50 Years In and Still Undecided

" We need to come together and decide" this is what the Hurriet Conference, the seperatist political wing in Kashmir has been saying ever since it's inception.

I was dismayed to learn that no one in the Hurriet Leadership has a clue of what they want to do, or how they want to resolve the Kashmir Issue. I do not know what the personal stance of Syed Ali Shah Geelani is on the matter, but apparently he was the chief opposition to the "4 Point Solution" suggested by Parvez Musharaff, the then President of the Republic of Pakistan. Not aggreeing with someone or something is completely just, but only when you have a different opinion or a coherant solution to the same problem at hand.

It is well establised and common sense that successful leadership doesn't just bring in a lot of authority, it also demands a mountain of responsibility. It doesn't need a University degree or a very high qualification to ahold the fact, that the first step in the hunt for something is to know what you are looking for. I feel this is where the the Hurriet Conference, as a Representative Leadership of the Kashmiri people seem to have failed. How is it possible that the Kashmiri struggle to free itself from an illegal occupying country, has gone on for as long as the history of the free Republic of India, which continues to occupy Kashmir, and yet we have not come up with a coherant solution to this problem yet.

The Hurriet Conference calls for strikes in the valley, crippling life and livelihoods, but when it come to a serious dialogue with the people who can resolve the long pending issue, they should not fall short of ideas on what to suggest and what they want.
Recently Parvez Musharaf was on record suggesting that no one in the Hurriet Conference could guide or advise him as to what the Kashmiri people want, as a result of which he came up with his "Joint Control 4 Point Formula". This formula may be completely virtual and to ideal to implement in reality but I feel it was a start.

To be able to decide what you want, you need to have imagined and dreamed of what success should look and feel. Apparently the task of shaping a solution to the Kashmir Issue never crossed the minds of the Hurriet Conference and as such we have never seen a serious blue print of a solution. I question them if they have a vision for a free Kashmir? If the answer is yes, can they present it in a coherent way that we as ordinary Kashmiris can understand an imagine, rather than empty and meaningless words.

If you do not know what you want or you can not present a demand/solution coherently, you make a joke of yourself. You not only end up sounding confusing but ridiculously confused.