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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Kashmir-Where People Don’t Fear Terror
by Ali Sukhanver
( August 30, 2015, Islamabad, Sri Lanka Guardian) ‘Four
kids are standing near the Grand Mosque in Srinagar. They are edgy;
they appear to be ready to jump, to run, and to fight, also ready to run
and retreat if necessary. It all depends on the circumstances. “They
are raping our sisters and mothers!” screams one youth. I am shown
teargas canisters, similar to those used in so many other parts of the
world to disperse protesters. They are usually fired into the air. Here
they are fired by the security forces directly at people’s heads – with
the intention to kill,’ these are few lines from an article of Andre
Vltchek; the title is Shame India. This article was picked and published
by various international newspapers and websites. In this article he
has narrated his experiences and observations during his visit to the
Indian Occupied Kashmir. Andre Vltchek is a world-renowned filmmaker and
an investigative journalist who has covered wars and conflicts in
dozens of countries.
A few days back a girl from the Indian Occupied Kashmir wrote on her
face book, ‘Last night, my Mom’s phone kept ringing all night. The man
on the line was drunk and spoke in accented Hindi and demanded that we
talk to him or he would give our number to all the army drivers in his
circles. The man was abusive and vile. It all scared us a lot and we
could not sleep even for a moment. I was thinking of the girls who get
terrified with such calls and have no way to articulate their
frustration in the Indian Occupied Kashmir. But what can we do; we have
no one there to listen to us’. Such horrible is the true face of
Kashmir. The Kashmiris are being punished and penalized simply because
they love Pakistan. But in spite of all such examples of Indian
atrocities in Occupied Kashmir, some of the pseudo-intellectuals, some
of the people from trade and commerce, a few politicians and a lot of
foreign-supported NGOs in Pakistan have ever been insistent on the
promotion of an air of trust, co-operation and cordiality between
Pakistan and India and unfortunately no one has yet succeeded. Most of
the times their extra-ordinary interest in bringing two countries closer
gives birth to suspicions and doubts. One feels compelled to search the
actual motives behind their hard-efforts and sincere-desire in this
regard but with a grain of salt. In today’s world, there are so many
examples of such neighbouring countries which do not have cordial
relations with each other, rather they are hostile to each other; but
neither the people of such countries do any efforts for the removal of
this enmity nor they allow anyone else to facilitate the ‘peace-process’
between the two countries. When we look at the relationship between
Pakistan and India, we come to the conclusion that since after its
creation Pakistan has been doing a lot of sincere efforts for a
deep-rooted cordial relationship with India but all these efforts have
always gone waste just because of no-response from India; and this is
the fault with Pakistan. It must have not wasted its time and resources
on ‘insane-desire’ of peace with India. India is in no way a country
from which one could expect friendliness and affability. It is a country
which claims the valley of Kashmir as its integral part but at the same
time the Indian forces deputed there have made the lives of the
Kashmiris a hell of pain and agony. They have deprived the Kashmiris of
even the basic human rights.
Those who dream of friendly relations with India must also keep in their
minds the statement of Mr. Manohar Parrikar in which he very innocently
admitted the fact regarding using terrorism as State policy of India. A
few months back Mr. Parrikar said talking to the Times of India “Many
terrorists are drawn into terrorism because of financial allurements…
they are paid money for it. If such people are there, why not use them.”
Atrocities and human rights violations are a part of Indian
temperament. Those who are the supporters of cordial relationship
between India and Pakistan must review their point of view. The desire
of friendly relationship with India would push Pakistan into an inferno
of whole-sale destruction. Peace and friendship are no doubt wonderful
blessings but the relationship of peace and friendship could never
proceed one-sided; this is most of the time a two-way traffic. Be it
Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China or the Indian Occupied
Kashmir, India always patronizes the terrorists and uses them for its
heinous objectives. If we are sincere in our efforts of crushing the
terrorists and terrorism we will have to be very much cautious and
careful in our relations with countries like India. We will have to
realize the real face of India hidden behind the so-called veil of
democracy.