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Kashmir for Kashmiris! (A Sovereign Kashmir: Random Thoughts-307)
August 15, 2017 Abdul Ruff Wikimedia Commons -
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal India for Indians, Pakistan for Pakistanis and, of course, Kashmir for Kashmiris and there cannot be two opinions. Pakistan had been a part of India but no more. But India cannot take Kashmir in place of Pakistan which is now an independent nation. And hence annexation and brutal occupation of Jammu Kashmir is illegal. Kashmir cannot be for Indians and Pakistanis.
We Indians cannot say India for Pakistanis or Kashmiris, and similarly, Kashmir is for Kashmiris.
Many foreign nations invaded Kashmir before India and its half-brother Pakistan did it in 1947, and all of them had to leave Kashmir before it was too late.
Similarly, Kashmiris know, Indians also would have to quit Kashmir for which a strong popular movement has begun in Kashmir.
A restless India is trying all tricks of the trade to quell the freedom movement and silence the Kashmiris, but Kashmiri youth is firmly bold and highly resurgent and reasonably resolved to retake their nation.
India went on killing Kashmiris during the last several decades of its illegal occupation and till day over 100,000 innocent Kashmiri lives have been slaughtered to silence them from their demand for sovereignty from the Indian yoke.
India has ruled out referendum, thereby giving a slap to the United Nations. When India and Pakistan invaded Jammu and Kashmir, a sovereign nation sandwiched between them, divided it and shared between them according to their military prowess.
Britain while quitting New Delhi had left behind his great terror goods with India, the successor state of imperial India. Indian military prowess continues to exercise its might over the region.
India has been quite tactfully avoiding a UN sponsored referendum to determine the future of Jammu Kashmir as it is damn scared of losing Kashmir forever.
A referendum would end the nuclearized South Asian tensions forever and allow peace and prosperity of Jammu Kashmir as a sovereign nation.
New Delhi under all political outfits, both national and regional, plays dirty but criminal tricks with unfortunate Kashmiris, silencing them, and terrorizing the youth.
Kashmiris have lost sovereignty, freedoms, peace as they are the target of Indo-Israeli bullets.
India and Pakistan amassed nukes thanks to their joint occupation of Jammu Kashmir obviously on a secret understanding. Britain helped both India and Pakistan to invade and occupy that nation according to their military might.
In fact, had British government resented the invasion of Jammu Kashmir by Indo-Pakistan – the newly freed South Asian colonies – the Indo-Pak would have immediately stopped its occupational strategies. As a colonialist power UK only promoted invasions.
This explains as to why both UK and USA refuse to mediate between India and Pakistan and free Jammu Kashmir sincerely.
These western powers are indeed the rogue states with democratic façade in front.
UK and USA are responsible for the creation of a Zionist criminal state in the Mideast to control Arab nations.
Struggle for Sovereignty the turmoil in Kashmir, which got intensified after the fake encounter of Burhan Wani (July 2016), does not seem to abet.
It has been worsening as reflected in the ongoing violence leading to low turnout of voters in the by poll (April 2017). Shockingly there was a turn out only of 7.14 percent of the electorate. The by-polls were also marred by violence in which, many a civilians and security force person also died and lately one witnessed with great horror a Kashmir youth being tied to the military truck to prevent stone pelters from throwing stones at the vehicle.
Those pelting stones don’t seem to be stopping despite the lapse of a period of time. These young men are being looked at in various ways. Farookh Abdullah had stated on the eve of elections that those young men throwing stones are doing so for their nation.
This statement of his came under scathing criticism from various quarters and section of media and was dismissed by many as a pre election statement. Who are these boys who pelt stones?
Are these merely Pakistan inspired and funded youth? In the aftermath of state crackdown; hundreds have died, thousands have been wounded, and much more have lost eyesight!
A section of TV and other media is going hammer and tongs about the role of Pakistan and the funding they receive.
The question which needs to be introspected is that will young people risk their life, loss of eyesight or other harm to the body just for someone’s bidding or some money? Many of them are teenagers, tech savvy and they are so much full of deep hatred that they are willing to risk their lives, not caring about their future.
The degree of frustration among them must we horrific.
Indian media have a duty to shield the military crimes as their own. Only a small section of media has gone deeper into the real issues and have interviewed some of them.
The stories of their experiences and feelings shatter one’s perceptions about law and order in Kashmir. Many belong to families who have given up hope of any type.
Most of these young boys have experienced torture, beating, harassment's of sorts and often humiliation For many of them stone throwing comes as kind of catharsis, a feeling of having taken revenge of what has happened to them.
It is the only strong way of protest they must be feeling is left for them. Many of them are Pro Pakistan for sure, but the basic point remains political alienation which is seeping in deepening.
This, in turn, is due to the suffering and pain to which Kashmir has been subjected due to the continued military presence in the area. Post Burhan Wani murder, the Kashmir based PDP, or even national Conference has been able to see the intensity of the situation. Mahbooba Mufti, the Chief Minister of the ruling coalition, wanted to go for a dialogue with the dissenters, but coalition partner and the party leading at center BJP shot down the idea. Mahbooba Mufti felt that dialogue is the only way out but BJP feels that dialogue is a way to be-fool the people.
It seems the ruling BJP wants to take a hard line to deal with dissidence, regards that dissidence is there only due to Pakistan or ISIS and so repression should be intensified. RSS tends to give birth to more and more offshoots of Hindutva mode to threaten Muslims. BJP and RSS and other Hindutva elements have gathered Hindutva extremists, calling themselves Jana Sena (people’s military), to fight the Kashmiri Muslims youth that uses stone as their weapon to fight the powerful guns of India.
Claiming to be the wholesale patriotic guys of the secular Indian nation, the wealthy core media lords of Indian English/Hindi TV channels put themselves in the mode of ultra patriotic elements to retain Jammu Kashmir even by forcing the military forces to perform a complete holocaust of Kashmiri race.
They advise the government and leaders of national political outfits not to let Jammu Kashmir go away from Indian military control saying that once free Kashmiris would support Pakistan and become another enemy of an “innocent” looking India which has killed over 1000,000 Kashmiri Muslims and yet it is not ready to end crimes in Kashmir.
BJP, RSS and Congress feel suffocated by the latest developments in occupied Kashmir as Kashmiris just ignore the military prowess and challenge their domination by stone pelting. That is unbearable for them because military should have upper hand to decide the fate of Kashmiris.
They are indeed sacred that they would lose Jammu Kashmir sooner than alter but they want to frighten them by using Jana Sena to counter stone pelting in Kashmir by using the military guns and stones alternatively.
That would, if implemented, naturally lead to a situation when India would be forced to give away Jammu Kashmir.
The BJP government on the one hand and the RSS-Congress duo on the other keep scheming against Muslims in general and Kashmir in particular while the Hindu media lords, especially those that run TV channels in English on behalf political and intelligence wings consider it their duty to challenge the Kashmiri youth that has resorted to stone pelting against the terror attacks of India’s powerful military forces occupying their lands, killing them in a sustained manner, terrorizing everyone in Jammu Kashmir so that Kashmiris salute military forces and let them do whatever they want to project Indian military prowess the supreme.
On domestic and foreign fronts, BJP has been pursuing all Congress policies including on Kashmir issue.
Hatred for Islam and Muslims are pushed on slowly by the Hindutva leaders. Targeting the Kashmiris in Kashmir and killing them in a sustained manner by is a part of that anti-Muslim effort.
Core Indian media and intelligence wings tell the people that Kashmiris are as many enemies as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are and they should be made to beg New Delhi for money as Sri Lanka and Bhutan have been doing.
It has been a routine scene in many places in Kashmir where women and men, old and young, children inclusive, gather in front of the houses where people mourn the death of their beloved, near and dear ones, and Kashmiri young men are Freedom struggle in Kashmir grew thanks to involvement many of the youth.
Many believe that today young people are being targeted in Kashmir, which is probably why people are feeling alienated from India.
The fallout of the security forces’ hardening attitude towards the locals has led to the spike in local militancy. As per media reports, since last year’s unrest, 88 local youth have joined the militant ranks. Many attribute this to the growing anger among the young people as “India is not ready to listen to them (Kashmiris).”
Repeated Indian attacks on Kashmiri Muslims leads to counter attacks. With two back to back attacks on security forces, Kashmir’s security situation is spiraling into a new cycle of violence. Even as the news of Kulgam ambush came to light (1 May) in which four policemen and two bank employees were killed by militants in Mumbai village, reports began to pour in of the dastardly attack by the Pakistani special forces and militants on an Indian Army post on the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district in Jammu, which resulted in killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers.
The attacks in Kulgam and Krishna Ghati represent the two major incidents since last year’s attack on the Indian Army brigade headquarters in Uri in north Kashmir.aturally, these attacks have shaken Kashmir’s political and security establishment and threaten to push Kashmir on the edge of another spell of unrest and significant violence as the summer approaches. The locals that this reporter talked to had very little to say about the attack in Poonch but offered different viewpoints on the situation in Kashmir.
This is in stark contrast to last year, when post-Uri attack and India’s surgical strike, there were widespread fears of an India-Pakistan war. Many believe that the recent attacks are a result of the excessive force being used by the security forces against the locals. The anger is directed especially towards the use of pellet guns which have destroyed the lives of many civilians. The recent attack in Kulgam and similar attacks is mostly due to Indian oppression. If we look at the 2008 and 2010 unrest, the violence had not been this intense.
People thought that India does not agree to anything which has caused a resurgence of militancy. It is unfortunate that innocent people are getting killed, but if we look at the history, violence has always been countered by force only.
There is anger among youth, they have been killed, they have been arrested and even tortured, and even when minor things happen, they get angry. The Same thing took place when forces entered the college in Pulwama.”
Clarity and perspective are early casualties during the turmoil. Now more than ever before we are in need of clarity and perspective to deal with the mess in Kashmir. Instead of being swayed by the noise, blood, and emotion, decision-makers must be guided by calm, rational judgment. Kashmir is not lost. Nor will it ever be. However, there is no space for complacency and denial.
The Valley is suffering from one of the worst periods of crisis in its history, and we must acknowledge it, prepare and implement a plan of action. It is a problem with various dimensions. However, trying to solve everything at the same time is a sure recipe for failure. Therefore, the Indian state must narrow down its focus.
Therefore, the first and foremost responsibility of government stakeholders (and that includes the Centre, state, and the entire security establishment) is to restore the writ of the Indian state of Kashmir. Unless there is fear of authority, the rule of law and a semblance of order, any hopes of “normalcy” returning to Valley is a pipe dream.
And unless there is even a semblance of normalcy, there can be no hope for “peace” with a final settlement of surrendering sovereignty to Kashmiris once for all. This opium-fuelled dream of “peace in Valley” cannot become a reality amid flash mobs resisting counter-insurgency operations, soldiers attacking the youth, raising cries of secession, pelting stones, terrorists spraying Kalashnikov bullets and strewing bodies of jawans and Kashmiris alike.
Some students expressed skepticism about the current situation. The student protests make the situation further precarious while the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP coalition government is trying to pacify the students and locals. But if the voter turnout in the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-polls and the violence on 9 April is any indication, it is clear that her administration is simply unable to cope with the situation.
The painful truth Conducting polls regularly in Jammu Kashmir under Indian occupation to gain legitimacy for its illegal occupation and genocides has not solved the Indian case. Killing Muslims in Kashmir has not silenced the Kashmiris youth, either.
For all our blaming of Pakistan, the Indian state cannot shirk its role.
If Pakistan is guilty of fuelling the insurgency and using Hurriyat groups to keep Kashmir on the boil, the BJP-PDP coalition and the Narendra Modi government have been guilty of incompetence.
The rebel movement has gained in strength because it has failed to read the writing on the walls. Indian state terror strategists say that since the neutralization of Hizbul Mujaheedin commander Burhan Wani, a series of tactical and policy errors have been committed.
The government has appeared all too eager to cede control and have seemed more interested in short-term placatory gestures rather than displaying an iron will in arresting the deterioration of law and order.
They argue that every Kashmiri should be murdered with Israeli terror goods and end the crisis once for all. USA and Russia are now allies of India, and they don’t mind the terror operations in Kashmir. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has appealed to the youth to help restore normalcy in the Valley so that peace returns.
If we add the recent cancellation of Anantnag by-poll to this mix, the depth of the problem seems clear. It is not one of lack of will and the administration, but the reality of the situation in Kashmir. Indian state terror forces have gone for a comprehensive military action to flush out the Kashmiris, “terrorists,” catch and neutralize some of the top commanders to render the outfit headless.
The ‘cordon and combing’ operation in south Kashmir launched jointly by the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police is considered to be a ‘good first step.’ It is telling, however, that the “biggest operation in 15 years” has so far failed to nab a single “terrorist.” Restore the authority of Army and the writ of the Indian state. The next steps shall follow.
Kashmir isn’t going anywhere. The pressure of military action — initially by eliminating hardcore leaders and subsequently, as a “threat-in-being” — is the catalyst that forces Kashmiri freedom fighters to talk with the government.
Once you dilute the fear of authority of the uniformed troops, there is bound to be resistance to dialogue.” Disappointment Kashmiris have been looking forward to hearing from Indian PM or President about surrendering of sovereignty to people of Kashmir for remaking their nation.
However, all these years Indian government and rulers have steadily refused to mention about that either in the Parliament or cabinet meetings or the media briefing or in any particular statement.
It is like claiming a wicket by the bowlers, even though they know they are wrong in their claim just as a drama, with overt firmness so that the drama umpires declare OUT after wasting time in reviewing the scene.
Pure shows.
On the contrary Indian rulers said Jammu Kashmir is now a part of India. In fact, Pakistan wants Kashmir to be handed over to it because most of Kashmiris prefer Pakistan to India.
The referendum is a mischief by Indo-Pakistan to deny sovereignty back to Kashmiris. Neither India nor Pakistan is keen to return sovereignty to Kashmiris with or without due apologies. Indian PM Narendra Modi has said that “bullets and abuses” cannot bring peace in Kashmir, as the country celebrates 70 years since independence. In a speech in Delhi, Modi accused Kashmiri separatists of “scheming.” Muslim-majority Kashmir under Indian occupation is at the center of a decades-old territorial dispute between India and Pakistan.
Modi said only “hugs” could solve the problems of the territory, which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces. India is celebrating its 70th Independence Day a day after its neighbor Pakistan.
Modi also criticized people for using religion to incite violence. Vigilantes who portray themselves as protectors of cows have frequently been attacking people mostly Muslims suspected of smuggling the animal since Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014. The slaughter of cows is banned in several Indian states being ruled by BJP.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in the past two years in the name of the cow.
Targets are often picked based on unsubstantiated rumors, and Muslims have been attacked and killed for even transporting cows for milk.
Indian government knows Jammu Kashmir does not belong to India and it invaded it soon after its freedom from Great Britain in 1947 and maybe on its advice. But it never admits and it bluffs that it is a part of India while Indian media lords, who do not want JK to cede from India, creating a vacuum in Indian map, say Kashmir has been a part of India for centuries.
Bluff cannot become truth just because it is forcefully and repeatedly articulated by influential sources. Indian forces kill Kashmiri Muslims mercilessly. Targeting the Kashmiri Muslim youth have backed fired recently as the people of Kashmir have begun a firm struggle for sovereignty.
As the freedom struggle of Kashmiris gets intensified to regain independence from occupation forces from New Delhi, Indian regime gets panicky and wants to end the new phase of a struggle that is forcing India to cede neighboring Jammu Kashmir that its troops occupy since 1947 to Kashmiris themselves.
Like Israel, India also does not like, rather oppose, any third nation to intervene to end Indo-Pak conflict and get justice for Kashmiris.
India has also managed to silence even the USA and other veto powers to postpone the referendum almost permanently, and, cruelly enough, the UN is also silent about its resolution for a referendum for Kashmir. UN is even otherwise is a dead rubber being misused by big powers.
Apparently, India bribes them with money and other “facilities” to get them on board. Of course, now Indian regime is acutely aware of the hard truth that Kashmiris are determined to take back their lost sovereignty from India.
Nothing less than that! Kashmiris firmly seek sovereignty!
As Indian media continue to say Kashmir is marked in Indian constitution and as such it is an integral part of now the Hindutva set up, Kashmiris do not fight not for bread, nor for more jobs or extra money but they have sacrificed their valuable lives for freedom and sovereignty from brutal Indian military yoke.
Freedom and sovereignty are their birth right as they all want to live as free humans with dignity. India has murdered over 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims, besides Indian Muslims. Indian claim of ownership of Muslims inside India is one thing but extending the same logic and argument to neighboring Kashmir is nonsensical, ridiculous.
Kashmiris have nothing common with Indians except that all are humans and blood runs through their veins.
However, Indian forces, like the Zionist counterparts do, have no right to drink the blood of Kashmiris.
Kashmiri Muslims are treated like slaves and underdogs by New Delhi.
Indian military guys kill Kashmiris as if they are playing a favorite and fixed cricket game. Kashmiris are on the war path to attain independence while India and its media lords remain in a perpetual denial mode while Indian “patriotic” soldiers continue to kill and consume Muslims in Kashmir their birth right because Indian Parliament has allowed them to kill anybody at will.
Sad and shame! Observation Both India and Israel, the new strategic leveling partners, want to occupy the “colonies” they have, namely Kashmir and Palestine respectively, and keep murdering Muslims as freely as the wild beast does in thick jungles.
Indo-Pakistani conflict and genocides of Kashmiris are an old issue but unresolved by the UN and UNSC.
It is high time International community steps in to resolve the South Asia’s deadliest conflict and settle the dangerous Kashmir cum nukes’ issue once for all before it s too late for that.
The situation in Kashmir is critical, and worsening by the day due to the high handed dealings from the center. Even the former Chief Minister of Kashmir and the people like Sheikh Abdulla was ignored by India, leading to a serious conflict.
The world needs peace, and we want peace in the green valley known as paradise on earth; peace is crucial. The deeper peace can only be won through winning the hearts and minds of the people of Kashmir, pseudo patriotic and ultra nationalist formulations don’t work in the long run.
It is a fact, military personnel is paid for their “services” both in India and Pakistan, and they target innocent Kashmiris for their warm blood. Given the unrelenting unrest in Kashmir valley, there is urgency for holding a genuine referendum in Kashmir to determine the fate of Kashmiris and end the blood bath in Kashmir valley.
Today there can be two approaches one is to recall the treaty of accession and gravitate towards that and take the recommendations of Interlocutors seriously.
Nearly seven decades after the entry of Kashmir to India, there is a need to recall that forcible merger; repression of dissent was never the idea of founders of the Indian nation.
Let’s see what Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had to say on the matter way back, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel said at a public meeting in Bombay on October 30, 1948: “Some people consider that a Muslim majority area must necessarily belong to Pakistan. But (India is stronger than Pakistan) and should have Kashmir.
They wonder why we are in Kashmir. The answer is plain and straightforward. We are in Kashmir because the people of Kashmir want us to be there. The moment we realize that the people of Kashmir do not want us to be there, we shall not be there even for a minute… We shall not let the Kashmir down” (Hindustan Times, October 1948)
Now the continued struggle for freedom shows that they want liberty and sovereignty and India must vacate Jammu Kashmir in favor pace in the region.
Time over ripe for Indian military forces to quit Kashmir after or before the referendum. Better India leaves Kashmir without going through an insulting referendum that would inevitably ask India to behave. India and its intelligence have complete details of how many paid Hindus have died in the war against Kashmir, but they have no such details about genocides of innocent real Kashmir Muslims by paid Indian soldiers.
New Delhi should make such vital details available to the public. Military personnel receives salary, many semi-freebies, pension, etc., but the freedom fighters get nothing but Indian bullets.
Let the UN or Pakistan pay pension to the family of those get killed by paid Indian soldiers until Kashmir gains sovereignty.
- See more at: http://southasiajournal.net/kashmir-for-kashmiris-a-sovereign-kashmir-random-thoughts-307/
August 15, 2017 Abdul Ruff Wikimedia Commons -
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal India for Indians, Pakistan for Pakistanis and, of course, Kashmir for Kashmiris and there cannot be two opinions. Pakistan had been a part of India but no more. But India cannot take Kashmir in place of Pakistan which is now an independent nation. And hence annexation and brutal occupation of Jammu Kashmir is illegal. Kashmir cannot be for Indians and Pakistanis.
We Indians cannot say India for Pakistanis or Kashmiris, and similarly, Kashmir is for Kashmiris.
Many foreign nations invaded Kashmir before India and its half-brother Pakistan did it in 1947, and all of them had to leave Kashmir before it was too late.
Similarly, Kashmiris know, Indians also would have to quit Kashmir for which a strong popular movement has begun in Kashmir.
A restless India is trying all tricks of the trade to quell the freedom movement and silence the Kashmiris, but Kashmiri youth is firmly bold and highly resurgent and reasonably resolved to retake their nation.
India went on killing Kashmiris during the last several decades of its illegal occupation and till day over 100,000 innocent Kashmiri lives have been slaughtered to silence them from their demand for sovereignty from the Indian yoke.
India has ruled out referendum, thereby giving a slap to the United Nations. When India and Pakistan invaded Jammu and Kashmir, a sovereign nation sandwiched between them, divided it and shared between them according to their military prowess.
Britain while quitting New Delhi had left behind his great terror goods with India, the successor state of imperial India. Indian military prowess continues to exercise its might over the region.
India has been quite tactfully avoiding a UN sponsored referendum to determine the future of Jammu Kashmir as it is damn scared of losing Kashmir forever.
A referendum would end the nuclearized South Asian tensions forever and allow peace and prosperity of Jammu Kashmir as a sovereign nation.
New Delhi under all political outfits, both national and regional, plays dirty but criminal tricks with unfortunate Kashmiris, silencing them, and terrorizing the youth.
Kashmiris have lost sovereignty, freedoms, peace as they are the target of Indo-Israeli bullets.
India and Pakistan amassed nukes thanks to their joint occupation of Jammu Kashmir obviously on a secret understanding. Britain helped both India and Pakistan to invade and occupy that nation according to their military might.
In fact, had British government resented the invasion of Jammu Kashmir by Indo-Pakistan – the newly freed South Asian colonies – the Indo-Pak would have immediately stopped its occupational strategies. As a colonialist power UK only promoted invasions.
This explains as to why both UK and USA refuse to mediate between India and Pakistan and free Jammu Kashmir sincerely.
These western powers are indeed the rogue states with democratic façade in front.
UK and USA are responsible for the creation of a Zionist criminal state in the Mideast to control Arab nations.
Struggle for Sovereignty the turmoil in Kashmir, which got intensified after the fake encounter of Burhan Wani (July 2016), does not seem to abet.
It has been worsening as reflected in the ongoing violence leading to low turnout of voters in the by poll (April 2017). Shockingly there was a turn out only of 7.14 percent of the electorate. The by-polls were also marred by violence in which, many a civilians and security force person also died and lately one witnessed with great horror a Kashmir youth being tied to the military truck to prevent stone pelters from throwing stones at the vehicle.
Those pelting stones don’t seem to be stopping despite the lapse of a period of time. These young men are being looked at in various ways. Farookh Abdullah had stated on the eve of elections that those young men throwing stones are doing so for their nation.
This statement of his came under scathing criticism from various quarters and section of media and was dismissed by many as a pre election statement. Who are these boys who pelt stones?
Are these merely Pakistan inspired and funded youth? In the aftermath of state crackdown; hundreds have died, thousands have been wounded, and much more have lost eyesight!
A section of TV and other media is going hammer and tongs about the role of Pakistan and the funding they receive.
The question which needs to be introspected is that will young people risk their life, loss of eyesight or other harm to the body just for someone’s bidding or some money? Many of them are teenagers, tech savvy and they are so much full of deep hatred that they are willing to risk their lives, not caring about their future.
The degree of frustration among them must we horrific.
Indian media have a duty to shield the military crimes as their own. Only a small section of media has gone deeper into the real issues and have interviewed some of them.
The stories of their experiences and feelings shatter one’s perceptions about law and order in Kashmir. Many belong to families who have given up hope of any type.
Most of these young boys have experienced torture, beating, harassment's of sorts and often humiliation For many of them stone throwing comes as kind of catharsis, a feeling of having taken revenge of what has happened to them.
It is the only strong way of protest they must be feeling is left for them. Many of them are Pro Pakistan for sure, but the basic point remains political alienation which is seeping in deepening.
This, in turn, is due to the suffering and pain to which Kashmir has been subjected due to the continued military presence in the area. Post Burhan Wani murder, the Kashmir based PDP, or even national Conference has been able to see the intensity of the situation. Mahbooba Mufti, the Chief Minister of the ruling coalition, wanted to go for a dialogue with the dissenters, but coalition partner and the party leading at center BJP shot down the idea. Mahbooba Mufti felt that dialogue is the only way out but BJP feels that dialogue is a way to be-fool the people.
It seems the ruling BJP wants to take a hard line to deal with dissidence, regards that dissidence is there only due to Pakistan or ISIS and so repression should be intensified. RSS tends to give birth to more and more offshoots of Hindutva mode to threaten Muslims. BJP and RSS and other Hindutva elements have gathered Hindutva extremists, calling themselves Jana Sena (people’s military), to fight the Kashmiri Muslims youth that uses stone as their weapon to fight the powerful guns of India.
Claiming to be the wholesale patriotic guys of the secular Indian nation, the wealthy core media lords of Indian English/Hindi TV channels put themselves in the mode of ultra patriotic elements to retain Jammu Kashmir even by forcing the military forces to perform a complete holocaust of Kashmiri race.
They advise the government and leaders of national political outfits not to let Jammu Kashmir go away from Indian military control saying that once free Kashmiris would support Pakistan and become another enemy of an “innocent” looking India which has killed over 1000,000 Kashmiri Muslims and yet it is not ready to end crimes in Kashmir.
BJP, RSS and Congress feel suffocated by the latest developments in occupied Kashmir as Kashmiris just ignore the military prowess and challenge their domination by stone pelting. That is unbearable for them because military should have upper hand to decide the fate of Kashmiris.
They are indeed sacred that they would lose Jammu Kashmir sooner than alter but they want to frighten them by using Jana Sena to counter stone pelting in Kashmir by using the military guns and stones alternatively.
That would, if implemented, naturally lead to a situation when India would be forced to give away Jammu Kashmir.
The BJP government on the one hand and the RSS-Congress duo on the other keep scheming against Muslims in general and Kashmir in particular while the Hindu media lords, especially those that run TV channels in English on behalf political and intelligence wings consider it their duty to challenge the Kashmiri youth that has resorted to stone pelting against the terror attacks of India’s powerful military forces occupying their lands, killing them in a sustained manner, terrorizing everyone in Jammu Kashmir so that Kashmiris salute military forces and let them do whatever they want to project Indian military prowess the supreme.
On domestic and foreign fronts, BJP has been pursuing all Congress policies including on Kashmir issue.
Hatred for Islam and Muslims are pushed on slowly by the Hindutva leaders. Targeting the Kashmiris in Kashmir and killing them in a sustained manner by is a part of that anti-Muslim effort.
Core Indian media and intelligence wings tell the people that Kashmiris are as many enemies as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are and they should be made to beg New Delhi for money as Sri Lanka and Bhutan have been doing.
It has been a routine scene in many places in Kashmir where women and men, old and young, children inclusive, gather in front of the houses where people mourn the death of their beloved, near and dear ones, and Kashmiri young men are Freedom struggle in Kashmir grew thanks to involvement many of the youth.
Many believe that today young people are being targeted in Kashmir, which is probably why people are feeling alienated from India.
The fallout of the security forces’ hardening attitude towards the locals has led to the spike in local militancy. As per media reports, since last year’s unrest, 88 local youth have joined the militant ranks. Many attribute this to the growing anger among the young people as “India is not ready to listen to them (Kashmiris).”
Repeated Indian attacks on Kashmiri Muslims leads to counter attacks. With two back to back attacks on security forces, Kashmir’s security situation is spiraling into a new cycle of violence. Even as the news of Kulgam ambush came to light (1 May) in which four policemen and two bank employees were killed by militants in Mumbai village, reports began to pour in of the dastardly attack by the Pakistani special forces and militants on an Indian Army post on the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district in Jammu, which resulted in killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers.
The attacks in Kulgam and Krishna Ghati represent the two major incidents since last year’s attack on the Indian Army brigade headquarters in Uri in north Kashmir.aturally, these attacks have shaken Kashmir’s political and security establishment and threaten to push Kashmir on the edge of another spell of unrest and significant violence as the summer approaches. The locals that this reporter talked to had very little to say about the attack in Poonch but offered different viewpoints on the situation in Kashmir.
This is in stark contrast to last year, when post-Uri attack and India’s surgical strike, there were widespread fears of an India-Pakistan war. Many believe that the recent attacks are a result of the excessive force being used by the security forces against the locals. The anger is directed especially towards the use of pellet guns which have destroyed the lives of many civilians. The recent attack in Kulgam and similar attacks is mostly due to Indian oppression. If we look at the 2008 and 2010 unrest, the violence had not been this intense.
People thought that India does not agree to anything which has caused a resurgence of militancy. It is unfortunate that innocent people are getting killed, but if we look at the history, violence has always been countered by force only.
There is anger among youth, they have been killed, they have been arrested and even tortured, and even when minor things happen, they get angry. The Same thing took place when forces entered the college in Pulwama.”
Clarity and perspective are early casualties during the turmoil. Now more than ever before we are in need of clarity and perspective to deal with the mess in Kashmir. Instead of being swayed by the noise, blood, and emotion, decision-makers must be guided by calm, rational judgment. Kashmir is not lost. Nor will it ever be. However, there is no space for complacency and denial.
The Valley is suffering from one of the worst periods of crisis in its history, and we must acknowledge it, prepare and implement a plan of action. It is a problem with various dimensions. However, trying to solve everything at the same time is a sure recipe for failure. Therefore, the Indian state must narrow down its focus.
Therefore, the first and foremost responsibility of government stakeholders (and that includes the Centre, state, and the entire security establishment) is to restore the writ of the Indian state of Kashmir. Unless there is fear of authority, the rule of law and a semblance of order, any hopes of “normalcy” returning to Valley is a pipe dream.
And unless there is even a semblance of normalcy, there can be no hope for “peace” with a final settlement of surrendering sovereignty to Kashmiris once for all. This opium-fuelled dream of “peace in Valley” cannot become a reality amid flash mobs resisting counter-insurgency operations, soldiers attacking the youth, raising cries of secession, pelting stones, terrorists spraying Kalashnikov bullets and strewing bodies of jawans and Kashmiris alike.
Some students expressed skepticism about the current situation. The student protests make the situation further precarious while the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP coalition government is trying to pacify the students and locals. But if the voter turnout in the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-polls and the violence on 9 April is any indication, it is clear that her administration is simply unable to cope with the situation.
The painful truth Conducting polls regularly in Jammu Kashmir under Indian occupation to gain legitimacy for its illegal occupation and genocides has not solved the Indian case. Killing Muslims in Kashmir has not silenced the Kashmiris youth, either.
For all our blaming of Pakistan, the Indian state cannot shirk its role.
If Pakistan is guilty of fuelling the insurgency and using Hurriyat groups to keep Kashmir on the boil, the BJP-PDP coalition and the Narendra Modi government have been guilty of incompetence.
The rebel movement has gained in strength because it has failed to read the writing on the walls. Indian state terror strategists say that since the neutralization of Hizbul Mujaheedin commander Burhan Wani, a series of tactical and policy errors have been committed.
The government has appeared all too eager to cede control and have seemed more interested in short-term placatory gestures rather than displaying an iron will in arresting the deterioration of law and order.
They argue that every Kashmiri should be murdered with Israeli terror goods and end the crisis once for all. USA and Russia are now allies of India, and they don’t mind the terror operations in Kashmir. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has appealed to the youth to help restore normalcy in the Valley so that peace returns.
If we add the recent cancellation of Anantnag by-poll to this mix, the depth of the problem seems clear. It is not one of lack of will and the administration, but the reality of the situation in Kashmir. Indian state terror forces have gone for a comprehensive military action to flush out the Kashmiris, “terrorists,” catch and neutralize some of the top commanders to render the outfit headless.
The ‘cordon and combing’ operation in south Kashmir launched jointly by the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police is considered to be a ‘good first step.’ It is telling, however, that the “biggest operation in 15 years” has so far failed to nab a single “terrorist.” Restore the authority of Army and the writ of the Indian state. The next steps shall follow.
Kashmir isn’t going anywhere. The pressure of military action — initially by eliminating hardcore leaders and subsequently, as a “threat-in-being” — is the catalyst that forces Kashmiri freedom fighters to talk with the government.
Once you dilute the fear of authority of the uniformed troops, there is bound to be resistance to dialogue.” Disappointment Kashmiris have been looking forward to hearing from Indian PM or President about surrendering of sovereignty to people of Kashmir for remaking their nation.
However, all these years Indian government and rulers have steadily refused to mention about that either in the Parliament or cabinet meetings or the media briefing or in any particular statement.
It is like claiming a wicket by the bowlers, even though they know they are wrong in their claim just as a drama, with overt firmness so that the drama umpires declare OUT after wasting time in reviewing the scene.
Pure shows.
On the contrary Indian rulers said Jammu Kashmir is now a part of India. In fact, Pakistan wants Kashmir to be handed over to it because most of Kashmiris prefer Pakistan to India.
The referendum is a mischief by Indo-Pakistan to deny sovereignty back to Kashmiris. Neither India nor Pakistan is keen to return sovereignty to Kashmiris with or without due apologies. Indian PM Narendra Modi has said that “bullets and abuses” cannot bring peace in Kashmir, as the country celebrates 70 years since independence. In a speech in Delhi, Modi accused Kashmiri separatists of “scheming.” Muslim-majority Kashmir under Indian occupation is at the center of a decades-old territorial dispute between India and Pakistan.
Modi said only “hugs” could solve the problems of the territory, which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces. India is celebrating its 70th Independence Day a day after its neighbor Pakistan.
Modi also criticized people for using religion to incite violence. Vigilantes who portray themselves as protectors of cows have frequently been attacking people mostly Muslims suspected of smuggling the animal since Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014. The slaughter of cows is banned in several Indian states being ruled by BJP.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in the past two years in the name of the cow.
Targets are often picked based on unsubstantiated rumors, and Muslims have been attacked and killed for even transporting cows for milk.
Indian government knows Jammu Kashmir does not belong to India and it invaded it soon after its freedom from Great Britain in 1947 and maybe on its advice. But it never admits and it bluffs that it is a part of India while Indian media lords, who do not want JK to cede from India, creating a vacuum in Indian map, say Kashmir has been a part of India for centuries.
Bluff cannot become truth just because it is forcefully and repeatedly articulated by influential sources. Indian forces kill Kashmiri Muslims mercilessly. Targeting the Kashmiri Muslim youth have backed fired recently as the people of Kashmir have begun a firm struggle for sovereignty.
As the freedom struggle of Kashmiris gets intensified to regain independence from occupation forces from New Delhi, Indian regime gets panicky and wants to end the new phase of a struggle that is forcing India to cede neighboring Jammu Kashmir that its troops occupy since 1947 to Kashmiris themselves.
Like Israel, India also does not like, rather oppose, any third nation to intervene to end Indo-Pak conflict and get justice for Kashmiris.
India has also managed to silence even the USA and other veto powers to postpone the referendum almost permanently, and, cruelly enough, the UN is also silent about its resolution for a referendum for Kashmir. UN is even otherwise is a dead rubber being misused by big powers.
Apparently, India bribes them with money and other “facilities” to get them on board. Of course, now Indian regime is acutely aware of the hard truth that Kashmiris are determined to take back their lost sovereignty from India.
Nothing less than that! Kashmiris firmly seek sovereignty!
As Indian media continue to say Kashmir is marked in Indian constitution and as such it is an integral part of now the Hindutva set up, Kashmiris do not fight not for bread, nor for more jobs or extra money but they have sacrificed their valuable lives for freedom and sovereignty from brutal Indian military yoke.
Freedom and sovereignty are their birth right as they all want to live as free humans with dignity. India has murdered over 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims, besides Indian Muslims. Indian claim of ownership of Muslims inside India is one thing but extending the same logic and argument to neighboring Kashmir is nonsensical, ridiculous.
Kashmiris have nothing common with Indians except that all are humans and blood runs through their veins.
However, Indian forces, like the Zionist counterparts do, have no right to drink the blood of Kashmiris.
Kashmiri Muslims are treated like slaves and underdogs by New Delhi.
Indian military guys kill Kashmiris as if they are playing a favorite and fixed cricket game. Kashmiris are on the war path to attain independence while India and its media lords remain in a perpetual denial mode while Indian “patriotic” soldiers continue to kill and consume Muslims in Kashmir their birth right because Indian Parliament has allowed them to kill anybody at will.
Sad and shame! Observation Both India and Israel, the new strategic leveling partners, want to occupy the “colonies” they have, namely Kashmir and Palestine respectively, and keep murdering Muslims as freely as the wild beast does in thick jungles.
Indo-Pakistani conflict and genocides of Kashmiris are an old issue but unresolved by the UN and UNSC.
It is high time International community steps in to resolve the South Asia’s deadliest conflict and settle the dangerous Kashmir cum nukes’ issue once for all before it s too late for that.
The situation in Kashmir is critical, and worsening by the day due to the high handed dealings from the center. Even the former Chief Minister of Kashmir and the people like Sheikh Abdulla was ignored by India, leading to a serious conflict.
The world needs peace, and we want peace in the green valley known as paradise on earth; peace is crucial. The deeper peace can only be won through winning the hearts and minds of the people of Kashmir, pseudo patriotic and ultra nationalist formulations don’t work in the long run.
It is a fact, military personnel is paid for their “services” both in India and Pakistan, and they target innocent Kashmiris for their warm blood. Given the unrelenting unrest in Kashmir valley, there is urgency for holding a genuine referendum in Kashmir to determine the fate of Kashmiris and end the blood bath in Kashmir valley.
Today there can be two approaches one is to recall the treaty of accession and gravitate towards that and take the recommendations of Interlocutors seriously.
Nearly seven decades after the entry of Kashmir to India, there is a need to recall that forcible merger; repression of dissent was never the idea of founders of the Indian nation.
Let’s see what Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had to say on the matter way back, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel said at a public meeting in Bombay on October 30, 1948: “Some people consider that a Muslim majority area must necessarily belong to Pakistan. But (India is stronger than Pakistan) and should have Kashmir.
They wonder why we are in Kashmir. The answer is plain and straightforward. We are in Kashmir because the people of Kashmir want us to be there. The moment we realize that the people of Kashmir do not want us to be there, we shall not be there even for a minute… We shall not let the Kashmir down” (Hindustan Times, October 1948)
Now the continued struggle for freedom shows that they want liberty and sovereignty and India must vacate Jammu Kashmir in favor pace in the region.
Time over ripe for Indian military forces to quit Kashmir after or before the referendum. Better India leaves Kashmir without going through an insulting referendum that would inevitably ask India to behave. India and its intelligence have complete details of how many paid Hindus have died in the war against Kashmir, but they have no such details about genocides of innocent real Kashmir Muslims by paid Indian soldiers.
New Delhi should make such vital details available to the public. Military personnel receives salary, many semi-freebies, pension, etc., but the freedom fighters get nothing but Indian bullets.
Let the UN or Pakistan pay pension to the family of those get killed by paid Indian soldiers until Kashmir gains sovereignty.
- See more at: http://southasiajournal.net/kashmir-for-kashmiris-a-sovereign-kashmir-random-thoughts-307/
