text: A Government in Delhi which admits that J & K assembly is elected from only a part of the State and is under caution of UN SC Resolution of 30 March 1951.
  That Indian security forces are a supplement and sub-ordinate force to J & K Government. These forces have entered the State to perform 4 duties, namely, defend ‘territory’, protect ‘life’, ‘property’ and ‘honour’ of the people.
  That Indian security forces have agreed to honour 3 UN conditions on their number, behaviour and location during their stationing in Kashmir.
  The principal duty of Indian security forces in Kashmir is to provide law and order. Sheikh Abdullah has informed the UN SC that “There need be no fear, since the Indian Army is there, that this army will interfere in the exercise of a free vote. After all, a commission of the Security Council will be there in order to watch. The Indian Army does not have to go into every village. It will be stationed at certain strategic points, so that in the event of danger from any border, the army will be there to protect that border”.
  Your party is understood to be negotiating with BJP an agenda, viz resumption of dialogue with Pakistan and separatists, keeping Article 370 off the table, strengthening cross LoC CBM’s and withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from certain areas. One can hope that a structured dialogue with BJP would be going on well. It is too tall an order for any Government in Srinagar and to achieve any success the Srinagar based Governments have to follow the true build of a specific bilateral, trilateral and international jurisprudence on the question of Jammu and Kashmir.
  PDP may have all noble reasons to engage BJP and keep away from other offers in the formation of a government but it would be misdirecting itself, if, it hopes to redesign the anti-Muslim (any Valley) hidden reflexes of governments sitting in Delhi. The various tiers of Delhi presence in the Valley are too domineering and surreptitious to let it happen in this manner.
  PDP should not concern itself with a suspension or resumption of Indian dialogue with Pakistan or vice versa as part of seeking a six year stay in power. India and Pakistan have intra-State and UN Charter obligations to remain in dialogue. They have accepted that they shall remain in dialogue on Kashmir, in co-operation with and under the supervision of UN Security Council.
  India has further elaborated on the question of engagement on Kashmir with Pakistan and others on 23 January 1957. It is contained in para 3 of the minutes of 762nd meeting of the Security Council. While replying to the complaint of Pakistan made in their letter of 02 January 1957, to the President of the Security Council (S/3767), Indian representative Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon stated, “It is not possible to understand a problem, especially a complex problem which has engaged, in the first instance, the attention of the two countries, and the attention of other parties, including the Security Council, over the years – to which I shall refer later, without having the whole picture so that the significance of documents, arrangements and declarations can become realistic and true to fact”.
  If PDP or any other main stream political party in Kashmir wants to make a genuine input in this regard, it shall have to understand the manner of this engagement and further admit the Indian stand that in addition to India, Pakistan and Security Council, there are “other parties” to the Kashmir dispute.
  India can’t by pass the fact that it has engaged itself with militant leadership and has continued to engage the separatists over the years. It would not be allowed to betray the protocol of trust and continuity. Indian Government and its army have accrued a criminal liability for the death of 70,000-100,000 people. In fact Indian government has failed on one of the terms which allowed its army into Kashmir, that is protect ‘life’ in Kashmir. Therefore, it does not need a recommendation but it has to talk to Separatist (inclusive) and all Kashmiris in main stream who state that accession is provisional and there is no merger of the State. PDP has no case to bring this issue into any discussion in the formation of a Government. On the contrary all Kashmir Governments in Srinagar continue to share the criminal liability with governments in India for the death of a generation in Kashmir.
  PDP is unnecessarily occupying itself with any concern in regard to Article 370. The understanding of the party on this subject is unreliable. PDP has been part of the election narrative which has instilled the fear of a threat to the special status under article 370 if BJP came to power. The fear has no merit. In India BJP may have a choice to hurt Muslims and other minorities but BJP cannot afford a secret or an open kill in Kashmir. The radical elements sitting in secret closets of BJP are mistaken and don’t have an enduring future.
  These elements of all manner know that in any such event BJP has to face the people living under three administrations of Kashmir, Kashmiri diaspora, Pakistan and the United Nations. Government of Pakistan can’t use a nuclear weapon against India and vice versa but touching Article 370 in Kashmir in the manner suggested would land BJP Government in a dark crevice of absolute disaster. It may amount to colonization of a people and has the potential of UN considering a military action. It is not 1948 but 2015. Above all every State Subject would be entitled to seek to undo an occupation by the use of all means civil and military. Pakistan has assumed responsibilities under UNCIP Resolutions and India shall have many fronts to face.