Omar1984
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Some Western countries say India is a secular state where democracy prevails. But realities on the ground belie the claim. Democracy, as American president Abraham Lincoln interpreted, stands for government of the people, by the people and for the people. It means an administrative set-up determined to provide economic justice to and work for the common mans welfare. That is what one ought to bear in mind while assessing socio-economic progress of a countryIndia or Pakistan. So, let us see from this angle things happening in various parts of India and Jammu and Kashmir occupied by her at gun-point in violation of all norms of democracy and human rights and resolutions of the United Nations.
Poverty has spread its tentacles in India over the years. Any keen-sighted visitor to India with human heart and broad mind will return home disappointed and depressed with prayer for the Indian farmers compelled to sell their wives and daughters under financial burden. According to CNN-IBN reports, the situation is horrific in the Uttar Pradesh where peasants of Bandelkhand feel their survival is at stake. The farmers, pressed hard by drought, blame their shocking social condition and economic misery on the inefficiency of the government to rescue their families. The woman trade is being carried on legally under cover of a stamp paper. The farmers reduced to penury have no alternative but offer female members of their families for sale to settle account with the money lenders. How democratic an exploitation in India! Bandelkhand farmers are among those millions of people in India who hardly get one square meal a day. They sell their women to money lenders to hide debts in the garb of marriage for amount ranging between Rs.4000 and Rs.12000.
Low literacy rate leads women to compromise because of unread papers, which makes them even more susceptible to exploitation. Once the new husband has had enough of the purchased woman she is sold to another. Most of them end up in the vicious circle of prostitution. This is Indian democracy wherein a money lender buys the right to own a woman and sell her further. What is happening to women in Kashmir forcibly occupied by the so-called secular and democratic India is more ferocious. The occupation forces have imprisoned nearly 60,000 Kashmiris, mostly young men and women, and about 18,000 of them kept in torture cells. Young men and women are stripped and photographed naked to blackmail their families and extort information about uprising against the atrocities of Indian colonialists. Unforgettable is the twin tragedy of rape and murder of 17-year-old student Asiya and her sister-in-law on May 29, 2009, which blazed the streets with angry demonstrations and brutal police action. Unless and until the culprits are brought to book there is definitely a feel of insecurity in our hearts and minds. Not only here in Shupian but in adjoining villages also is an overwhelming feeling of being unsafe that has killed our enthusiasm about studies and career pursuits, said a class-mate of Asiya who did not want to be quoted by name.
What a terror to innocent women seeking freedom from India! What is happening in occupied Kashmir is not dissimilar from the brutalities to Muslims at Guantanamo Bay camp of the United States of America where 31-year-old Yemeni citizen Mohammad Al-Hanashi was held without any charge for seven years. According to Naomi Wolf, who visited the camp with other journalists on June 3, the press office there issued a terse announcement that Al-Hanashi had been found dead in his cellan apparent suicide, which, he said, seemed suspicious to him. I had just toured those cells: its literally impossible to kill yourself in them. Their interiors resemble the inside of a smooth plastic jar; there are no hard edges; hooks fold down; theres no bedding that one can use to strangle oneself. Can you bang your head against the wall until you die theoretically? I asked the doctor. They check on prisoners every three minutes, replied the doctor. Al-Hanashi, according to his fellow prisoner Binyam Mohamed, was summoned on January 17 to a meeting with the Admiral of Guantanamo and the head of the Guard Force there. He never returned to his cell. Thats the story of hundreds of men and women in cells in occupied Kashmir also, whose whereabouts havent been known to their families yet.
Two questions arise in relation to warming situation in occupied Kashmir: one, why dont the worlds law-abiding governments and human rights organisations and freedom-loving people demand a satisfactory answer from India for the state terrorism; and, two, why India is buying arms and ammunition from the US and other countries and engaging herself in development of new weaponry. Whats this arms build-up for? Is it meant to create fear among the Kashmiri freedom lovers and Indian poor masses groaning under pressure of money lenders? Or are the new orders worth billions of dollars in direction of targeting China and Pakistan and also according to her neo-colonial doctrine?
. No country is without flaw. Lets be mature. 
