Liberating Kashmir

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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:58

That India’s atrocities being committed on the people of Kashmir to break their will to attain freedom and keep them under subjugation, have not weakened their resolve to get rid of its yoke, is testified every moment in the streets of the occupied land, in the towns, big and small.

The sword constantly hanging over their heads, as the Indian security forces shoot and kill with the impunity that the black law - AFSPA - gives them, has failed to deter the intrepid Kashmiri youth from raising the cry for liberation, with Kashmir banay ga Pakistan (Kashmir will form part of Pakistan) on their lips.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, addressing a seminar on Kashmir at Lahore on Saturday, reflected the desire of the people living under the Indian occupation, in AJK and in the Diaspora, when he urged the government of Pakistan not to diverge from the principled stand, which dictator Musharraf had abandoned, on the right of self-determination for the Kashmiris to decide about their future.
While the disputed state has never been off the agenda of durable peace in the subcontinent as far as Pakistan is concerned, it is in particular focus these days because of the expectation that the start of the stalled process of negotiations between the two countries had created. But Indian Foreign Minister Krishna, who was in Islamabad last week, could not take off his eyes from the spectre of terrorism which, though a problem that would not go away in the immediate future and which afflicted both countries, his government wanted to be removed before any other business could be discussed. Logically, a well-intentioned leadership in India should be keen to have the dispute resolved as early as possible, to establish a climate of understanding and trust in the region to serve the interests of over 1.25 billion people. New Delhi’s own commitment to the people and the UN Security Council and the persistent wish of Kashmiris to get freedom for which they have rendered great sacrifices, should be other factors compelling it to revisit its policy of intransigence.