BOMBAY: Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Jagmohan last week assailed the United States for its opportunistic game of exploiting the Kashmir problem for serving its strategic interests in South Asia.
Speaking at a Meet the Press organized by the Kashmir Pandits Association here Jagmohan noted that the US President Bill Clinton had been sympathetic to the Kashmiri militants without showing any concern for the plight of the pandits whose human rights had been brutally violated.
It was glaring that President Clinton could respond to a letter from Ghulam Nabi Fai a US-based leader of the Kashmir Council While ignoring the travails of the Kashmiri Pandits now reduced to the status of refugees in the country he observed.
American pronouncements on Kashmir appeared to be just opportunistic politics without any real change in the basic US attitudes he opined.
Jagmohan who arrived here to address a public meeting last week on the role of youth in nation building noted that Government had been unable to make the people within the country and the international community aware of the magnitude of the Kashmir problem.
He said even prominent Indian intellectuals in various fields including the media had misrepresented the Kashmir question to the extend that heads of foreign governments like Clinton got a lopsided picture
Ridiculing the contentions that Kashmir was not part of India Jagmohan said Jammu and Kashmir had been linked to India since time immemorial.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 21, 1994
