building measures may be used by Pakistan to promote its “partisan interests” in Kashmir, Chrangu said, “These could prove self-destructive and lead to the second partition of India. In fact, the government already seems to be on its way to accept this.” Chrangu criticised the government for not taking “marginalised” communities like Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists into confidence before starting the peace process with Pakistan.
“Pakistani leaders including President Pervez Musharraf, always talk to the Kashmiri Muslim leadership including the Hurriyat Conference. But the marginalised Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists are not consulted by the Indian government,” Chrangu said. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kashmir unit has demanded the involvement of people of Jammu and Ladakh in the resolution of the Kashmir issue.