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Untold Story Jihad in Kashmir a Critical Analysis Untold Story Jihad in Kashmir A Critical Analysis Girdhari Lal Jalali Vakil Publications New Delhi Dedication Dedicated to my mother, Tarawati Jalali Who passed away in 1971 Copyright © 2010 by Kashmir News Network (KNN) (http://iKashmir.net) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of Kashmir News Network. For permission regarding publication, send an e-mail to [email protected] Untold Story-Jihad in Kashmir By Girdhari Lal Jalali By Girdhari Lal Jalali TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 PROFILE ......................................................................................................................................3 2.0 PREFACE .....................................................................................................................................4 3.0 FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................6 4.0 SAINT KASHYAP'S LAND ........................................................................................................7 5.0 INDIAN BUNGLING.................................................................................................................26 6.0 PAK GAMEPLAN......................................................................................................................30 7.0 AGGRESSION AND CEASEFIRE............................................................................................33 8.0 FROM AGGRESSOR TO VICTOR...........................................................................................37 9.0 UN TILT TOWARDS PAKISTAN............................................................................................40 10.0 FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: SEEDS OF SEPARATION SOWN..... ..............................................................................................................................................44 11.0 RECALCITRANT SHEIKH: COMMUNAL POSTURE ..........................................................48 12.0 PAKISTAN EXPLOITS SHEIKHS' ARREST ..........................................................................52 13.0 TASHKENT BLUNDER............................................................................................................56 14.0 SIMLA AGREEMENT: BACK TO SQUARE ONE .................................................................61 15.0 INDIRA-SHEIKH ACCORD: LUST FOR POWER .................................................................65 16.0 PASSING AWAY OF THE LION: END OF AN ERA .............................................................68 17.0 GENESIS OF ARTICLE 370 .....................................................................................................72 18.0 GOPALASWAMY AYYANGER: MAIN ARCHITECT OF ARTICLE 370...........................76 19.0 OBSTACLE IN STATE'S INTEGRATION WITH INDIA.......................................................79 20.0 RELEVANCE OF ARTICLE 370 IN CHANGING SCENARIO..............................................82 21.0 FAROOQ'S CORONATION......................................................................................................86 22.0 A BIG DISASTER......................................................................................................................90 23.0 POLITICAL INTRIGUES ..........................................................................................................94 24.0 RAJIV - FAROOQ ACCORD ....................................................................................................98 25.0 DANGER SIGNALS IGNORED .............................................................................................102 26.0 STATE POLICE IN HIBERNATION......................................................................................106 27.0 OPERATION TOPAC..............................................................................................................110 Untold Story-Jihad in Kashmir By Girdhari Lal Jalali By Girdhari Lal Jalali 28.0 "HIT OF THE FAITHFUL ON THE INFIDEL"......................................................................114 29.0 VILLAIN OF THE PEACE ......................................................................................................118 30.0 MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM VIZ-A-VIS KASHMIRIAT...............................................121 31.0 RUBAIYA'S KIDNAPPING ....................................................................................................125 32.0 PUNDIT MAGNANIMITY......................................................................................................129 33.0 BIASED LAND REFORMS.....................................................................................................133 34.0 POLITICAL LIGHTWEIGHT: SCATTERING OF PANDIT VOTES...................................137 35.0 BONANZA FOR MUSLIMS ...................................................................................................141 36.0 LEGAL FIGHT.........................................................................................................................145 37.0 STIR OVER KIDNAPPING OF A PUNDIT GIRL.................................................................150 38.0 COMMUNALISM AND CORRUPTION DURING QASIM'S RULE ...................................154 39.0 TARKI-MAVALAT SOCIAL BOYCOTT OF PRO-INDIAN ELEMENTS..........................158 40.0 PLAYING COMMUNAL CARD ............................................................................................162 41.0 DRESS REHEARSAL OF PRO-PAK DEMONSTRATIONS ................................................166 42.0 BRUTAL KILLINGS OF PROMINENT PUNDITS ...............................................................170 43.0 “APPLE SHEIKHS"- THE HIGH PRIESTS OF MILITANCY ..............................................174 44.0 UNABATED KILLINGS .........................................................................................................177 45.0 JIHAD IS OUR STRATEGY, MARTYRDOM OUR ASPIRATION.....................................181 46.0 SANGRAMA AND WANDHAMA CARNAGES ..................................................................188 47.0 LOOTING SPREE WITH CONCURRENCE OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATION ..................192 48.0 REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY..............................................................................196 49.0 DISCRIMINATION .................................................................................................................200 50.0 CERTAIN FALLACIES AND MYTHS ..................................................................................204 51.0 WHY SUDDEN ALIENATION...............................................................................................208 52.0 RETURN OF THE NATIVE ....................................................................................................212 53.0 WAITING FOR PEACE...........................................................................................................216 54.0 EPILOGUE ...............................................................................................................................221 55.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY.....................................................................................................................225 Kashmir News Network 2 http://ikashmir.net/gljalali Untold Story-Jihad in Kashmir By Girdhari Lal Jalali By Girdhari Lal Jalali 1.0 PROFILE Girdhari Lal Jalali Born in 1934 in a middle class Kashmiri Pandit family in Sri Nagar, Girdhari Lal Jalali had his early schooling in rural areas of the Valley where his father was employed as a revenue official. He passed his graduation from Amar Singh College in Sri Nagar. He did his masters in English, History, and education in Punjab University and Kashmiri University respectively. He joined State Education Department and served it in different capacities. Mr. Jalali is a voracious reader of books on politics and philosophy. Apart from being a well known educationist and teacher, he has currently earned reputation as a freelance journalist whose thought provoking write- ups have been published from time to time in national dailies and journals. For sometime he was the Associate Editor of the Daily Samachar Post published from Sri Nagar and Delhi. At present he is the Executive Editor of the widely circulated and only English Weekly on the Jammu and Kashmir Affairs “The Kashur Gazette”. His “By The Way column in the Kashur Gazette” has won him kudos and enhanced his fame as veteran Kashmir Pandit Journalist whose range of the knowledge of Kashmir history, world- affairs and facile pen he wields touch the watermark of excellence. Kashmir News Network 3 http://ikashmir.net/gljalali Untold Story-Jihad in Kashmir By Girdhari Lal Jalali By Girdhari Lal Jalali 2.0 PREFACE Since the outbreak of the Muslim insurgency in J & K State a plethora of books on the Kashmir crisis have flooded the market. Most of these books were written by the journalists and political analysts who were born outside the State. The), had no chance to witness the events that took place either before or during the course of the Jihad with their own eyes and as such these authors had to depend upon the writings of other people for purpose of relevant details on the basis of which they wrote their respective treatises. The ongoing insurgency, which I call Jihad, is not a sudden
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