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Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik - The New Doctor For Kashmir ?

By Alka Narula @narulaalka

Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik a the new doctor for Kashmiri illness. Issue of Kashmir is a full time retirement engagement for likes of Dilip Padgaonkar,Ram Jethmalani Prashant Bhushan, Kuldeep Nayyar etc..
The ridiculous propositions they suggest for the solution of Kashmir problem ,only goes on to convince us that in the domain of territorial sovereignty the argument of morality is a non-starter - Rana Raj K Singh ( Attorney of Supreme Court )
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The freelance journalist Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik , met the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief in Lahore on July 2 while touring Pakistan with a group of journalists and politicians invited by a peace research institute. India accuses Saeed, the founder of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed.
On his website, Vaidik’s skill at selling himself is evident. He claims to have “rubbed shoulders” with several prime ministers, presidents, external affairs ministers and guerrilla leaders and to be “one of the most reputed mass orators in India”. He has also posted his photographs with such leaders as Hamid Karzai and Nawaz Sharif. Soon after he started his career he displayed his uncanny knack of finding access to the influential and powerful. He grew close to the then PM Indira Gandhi’s adviser P N Haksar and soon became the founding editor of news agency Press Trust of India’s Hindi wire service ‘Bhasha’. After a 10-year-long at PTI, Vaidik shifted to leading Hindi daily Navabharat Times as its opinion page editor. Dr Vaidik who continues to cultivate leading politicians , currently writes a weekly column in Hindi which according to Vaidik is published in over 200 newspapers
Dr Vaidik a close aide of Baba Ram Dev Vaidik's meeting in Lahore with the Jamat-ud-Dawa chief, who is known for attacking India in his speeches, has led to a ruckus in Parliament, with the Congress attacking the BJP. Yet The New Doctor For Kahmir remained defiant and said "I put my life in danger. Congress leaders are making a noise in Parliament. Agar unke neta milne jaate toh unka pajama geela ho jata, stretcher pe lana padta. (If one on their leaders had gone to meet him, they would have peed in their pyjamas; they would have had to be brought back in stretchers). They can raise the issue in the Parliament but nothing will come out of it," 
I really wonder if we rather the BJP Govt can let go off  Dr Vaidik for his recent meeting with Hafiz Sayeed , a 26/11 mastermind who is believed to have said " There can not  be any peace while India remains intact. Cut them,cut them so much that they kneel before you and ask for mercy "



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