India, Nov. 1 -- Whenever a politician makes a provocative statement, you can be certain that there is a covert agenda. So appears to be the case with Farooq Abdullah. Speaking at a party convention in Baramullah on October 24, the doyen of the National Conference and a multi-term Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir remarked: "Yeh aaj chup hain kyon ki duniya mein shour hai aur hamara padosi laga huwa hai, woh har jagah puhunchta hai ki Kashmir ka faisla nahin hua hai. Woh hamein bachayega (They are silent today because there is noise in the world, and our neighbour, Pakistan, is actively raising the issue. It goes everywhere, saying that Kashmir's future has not yet been decided. Only that will save us).

Otherwise, their intentions are no...