Kashmir has once again made the global media headlines as civil unrest has gained momentum and is now into its fourth month. Whilst demonstrations in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir are nothing new, the current unrest has been simmering ever since a student was hit with a gas canister on June 11th protest in Srinagar, resulting in his death from injuries sustained.
Ever since, protests have intensified and confrontations with the security forces have been occurring daily. The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that Srinagar airport was closed for the first 15 days of September.
Historically this region has always had protests. An insurgency organised by Pakistan and led by Jihadi groups was the norm in this territory. Such actions were driven by the need to remove Indian occupation. However these prolonged protests have seen civil unrest for the whole summer, it has also claimed the lives of over 80 people.
Kashmir: Past and Present
The British Empire divided the Indian Subcontinent's 565 provinces based upon the demographic make-up. Whilst Kashmir was inhabited by an over whelming majority of Muslims. The Hindu Maharaja joined India against the will of the Muslim population. Thereafter conflict began on the right over Kashmir.
A 1948 UN resolution enforced a ceasefire requiring the withdrawal of both Pakistani and Indian forces in preparation for a referendum, in which the people of Kashmir would decide their final future either with Pakistan or India. The resolution provided no basis for there to be a third choice on the ballot paper of an independent Kashmir.
Pakistan's policy on Kashmir was always that Kashmir was wrestled from them and the return of this land would be achieved in a referendum which would prove that Kashmir with 80% of its population being Muslim an inseparable part of Pakistan. This formed the basis of Pakistan's Kashmir policy. Pakistan accepted the 1948 resolution as inevitably the Muslims would want to be part of Pakistan.
Nehru's India rejected the plan and refused to withdraw its troops. Ever since, the Indian government has consistently distanced itself from a firm commitment to hold a referendum on the territory. The Indian policy has been one of working towards a bilateral solution to the problem of Kashmir and the negation of UN resolutions. The position of the past and present Indian governments has been of a bilateral solution under the Shimla Agreement of 1972 as well as the Lahore Declaration of 1999 and not according to the five decade old UN Security Council resolution. Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said about the UN resolution "The UN Security Council has dealt with this matter over five decades ago. Since then the political, economic, social and demographic realities have changed beyond recognition."
In 2003, General Musharraf began the abandonment of the right of Kashmir for a referendum and liberation from India. This development was significant because no ruler of Pakistan dared to speak directly with India over a resolution for Kashmir. In June 2003 visiting Camp David, Musharraf explicitly announced that his visit had approved a road map to solve the issue of Kashmir and added his readiness for concessions. In order to bolster the relationship with India and to facilitate Indian transition towards a regional bulwark, the US changed its policy towards Kashmir. This was to appease Indian demands to reject UN resolutions and to increase pressure on the Pakistani government to concede to a bilateral solution to Kashmir. The American shift in policy towards Kashmir was because of US desire to solve the issue of Kashmir by favouring India and sidestepping the UN. Pakistan was told to abandon the UN resolution once the war on terror began and the US increased its leverage over Pakistan. Ever since, the Pakistani government, fell obediently into line with the US.
Indian Atrocities
Successive Indian governments have used brutal methods and tactics to maintain their grip on occupied Kashmir. Due to the geography of the area India claims, it costs India much more than Pakistan to continue with the conflict. Maintaining supplies to the Indian troops stationed on the Siachen Glacier costs New Delhi $1 million a day. For these reasons India has historically taken a no-nonsense approach to dealing with indigenous attempts to undermine Indian writ.
In 1990 India implemented the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). This was a special law that allowed Indian armed forces and security personnel to enter homes at will, detain individuals who are potential suspects, arrest without warrant and the use deadly force against suspects - in essence a permanent state of martial law. The law also gives Indian troops immunity in court. Indian forces have continued to randomly set curfews and used shoot-on-site orders.
This is why violent demonstrations alongside curfews take place on an almost daily basis. There is a constant sense of tension on the streets of Srinagar and other towns in Indian-administered Kashmir.
In India, both the ruling Congress Party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party issued statements calling for peace in the region. Manmohan Singh emphasized that the "only path for lasting peace and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir is that of dialogue and discussion." By emphasising India's willingness to peacefully resolve the situation, Singh is trying to undo damage to India's image by the near-daily reports of Indian soldiers injuring or killing Kashmiri protesters. An India that attracts global finance and investments looks bad when images of rioters whether in Kashmir or Hyderabad take to the streets.
Historically India's blamed militants for any attacks in India or Kashmir. It would use this to clamp down on the Muslims under its authority and to create opinion about Pakistan's apparent link to terrorism. However Pakistan under Musharraf under orders by the US abandoned the Kashmiri Jihadi groups and the Kashmiri cause.
What we are witnessing is civil unrest due to India's failure and inability to take care of those under its authority. This is a general problem India's has with all its minorities. This failure is what results in India's brutal methods.
Like Palestine, Kashmir has been neglected by the Muslim rulers. Even Pakistani rulers have attempted to abandon the Kashmiri cause. What Kashmir needs is another Muhammad ibn al-Qasim to liberate the oppressed Muslims of Kashmir.
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muzamil
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ASALAAMUALIKUM BROTHERS. THE OPRESSED MUSLIMS OF KASHMIR ARE CALLING FOR HELP. IS ANYONE WHO CAN HELP IT...... |
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ahmed kashmiri
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This collective genocide that is considered war crimes, crimes against humanity, carried out by Indian occupation forces in Kashmir by the human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights watch. While the entire world stands by silent. Silence of arabs have motivated a third world poor country like India to exaggerate and persist in its terror and crimes against Kashmiri muslims. We believe that this Massacre and siege in Kashmir can be stopped if our Arab brethren respond as it is yours responsibility . This genocide of Kashmiris should be stopped immediately. We consider this savage criminal armed agression targeted all the free persons in the world and blows all the values and principles of the human rights and peace in the world. We are making an urgent appeal to all of you on behalf of women who are standing in dignity besides their men and children in the absence of the basic elements of confrontation, those women and children of Kashmir who are engraving the honour of the land by their pure flesh and blood. We demand from the Arabs the following: 1- Immediate intervention to stop the massacre, and exerting serious effort to oblige Indian state to stop its the siege over kashmir and its genocide operations against unarmed Kashmiri people. Also, to oblige Indian establishment to commit and execute the international resolutions that guarantees Kashmiris self – determination, independence and freedom. 2- Calling the UN Security Council, which deals with the Kashmiri people in dualism way, to defend the humanity and the Kashmiri human rights and to take immediate intervention to stop the Indian aggression, the Indian state sponsored massacre, the river of blood in Kashmir and to take the obligatory decisions that can stop the state sponsored terror of the Indian tate that is committed daily, against the unarmed Kashmiri people by the Indian forces 3- Practicing pressure over the Indian embassies in Arabian gulf region to take an immediate lobby attitude and urgent procedures to break the military siege of Kashmir, open the closed paths, and to stop military aggression against Kashmiris 4- Immediate protection and relief intervention for Kashmiri people 5- Inviting the pro freedom Kashmiri leadership to confront the Indian state aggression and to lead the Kashmiri people towards independence and liberation. INDIA, WORLD'S ONE OF THE (SO CALLED) DEMOCRATIC AND SECULAR COUNTRY. MAHATMA GHANDI - THE FATHER OF THIS NATION ALONG WITH HIS COMPANIONS FOUGHT AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIALISM. BUT ALAS HIS FOLLOWERS THEMSELVES OCCUPIED A NATION FORCIBLY AND SNATCHED FREEDOM OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. WHEN THE DWELLERS OF THIS NATION TRIED TO PROTEST PEACEFULLY THEY WERE TREATED WILDLY AND WHEN THEY TOOK UP ARMS THEY WERE CALLED TERRORISTS. WHERE IS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL? WHERE ARE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS? WHERE IS UNO? WHERE IS BAN KI MOON? WHERE IS USA? WHO WAS ROARING TO GIVE JUSTICE TO IRAQIS WHERE ARE ARABS? DID ARAB MOTHERS FORGET TO GIVE BIRTH TO SALAHUDDIN AYUBI? WHERE IS MOHAMMED IBN QASIM? WHY INDIA DOES NOT FACE ANY SANCTIONS? HAVE A LOOK WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE IN KASHMIR WITH THE INNOCENT KASHMIRIS AND THEIR PROPERTY 02 AUG 2010, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the Kashmir leader has castigated the United Nations and Organization of Islamic Conference for acting as mute spectators to what he said the massacre of Kashmiris by Indian troopers and police. Terming today’s killings of 08 civilians in Pampore and Khrew areas of Kashmir as barbaric, Geelani said the Indian troops were using bullets to suppress the sentiments and aspirations of Kashmiris. “The youth are unarmed and registering their resentment against the barbaric Indian occupation. However, the Indian troopers are firing indiscriminately on them to quell the movement,” he said. Geelani expressed resentment over what he said the silence of UN and OIC over the killings in Kashmir. “If the OIC and UN are sincere they should take cognizance of the killing spree and impress upon India to stop the killings and resolve the dispute according to the UN resolutions,” he said. He urged Pakistan to press for right to self-determination of Kashmiris. Geelani maintained that peaceful protests would continue till India does not accept Kashmir as a disputed territory. All Greetings and solidarity from resilient kashmiri people. All the respect and admiration to the Martyrs Long live the resistance of the glorious people across the globe from Palestine to Chechnya to Kashmir..Allah is great Long live the resistance, free and dignified by its women, men and children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOk0kRrhCA http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Jul/31/-cops-ransack-houses-beat-inmates--25.asp |
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ahmed kashmiri
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AN URGENT APPEAL FROM KASHMIRI PEOPLE TO ARAB PEOPLE AND ARAB RULERS TO STOP ARMED AGRESSION OF INDIAN MILITARY FORCES IN INDIAN OCCUPIED JAMMU KASHMIR Peace be upon you all O Arab men, O Arab Rulers, please listen to the drying tears and piercing cries of kashmiri people. Young and old , Women and Kids are being slaughtered in broad day light by Indian armed forces. See these pictures of unarmed kids and women who are being murdered by ruthless indian army . Indian terrorist army is killing protestors with live ammunition. Even funerals are not spared. Indian army are using bombs and live bullets to disperse the crowd. We request your conscience to protest the indian state sponsored aggression in kashmir. We request you to remember our miserable plight when you are living a life of peace in your countries. We request you with bleeding bodies and dying souls to shoulder a little responsibility which our prophet mohammad peace be upon him put on you on his last pilgrimage to Makkah on the mountain of Arafat Kashmir is a disputed territory recognized by united nations of which one part is in pakistan and other part is occupied by India. Our homeland is called heaven on earth with its endless scenic beauty. Mountains, lakes, flowing water streams and saffron fields. We in no way resemble india whether it is culture , dress, language or customs. We are ninty five percent muslim population and if you look at the faces of kashmiris we resemble arabs or turks but no way to Indians. We never had any similarity to Indian state in any manner. This paradise like place has been turned into a living hell by the indian armed forces. They are on a killing mission .More than hundred thousand young boys have been murdered by indian occupying forces in our homeland. Thousands of young boys have disappeared in Indian jails. Equal number of boys are languishing in filthy Indian jails. Billions worth of property has been looted and torched. Thousands and thousands of people have been maimed, displaced and disabled in torture cells of india. Thousands of our women have been molested by the Indian terrorists in uniform . This bloodbath continues unabated even today. Every day we are carrying dead bodies of our kids . An arab channel like aljazeera is talking indian language with a hindu reporter Ms. prayerna suri talking the official Indian viewpoint about Kashmir thus giving the biased news from Kashmir . Pakistan is not helping us anymore as they are involved in their internal strife. We are not armed. We are helpless, we have nothing but hope in God and his help. There are more than 800,000 Indian army stationed in our homeland to maintain the forceful presence of indian hegemony in our homeland Kashmir. Our cities have been turned into military zones. Every second door there is an Indian soldier standing to kill our kids and molest our women. Yes these are the same indian people who are working in your homes as servants and drivers. These people are working in your countries from labor jobs to managerial positions. These very Indians are having dozens of restaurants in arab countries from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. It is not Israel or America you will be scared . It is a third world country . A poor country like india daring to slaughter muslims because of the criminal silence of Arab world. We request you that you boycott Indian products , Indian restaurants , Indian labour in your countries. If you are unable to action for us, we appeal to your conscience that you for the sake of humanity to protest the Indian state sponsored genocide in Kashmir. We request you to stop promoting Indian movies in Arabic like Zee Aflam and similar channels which are giving a upside down picture of muslims and islam. The films which are promoting ignorance and negative picture of islam and muslims in your countries and turning a blind eye towards the Indian state sponsored terror in Occupied Jammu Kashmir. |
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Gul Khan
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Real face of India in Kashmir.... http://www.jammukashmir.tv/hum...n+security |
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