KASHMIR NATIONALIST- Abode of the saints

Iran and Pakistan have no choice but to forge a strong relationship with each other

2011-11-15T06:50:00.000-08:00

If the Islamic republic of Pakistan wants tosurvive the onslaught of the west, it has to actively work towards building asolid partnership with Iran. Now there is a high probability that the Shia-Sunnidivide may prevent this from happening but if distinct steps are taken towardsmutually benefiting policies, the hawks/spoilers on both sides will definitelytake a back seat.

This relationship will have a two pronged effectof securing both the Iranian and Pakistani interests in Afghanistan while atthe same time giving these two nations a fantastic opportunity to trade withChina. While Iran will have a direct land access to China and thereforeavailing immense Chinese expertise in order to build Iranian infrastructure etc.,this will also give the Chinese an easy access to vast central Asian hauls ofPetroleum and natural gas. Pakistan being the intermediary can use thisopportunity to empower itself both militarily as well as economically. Having along term Geo-strategic ally in Iran would also mean that Pakistan can forgetabout any threats from its western borders and focus solely on its easternfront.

The Americans and the Israelis who have beengetting ever so closer to the Indians and signing military/ nuclear deals witheach other will definitely find this alliance unpalatable and will tryeverything in their power to stop China, Pakistan and Iran from cozying uptoeach other. There is also this huge possibility that Israel may even use itsmassive special activities division (Mossad) to take out key policy makers inPakistan/Iran in order to stop this from happening. To saythe least, I would be very surprised if espionage agencies in the US and Israel haven’t been activelyworking with RAW in India to destabilize both Pakistan as well as Iran.

As we all know that Pakistan is the only Islamicrepublic with a nuclear capability and therefore perceived by western defenseanalysts along with their Israeli counterparts as the greatest threat towestern Geo-political interests/capitalist ideology. The western intellectknows how the Russians, The English, The French, The Americans as well as theIsraelis became Nuclear powers and therefore strongly believes that Iran andother potential Muslim nations will follow Pakistan in a similar pattern. Thisis unnerving for them and therefore the obvious policy would be sanctions onIran/Pakistan while making heavy inroads into the Indian market in order tomake money as well as use the much cheaper Indian army/intelligentsia toprovide the necessary military/logistical support to bring down both Pakistanand Iran should such a scenario present itself.

Pakistan’s main reason for shying awayfrom an all-out Iranian embrace is the Saudi Arabian monetary aid diplomacyplus the American military hardware supply. While its true thatby getting closer to Iran, Pakistan will make its life more difficult vis a vis itsrelations with the western powers, There is no doubt in my mind that Geo-politicallyit will ensure the survival of Iran and Pakistan for a millennia especially when youtake into consideration the powerful events shaping the politics of middle-east,the Indian subcontinent and the world as a whole.

In conclusion, Survival for Iran and Pakistan means that they will have tocome together and unite in a structurally coherent way. I see no other optionsfor them as otherwise both will have to let go of their tag of being independent republics and embrace neo-colonial capitalist western ideology full throttle just as the Indianshave. While this may bring in short term capitalist gains for an eliteminority with some spare money filtering itself towards the middle classes, the long term pitfalls would be gross inequality, poverty, disease, hunger and a continual dependence on the whims andfancies of the west.

Flow Chart representation of what happens to Interlocutors/Recommendations/Committees/Commissions related to Kashmir

2011-10-15T17:17:00.000-07:00


ABOVE IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF WHAT HAPPENS TO VARIOUS TIME CONSUMING INTERLOCUTOR ASSOCIATED COMMISSIONS/COMMITTEES/TEAMS.

Kashmir will fall under Chinese rule by 2300 AD

2011-10-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

A joke? right! or me the conspiracy theorist at work but hold your horses n let me elaborate:

1) In 1947, China had no presence in either Kashmir or Tibet. Now it dominates life in all aspects of Tibetan culture/polity.

2) From whatever we know of recent or ancient history, Chinese troops have never ever entered Kashmiri territory before 1962.

3) China has never before 2008 issued paper visas to Kashmiris or refused to issue anything on their Indian passports.

4) Chinese media or guides would never refer to Kashmir as a separate entity before 2008 and would in most discourses call it as a disputed territorial issue between India and Pakistan.

5) China never refused to issue Visas to J&K (Indian occupied Kashmir) born Indian army personnel working in the Eastern sector but recently refused to stamp a visa onto the passport of an Indian general from Jammu division of J&K (General Jaiswal). He was told that a paper visa can be issued to him as he was a state subject of J&K but the same was refused by the general.

6) While China continues to consolidate its position in Kashmir, the same issue continues to take its economic/military/social etc toll on both the Indian as well as Pakistani sides. This eternally complicated short-sightedness has led to the Shaksgam valley being gifted to China. The Indians having to gloriously cede Aksai-Chin towards China after being thrashed in the 1962 Indo-China war. These two regions amount to approximately 49000 Sq.kms of strategic real estate that never ever belonged to China.

7) As China's epic rise continues, it needs more energy than ever before and the rich central Asian gas fields along with middle-eastern oil hold immense value. The problem is that transportation through Malacca straits and south China sea is both cumbersome, slow and volatile. How does China circumvent the energy delivery to mainland China from 45 days to less than 3 days in total. Voila! A railway line along-with an oil-pipeline through Kashmir and just bribe Pakistan's politicians/army into letting Peoples liberation army operate freely in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

8) Maybe China would like to circumvent Kashmir and approach central Asia via Kirghistan/Uzbekistan/Afghanistan etc but would the Russians allow it and why get into the crazy uneasy battle of having to negotiate with at-least 3 different countries when all you have to do is talk to Pakistan and they ensure that China reaches the doorsteps of Iranian/central Asian energy hoards.

9) In case of war, having its troops already stationed in more than 49000 sq.kms of Kashmiri territory, China has a better chance of protecting its energy interests/supply lines than lets say having to deal with 3 or 4 central Asian nations starting with Kirghistan or Uzbekistan etc.

10) Has anyone read about how Chinese policy makers are charting China's growth for the next 500 years and they see no obstacles stopping them unless there is a catastrophic nuclear war between US and China (Very unlikely scenario).

11)China calls Pakistan as its all weather ally and at the same time continues to grow trade relations with India thus benefiting from its relations with both the nations. On the other hand India/Pakistan continue with their own versions of inflated egoistic attitudes plus feeding the coffers of their ever increasing radical organizations.

12) While India and Pakistan continue bickering over who owns Kashmir, China has quietly build rail-roads, air-strips and macadamized roads in Chinese occupied Kashmir. This my friends is why the Chinese civilization has been a continuous entity for more than 7000 years whereas the Indus Valley civilization succumbed to internal strife like the one we see today almost 3000 years ago.

13) China is very much aware of the fact that having nuclear/military power is no guarantee that a nation state can exist forever unless other steps are taken to secure your frontiers Geo-politically/economically. It was the collapse of the Soviet Union that provided the Chinese the necessary impetus on how to strengthen themselves and fortify their energy supplies. The Kashmir chapter of long term Chinese strategy as we see it unfolding today is an exclusive part of that thinking outside the box type of Chinese ingenuity.

14) Nepal and Bhutan already act as buffer states which shield any possible Indian advent (although very unlikely but nevertheless possible) into Tibet. Kashmir on the other hand through its absolute proximity is the only remaining part of the puzzle that makes the Chinese military machine very uneasy as it provides the Indians and by default the Americans a quick foray into Tibet and the restive western provinces.

All this above brings me to the questions that I want to ask my Indian and Pakistani analysts/colleagues/friends. Do you guys seriously believe that China will stop itself from making further moves in Kashmir and if you do then in that case we all are definitely doomed.

Does Pakistan seriously understand the ramifications of having an increasingly emergent/assertive China inside its territory and would the Indian intellectual machine continue with their current policies in Indian occupied Kashmir?

If however by some divine quirk of fate (almost impossible), you do believe that we need to make both India and Pakistan stronger in order to stop China's westward extension, then solving the Kashmir problem now and strengthening the realms of peace against an increasingly dominant and aggressive China would be the defining factor in our interlocked history.

The Kashmir issue needs to be resolved fast and expediently, India and Pakistan simply do not have any other options.

Status-quo to the detriment of both India as well as Pakistan is only going to benefit Chinese territorial/Geo-political ambitions in the region.

After Independence, Pakistan is the only other option for Kashmiris.

2011-10-07T05:52:00.000-07:00

I know what you guys are thinking but take a breather and listen to me

1) Have the Kashmiri Hindu Pandits let go of their RSS/BJP/Bajrangdal/VHP Nazi credentials and started supporting their Muslim brethren for an independent secular Kashmir?

2) Do the Hindu Dogras of Jammu see anything beyond Hindutva fascism and the possibility of coexisting in a secular independent nation?

3) Do the Ladakhi Buddhists see anything beyond their contempt for China and therefore toeing the Indian line because their religious head is in Dharamsala.

4) Why should only the Muslims of Kashmir be secular and not affiliate ourselves with the Pakistanis on the basis of religion and common cultural ties?

5) Why don't the Hindu Dogras, the Kashmiri Hindu Pandits or the Buddhist Ladakhis support a secular independent Kashmir just like 99% of Muslim Kashmiris do irrespective of our religious identity?

6) If the Hindus and the Buddhists cannot see beyond the prism of their religion, Why should we???

7)As Kashmiris will we ever forgive Hindustan for killing more than 120,000 of our brethren?

8)Aren't all Indians like the politically correct Ostriches with heads stuck in the sand for perpetual eternity?

9)I am of the strong belief that Pakistan would have no problems in us Kashmiris being independent provided their interests like water resources are safe guarded.

I have asked these questions to a lot of my Kashmiri Hindu friends and Indian Hindus but till date have never received a satisfactory reply from them cause they are so blinded by their ultra nationalism/ Hindutva fascism.

I know where the Next Nuclear Bomb will EXPLODE?

2011-09-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

Be patient, don't just dismiss me off as a conspiracy/dooms day theorist. Let me start of by giving you guys some pertinent facts:

1) India and Pakistan have fought 4 bloody wars with each other and the first one was fought as early as 1948.
2) More than 1 million people in India and Pakistan have been killed as a direct result of war, displacement, Kashmir imbroglio and communal riots.
3) Hundreds of millions of people in both the countries suffer from malnutrition, disease and other ills of abject poverty as a direct result of this atmosphere of animosity.
4) India has spent more than 32 billion US Dollars for arms procurements in the year 2011-2012 alone. Pakistan's military spending is quite high vis a vis its GDP.
5) This animosity has led to the creation of thousands of Jehadi fanatical Islamist elements in Pakistan and Afghanistan whose only aim is to liberate Kashmir and Afghanistan at any cost.
6) The same animosity has led to the creation/enlistment of hundreds of thousands of Fanatic Hindus in the Indian army (Samjhauta express blast was the handiwork of an Indian army major).
7) Political parties in India like the BJP, Bajrang Dal, RSS, Shiv Sena, VHP etc which again have a more than 99% fan following in the Indian military/armed forces and from whose cadres BJP Chief Ministers like Narendra Modi etc come have used this animosity to promote selfish fascist Nazi type ideologies.
8)The burgeoning defense requirements have led to social deprivement in both of these countries and fed the ever growing cadres of Maoist/Naxalist movements in the hinterlands of India.
9)America (who the Indians see as a trustworthy partner in their fight for regional supremacy) is in a huge economic debacle and its exit from Afghanistan/Pakistan is imminent. Now how that will affect the long term Indian interests in the region is not too hard to answer.
10) The political stalemate over the cursed Kashmir issue(Not even counting the actual aspirations of Kashmiri people here) is slowly but surely reaching a tipping point as almost all status quo avenues have been selfishly exhausted.
11) The sociopolitical climate in both India as well as Pakistan is at its lowest ebb since the creation of the two Republics in 1947.
12) Unprecedented amounts of financial scandals, political corruption and moral bankruptcy on both sides of the divide creates further tension/chaos/instability.

Now, my friends I can go on and give you a thousand more points that are pushing these two countries towards an apocalyptic end but may it suffice to let you know that Nuclear buttons in both of these nations are at a 3 minute hair-trigger alert. The initial explosion when it happens will kill roughly 2 million people on the spot and the resultant radioactive dust/water/vegetation will be responsible for at-least a 100 million deaths later. The Indian ocean will be polluted by vast amounts of radioactive dust/sediment and that means humungous problems all across the globe.

So what is the one and only thing that can drastically reduce all these tensions and save us from a terrible Nuclear Holocaust?????

In my humble opinion, it is settling the KASHMIR issue according to the aspirations of Kashmiris on both sides. Make Kashmir a totally Independent/demilitarized zone/buffer state with guarantees for both India and Pakistan vis a vis strategic issues/water.

Go India go and get out of my Kashmir

2011-08-13T18:31:00.000-07:00

The deep resentment in our hearts against Indian occupation has now reached even greater heights, thousands of pro freedom activists are in Jails booked under PSA and AFSPA. The glorious Indian army continues its subjugation of a people who have no arms or any other means to defend their land. Ironic that the Indian soldier kills an innocent Kashmiri fighting non-violently and calls him a terrorist and on the other hand the same Indian army which has killed close to 120,000 Kashmiris and raped more than 10,000 Kashmiri women plus maimed/handicapped hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris is considered protecting the liberties of the same people that they imprison. IRONICAL INDEED!!!!!

Kashmir Media service has maintained a constant record of the Indian brutalities in Kashmir and yet no-one questions the Indians on Kashmir. I think its because we are Muslims, had we been like the Christians in Southern Sudan and the majority Indians Muslims, then our story would have been different and most likely we Kashmiris would be independent by now.

The world continues to turn a blind eye towards the sufferings of innocent Kashmiri Muslims and the Pakistan government which used to support us morally and diplomatically is slowly steering itself away from the Kashmir problem. I cannot really blame them as they are caught in a deep hole that they dug themselves.

The Indian intelligentsia in their powerful stupor thinks that with time Kashmiris will give up on their right to a democracy and the birth right of self determination will be forgotten. They think that by continuously pulverizing Kashmiris and giving them financial sops, they will buy us out and integrate Kashmir with India. Well my dear Indians read the next few numbered lines carefully and stop your killing spree in Kashmir:

1)We Kashmiris did not give up when your mighty Mughal King Akbar invaded Kashmir, built forts in our heart-land and showered largesse on us.

2)We did not give up when The Sikhs(The Sikh occupation of Kashmir) promised us total annihilation if we didn't stop our fight for freedom.

3)We didn't give up when the Dogra king enslaved us and even took us for begaar(bonded labor).

4) We didn't give up when the Afghans made us a part of their Pashtun territory and used the Islamic card on us.

4) We haven't given up even after 64 years of brutal Indian occupation and the worst subjugation of our peoples from times immemorial.

5) Its 400 years from when the first Indian King set his dirty feet in Kashmir(Read Akbar the tyrant)and till date, we refuse to let our freedom struggle diminish in any way whatsoever.

While its true that we have wretched traitors/Kashmiri turn-coats/Indian agents like Farooq Abdullah,Omar Abdullah,Mufti Sayed,Mehbooba Mufti, Ali Sagar and a few others like the minority Kashmiri Pandits in our midst but the overwhelming vast majority of Kashmiris hate the guts of these double speaking selfish beings. We will continue to abhor and despise such individuals eternally.

My not so dear Indians, continue spending billions of dollars on your army, this year you will spend 32 billion US dollars on your military. Rest assured that you will let your hundreds of millions starve and yet atleast 90% of this 32 billion dollars will be used to hold onto Kashmir and continuing the hostility with Pakistan.

You will again say that if we let Kashmir go then whats to stop other states from going......but why hold any people against their wishes? Is that being democratic in the true sense of the word? In that case are you a real democracy or a police state?. Come on, what are you guys doing?

Right now, we are weak and surrounded by your army on all sides. The current ratio is that for every 15 Kashmiris, there is an armed to the teeth Indian soldier on the ground in Kashmir. Why are you so scared of us Kashmiris that you have to use more than 700,000 soldiers from your 1 million strong army only to contain us.

Aren't you Indians even ashamed of what you are doing to us, we may be weak and fragile physically but our hearts are strong and our faith is indestructible.

We will fight your cruel oppression just as Gandhi fought his fight against the British. We won't give up, it took you 400 years to gain independence from the British and the right to free will is our birth-right.

India and Pakistan are the world's most dangerous countries and heres why

2011-07-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

Even after 64 years of mud slinging, innumerable summits n treaties plus 3 and a half wars between them, both India and Pakistan have still not learned from their mistakes. Bickering over Kashmir continues and there is little to no progress over this core issue. India continues to blow the now 64 year old trumpet of territorial integrity while Pakistan calls it the unsolved business of partition.

The brutal colonization of Kashmiris by Indians is nothing but strategic territorial real estate whereas for the blundering Pakistanis Kashmir is a life-line without which they will cease to exist. Although without Kashmir India can and will surely survive, Pakistan definitely cannot and therefore for its own survival as a political entity it has to continue the dogged fight for Kashmir.

If a conventional war were to take place between these two countries, India would most likely defeat Pakistan owing to its superior military numbers and infrastructure, much larger economy, way more territorial area giving it a strategic advantage in its sea and air forces. However what changes the scenario is Pakistan's nuclear capability which has the potential to decimate India. Consider the fact that Pakistan has refused to sign a "no first nuclear attack" document despite immense pressure from India and then imagine Pakistan launching 20 nuclear missiles to 20 different cities in India and India responding like-wise.

It would be fatal for India under the present circumstances to go into any aggressive war against Pakistan as the repercussions would be extremely serious for both countries. A war between the two therefore needs to be avoided at all costs but for how long can a nuclear holocaust be avoided unless the core issue of Kashmir is resolved.

Radicalization on both sides continues to grow with the young becoming fanatically devoted to extreme aggression. In my opinion one of the main reasons for this polarization is hopelessness amongst large chunks of the society. Both the countries have populations living in extreme poverty and to give you an example almost 40% of the Indian population lives below the poverty line and 80% of the population makes less than 2 USD per day.Considering that India has a far larger economy than Pakistan,its military budget is also several times larger but then India's population living in malnutrition or its people dying of preventable diseases like cholera, Kwashiorkar or Typhoid is also way larger.

The Indian war machine plans to spend more than 32 billion US dollars on their military for the year 2011-2012. Pakistan's minimal credible deterrence military budget although much smaller than the Indian one is still exponentially large when you compare Pakistan's total GDP vis a vis India. The current domestic situation in both the countries is way beyond crazy, while Pakistan continues to fight the Taliban and secessionist ethnic strife in Baluchistan, India continues its ruthless military occupation of the Kashmiri people with more than 700,000 boots on the ground making Kashmir the most militarized zone in the world, it is embroiled in a never ending insurgency in the North-eastern states and the new menace of Naxalism has compelled the Indian government to recruit an army of thousands against its own aboriginal people in their hinterland(Operation Green Hunt). Apart from the direct military expenditure on its armed forces, India is spending whopping amounts on policing and administering the Naxal ridden states. Now all these problems are slowly but surely leading these countries towards political/moral bankruptcy, Pakistan is slipping into this abyss a wee bit faster than India but these two countries are so entwined with each other that if one falls the other has to follow suit.

If you look at the latest Global peace index, India ranks at a dismal 135th rank while Pakistan is close by at 146th rank. Malaysia which got its independence after both India and Pakistan ranks at the 19th number. India is just 15 places above countries like Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan. The World Health Organizations "World mental health initiative" has confirmed India as the most depressed nation on earth and according to the survey carried out by The Thomson-Reuters Foundation, of the four most dangerous nations on earth for women, Both Pakistan as well as India have made it to the top 4.

Now for all those who have taken the trouble to read all of the above, think for a moment......Isn't this region a very fertile ground for larger problems like a Nuclear holocaust. I mean all this deadly ammunition plus the wrath of an incredibly unforgiving foolish and corrupt polity makes both India and Pakistan as the two most dangerous countries in the world.

Comments are welcome.

"Fools Paradise!!!" AN OPEN LETTER BY A COMMON KASHMIRI TO ALL INDIANS

2011-04-13T18:19:00.000-07:00

To live in a fool`s paradise is bliss but for how long?????

Dear Indians,

Feel the pulse of The Kashmiri people, are they really talking about supporting you and other political parties supported/protected by India or are they talking about ways to counter the Indian occupation despite the fact that the whole world these days seems to be with the Indian opinion including the Government in Pakistan. The supporters of National Conference/PDP and other Indian political parties are seen as enemies (agents of India) by an overwhelming majority of Kashmiri people.

To make you guyz understand my point try answering or at least giving a thought to these questions:

1)Are these 7.2 million Kashmiri people crazy?
I mean why keep fighting against a country that is 1.3 billion strong and an army which is arguably one of the 10 best in the world plus an economy that is growing at 9 percent annually (PHENOMENAL GROWTH). Now a mind that can make those beautiful silk and wool rugs/carpets which have a language of their own, those exquisite wood-carvings, that ethereal papier-mâché box, that intricate KHATAMBAND on your ceiling, those exotic SAMOVARS in copper or that delicate pashmina shawl with fabulous embroidery is surely HIGHLY EVOLVED AND INTELLIGENT. WHY THEN ARE THESE Kashmiri PEOPLE SO STUPID AND NOT SEE WHAT YOU Indians ARE SHOWING THEM?

2)What do you think needs to be done by you or the other Indians/politicians to change this attitude/belief in the majority of Kashmiri people?

3)What is this subconscious feeling that gives these people a ludicrous sentiment called “Aazadi” despite their numerous shortcomings when it comes to actually getting that “Aazadi”.

4)In a world where energy costs are soaring will you Indians ever be able to tap the full potential of Kashmiri people without changing the Indus Water treaty as it stands today?Haven't you grossly wronged us here?

5)And will India/Pakistan ever let you change this ridiculous treaty because to do that they would have to give Kashmir an independent status first?

6)Does this mean that we have to forever live in perpetual darkness at the cost of being totally dependent on these nations for all our essential commodities/services/progress?

7)Why is it that in Kashmir even a small child in an expensive private public school is more likely to support the Pakistan cricket team than the Indian team……..??

8)All these people know that Pakistan is nothing better than India, maybe even worse but still they keep on cheering the Pakistan team!!!!! WHY? I mean India has almost 300 million Muslims living inside it…………….WHY then do these Kashmiris have this crazy sentiment of supporting your enemy? Surely it can’t be the Muslim sentiment as in that case they should be supporting India which has many more Muslims?

9)Is singing the Indian National Anthem or performing the great Indian rope trick going to help you Indians change the mindset of these foolish Kashmiri people? Why is it then that even after being with India for 60 years, Kashmiri people still want independence?

10)Do you need to change their ideology by giving them an even stronger ideology or are these people (who over the ages have been Pagans, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and now Muslims) refractive to your promise of a better future?

11)Or is it that “As these people are NOT listening to your ideology/viewpoint, then why not do what you have been doing for the last 60 years or so” i.e. with the help of your brutal/barbaric Indian army continue beating the shit outta them till these stupid peasants stop complaining and start following your democratic view-point ;)??

14)OR IS IT TIME MY DEAR INDIAN THAT YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOURSELF????? Kashmiris although small in numbers vis a vis INDIA are an intelligent people, do not underestimate their resilience and periods of silence as a sign of weakness. The recent protests are not a once upon a time kind of phenomenon……..On the contrary,it is a continual WARNING………….A Declaration……a GALE force wind before the actual STORM. Change is constant as life itself is dynamic……..the ones who adapt and change will be the ones who survive. KASHMIRIS HAVE SURVIVED A MILLENNIUM AS KASHMIRIS…………….Chances are that they will survive this particular onslaught too……or in other words you may be surrounded by a few immoral Kashmiri supporters and Hindutva fanatics who make you feel that your current path is the right one but at the end of the day these supporters are nothing but greedy opportunistic individuals only interested in forwarding their own private causes at the expense of their honest,trustworthy and hard-working fellow Kashmiris.

A simple God-fearing individual in Kashmir/Jammu is not voting for you because he/she loves India and respects its constitution…..HE IS VOTING FOR YOU BECAUSE AT THE MOMENT THE POOR DOWNTRODDEN FELLA HAS NO OTHER OPTION AND HE NEEDS TO SURVIVE……. THE MOMENT HE GETS TO CAST A Neutral VOTE, HE WILL LET YOU AND ALL THE OTHER INDIAN POLITICIANS KNOW WHAT HE THINKS OF YOU, INDIA AND YOUR pseudo-Democratic IDEOLOGY!!!!!!!!

Today, my dear Human Indian, when you get time, look at yourself in a mirror, ask your soul/conscience a simple question…....Are u Indians DOING THE RIGHT THING in Kashmir? IF your conscience is not prejudiced……you will get the right answer.

"The pendulum goes back and forth. If I go, someone else will take up my cause. My ideas will remain. Life is a struggle and that struggle must go on." Sher-i-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah as quoted in New York Times, 9 September, 1982.

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2011-03-20T18:36:00.000-07:00

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Neither an Indian nor a Pakistani, I am a KASHMIRI

2011-03-18T21:58:00.000-07:00

Why is it that each time I have to write about my nationality, writing myself as an Indian or for that matter as a Pakistani hurts ever so deeply. The deepest core of my heart is repulsed by something I myself cannot understand.

My mind tells me that its just a piece of paper so get on with it and write my nationality as an INDIAN, but what about my spirituality, my core inner conscience, my divine self introspection. No matter how hard I try, I cannot bring myself to terms with my disputed nationality.

Why is my soul and like me that of many other Kashmiris imploring us to continue writing about the injustices meted out to Kashmiris by Indians and people like Indians. Why don't I just give up this writing stuff and continue with life as many fatigued Kashmiris do i.e. Just remain subdued and helpless to do anything in the face of overwhelming odds.

I don't know where destiny is guiding us Kashmiris but everytime I want to give up and just live my life out in a secluded corner of this planet, something in my inner being starts to cry and reach out to me. It coaxes me to fight my non-violent fight and continue writing the truth.

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The Indians desperately need a WHITE certificate?

2010-12-24T13:15:00.000-08:00

The Indian subcontinent from times immemorial has through its various kingdoms developed distinct cultures, traditions and ethos that is beautiful as well as ugly in its own way. The external influences right from the time of the Aryans or Alexander the Macedonian Greek have all played a part in outlining this primitive mosaic of ancient hymns, traditions and customs.

There is however one aspect of the Indians that really drives me nuts and it is about how all of them want to become WHITE!!!. Yes they all want to become white and will go to any extent possible to achieve that and once they achieve a fair degree of white-hood, they will even kill their own countrymen in order to protect that white bastion. They promise themselves that by emulating/copying the White way of life into their vast Dravidian ocean, they will somehow achieve more white-hood/purity.Does anyone here know that more than 2/3rds of all IIT graduates leave India forever every year. Not even 0.001% of IIT engineers ever come back to so called mother India.

The Indian Brahmans consider themselves Whiter than the others and so do the Kshatriya's. How can a society that has indoctrinated class difference into religious texts survive as a single entity? The answer to this question is perhaps to be found in the Indian history. India as a single empire has never survived for more than 200 years at any given time in history.It has always been a region of hundreds of different Kingdoms and nationalities. The tenure of the British is the only time when the whole subcontinent survived as one for a longer period. The reigns of Asoka or Chandra Gupta Maurya or Mughal Emperor Akbar are other noteworthy periods when vast tracts of the Indian subcontinent were under one rule.

If this experiment of keeping the subcontinent under one government has repeatedly failed over the past many thousands of years, is it not time that Indians learn from their mistakes and stop wanting to become white and stay as nature intended them to be, i.e. Non white. The Indian society is woven into such intricate barriers of caste and creed that it is impossible for them to break these demonic shackles for at-least the next 100,000 years.

Why don't the Indians understand that the only reason West supports Indian imperialism/white-hood is because the real whites want access to its markets in order to mint more money out while 80% of India survives on less than one USD per day. A recent poll by an NGO based in UK showed that India has more malnourished children than Africa.

White-hood has seeped into every nook and cranny of middle class/rich Indian ethos. Bollywood movies show actors who hardly look Indian and mostly wear clothes that are almost always never Indian. The latest example is that of the British-Kashmiri actress Katrina Kaif who is the hottest bollywood property nowadays and doesn't look like an Indian from no angle whatsoever.The Indian movies nowadays promote everything western and encourage the Indians to become whiter than ever before.

I pity this sorry state of the Indians who are torpedoing towards these extreme dimensions in order to achieve that all elusive White certificate.

What type of democracy will India build over the blood and gore of Kashmiris?

2010-12-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

Recently British students protested against their government about fee structuring and even the royal couple's car was attacked with sticks and stones. The windows of the treasury were broken and a lot of government vehicles were damaged. What amazed me as I saw the BBC news is that not even a single student was mortally hurt or killed by the police.Social networking sites like twitter and face-book played a huge role in helping the students organize their protests but nobody went after the people who set up various pages against the government on the net.

In Kashmir exactly the opposite happens, the police/army shoot at will, they thrash students for even no reason at all. Dissent is strictly discouraged and even if someone like a college lecturer wants his students to debate the Kashmir issue, this lecturer is arrested and put behind bars.

So my friends I ask this question to myself and to all those lovers of freedom, WHAT TYPE OF DEMOCRACY DOES INDIA INTEND TO BUILD OVER THE BLOOD AND GORE OF KASHMIRIS?

We all can debate that India is a colonial power or it has hegemonic designs or it intends to give itself a strategic advantage by holding onto Kashmir but the blunt truth is that India survives in Kashmir only by force and not democratic processes.
Had India survived democratically, then it would never have stalled the UN resolutions for so long.

People like Kashmiri Battas(Kashmiri Hindus) and the Hindu Dogras of Jammu who have betrayed us Kashmiris to the Indians an umpteen number of times due to their religious obligations feel satanically glorified when innocent Kashmiri Muslims are murdered in cold blood on the streets of Kashmir. The current number of Kashmiri Battas in the Indian army has reached an all time high and imagine their population is not even 400,000 in total.The Dogras in army are again grossly overrepresented with respect to their population percentiles.

India may claim that it is a vibrant democracy and upholder of minority rights etc but the fact of the matter is that in Kashmir India has failed on every democratic front.India has come down demonically and used lethal force against all democratic traditions of free speech,right to assemble, protest peacefully, right to self determination, right to a referendum and equality before the judiciary. In Kashmir India can aptly be called as a Devil gone crazy.

The west because of its vested economic interests continues to turn a blind eye when it comes to Kashmir and India. Amazingly the Indians think that the western support is actually Godly approval forgetting that these same Gods exploited them relentlessly for centuries in the name of polarized economics.

With free speakers like Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha coming out openly in support of Kashmir's independence, the Indian intellectual cadre/academia seems to be at odds with its own paranoia.India can never rule Kashmir democratically and therefore continues using more than 800,000 security forces to hold onto a territory with less than 500 active insurgents.

The scars that Indians are leaving on the hearts and minds of Kashmiris are permanent by now and when one day we start writing our own history books, the Indian rule/occupation will no doubt be the darkest period of our combined existence and I am sure we Kashmiris will invent a new word for the relentless barbaric ethnic slaughter perpetuated by the Indian army/government in Kashmir.

"That saffron(KESAR) in our holy water is drenched with the blood of my Muslim Kashmiri brothers"

2010-11-23T06:24:00.000-08:00

This is a true story and happened at Jammu Tawi station in the early 90's when I was waiting for a delayed train to Delhi and a Hindu high priest(sadhu) mistook me for a Kashmiri Hindu Brahmin when I returned his greetings with a generous smile. After talking for about half an hour our conversation drifted towards the problems in Kashmir and the following is a snippet of our conversation. I told the holy priest that my name was Kapil Kak.

"O high priest of Shankaracharya"," the Gods you worship can't be happy these days" (These were the exact words that came out of my mouth when the great Sadhu looked inquiringly into my eyes).

The grand Sadhu looked at this Kashmiri boy(me) whose forehead he had just anointed with Kesar and blessed. He then threw me an agonizing glance and asked hurriedly,"And why does your highness Pundit Kapil Kak think that the God's are displeased.

Well for starters My luck ain't changing at all, and I am fed up with all this violence.My own people are turning against each other and your sermons preach nothing but hatred.

We aren't preaching hatred, on the contrary we want all human beings to live in absolute harmony and brotherhood.

But what did you mean just a while ago when you said that these Musalmans are demons and devils?

What I meant was that the ones who kill in the name of the lord are demons and devils and cannot be humans.

Then why do the majority of my Muslim brothers follow the ones who preach hatred and violence. Aren't they the same people who used to eat the Haerath walnuts with me and celebrate Shivratri?

These people are misguided and need to be corrected.The noble forces from within mother India will ensure that things are put in order.

Why do we need forces from mother India in this abode of the saints? I mean can't we solve all the issues between us domestically?

No, a lot of these demons are being supported by devils from across the border and will not listen to our type of non-violent reasoning.

But what is our type of non-violent reasoning?

That this land belongs to Bharat Maata and we are nothing but pure Arya Hindus.Everything else here is foreign.

But the Musalmans say that they are also from this very land and don't want to be a part of Bharat Maata!

They have been brainwashed by elements from across the border, they don't understand that their future lies with the glorious Bharat Maata. And if they cannot understand this simple fact then they are most welcome to cross the border and live on the other side. And believe you me most of them are Turks, Afghans/Pathans and Iranians.

But they look so much like me and If that is so, is there then a possibility that we Kashmiri Pandits have also been brainwashed by Hindutva forces within our Bharat Maata.

Absolute rubbish, a Hindu follows the rules enshrined in the sacred texts and Ahimsa is our cornerstone. We cannot be wrong about these things.We are never wrong on anything.The whole world is testimony to the fact that Ahimsa and Shanti is our gift to mankind.

Then why is your army killing so many Musalmans, after all doesn't Ahimsa/Shanti hold true for all Hindus and especially the Hindu Indian army?

They (Musalmans) have been brainwashed beyond repair, they only understand the language of the sword and will therefore never trust us. The army is acting in the interests of the Bharat Maata and Akhand Bharat is its ultimate goal.

I still fail to understand that how can you claim to be a follower of Ahimsa and Shanti when you are killing and raping the Musalmans everywhere in Kashmir.While Its true that they have also made mistakes but is it necessary to kill people and rape their women in the name of Bharat Maata. Isn't Human life more sacred than Patriotism/religion?.

But isn't that what they have been doing to you for centuries now?

But they have also protected us from the marauding invaders in 47, they have let us rule them in all spheres despite we being a minority and most importantly aren't they the same blood/ethnicity as us?

Your brains are going berserk Kapil, you need to cleanse your thoughts and go on a holy pilgrimage to Benares. If we get more Kashmiri Pandits questioning Indian policies on Kashmir, then very soon all Kashmiris will demand independence from India irrespective of their religious obligations. You are a sapootar(Son) of this Bhumi(land) and cannot have such negative thoughts in your brain. After all don't the Kashmiri Musalmans want to join the evil Pakistanis?.

But O Holy Pundit, how can my soul rest in peace when that saffron in our holy water is drenched with the blood of my Muslim Kashmiri brothers? And how can my Gods be happy with me when I anoint them with that same saffron every day?

(At this moment I left the holy priest who was blabbering something inaudible and realized there n then that our salvation as a people lies in fighting both India and Pakistan as One entity. "United we stand n divided we will surely fall " And perhaps fall forever").

Kashmiris are doomed if they don't unite and UNITE fast!!!

2010-10-22T14:14:00.000-07:00

Yes, you heard it right. We Kashmiris are doomed if we don't get our act together and unite irrespective of our religious affiliations.

Let me start with J&K rifles, the first regiment from J&K incorporated into the Indian army, the other one is the Ladakh scouts.For people who don't know "the Dogras of Jammu were recognized as a Martial race by the British"(Cause they always took sides with the British.) This biased recognition which is still followed by the Indian army gives the dogras exclusive privileges viz a viz Kashmir. There is an overwhelming over representation of Dogras in the Indian army so much so that even the present head of Northern command is a dogra. Now we all Kashmiris know that Dogras are nothing different from Indians. Dogras are hook, line and sinker involved with the Indians for committing countless sacrilege/atrocities in Kashmir. The dogra king although from a minority community made an exceedingly cunning move for the sake of his kind when he signed the so called instrument of accession. The King knew that the interests of his community (which many centuries ago had migrated from Rajasthan to this hilly lowland of Kashmir) would be best protected by siding with Hindu India. Today we see how the Indian government is rewarding this act of faith by the dogras.

On the other side, Ladakh scouts was created as a local regiment against Chinese attacks in the region. We all know that Ladakhis perceive India as a lesser evil because they see China as a bigger threat due to the Han Chinese role in Tibet. Question that comes to mind is that how many Muslims from Kargil (who form 50% of the population of Ladakh region) were drafted into the Ladakh scouts despite their pro-India stance due to their unique situation living in the middle of an army base/encampment.

That in effect means we Kashmiris are pretty much doomed unless we get our act together and unite as one people. There is no other way out. To believe that India/Paksitan/China will let us be independent under the present circumstances is a fool's dream. We have to rise up and demand our birth rights from the Indians/Pakistanis as well as the Chinese or perish trying. Even in a cataclysmic scenario when India/Pakistan leave Kashmir, Ladakhis/Dogras can still pulverize us Kashmiris cause most of them have more militarily trained people/generals etc than Kashmiris even if their ethnically distinct populations are way smaller than ours(Does that ring a bell).

The first step towards Independence would and has always been the re-unification of all Kashmiri territory under India and Pakistan. But can we achieve this under present stubborn leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani who is a theologian and knows nothing else but Hartaals(Strikes), Chalo calls and India bashing. I mean how many times has Geelani bashed Pakistan for its misgivings on Kashmir?, I mean why isn't Pakistan letting people in so called Azad Kashmir be totally independent. If he accuses India of converting Indian occupied Kashmir into a military garrison, what about POK and its powerless parliament. How free are people of POK. While its true that India has been way more brutal and barbaric in Indian occupied Kashmir compared to Pakistan but its also true that Pakistan through its agents in Kashmir is mainly responsible for murdering voices of dissent amongst the Muslim population. We all know how cadres of JKLF were brutally hunted down by pro-Pakistan HM elements in Kashmir. While We cannot refute the fact that India simply wants the territory of Kashmir and not Kashmiris, we can also form a firm conclusion that feudal Pakistan wants the same thing.

Today, more than ever before we need younger, secular and meritorious leaders to take over the mantle from Jamaatis like Syed Ali Shah Geelani whose narrow fundamentalist outlook towards the final solution of Kashmir is inhibiting us as a people on many fronts. If we want that Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs should fight alongside us for the right to be a free independent nation, then we have to find new voices who believe in pluralism and inculcate confidence in these communities. I mean just go back 600 odd years and we will realize that all these Kashmiri Hindus are our own families who just did not want to convert to Islam for their own reasons. So If certain members of our own family don't agree with us does not mean that we will stop letting them live in the same house or let Hindu India poison their minds and create a continual communal rift between us.India has used the Kashmiri Hindu card to its maximum advantage internationally in blacklisting our cause as nothing but Islamic terrorism but the Kashmiri Hindus(Big time fools that they have been) need their larger families support more than ever before or otherwise we risk loosing them to the Dravidian(Draav-Indian) gene pool forever.

The first thing to do right now would be to ask people like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Omar Abdullah and Mirwaiz Omar Farooq to retire from active politics for the simple fact that they have been unable to lead the Kashmiris on any front. These self appointed leaders have miserably diverted the issue of Kashmir to suit their own petty personal goals. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq like Omar Abdullah is a product of Nepotism and the only thing that will work in our case scenario is meritocracy. The concept of nepotism is functionally out-dated and we will do well to move beyond this saga of dynastic politics.

I will conclude with the thought that today the world has become more biased than ever before and economic/territorial greed rather than human values have become the guiding principles of powerful nations across the globe. To expect the Americans or for that matter the UN(a lame duck) to solve our problems would be the most foolish thing on earth. We need to move beyond UN, India or Pakistan solving the Kashmir issue for us. Remember,that at the end of the day it is not their sons or daughters who are being brutally murdered in Kashmir. These countries/institutions can afford to bide their time while more of us get killed, WE CANNOT.

We just want the LAND, Kashmiris can go to hell or Pakistan!!!!

2010-10-17T09:26:00.000-07:00

Today 63 years after that dubious Maharaja sold us to the Indians in order to safeguard his properties and estates, we are still under a foreign occupation and Biharis/UP wallas/Punjabis etc continue killing Kashmiris with impunity. To the Indians these lives are nothing but numbers but to us Kashmiris who have already lost more than 120,000 of our brave souls, these are living people taken away by our cruel fate. Their(Indian) version is simple and that is to continue the occupation at all costs.

Now what does occupation at all costs mean?. Occupation at all costs means that in order to hold onto the territory of Kashmir, Indians can terminate each and every Kashmiri if it comes to that. If we want a reprieve from all this tyranny, We just have to accept Indian hegemony or vacate the land.

A lot of Indians seriously believe that we Kashmiris are not Kashmiris but Pakistanis, how dumb, just because the Welsh look like the English physically doesn't mean that an Englishman can be a Welshman!! These guys fail to understand that our nationalism is for Kashmir and nothing else. We don't want to be subservient to either Pakistan or India. In their arrogance which is partly fueled by unabridged western support, the Indians have completely forgotten their past when they too fought against occupation and colonialism.

We have lived on this cursed land as Aryan Pagans, Hindus,Jews, Buddhists and now Muslims but never before has our nationality been questioned so much. What do the Indians really mean when they ask us to leave our own identity and move over to Pakistan? How would the Indians feel if someone asked them to move from India and start living in lets say China? How would they feel if someone told them that land in India actually belonged to the Americans and therefore they should either accept American sovereignty or move to somewhere in the Indian ocean?

This is our birth place, the oldest surviving Sanskrit texts were written by us, we have a continuous history dating back 5000 years. Our people have provided some of the most important linkages into the world of Aryans. Many thousands of years ago, we chose this valley as our abode because we couldn't stand too much heat of the lower plains, this fertile land has given you Rajtarangini (oldest surviving Sanskrit novel) and herbs like Saffron. It was for a supreme intellectual reason that the sophisticated Persians chose us Kashmiris as the people who would push their artistic delights to even higher levels.

There is a reason why we Kashmiris are thought of as beautiful people, and why should any outsider have the right to take this inner beauty away from us.

A mind that creates those amazing wood carved houseboats, exquisite Jamavars, that ethereal papier-machie box, the eternal Kashmiri knotted rug and priceless Pashmina shawls is surely highly evolved and sophisticated. Why then do you think that this minds decision to be neither a part of India or Pakistan is wrong?.

We Kashmiris are not happy if anything good happens to India!!!!

2010-09-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

I have often wondered as to why we Kashmiris are often branded as Indians when we have never ever felt Indian at heart.Almost every Kashmiri that I know of feels something cruel tug at their hearts and minds whenever they have to write 'Indian' as their nationality on official papers.

I was recently at the Srinagar airport and came across an old friend of mine who works as a registrar in surgery at a prestigious Delhi hospital. We started catching up on things and slowly as is the norm nowadays the conversation drifted towards the Kashmir dispute. My friend who hails from Doda said to me "Friend,"how we all wish from the deepest core of our hearts that the Indians should get out of our motherland","But there's no end in sight to this brutal occupation".

"What do people from your remote village think of India in broad terms?" I asked him and his reply was something that defines us as a people. He said, "Almost every adult person in my village is educated and has a job but I have never ever in all my known life heard even one single child or an adult cheer the Indians" i.e. "be it cricket, economy or some other Indian army achievement, we have always felt very sad and frustrated about it".

"Why feel sad about Indian achievements?" I replied. "I mean its alright that we Kashmiris don't feel Indian at heart and have to forcibly (against our conscience) write India as our country of origin on all our official documents but feeling unhappy about Indian achievements whether in the fields of economy or sciences is not right", "After all these guys worked hard for it and deserve their success".

Aah!! said my doctor friend "what you don't understand is that their continual economic prosperity is making these Indians more and more insane plus devilishly arrogant", "initially they just brutalized us Kashmiris and the people from the north-east of their empire but now they have started an armed operation (operation Green Hunt) against their own aboriginal peoples right in the heart lands of India"."Have you never asked yourself that if the economic prosperity and the military strength of these elitist Indians continues at this pace, we Kashmiris and many other down trodden peoples in India suffering from their illegal occupation will continue to be pulverized till eternity or be completely exterminated".

I began to think about this conversation and after some serious introspection have come to the conclusion that my good friend is indeed very right, Greed knows no bounds whether it is greed for acquiring more land(Kashmir being a classic example) or greed for more power in the region, each Indian achievement is a step towards further brutal subjugation of the Kashmiris. Whether it is the signing of the Indo-American Nuclear deal (Amazingly the deal was struck despite India being a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)or the ever strengthening cooperation between Indian, American and Israeli defense establishments are all leading us towards a permanent Indian seat at the UN security council. This will give India the power to veto anything even remotely associated with Kashmir. Although a permanent seat at the UN security council is still some distance away but there is no doubt in my mind that India is inching ever so close and will get it one day. Now for Kashmiris and minnows like people in the North-Eastern states plus the so called Naxals/Maoists, this would mean that our just struggles would be elongated to a few more centuries or abolished altogether.

So if the indisputable ascension of India into the realms of the super elite of the world whether slowly or rapidly is a fact of today,then why should we Kashmiris not be unhappy about it because what all this means to us is that our freedom from the mighty Indian yoke is becoming all that more difficult. Each Indian achievement in the fields of nuclear technology, economics or war-fare is pushing us further towards that fathomless pit of uncertainty.

Kashmiris have to stop harbouring any hopes when it comes to trusting the Indians

2010-09-22T20:01:00.000-07:00

"Kanie wasie pous, Hindoustaine banie na dous"(An old Kashmiri proverb)

The Indian parliamentary delegation just concluded its whirlwind tour of the Indian occupied Kashmir and their trip has been given a lot of attention by the Indian media. Like always the utterly biased Indian media stalwarts expressed immense satisfaction over how the Indian parliamentarians went out of their way to meet separatist leaders(Indian media ranks at a dismal 125th in world rankings with respect to press freedom). The separatists some of whom wore black arm bands minced no words and bluntly told the visiting parliamentarians about what the vast overwhelming majority of Kashmiris wanted i.e. "AZAADI". 63 years of warped Indian secularism coupled with unbridled freedom to protest and speak freely is enough time for us Kashmiris to have arrived at that democratic conclusion.

I have been thinking about this recent effort on part of the Indians to make the brutal and barbaric occupation look less harsh by employing the same age old and oft repeated vintage cosmetic techniques but try as they might giving it a face-lift, occupations are nonetheless land grabs and therefore not legitimate.

Some moderate Kashmiris "dream" that maybe around this time the Indians will get the message and leave our motherland for good, they keep looking for that all elusive Azaadi and pin their hopes on the very same people who have just brutally murdered approximately 109 of our youth(mostly teenagers) in approximately 100 days. Ahh!! "Hope" surely is a strange emotion, it makes you believe in the grotesque impossibility of trusting your daughters rapist and your sons murderer!!!. Hope makes people trust those very Indians who imprisons us in our own homes, have let loose an army of more than half a million on us and continue preying on us poor Kashmiris to feed their ever increasing ultra nationalistic ego.

So who are we kidding when these parliamentarians come and meet our rightful leaders or pay our injured a visit at the hospitals. I mean isn't it all a facade that has been continuously repeated by Indians right from the time when Pt.Nehru promised us a plebiscite.

Is talking to these parliamentarians going to help our cause in any way whatsoever. Don't they already know all that we are repeatedly telling them? Don't they already know that more than 120,000 of our brothers and sisters have been brutally massacred by their Indian colleagues in arms. Haven't many of them been party to a resolution that was passed in their parliament declaring all of J&K as an integral part of India. Don't they grow up studying Chanakya Neeti (Indian political doctrine).Why are some amongst us harboring any hope at all? ARE these parliamentarians going to denounce their own kith n kin in the army for the sake of a common Azaadi seeking Kashmiri?. They might talk nicely to you but the barrel of their gun is still pointing down your throat and the occupation is here to stay nonetheless.

So I ask you my peace loving brothers and sisters, how can we fight our just fight?,how can we achieve freedom from this brutal barbaric Indian yoke and acquire the power to change our destiny?

The World has turned deaf, dumb and blind towards us Kashmiris!!!

2010-09-08T11:21:00.000-07:00

It been three months since the current uprising in Kashmir began, an uprising defined by stone throwing teen-aged youngsters, children and middle-aged women who after being denied the provision of peaceful demonstrations decided to throw some stones at the Indian army-men.

Over these past few weeks,I have seen from a close angle events unfolding on the streets of Kashmir. I can only describe it as something unprecedented and never seen before in the recent volatile history of Kashmir. People came out in their thousands defying curfews and braving the bullets fired by the Indian army, the fear of the gun or getting shot was the last thing on the minds of the resilient Kashmiris. The overwhelming and resounding demand was for "Azaadi" or in other words freedom from the tyrannical clutches of demonic India. It is true that Kashmiris have come out in hundreds of thousands in the past too but never before have they been so fearless as to continually face bullets unarmed and undeterred for 3 whole months. The schools,offices businesses and almost everything associated with normal life has been brought to a stand still. As I write this today about 71 Kashmiris are dead and mostly shot either in their chests or heads by the cruel,barbaric Indians. Thousands more have been injured and lost their limbs,eyesight,sense of hearing etc. A lot have been totally debilitated for the rest of their long lives. Hundreds of thousands are suffering from Post Traumatic SD and related ailments.

So I reiterate it once more "71 young deaths in about 8 weeks and not even a whimper from the world community". Those in the corridors of power and the torch bearers of human rights etc are sleeping in a deep slumber when it comes to Kashmir. Not even a single world leader has publicly spoken against the Indian brutalities in Kashmir. WHY THIS APATHY? Is it because there are no economic interests to be pursued in Kashmir or is it because we are a MUSLIM majority area and therefore automatically the VILLAINS no matter how just our cause is? Had India been a Muslim country and us Kashmiris Jews or Christians, would the world community be silent in a similar way? Why is it that a small resentment in Iran comprising of a few hundred people at the time of the Iranian elections got 24x7 airtime in the west for almost 2 months whereas Kashmir which is the oldest dispute on the UN security council shelves doesn't even get an hour?

Just a few days ago 4 Jews were killed in Israel and President Obama spoke about it in his speech on a repeat basis and here we have had 71 dead killed brutally by the Indian state machinery and not even a word of sympathy from anyone. Are the economic interests of the west in India above and beyond all human life,dignity and honour that the western powers continuously harp about.

Kashmiris as we see it on the ground will never accept to be a part of India, its like asking a sane individual to accept SATAN(Devil) as the REAL GOD and therefore start worshiping the SATAN(India).

Indians on the other hand being the ultra-nationalists that they have become laden with their hindutva ideology will wipe out the poor Kashmiris but not give up on their unjust claim over this piece of occupied land......... in continual blatant rejection of the various UN resolutions that India is a signatory to.

Our only hope then is, and perhaps will be international mediation/collective pressure applied on the Indians by the world community but that hope is becoming more and more obscure as "The world it seems has turned blind,dumb and deaf towards the sufferings of the poor and the inconsequential Kashmiris".

In short "WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE".

China's "Energy Corridor to Middle-East"

2010-08-29T16:07:00.000-07:00

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A very interesting development has taken place over the last few days which has the potential of changing Kashmirs Geo-political significance so much so that even Americans/Europeans/Russians might come into the Kashmir picture full throttle. Following up on its refusal to let Indians build roads and bridges in the Ladakh region of Kashmir and issuing separate visas to residents of Kashmir,China has recently officially denied visa to a top ranking Indian general stating that he commands Indian armed forces in the disputed Kashmir Region. Why has China started this new assertiveness and changed its attitude significantly over the last 2 odd years. China is in fact laying lesser emphasis on Arunachal Pradesh and more on Kashmir. China has in the past given Visas to Indian generals in command of the Eastern sector(Arunachal/Sikkim/Assam belt) and therefore it can only mean that there is a Geo-STRATEGIC SHIFT in China's policy vis a vis Kashmir.

SO WHAT HAS CHANGED?

Just look at the map above, For China to get cheap middle-eastern energy without having to utilize the long arduous time consuming sea routes the Kashmir energy corridor is the best bet. If China were to think of any other routes, it would have to traverse multiple central Asian countries to reach Iran but if it uses the Kashmir corridor-BINGO! all that needs to be done is traverse its all weather ally Pakistan and its right at the door steps of Iran with humongous amounts of natural gas at its disposal.Right now it takes the Chinese vessels leaving the middle eastern ports about at least a Fortnight-one month to reach mainland China and this time consuming transportation can be reduced to approximately 48 hours when the KASHMIR ENERGY CORRIDOR STARTS TO FUNCTION.The corridor will also give China an upper hand over its negotiations with Russia for gas supplied vide its northern borders.

Add to this the 7000 MW Bunji power project in the same area and Kashmir becomes an extremely important piece of geography for China.We already know that work for the Neelam-Jhelum power project is in full swing. Besides the Kohala dam project might be undertaken by the Chinese too and will provide another 10,000 MW to both China and Pakistan.

All this means that India will have tougher adversaries to tackle vis a vis Kashmir and we all know that India is ready to trade Aksai-Chin with China for Arunachal Pradesh but the Indian presence in Kashmir so close to an important energy corridor would be perceived as a Geo-strategic threat by the Pakistanis/Chinese.The Chinese know that Indians are getting ever so close to the Americans/western powers as is evident by the Indo-American Nuclear energy deal. Also why should the Chinese give up their claim on Arunachal Pradesh when they have never accepted the MAC-MOHAN line and Kashmir as we all know is an international dispute and therefore not Indian territory legally.The Israelis/Americans will do all in their power from obstructing this new energy corridor as they wouldn't want Iran to develop stronger relations with China but it might be too late as works are already in progress.

BOTTOM-LINE: More trouble is brewing for Kashmir, India will try its level best to convert the present line of actual control into an international border as by now it knows that it will never be able to wrest Azad Kashmir and northern areas from Pakistan due to the greatly amplified energy hungry Chinese interests in the region. This particular Geo-strategic shift might actually make India sign the IPI(Iran Pakistan India) gas pipeline.

The Trillion dollar plus question is that will Pakistan/China allow India this saving grace and convert LOC(Line of control) into an international border and where does that place the Freedom seeking PUNY/CURSED KASHMIRIS?

THE REAL REASON INDIA TOOK THE KASHMIR ISSUE TO THE UN

2010-08-26T18:37:00.000-07:00

Many times I have wondered about why did the Indians take the Kashmir issue to the UN and committed to holding a plebiscite when they never actually held one despite the Pakistanis begging them to do so.

I think I finally have a few answers thanks to the western media which did cover some vital news stories of that time.

THE REASON INDIA TOOK THE KASHMIR ISSUE TO THE UN was for one and only ONE REASON, it wanted to consolidate its hold over Kashmir and INDIA needed peaceful time for that, taking the issue to the UN provided an excellent way out of the problem, u must recall that only after India went to the UN did the ceasefire line come into existence. India never intended to hold any plebiscites, it was a ploy to gain time n nothing else.The cunning Indians at that time knew that by getting some periods of relative peace, they will be able to consolidate on their occupied land and dig in the trenches.

Today when US/West is heavily invested in India, is signing/making nuclear power pacts worth billions of dollars which will be the driving force of American economy for the next 100 years at least, there is no way AMERICANS or the WEST are going to do anything about Kashmir. INDIA knows this fully well and therefore will play the game to its advantage.

SO WHATS THE SOLUTION- SUPPORT PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN AND CHANCES ARE WE KASHMIRIS MIGHT SEE SOMETHING POSITIVE HAPPEN, SEEK DISTANCE FROM PAKISTAN AND HOPE INDIA WILL SOLVE PROBLEMS WITH A WEAK ADVERSARY LIKE THE KASHMIRIS (WHO WILL BE TOTALLY AT THE MERCY OF THE RUTHLESS INDIANS) IS PURE FANTASY.

Today a lot of Kashmiris including me are seeking complete Independence and this is a paradigm shift in our policy as a nation that by distancing ourselves from a weak Pakistan/Afghanistan, we will be far better but this question needs to be thoroughly discussed. Does one throw ones mother or an old father out of the house if the parent is sick. Pakistan is our elder and very sick right now, should we chuck them out of the house when they are down in the dumps or should we share their burden in these tough times just like how they have taken our cause to the world time n again and if it were not for them(Pakistan), Brutal India would have finished us Kashmiri weaklings off a long time ago.

Examples in History on which the Kashmir issue can be patterned/Resolved

2010-08-22T22:43:00.000-07:00

Here are a few examples in history on which the Kashmir issue can be patterned:

1)Austrian State Treaty

The Austrian State Treatyor Austrian Independence Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state. It was signed on May 15, 1955, in Vienna at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) and the Austrian government. It officially came into force on July 27, 1955. As well as general regulations and recognition of the Austrian state, the minority rights of the Slovene and Croat minorities are also expressly detailed. Anschluss (political union) with the new Germany, as had happened in 1938, was forbidden. Nazi and fascist organisations were prohibited.

Furthermore, Austria announced that it would declare itself permanently neutral after the enactment of the treaty. The USSR had expressed its wish for such a declaration of neutrality as a guarantee that Austria would not join NATO after Soviet troops had been withdrawn. Austrian neutrality was not actually in the original text of the treaty, but it was added by the Austrian parliament.

2)Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is a clause in the National Constitution of Japan that prohibits an act of war by the state. The Constitution came into effect on May 3, 1947, immediately following World War II. In its text, the state formally renounces war as a sovereign right and bans settlement of international disputes through the use of force. The article also states that, to accomplish these aims, armed forces with war potential will not be maintained, although Japan maintains de facto armed forces, referred to as the Japan Self-Defense Forces.Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution not only forbids the use of force as a means to settling international disputes but also forbids Japan from maintaining an army, navy or air force. Therefore, in strictly legal terms, the Self Defense Forces are not land, sea or air forces, but are extensions of the national police force. This has had broad implications for foreign, security and defense policy. According to the Japanese government, “‘war potential’ in paragraph two means force exceeding a minimum level necessary for self-defense. Anything at or below that level does not constitute war potential.”

3)The Country of San Marino

San Marino, officially the Most Serene Republic of San Marino is a country situated on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked enclave, completely surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over 61 km2 (24 sq mi) with an estimated population of almost 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino. One of the European microstates.National defence is, by arrangement, the responsibility of ITALY'S armed forces. Different branches have varied functions including: performing ceremonial duties; patrolling borders; mounting guard at government buildings; and assisting police in major criminal cases.

4)KINGDDOM OF BHUTAN

Bhutan used to be one of the most isolated countries in the world. Developments including direct international flights, the Internet, mobile phone networks, and cable television have increasingly modernized the urban areas of the country. Bhutan balanced modernization with its ancient culture and traditions under the guiding philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH). Fervent protection of the environment has been a top priority. The government takes great measures to preserve the nation's traditional culture, identity and the environment. In 2006, Business Week magazine rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth-happiest in the world, citing a global survey conducted by the University of Leicester in 2006 called the "World Map of Happiness".By a long standing treaty, Indian and Bhutanese citizens may travel to each other's countries without a passport or visa using their national identity cards instead. Bhutanese citizens may also work in India without legal restriction. Bhutan does not have formal diplomatic ties with its northern neighbour, the People's Republic of China, although exchanges of visits at various levels between the two have significantly increased in recent times. The first bilateral agreement between China (PRC) and Bhutan was signed in 1998, and Bhutan has also set up honorary consulates in Macau and Hong Kong.

5)Quebec
Quebec is a province in east-central Canada.It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.Sovereignty plays a large role in the politics of Quebec, and the Official Opposition social democratic Parti Québécois advocates national sovereignty for the province and secession from Canada. Sovereignist governments have held referendums on independence in 1980 and 1995; both were voted down by voters, the latter defeated by a very narrow margin. In 2006, the Canadian House of Commons passed a symbolic motion recognizing the "Québécois as a NATION within a united Canada."

6) Monaco
Monaco officially the Principality of Monaco is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe on the northern central coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is surrounded on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about 16 km (9.9 mi) from Italy. Its area is 2.02 km2 (0.78 sq mi) with an estimated population of almost 33,000.The wider defense of the nation is provided by France. Monaco has no navy or air force,Monaco is not a member of the European Union. However, it is very closely linked via a customs union with France, and as such, its currency is the same as that of France, the euro.

7)Liechtenstein
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over 160 km² (about 61.7 square miles), and it has an estimated population of 35,000.Liechtenstein follows a policy of neutrality and is one of few countries in the world that maintains no military. The army was abolished soon after the Austro-Prussian War in which Liechtenstein fielded an army of 80 men, although they were not involved in any fighting.

8)Andorra
Andorra officially the Principality of Andorra, also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small country in southwestern Europe,located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. The role of monarch is exercised jointly by the two co-princes, the President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell, Catalonia, Spain. Responsibility for DEFENDING Andorra rests with Spain and France. Andorra is a member of the United Nations as well as a number of other international organisations.

There are a lot of other land-locked countries much smaller than Kashmir and bordered on all sides by powerful neighbors who have been enemies at various times in history but these countries even after being occupied have continued to regain their independence and forge ahead. Hope one day, the GOLDEN AGE of Kashmir comes back and we break free from the shackles of the Brutal Indian occupation.....Aameen.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!!!!!!!

2010-08-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

This is what the Indian PM Moneymohan Singh said from the ramparts of the famous RED FORT in Delhi while addressing the Indian nation and referring to the Kashmiris on the eve of the Indian independence day. He eventually went on to construe an (India INC consortium's age old problem vis a vis Kashmir)image of economic depravity and problem of youths without JOBS.
JOBS- when most of the youth protesting on the streets are between the age groups of 14-19 and definitely not yet eligible for the imminent jobs(Guess a lot of dubious/leechy Kashmiris n Indians are again gonna make a lot of moolah!!! from the present fiasco of the glorious Slummies).

BUT THE QUOTE THAT REALLY GOT ME THINKING WAS THIS ONE i.e. "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE" and "STOP THE VIOLENCE"......HA HA HA HA, Indians are Indians n always so correct. I mean what are these people???? How base can they be??? what duplicity and what cunning mockery of their democratic processes. Now you Indians might be thinking things like wait a minute....whats wrong with the Prime Minister saying all this???? But that precisely is my point n let me elaborate it a bit....

1) WHO IS HOLDING THE GUNS IN KASHMIR????
ANSWER: INDIANS AND THEIR RELATED AGENCIES.

2) WHO IS SPRAYING INNOCENT UNARMED PROTESTERS WITH BULLETS IN KASHMIR????
ANSWER: INDIANS

3) WHO IS MERCILESSLY SUBJUGATING/BEATING/THRASHING 7 OLDS AND 9 YEAR OLDS TO DEATH???
ANSWER: INDIANS

4) WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FAKE ENCOUNTERS(MACHIL-Kupwara is one of the new ones)/ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES/MASS GRAVES IN KASHMIR???
ANSWER: INDIANS

5) WHO IS SHOOTING ABOVE THE HIPS IN KASHMIR( AIMING AT HEADS n CHESTS ONLY) AND NOT EVEN STOPPING PROTESTERS IN STATES LIKE MAHARASHTRA(Shiv SAINIKS)/BJP activists during Bharat Bandh when scores of trucks were burnt and property worth crores damaged??? WHY THIS DUPLICITY??
ANSWER: INDIANS.

6) WHERE ON EARTH CAN YOUR JUSTICE SYSTEM/CBI(Central Bureau of investigations) CONCLUDE THAT TWO HEALTHY GROWN UP WOMEN DROWNED ON THEIR OWN IN A STREAM THAT IS 6 INCHES IN DEPTH AND WHERE NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER DROWNED BEFORE????? AND NOT FIND CULPRITS WHO RAPED NEELOFER N AASIYA JAN???
ANSWER: INDIANS.

7) WHY ARE KASHMIRIS PLEAS FALLING ON DEAF EARS?
ANSWER: INDIANS

8) HOW CAN YOU ASK FOR PEACE TO BE GIVEN A CHANCE WHEN YOU ARE THE PERPETRATOR/TYRANT/JUDGE AND JURY???
ANSWER: INDIANS.

My dear Indians, can any one of you question your leaders about why they are asking for peace when they are the biggest/greatest impediment to peace in Kashmir.

How can the unarmed/innocent/non-combatants give you peace????
Answer: By giving up on their demand for Azaadi/self determination which YOU INDIANS promised them at the UN in front of the whole wide world.

HOW DUBIOUS, CUNNING AND BARBARIC CAN U BE MY NOT SO DEAR ANYMORE INDIANS?????

AN OPEN LETTER TO KASHMIRI HINDUS

2010-08-14T11:44:00.000-07:00

As long as you support the Indian hegemony in Kashmir.....people with opinions like mine will always sound Islamist to you and as long as the Kashmir conflict is not resolved, statements like mine will continue to be around. As is apparent from your acts on the ground in Kashmir, One word from Kashmiris against the Indian rule and you bracket people like them to be having an Islamist mentality. It would be noteworthy here to mention a modern politician of our times namely Narendra Modi who even after being responsible for a mass slaughter of Muslims in Gujarat was again chosen by the secular Indians as their chief minister. The same goes for Shiv Sena/ Bal Thackeray in Maharashtra after the Mumbai riots. I mean Mumbai can be rightly defined as the cosmopolitan image of India and yet we had Mumbai riots where thousands of innocent Muslims were slaughtered. All this makes me shudder.....I mean if your cosmopolitan areas can be like this, I can only imagine what the rest of the country is capable of. Slogans like" Your future is with us....we are your own people hold little forte". Having different ideologies does not mean that we are different. We don't need to support outsiders who will do nothing but alienate us even further from each other. We share so much in common. Please stop following this nefarious path where you are led to believe that INDIA is the future. 60 years of INDIA and they were successful in separating us two communities who for centuries despite all odds lived together as nothing but KASHMIRIS. Food for thought: (1) Name one state in India (Please exclude J&K) where a Hindu pilgrimage is run almost entirely by Muslims??? (2) Name one state in India where Muslims don't eat beef due to sheer respect for the religious sentiments of their Hindu brothers????? (3) Name a single state in India where the economic status/conditions of Muslims are at par or above par with respect to their Hindu counterparts and then compare the economic status of Kashmiri Pundits in Kashmir viz a viz their Muslim brothers???? (4) Name one state in India where thousands of people pour onto the streets after 2 decades of brutal suppression to vent their anger against the illegal occupiers and then at the same time go out of their way to help the stranded HINDU Amarnath Yatris. (5) Name one mainstream Indian Politician who can truthfully say that "we as Indians have failed the Kashmiris miserably and its time we let them be the masters of their own destiny" I am sure you will never find an answer and even if you do, it will be flawed just like the Indian claim over Kashmir.

WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD???

2010-08-03T15:10:00.000-07:00

My one year and a half year old daughter has no milk to drink, People are starving and sick Kashmiris like my mother have no medicine to control their pain/ailments.........and yet people who suffer from similar problems like mine or maybe worse continue to pour onto the streets and by-lanes of Kashmir demanding an end to subjugation/brutality and illegal occupation by the Indians and their dastardly army.We have the highest per capita concentration of armed forces per square kilometer in the whole wide world and yet the puppet chief minister Omar Abdullah asks for more troops from the centre. The dastardly Indians are quick to oblige and have sent another 23 companies of CRPF plus more Rapid action force companies to follow.

WHY? why can't the Indians understand the blatant fact on the ground that we Kashmiris don't want to be a part of the Glorious democracy/republic of India. How many more young MEN will they kill before they see what our aspirations are? How many more of our women will they rape before they realise how wrong they are? How many more Children will be orphaned before the Indians give us our right to self determination as promised to Kashmiris at no less a seat as the UN.

I believe no one has any quick solutions to all these questions and neither do I profess to be a genius on the art of political discourse but the fact of the matter is that when peace returns,"INDIA FORGETS ABOUT KASHMIR AND STARTS SAYING TO THE WORLD COMMUNITY AND KASHMIRIS TOO THAT PEACE HAS RETURNED AND THEREFORE SHUT UP", INDIANS ONLY START TALKING TO US AFTER A FEW DOZEN OF US ARE KILLED BY THEIR FORCES AND THEN THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL US AS THE STONE THROWERS/VIOLENT PROTESTERS. NOBODY WANTS TO DIE, young teenagers with a thousand dreams don't want to die....they like any other youth in the world want to make something out of their lives but what happens when you thwart all of their attempts at protesting peacefully.

ABOUT A MILLION KASHMIRIS MARCHED TO EIDGAH AND TRC GROUNDS DURING THE AMARNATH AGITATION of 2008, why were those marches peaceful and not a single Kashmiri was killed, the answer my friends lies in the fact that the Indian forces allowed those marches to happen but their intelligentsia could not let the outcome of those marches surface again and therefore have resorted to quelling even the most peaceful marches with bullets and tear gas shells aimed at heads/chests.

There is no doubt that neither India nor Pakistan will ever let us go and be independent when they have their basic existence at stake, I mean if India lets us free, whats to stop other states within India from asking to be free and same goes for Pakistan. If it let's go of Kashmir, what will happen to its states like Baluchistan or Sindh or NWFP.

SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION????

I have thought about this problem for most of my life and want to share my solution with all of you, Maybe I am wrong but its worth a try so here goes:

1)Kashmiris at the moment should not stop agitating till UNITED NATIONS ASKS INDIA/PAKISTAN/KASHMIRIS OF ALL OPINIONS AND SHADES/INTERNATIONAL MEDIATORS TO COME TO THE TABLE AND TALK, ANY INDIAN TALK OF THEY WILL TALK ONCE THINGS CALM DOWN IS PURE HOG-WASH.
2)KASHMIRIS SHOULD ARGUE THAT THEY BE CONVERTED INTO A NEUTRAL BUFFER STATE WITH THE ADMINISTRATION BEING RUN BY PAKISTANIS/INDIANS/KASHMIRIS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY(UN).
3)THE ARMY FROM TOWNS/CITIES/VILLAGES SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN AND MOVED TO PATROL BORDER WITH CHINA ETC.
4)The INDIAN/PAKISTANI ARMY CAN STAY IN KASHMIR and follow the model of US ARMY BASES IN SOUTH KOREA/KUWAIT/BAHRAIN/GERMANY AND JAPAN.
5)Both India and Pakistan can maintain Joint control of Kashmirs defense,external affairs and currency but stay clear of everything else.
6)THE Kashmiris should be allowed to open up their old trade routes with central Asia etc and build roads in those areas.
7)THE NEUTRAL UN REPRESENTATIVE IN KASHMIR should hold discretionary powers should friction rise between India/Pakistan.
8)Kashmiris should be allowed to have their own teams which can participate internationally much like how Northern Ireland/Scotland/England participate in different international events independently although they all are a part of the United Kingdom.
9)Both the constitutions of India as well as Pakistan have to guarantee and accept the status of Kashmir as a Unique/combined territory with special status.
10)The International community has to act as a guarantor that in case of any future aggression by any one of the parties involved, the UN/international community will come to the aid of the Kashmiris.
11)Both the countries of India and Pakistan will have to pay an annual royalty to the Government of J&K equivalent to the amount of money India/Pakistan earn from utilizing the INDUS WATER TREATY/INDUS RIVER BASIN.
12) Both the countries of India and Pakistan will have to pay an annual/monthly rent for using Kashmiri Land as their bases much like how the US pays for its bases etc in Germany/UK/Turkey etc.
13) Indians/Pakistanis/Kashmiris should be allowed free movement in all the regions on the basis of EUROPEAN ECONOMIC UNIONS MODEL on FREE movement of citizens etc.

I HOPE A LOT OF KASHMIRIS READ THIS POST OF MINE AND TAKE IT TO THE PEOPLE CONCERNED TO BE PERHAPS USED AS A TEMPLATE ON WHICH TO START NEGOTIATING WHEN THE RIGHT TIME COMES.

CAN KASHMIRIS TAKE INDIA TO ICJ?(International Court of Justice)

2010-07-29T04:24:00.000-07:00

U.S. public advocacy attorney Karen Parker, a specialist in human rights and humanitarian law. Karen Parker reports regularly at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and its Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Her legal arguments are frequently cited by UN officials and included in the final drafts of resolutions. According to many observers, Karen can be counted among the most skilled humanitarian advocates on the international scene today. Her recommendations have led to the adoption of key resolutions by the United Nations, the appointment of special rapporteurs, and the extension of human rights law into new areas such as the environment and disability. Her “six-prong test” for determining whether or not economic sanctions violate human rights and humanitarian law was adopted by the UN Special Rapporteur on Sanctions in his report to the Commission on Human Rights in August, 2000. She is the chief U.N. delegate of International Educational Development - Humanitarian Law Project, an accredited nongovernmental organization (NGO) which advocates on behalf of the victims of war, human rights abuses, and the denial of self-determination to ethnic nationalities worldwide, and which is in consultative status with the United Nations. She is the founder of the Association for Humanitarian Lawyers which among other research and campaign activities, provides emergency funding for human rights activists and attorneys in various countries to attend UN meetings in Geneva. She has also served as the senior UN representative for Disabled Peoples International, specializing in the area of disability rights, including issues arising from armed conflicts.

In relation to Kashmir, after dispatching several human rights monitors to conduct a long-term investigation, Karen wrote a legal analysis on The Situation in Kashmir, published by none other than the UN Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Several briefing papers followed, the latest issued in the spring of 1996. Karen Parker is therefore an ideal human rights observer to turn to if we wish to comprehend the UN’s interpretation of the Kashmir dispute.

In their fourth annual review of armed conflict around the world compiled as a report for both the Humanitarian Law Project of International Educational Development and the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Parker describes the Kashmir dispute as follows: “The situation in Kashmir is a war of national liberation in exercise of the right to self-determination.” She goes on to record the history of the dispute and its ongoing ramifications:

During British colonial rule, Britain ‘sold’ Kashmir to a Hindu warlord. At the time of the British withdrawal, the predominantly Muslim Kashmiris were given the option of joining India or Pakistan. Before an election could be held, the Maharajah Hari Singh, a Hindu, asked India for assistance in quelling the aspirations for independence and in return signed an instrument of accession to join India. Indian troops seized much of Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmiris have resisted their rule since that time. Part of Kashmir is under Pakistani influence (called Azad Kashmir) and part is now under Chinese control. The war, however, is limited to Indian-occupied Kashmir. In 1948 and 1949 the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, which was formed by the Security Council, adopted resolutions mandating a ceasefire, the withdrawal of troops, and a plebiscite to determine the will of the people. Subsequent resolutions have reaffirmed the right of the Kashmiri people to chose their future form of governance, but the plebiscite has never been held. In 1972 the Simla Agreement was signed by both India and Pakistan countries and committed them to reach a ‘final settlement’ on the issue, but this has yet to happen. The crisis in Indian-occupied Kashmir has worsened since 1990 due to escalating pressures for the plebiscite and increasing Indian military presence to quell independence movements. As of January 1997, troops are said to number more than 600,000 (estimates vary from 600,000 to 800,000). Fact-finding missions to Indian-controlled Kashmir verify a widespread pattern of human rights and humanitarian law violations. Captured Kashmiri fighters are killed without trial and civilians are tortured and raped. Estimates place deaths between 1990-1997 at more than 20,000, mainly civilians.

As thus noted by Michael Kolodner:

What makes the Indian control of Kashmir a military occupation, and unjustifiable even in comparison with other international absurdities, are India’s actions over the last half-century. In their attempt to maintain control over Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government has been anti-democratic, arbitrary, and frequently brutal. From the moment they gained control of Kashmir, the Indian policy was to avoid, if not punish, all talk of a plebiscite. By installing Sheikh Abdullah, Nehru believed that he could convince the world that Kashmiri public opinion really favored union with India… India was also not above using underhanded, often unconstitutional, tricks in order to maintain control over Kashmir… Most of the changes of government in Jammu and Kashmir were engineered by India when it felt threatened in Kashmir. Planned party splits, such as the one which brought G. M. Shah to power in 1984, were a favored weapon of the Indian government, though it was not averse to the simple device of dismissing the legislature and imposing direct rule, as in 1986 and 1990. Such moves, even though the common Kashmiri may not understand what happened, tend to erode faith in government, regardless of who runs it. Because it was India that always seemed to come out in control, Kashmiris assumed that the changes were planned by New Delhi…

The final issue in the Indian occupation of Kashmir is the one that shows the true leap from control to occupation. Regardless of the argument one could make about the situation between 1947 and 1989, there is no other description possible for the status of Kashmir since 1990 than occupied. The behavior of Indian soldiers and paramilitary troops in Kashmir has been systematically brutal.

Even longtime Labour MP George Galloway has described the resistance movement as a “liberation struggle in the Indian-occupied territory of Kashmir.”

In the same way that Israeli representative’s ongoing pronouncements of their commitment to peace are in practice largely irrelevant in relation to reality, the Indian government’s pronouncements in regard to the occupation of Kashmir are similarly irrelevant. In both cases, this is clear on inspection of the record of behaviour of the occupying powers. Citing independent reports by the international press and human rights groups (including the BBC World Service, Voice of America, Associated Press, Reuters, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Asia Watch, etc.) the Lord Avebury-endorsed Kashmir Council for Human Rights outlines the Indian government’s violations:

(1) Repression of right of free speech and freedom of press.

(2) Repression against holding peaceful demonstrations.

(3) Ill treatment, torture and deaths in custody.

(4) Denial of civil liberties.

(5) Denial of right to a fair trial.

(6) Persecution, humiliation and denial of a right to secure life.

(7) Disappearances of people taken into custody.

(Cool Violations of the privacy of homes.

(9) Opprobrious treatment of elderly.

(10) Ill treatment of children.

(11) Physical and sexual assault on women used as a ‘weapon of combat’.

(12) Excessive force used by the members of the Indian security forces.

For the Indian government to stress its commitment to peace while systematically perpetrating the above gross abuses on a scale that far outweighs anything perpetrated by Kashmiri rebel groups, amounts to the most appalling cynicism. This scale of cynicism is familiar to those who have analysed the Israeli occupation of Palestine impartially.

UN resolutions on both Palestine and Kashmir effectively endorse the establishment of an independent state for the indigenous people. In the former case, this is explicitly indicated by the relevant resolutions, whereas in the latter it is implicitly – though directly and logically – indicated.

As already mentioned, numerous UN resolutions directly endorse the right of the Kashmiri people to self-determination – to choose their future in terms of establishing either an independent state, or joining India or Pakistan. UN resolutions similarly endorse the right of Palestinians to self-determination in the form of an independent state – there is no need to hold a plebiscite on this matter because the international community is already well aware that the Palestinians are calling for self-determination in the particular form of an independent state. The similarity here is in the fact that the UN in both cases legislates for the self-determination of the indigenous population, a right that is deliberately violated by an occupying force.

The outcome of a possible plebiscite is, in fact, predicted to be against union with India, and in favour of either independence or accession to Pakistan. It is well known that the majority of Kashmiris are against accession to India. According to a poll conducted by MODE, India’s foremost public opinion organization, 77 per cent opted for “No solution within Indian Constitution”.This echoes the proceedings of the Kashmir People’s Convention held in 1970: “In the Kashmir People’s convention held in the summer of 1970, but for a few feeble voices in our [India’s] favour, most of the delegates favoured either accession to Pakistan or creation of an independent Kashmir.”Similarly, U.S. journalist Eric Margolis, who specializes in foreign affairs particularly in the Middle East, observes that: “India has been unable to extinguish the revolt by the Muslim majority, which demands either union with Pakistan, or independence”. He therefore further observes that “implementation of the plebiscite that the UN originally mandated in 1949 [would result in] a vote that would inevitably end Indian rule.” Accordingly, “India is just as determined to avoid ever holding a vote, or allowing any outside intervention in Kashmir… The issue of Indian-ruled Kashmir deserves world attention. Its long-oppressed Muslim majority has been misruled and brutalized by India, and denied the right to vote on its future in direct violation of a series of UN resolutions.”

It is therefore important to also note the findings of the Indian NGO, the Delhi-based All India Peoples Resistance Forum (AIPRF). An all-India fact-finding team led by AIPRF consisting of twelve members toured the Kashmir valley between 14th September and 18th September 1999. AIPRF decided to send this team to Kashmir valley in the context of the nuclearisation of both India and Pakistan: “The fact-finding team led by AIPRF toured Pulwama, Budgam, Anantnag (Islamabad), Kupwara, Baramulla and Srinagar districts from 14/09/1999 to 18/09/1999. We have interviewed a cross section of people, besides government officials, military personnel and political personalities focussing our attention mainly on the common Kashmiri people. We have listened to heart-rending accounts of the reign of terror unleashed by the Indian security forces and also by pro-government militants, locally called “renegades”. Such accounts speak of custodial killings, crackdowns, indiscriminate firings, rapes, torture, etc. It gave us a semblance of an undeclared military rule.” The AIPRF fact-finding mission concluded that “The Kashmiri peoples aspiration for ‘rayshumari’ (referendum) / hakkhudiradiyat (self-determination) was heard wherever we went. The people of Kashmir do not want to be ‘aliens in their own land’ (“apne hi mulk mein paraye”) any more. Overwhelming majority of them wanted ‘azadi’ [freedom] both from India and Pakistan. They expressed the desire for a united Kashmir including India and Pak-occupied Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh.”

How many more tears and how many more martyrs

2010-06-01T23:56:00.000-07:00

I was recently aboard a truck coming from Machil(Kupwara)and going towards Sogam when we were stopped in the Lolab area by a group of children aged between approx 13 and 16 asking for a ride to Baramullah, Our driver who knows the area like the back of his hand stopped and asked them to get in, they were 7 in total and boarded the truck from the back as the driver had in the morning unloaded a consignment in Khanchakh and therefore the truck was empty. Now you may be wondering what the hell was I doing in Machil(A remote border village), I was there to get information on how the Indian SLUMMIES recently martyred 3 more innocent civilian Kashmiris and then passed them off as foreign mercenaries trying to cross the line of control.READ THE STORY HERE

Trying to get myself out of the deep melancholy that had settled upon my being ever since I saw those mothers weeping for their sons in Machil, I struck a chord with one of the boys aged 13 and started to exchange pleasantries with him. What follows now is a snippet of our conversation. I have however changed his name for the sake of human dignity and protection from Indian Slummies.

Me: "So Ahmed why are you going to Baramullah?, you should be at School right now and not having a joy ride to Baramullah??"

Ahmed:"I stopped going to School 3 years ago".

Me: "And why did you stop, you dumb-lazy head"

Ahmed: "Cause the Indian army killed my father and I had to support the family".

Me: "Oh!! Inna Lillahe wa inna illaihi rajiun, why did they kill your father??"

Ahmed: "Nothing, he just had to die, that's it....".

Me: "I am sorry, it's alright if you don't wanna talk about it".

Ahmed: "Well!!!"(Slight hesitation), "my mother was pregnant with my young sister and the labour pains started about 7 in the night, the pregnancy was complicated and therefore she was being treated at District hospital Baramullah, in order to get there you have to go through the LOLAB TIGERS ARMY CAMP and they usually do not let any civilian vehicular traffic pass after 6 PM. My father was trying to negotiate with an army officer that his wife was in serious trouble and that he should be allowed to pass. The army officer would have nothing of it and slapped him in his face, my father who was a docile school teacher could take it no more and called the army officer an Indian bastard. The officer took out his gun and shot him dead on the spot. He was branded as a militant trying to attack the camp and the matter dismissed".

Me: "Oh Ahmed", "my brother I am so sorry, don't know what to say.....just cannot even come close to the anguish you must be going through".

Ahmed: "Its all right, I don't feel anything now".

Me: "So, what do you do nowadays??".

Ahmed: "I help in the packaging of apples at an orchard in Baramullah, earn about 80 rupees a day".

Me: "Is that enough???"

Ahmed: "Its very meager but what choice do I have??","I have to feed my brothers and sisters, don't I??"

Me: "How is your mother coping with all this??"

Ahmed: (With a desolate glance at the mountains) "She died in childbirth","My baby sister was brought home by the driver of the vehicle which was carrying my parents".

SO MANY TERRORIST INDIANS

2010-04-11T02:42:00.000-07:00

It looks like the entire Indian nation is turning into terrorists, I mean there are so many declared terrorist outfits in India that one has to wonder how this is possible without these organisations enjoying huge support bases. This actually means that hundreds of millions of Indians do not want to be Indians.

When I initially went through this list, I was in a state of shock, It was only after verifying these organisations from the home ministries list that I was able to digest the fact that India sure is in deep trouble. Please read and be informed, I have not listed so called terrorist organisations operating from J&K as that would be too much to digest for my Indian friends.

Organizations listed as terrorist groups by India

Northeastern India:
National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
Naga National Council-Federal (NNCF)
National Council of Nagaland-Khaplang
United Liberation Front of Asom
People's Liberation Army
(Manipur)
Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL)
Zomi Revolutionary Front
Bodo liberatiion front

Al-Qaeda:
Students Islamic Movement of India Tehreek-e-Jihad (TEJ)
Pasban-e-Islami (PEI/Hizbul Momineen HMM)
Shora-e-Jihad (SEJ)
Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TUM)

North India:
Babbar Khalsa
Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Dashmesh Regiment
International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
Kamagata Maru Dal of Khalistan
Khalistan Armed Force
Khalistan Liberation Force
Khalistan Commando Force
Khalistan Liberation Army
Khalistan Liberation Front
Khalistan Liberation Organisation
Khalistan National Army
Khalistan Guerilla Force
Khalistan Security Force
Khalistan Zindabad Force
Shaheed Khalsa Force

Central India:
People's war group
Balbir militias
CPM:Marxist

Naxals:
Ranvir Sena

Elections in Kashmir and the tricks employed by Indian agencies to conduct them

2010-03-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

"Kashmiris have VOLUNTARILY voted"
This is the catch phrase Indians are using everywhere they go nowadays and their Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said these words from the ramparts of the red fort on the Indian republic day i.e. August 15 2009.

Now let me go into what actually happened and how the international community was successfully hoodwinked mainly because they allowed the Indians to hoodwink them or perhaps they just are not too interested to go into the nitty gritty cunning debaucheries of Indians in Kashmir. Nevertheless someone has to talk about what actually happened and I hope people do take notice of what I am gonna write here...........

Have you ever wondered about the plight of the villagers surrounded on all sides by brutal slum dog army men...day in day out.......their experience of what happens if you don't come out to vote over the last 3 decades has surely taught them a lesson. If for nothing....then surely just for survival people had to vote.....there are hundreds of cases about what happened to whole villages if they refused to vote. Their suffering wouldn't be apparent straightaway but the Indian army men n intelligentsia would take revenge slowly through barricades, restricted movements, fake encounter killings etc.

Every constituency had more than 25 candidates contesting on an average. Money was spent like water just to make individuals file nomination papers. For a lot of dubious Kashmiris with a fantastic track record, this was a golden opportunity to make some fast moolah. I mean just file your papers n get a lot of moolah (lakhs given to nominees), just make sure your friends and relatives come out to vote for your sake..........
http://www.indian-elections.com/assembly-elections/jammu-kashmir/

Elections were held in segmental garrisons and people could not move from one mohalla to the next if it was outside the prescribed garrison. The elections were conducted over a period of 3 months for a mere voting population of approx 3.8 million people.

Hundreds of pro-freedom political activists/leaders were rounded up and sent to jail thus ensuring that all opposition is smothered.

Omar Abdullah/Farooq Abdullah/Mufti Sayed etc all fought these elections with just one major slogan and i.e.

"THESE ELECTIONS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RESOLUTION OF KASHMIR, THESE ELECTIONS ARE FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE ONLY......PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THE KASHMIR ISSUE IS ALIVE AND KICKING, YOU ARE COMING OUT TO VOTE FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE"

It is amazing how politicians forget these statements when they get into power. None of India's intellectual analysts, journalists, and psephologists bothered to inquire as to why people who had only weeks ago risked everything, including bullets and shoot-on-sight orders, should have suddenly and miraculously changed their minds. None of the high-profile pundits of the great festival of Indian democracy -- who practically dwell in TV studios when there are elections in mainland India, dissecting apart every forecast and exit poll and every minuscule percentile swing in the vote count -- talked about what elections mean in the presence of such a massive, year-round troop deployment (an armed soldier for every 15 civilians).

No one speculated about the mystery of hundreds of unknown candidates who materialized out of nowhere to represent political parties that had no previous presence in the Kashmir valley.
CHECK LIST OF CANDIDATES HERE
Where had they come from? Who was financing them? No one was curious. No one spoke about the curfew, the mass arrests, the lock-down of constituencies that were going to the polls.

Not many talked about the fact that campaigning politicians went out of their way to de-link Azadi and the Kashmir dispute from elections, which they insisted were only about municipal issues -- roads, water, electricity. No one talked about why people who have lived under a military occupation for decades -- where soldiers could barge into homes and whisk away people at any time of the day or night -- might need someone to listen to them, to take up their cases, to represent them.

Bottom line: when you have the dastardly experience of WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T VOTE, THEN JUST FOR MERE SURVIVAL, YOU VOTE.........Azaadi(freedom) can wait a little longer in that case scenario....

I AM TRULY AMAZED AT HOW THE INDIAN PSEUDO-DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM, particularly the media n the academia work.

Regards

Ethnic Cleansing in the biggest Prison on EARTH!!

2010-03-14T16:09:00.001-07:00

The human tragedy of Kashmir is a blotch on the efficacy of the UNITED NATIONS.
Before I start writing, I want all civilized humans to shun their prejudices and go through this statistical report provided by KASHMIR WATCH....

Violence Update
From Jan. 1989 to January 31, 2010
Total Killings * 93,119
Custodial Killings 6,966
Civilians Arrested 116,727... See More
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 105,778
Women Widowed 22,715 (latest estimates will add at least 10,000 more)
Children Orphaned 107,313
Women gang-raped / Molested 9,900

January 2010
Total Killings * 22
Men 19
Women 0
Children 3
Custodial Killings 1
Tortured/Critically Injured 277
Civilians Arrested 41
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 9
Disappeared 1
Women Widowed 7
Children Orphaned 15
Women gang-raped / Molested 0

As reported by Kashmir watch, we now have more than 9900 Kashmiri Muslim women raped by the Indian security forces, more than 93,119 cold blooded killings and by rough estimates more than 107,313 children orphaned

I am not even going to argue over here with the slummies(Indians) about what they are doing to us Kashmiris. My question here is towards the world community at large, to those protectors of human value n human rights etc...where the hell are you guys???? How many more Kashmiris do you want to die before you forcefully ask the brutal Indians to stop their genocide in Kashmir. Is the capitalist mindset of the west gonna make it completely blind to see the human tragedy that Kashmir is. True that India is a great money spinner for the west but does this mean that Kashmiris will have to continue sacrificing their kith n kin at the altar of capitalism.

Why is the west silent over the issue of Kashmir??? Why even after 18 UN security council resolutions has nothing been achieved? Why???

What justification would the world community give to the Kashmiris now if they all go and join Jehadi organizations????

LARGEST CONCENTRATION CAMP THAT HISTORY HAS EVER WITNESSED!!!!!

2010-03-03T15:05:00.000-08:00

SAAM- Evil deceitful REASONING.

DAAM-MONETARY ALLUREMENT to Enemy combatants.

DAND- Severe PUNISHMENT to even women and children amongst the enemy.

BHED-CREATING DIVISIONS on the basis of region, caste, religion and anything base.

The deceitful Indians have used all forms of the chanakya niti in Kashmir and still keep coming up with new versions of the same old niti. On this post, I want to concentrate on the blackout of news emanating from Kashmir by the extremely biased Indian media. The Indian media especially major channels like NDTV,Star News, Zee news, aaj tak etc selectively filter news to suit the interests of the Akhand Bharat pogroms. Human rights violations by the slum dog army which are a daily occurrence in J&K are conveniently discarded when it suits the Indians and if news against the interests of Kashmiri freedom fighters deserves a mention, the Indian slum dogs will give it coverage for months on end. This secular media caters to the selective mindset of the majority of the Indian populace who believe that Kashmir is their Atoot Ang and therefore all Kashmiri Pakistanis should leave and move over to Pakistan. The slimy Indian journalists are so cunning in their debauchery that when interviewing freedom fighters and pro India corrupt Kashmiris, they will side with the corrupt Kashmiris and give them more airtime so that their biased indianised views are heard completely and will cut short the responses of pro freedom Kashmiri leaders.One does not have to be super intelligent to understand the bias in the presentation of media stars like Barkha Dutt, Vikram Chandra, Karan Thapar, MJ Akbar and many other Indian media stalwarts.

Therefore the question that I keep on asking myself continuously is that how can we Kashmiris counter this media blackout and come out winners?, how can we teach the slumdogs a lesson at their own game? Is there a particular regimen that we should follow in order to let the world know how a pseudo-democracy like India really works? How can we let the west know that what the Indians are harping about Kashmir is totally wrong and untrue and they need to hear us Kashmiris on this issue?

I am very confused about how we Kashmiris can tackle this problem against overwhelming odds, I mean we are dealing with an enemy that prefers that 30% of its indigenous aboriginal population starves in the hinterland yet it should have enough soldiers on the ground in Kashmir to keep the millions of Kashmiris imprisoned in the largest Concentration camp that history has ever witnessed i.e. INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR

NEW WEAPONS OF KASHMIRI TERRORIST Bastards!!!!

2010-02-06T12:28:00.000-08:00

It's 7 PM, OMAR SINGH has just made himself comfortable by pouring a relaxing nip of scotch into a fine crystal glass that his mother had brought for him some time ago and now wants to spend the rest of the evening talking about domestic non-sense with Mrs.Singh when the sudden thundering roar startles/deafens him, shakes his bones and sends his glass of limited edition Johny Walker tumbling down the bar-table. "Oww Shit" says an aghast Omar Singh...."what now"...."can't these freakin peasants ever let a man have his vice in peace".Just Yesterday, Omar Singh had to go and seek an appointment with one of the valleys top ENT surgeons cause his eardrums have started to act funny.

The eerie silence of the night shattered by a deafening roar of a thousand lions.....is nothing but the new found weapon of Kashmiris, yes after a prolonged spate of hartal upon hartals which just seemed to hurt no one but Kashmiris in particular, the Kashmiris have now sought out a new weapon to deal with the Indian occupation of Kashmir. This weapon had been in the making for some time but needed various improvisations before it could be put to practice. After due deliberations by Sulla hajaam,Nabir Joo,Moma Bishkan and others it was decided that the weapon should finally be put to use against the Indian occupation. As aptly put forth by chief of the Northern Command General Haibat Advani,The Kashmiris now have started a GUN-LESS revolution which is being funded by the ISI and supported by organizations like Harkat and Lashkar-e-Toiba, Needless to say India is comprehending whether to move the UN security council on the issue of noise pollution, Indians however continue to suppress this Gun-less revolution with bullets,RPG's and extra-judicial killings. The Prime Minister of India, Shri Hitleresh Mussolinikar has categorically stated that India can only talk to the Kashmiri bastards if they stop their gun-less revolution and prostitute themselves to the Indian union.

Try as they might, the Indian war machinery and their intelligence units like RAW(RADICALIZED Asinine/Ano-rectal Warmongers)have been completely unsuccessful in combating this new Kashmiri weapon of massive audibility. The Indian army has now threatened that it will come down heavily on those miscreants who do not let them sleep peacefully after 8pm. At the Unified Central Command meeting today chaired jointly by the Home Minister P Chanakyam and defense minister A Kootneetie, it was decided that the sale of Tin roofs to J&K state will be henceforth stopped. All Kashmiris having Tin roofs will be notified of the central governments decision to prosecute all state-subjects who fail to bring down their tin roofs within the next 15 days. A general amnesty upto mid summer has been granted to people having tin roofs in the far flung areas of Gurez, Kargil and Kupwara etc as it will be extremely difficult for them to bring down their roofs in time due to a severe harsh winter with so much snow on top of their tin roofs that they cannot beat them at all. Failure to bring down their tin roofs and subsequent installation of new environment friendly heavily subsidized fibre-glass roofs (with a very low noise coefficient) will result in the prosecution of Kashmiris under the Noise pollution act of the Indian penal code. Meanwhile the Indian army will continue to use young Kashmiri boys as target practice and their MIG/Sukhoi fighter jets will be flying ever so low around population centers in order to break the sound barrier.

The bad news is that these Kashmiri terrorist bastards will never learn, just today a leading Kashmiri bastard leader (Syed A Strong Gairatani) has asked the people to protest against Indian atrocities by beating their roofs full throttle around 10pm.....exactly when Omar Singh, Farook Azmi and their family are fast asleep.

Now the Million Dollar Question is that after all these harsh serious steps taken by the Indian army n central command, WHAT DO YOU THINK THESE KASHMIRI TERRORIST BASTARDS WILL DO TONIGHT? WILL THEY BANG THEIR ROOFS AT EXACTLY 10 PM or WILL THEY FIRST WATCH THEIR FAVORITE SOAP OPERA ON ONE OF THEIR FAVORITE INDIAN CHANNELS AND THEN BANG THEIR ROOFS AROUND 11 PM?

Dogma of Revenge

2010-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

It’s been almost 61 years when the Indian troops landed in Kashmir after the tyrant Maharaja invited them in order to save his estates and property and to this day the killings of Kashmiris by Indians continue unabated.

Whether it was the betrayal of a poor Kashmiris trust when our Prime Minister was arrested and sent to jail or the betrothal to India of the traitors amongst us (READ Kashmiri Pundits and elitist Pro-India Muslims) who continue to sell, rape and plunder us.....is a question that we all can answer in our own subjugated way but the bottom line is that the Indians continue to kill and maim us in the name of democracy and liberation.

Today, I am asking myself the question that why it is that Indians are hell bent on destroying our lineage, ethnicity and demographics. I think the answer is a conundrum of several historical realities. For centuries, the Indians were relentlessly persecuted and subjugated by people from the North. Whether it was the hordes of Tamer-Lane or the armies of Alexander, Indians have suffered from brickbats all along the known history. In fact the Indian (because of his cowardly/resilient nature) is known the world over as a very submissive individual loyal to his master. It was because of these particular attributes that the British masters took Indians to their territories all over the world. From Fuji in the South Pacific to Guyana in South-America, one can find Indians everywhere. The British knew that they can control no particular race of people better than the Indians and therefore promoted Indian migration allover their held territories of the colonial era.

In Kashmir, the Indians at last see a vent, a window or a door through which they can flush away their anger of centuries. The Indian anger of having been continually subjugated finds in Kashmir a reason....a reason of revenge and authority. The Indians want to prove it to themselves that they can control a race of people which according to their own history contains people (Kashmiris) superior to their own kind.
In other words, Indians through deceit, war-craft, debauchery and statecraft want to prove it to their own kind that they can also be valiant/aggressive and brutal when it comes to pure revenge withheld for centuries.

This I believe is all good and fine for an Indian but as a Kashmiri where does all this place me?
For starters I know that if the world community does not come to my rescue fast, the Indians will not rest until they have skinned the last of my kind alive in one of the many detention/interrogation centers that they have all over the Kashmir valley. I also know that my end as a distinct Kashmiri entity is in close proximity especially when my language (Which is the only Central Asian Dardic language with a literature to boast of) has become just a dialect after the continual onslaught of Hollywood and Hindutva policies on my soil. Add to this the continuous tirade of Fanaticists and Indian nationalists who are hell bent on abrogating article 370 and my day is made.

So, I ask my fellow Kashmiris (who are bearing the brunt of that revenge which the Indians have harbored in their hearts against Northerners from the time Alexander the great Invaded India till when Babur established the Mughal empire), are you Kashmiris ready to fight the Indians till the last drop of blood is left in your veins or are you ready to be assimilated into the vast ocean of the Indian/Dravidian gene pool. The Indians through drinking your Kashmiri blood promise themselves that by doing that, they are quenching a thirst that has accumulated over centuries of plunder/loot of their kind????In other words the Indians won’t rest till they have assimilated you completely and forever.

The Mirage that India will exist forever!!!!

2009-09-22T08:18:00.000-07:00

THE MIRAGE THAT INDIA WILL EXIST FOREVER!!!!!

I sometimes laugh at the arrogance of certain patriotic Indians who vehemently believe that India as a nation state will exist forever. I mean if history teaches us anything at all, it surely does teach us one thing for sure and that is NATION STATES DO NOT LAST FOREVER. Take for example the case of ROME (SUCH WAS THE SCALE OF POWER THAT ROME ENJOYED THAT AT ONE TIME PEOPLE USED TO SAY "THAT ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME"), The empire of Chengez Khan extended from the far eastern shores of China to the Eurasian steppes and beyond (TODAY MONGOLIA IS A LAND LOCKED COUNTRY WHO NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT),The Ottoman Turks who controlled vast tracts of North Africa,Europe and Asia, The British Empire of which it was said that "The SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE", The Soviet Union which is the latest superpower to have gone up into thin air.

Though there are countless other empires which have fallen apart yet what does survive amidst the ruins and ashes is the extreme adaptability of the human race.

India was conceived as a nation a mere 60 years ago although a few scholars may argue that it has existed for a longer time, the blatant truth is that India as a nation never existed before the British formulated it out of many serfdom's/principalities, it however was a land of many different societies/kingdoms with a common culture/religion at various points in history and this common culture bound it into being branded as the land of THE INDUS(HINDE, HINDU, HINDUSTAN are all derivatives of the word Indus). The northeast for example was never ever a part of this same culture/religion and it was the British who brought this place under one banner and gifted the Indians from the central plains of India a swathe of territory that their ancestors could have never ever even dreamt of. India today which according to many is emerging as a giant is nothing but a Goliath who can be blinded by one direct hit from David's catapult. I believe Kashmir is the Indian Goliath's DAVID and although Kashmiris yet do not have a catapult to fire from yet eventually they will acquire one and the day they send that stone into the Goliath's eye, that will be the end of the nation state called India.

Many will laugh at my extreme thought that has this guy gone mad or what is this numskull talking about, I mean is India not a nuclear power (and so was the SOVIET UNION), Is India not a vibrant democracy (and so was the British Empire-it was a parliamentary democracy way before India got its independence), Is India not a military super-power (and so was Rome)......and so on and so forth.

There is an inherent weakness in India that try as it might, it will never be able to overcome and one fine day it will have to disintegrate into maybe 14 or 15 smaller regions. This inherent weakness is multi-faceted but the most prominent amongst them is the issue of regionalism. The Tamils are a people who would scorn at you if you speak in HINDI(THE national language), The Telugu people, The Kannadas, The Marathas or the Bodos....all think differently and are concerned only about their own regions and not the country as a whole (WHY CAN NO SINGLE PARTY FORM A GOVERNMENT AT THE CENTER in today's India). Although many will disagree with me but India's demise will eventually be written by the tribals, scheduled castes, Dalits etc(who form the main crux of naxal cadres). These aborigines(THE REAL INDIANS)are the ones who have suffered the most at the hands of the affluent Indians(upper castes/invaders)and will strike back vehemently. The growing power of the naxals in vast swathes of interior India is a prologue to what is going to follow.

Yes, it may take another 100 years or maybe lesser but India as a nation state cannot and will not survive forever. To think that way will be abusing history in the direst form cause history is just not about digging up of graves. History is a balancer, an epiphany of cohorts and a wake up call.

I would like to sign off with an ODE to the Indians:

I am a Kashmiri, a slave to the Indians.
I am a Kashmiri, a stooge of the Indians.
I am a Kashmiri, an unnecessary truth that needs to be wiped out.
I am a Kashmiri, a dispensable commodity.
I am a Kashmiri, a pseudo-terrorist.
I am a Kashmiri, a casualty of mindless egotism.
I am a Kashmiri, a moron of the highest caliber.
I am a Kashmiri, fit enough to be raped and murdered.
I am a Kashmiri, no trials for me.
I am a Kashmiri, my blood costs nothing.

Grehun (solar eclipse)

2009-07-12T16:08:00.000-07:00

Kashmir, my madre-wattan (mother-land) is under a continual solar eclipse. This eclipse started when the first Indian emperor (AKBAR) entered Kashmir by killing our rightful ruler Yusuf Shah Chakh through trickery.

Today, after approx 400 years the Indians continue their rule over us through trickery, deceit, coversion, subversion, tyranny, state sponsored terrorism and all the dirty rules available to them in the book of YAMA (Lord of death in Hindus).

As if the Indian army/intelligentsia was not enough, our miseries are compounded by the actions of those Kashmiris who call themselves pro-India and mainstream. These Pro-Indian Kashmiris although belonging to a distinct elite minority are quite influential and majorly responsible for our downtrodden state. Yes, I am talking about the Abdullahs, the Muftis, the Soz's, the Sogami's, the Sagar's, the Chodhury's, the Ansari's, the Sadiq's and all those other pro-India political families who for the love of money and power have sold their souls to the Indian union.

Time n again we have come across their deceit, corrupt morals, debauchery and baseness but have always let them go and continue their pro-self/pro-India tirade. These are the people who because of their rampant ubiquitous tyrannical behavior have led us to our present state of affairs.

And what a sad state of affairs it is..........

Rampant murders, Rapes where even pregnant women are not spared, Thousands of orphans and last but not the least more than a 120,000 dead.

Who is responsible?

Is it The Indian Union and their stooges/sycophants in Kashmir or
is it US KASHMIRIS.

Let’s try and analyze who is responsible for our misery.......

Is it that Kashmiri Pandit who went and connived with Akbar about Yusuf Shah Chakh or is it the Kashmiri pro-India Politician of today who is nothing but a reflection of our society as a whole.

What can we do as Kashmiris to stop producing more Omar Abdullah's and his likes? How can we streamline our struggle against this bitter division that is continuously tearing our society apart?

Due to our cunning connivance and total disunity we Kashmiris have lost a lot and to give a few examples are as follows:
1) In the 14th century, we lost our brave army...an army that stood against the might of the Mughal army, we were able to thwart the Mughals seven times (repeat seven times) and had it not been for those traitors who conspired against Yusuf Shah Chakh, we might even be Independent today.

2) Our Language which is a pure remnant of our Aryan ancestry and reached its heights when Habba Khatun took it to poetic delights is now just a mere dialect with a major Dravidian influence.

3) We have lost out on our ethos of religious camaraderie and toleration.

4) Our disintegration continues today when our rulers sit and enjoy power with the same people who rape our mothers and sisters.

What has become of us is pathetic and perhaps beyond repair but maybe and I say maybe a spark in this dark chaos of uncertainty will eventually guide us to a fire which will enlighten our imaginations and once again put us on the path to Nirvana. The hope that every Grehun no matter how long has to end and that the SUN will eventually shine upon us again should continue to drive us forward until we achieve what was taken from us by deceit and trickery.