Jammu, Sept. 14 -- Cheers to Farooq Abdullah for raking up a pertinent question "Who we are" while releasing a joint statement of six parties or Gupkar Declaration - 02. This is at the root of the politics of Kashmir Valley.

The first leader of the Valley who practically resolved the enigma of "who we are" was Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. And when he lost the direction the mantle fell on the shoulders of Bakhshi Ghulam Muhammad in 1953. When the Bakhshi was close to fortifying the Kashmirian real identity, the pseudo-Sultans in Delhi pulled the rug under his feet. Little did they understand that they had signed the hundred-year war in Kashmir?

The real motivation behind Sheikh Abdullah's rejection of two-nation theory and accession to demo...