Sir,
NC and PDP chiefs both nostalgically speak of Vajpayee doctrine about resolving Kashmir imbroglio. Partisan commentators are euphoric and loquacious. However, nobody ever explained what that doctrine was. Vajpayee never explained what his aphorism of “Jamhooriat, Insaniyat aur Kashmiriyat” meant. Who needed to be reminded of the ambiguous triumvirate? He invited Musharraf to Agra, conducted negotiations with him that ended in a fiasco. Musharraf cashed the event by inviting international media to his hotel and announcing that he had made all concession but Indians were a bundle of confusion. Kargil was meant to be disrespect to Vajpayee. He travelled in a bus all the way to Lahore to tell Pakistanis (at the memorial of Iqbal the founder of Pakistani idea) that India recognized partition. Did any Pakistani leader ever visit the Samadhi of Gandhi ji to acknowledge the sacrifices he had made for the freedom of the sub-continent?
Finding him totally confused and contradictory, a senior bureaucrat in the MEA sidelined him in Agra talks and rebutted Musharraf. Why did not Vajpayee invoke ‘insaniyat” to assuage the hurt feelings of the victims of terrorism and fundamentalism in Kashmir valley in 1990? Why did not the element of insaniyat scratch his humanistic sense during his two stints as PM. He left behind the legacy of Azhar Mas’d for the nation that had shown him great respect.
K.N. Pandita
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