Rubaiya Mufti’s
kidnapping opened floodgates of terrorism in J & K : PM V.P.Singh
threatened to dismiss the Government in J & K headed by Dr. Farooq
Abadullah
Dr.Hari Desai’s Weekly
Column “ Back to Roots” in Asian Voice, the Newsweekly of ABPL Group, London 2
September 2017
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Arif Mohammad Khan says “As was the practice in
such cases world over, I told the Cabinet that the least Mufti should do was to
resign his ministerial post for some days instead of handling the issue himself
being the Home Minister. In 1980s, I remember some relations of the
Israel Ministers were kidnapped. The Ministers concerned resigned and did not
influence or interfere the investigation and negotiations to get their relatives
released nor the authorities bargained to exchange the militants with the
relatives of the Ministers concerned.”
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To convince the Chief Minister to get the five
militants released, PM V.P. Singh personally kept on calling up Dr.Abdullah
repeatedly. Even the Cabinet Secretary, T.N. Seshan, telephoned CS Moosa Raza
and shouted at him. “Why isn’t the state government releasing the five
prisoners?”, he wanted to know.
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Farooq told Delhi that under no circumstances
was he going to release those five, unless the Prime Minister of India issued
specific instructions to that effect.
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Farooq came to know that Mufti had already
roped in the “corrupt” judge of the Allahabad High Court, Moti Lal Bhat.
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At 3 p.m., the militants were released at
Rajouri Kadal, in front of Mirwaiz Manzil, the headquarters of the Awami Action
Committee. The crowd went wild; the euphoria was unmistakable. Women garlanded
the militants, and distributed shirni(sugar cubes) and sang traditional
Kashmiri folk songs. ‘Diwali’ was celebrated although one could not tell if the
blasts came from crackers or weaponry. JKLF flags were hoisted all over
Srinagar.
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