This could be an unprecedented development in the history of Indian state treating Kashmiri separatists. But the way New Delhi is stopping Kashmiri separatists from meeting with the visiting Pakistan National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, by detaining two leaders – Shabir Shah and Bilal Lone – soon after they landed at Delhi airport today is certainly happening as per an understanding between Government of India and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, as per the separatist leaders.While Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Mufti Mohammad Sayeed termed the new trend of arresting separatists in New Delhi as a “fixed match” between GoI and Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat (G) made clear that it was happening as per an “understanding” between Mufti Sayeed’s PDP and Modi’s BJP.
‘Mufti wants to safeguard his vote bank in Kashmir. So to ensure public opinion does not go against him, he allows separatists to fly to Delhi only to arrest them there, and all this is happening as per an understanding,” said Ayaz Akbar, spokesman of Hurriyat (G), while talking to KNS.Mirwaiz while saying theta BJP’s “arrogance of power” can’t change the reality of Kashmir said the arrest of separatists at New Delhi before NSA level talks was a “fixed match” between Modi and Mufti. “India does not let even us talk now,” he said.The meeting between Kashmir separatists and any visiting Pakistan government functionary has a historical precedence. But soon after Narendra Modi took over as Prime Minister of India, the saffron government in Delhi is giving an impression that New Delhi will make Islamabad to follow its dictation on Kashmir. That is why foreign secretary levels talks were called off last year at the eleventh hour after Pakistan High Commissioner has met the separatists.
“What is happening this time is the result of same thinking process in New Delhi,” said sources.But state government has recently made it clear that they were not averse to separatists meeting Pakistan visiting NSA. In a candid talk with KNS, government spokesman and Education Minister Nayeem Akhter few days before had said: “We have no problem with separatists travelling from one part of the country to the other.” He had also said that talks between the two NSAs should go on.