Human Rights: Kashmir Incredibility
syndrome
The legal position
of both India and Pakistan on Kashmir does not need any repetition. The
moot point, however, is that the turmoil in Kashmir has transcended the
legalities of the accession of the state in 1947, and the insurgency is
not a phenomenon of political dissent or a movement meant to change the
government but it is a "jehad", a religious crusade against the non-conformists.
All Pakistani politicians, from the President downwards, of all hues and colours, the state owned electronic media as well as the print media as
a part of the disinformation campaign speak in religious terms the turmoil
is cited 'Jehad-e-Kashmir', the terrorists are called 'Mujahids' (soldiers
of Islam), the terrorists, killed in the Armed forces action are called
Shaheed (martyrs) and so on.
The covert objective of the so called jehad is
to complete the 'unfinished agenda of partition' by incorporating the Muslim
Majority state of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan in terms of the two nation
theory that had rent the sub-continent apart in the past. The two-nation
theory - that Hindus and Muslims constitute separate nations - has already
miserably failed, with the creation of Bangladesh.
Moreover, the ethnic
and sectarian violence rocking several provinces in Pakistan and the bare
fact that the muslims, living in India outnumber the muslims in Pakistan
have nullified the said two nation theory which was born out of political
expediency.
Notwithstanding this Pakistan still cherishes
fond hopes to revive the theory, justify its existence and give renewed
impetus to its ideological moorings in Kashmir valley and the creation of Bangladesh. Moreover, the ethnic and sectarian violence
rocking several provinces in Pakistan and the bare fact that the muslims,
living in India outnumber the muslims in Pakistan have nullified the said
two nation theory which was born out of political expediency.
Notwithstanding this
Pakistan still cherishes fond hopes to revive the theory, justify its existence
and give renewed impetus to its ideological moorings in Kashmir valley.
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