Separatist Leadership Lack Common Strategy: Dulat

New Delhi: Taking a dig at Kashmiri separatist leadership, India’s former Intelligence Chief Amar Singh Dulat Wednesday said: “separatist leaders in Kashmir are confused and they don’t know what they want from New Delhi. These leaders have different opinions regarding Kashmir settlement and are not talking to each other,” Dulat told local news gathering agency.

 “Kashmir needs a break and it needs peace and that peace will come through dialogue. But unfortunately, Kashmiri leaders (separatists) don’t talk to each other and have miserably failed to chalk out a common strategy,” Dulat said.

He said that before New Delhi engages separatist leaders into talks, they should talk to themselves to find out what they want from New Delhi. “It seems these separatist leaders have not been getting green signal from Pakistan and that is why they are not talking to each other,” Dulat said.

 “Even Farooq Abdullah has appealed to these separatist leaders to talk and formulate a common program. Professor Abdul Gani Bhat and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq too want a dialogue but don’t know why they are buying time. Dialogue with New Delhi is only possible when these separatist leaders will talk to themselves,” he said.

Dullat had in November 2016 described the situation in Kashmir valley as “extremely bleak”. “Kashmir has never looked so bleak,” he had said. “The last four-odd months have been terrible.”

He had also said Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, had ‘squandered an opportunity’ to find a solution for Kashmir.

“Kashmir is not a political, economic, or even military issue. It is an emotive issue,” Dulat, who was special adviser to PM during the Vajpayee regime, had said.

“There is only one way to move forward in Kashmir: Talk, talk and keep talking,” Dullat suggested then.

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