UK rally won't have any impact on international players: Radha Kumar

Former Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Radha Kumar on Tuesday stated that the proposed 'Million March' in London, which calls for the independence of Kashmir, would not have any impact on international players.

"Actually, there is going to be no result from this. The appetite for any form of even pressure is very low at the moment. Right now, I would say, the attention of most of the groups will be focused on Afghanistan with the security transition. So, the window for Pakistan is quite narrow," Kumar told ANI here.

She stated that such a rally won't be able to galvanise any support from any major nations and that it will be limited only to social media.

"Through social media, there is a sort of linking up of radical sentiments across the globe. And that too offers an opportunity to try to bring Kashmir up on the scale of global attention," she said.

"But let me say that the results for the threat for us will be what this internationalization can get through those radicals that are linked through social media. It is not going to have any impact as far as any international players are concerned," Kumar added.

The eminent academician also pointed out that the rescue work during the recent floods had given leverage to India and offered an opportunity to further ebb the alienation of the youth in the Kashmir valley.

"There has been a rising tide of youth alienation in the Kashmir Valley, at various points it has been possible for the Indian government to launch initiatives to somehow reduce that alienation and the floods offered another opportunity for that, in terms of the need for rehabilitation, quick rescue and so on, our security forces and local government did not do to badly at least on the rescue work," she said.

Thousands of people are expected to participate in the 'Million March', a calling for independence of Jammu and Kashmir, that is scheduled to take place in London on October 26 to protest against supposed 'human rights violations in Indian Kashmir'.

The protesters want to petition the British Prime Minister David Cameron to exercise pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir deadlock with Pakistan.

India has conveyed its concerns to the United Kingdom over the 'Million March' although the UK has made it clear to New Delhi and Islamabad that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between the two countries.