Afshain Afzal
The state citizens of disputed Jammu and Kashmir are not Indian
nationals and are struggling for their independence from the Indian
illegal occupation of their state. Jammu and Kashmir state is among
those numerous independent states of British India who were forcibly
included in Indian union without any legal provision.
Struggle for independence is their fundamental and legitimate right
guaranteed by United Nations but a drama is being staged as if internal
unrest in India is linked with freedom struggle in held Jammu and
Kashmir state, insurgency in the North East and left wing movement in
the country. In a recent statement, Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB)
chief disclosed, “The spread of Indian Mujahideen (IM) is the biggest
threat to Indian internal security”. A week earlier, while addressing a
three-day conference of Directors General of Police (DGPs) he dubbed
members of IM as terrorists and declared the organization as threat to
the world peace. Interestingly, the worthy well informed Intelligence
chief failed to realize that Indian Mujahedeen are Indian nationals and
his statement would be an evidence that proves that home-grown terrorism
comes from within India. One wonders how New Delhi could miss another
opportunity to blame neighbouring Pakistan and freedom struggle in Jammu
and Kashmir state behind the acts of terrorism in India. It appears
that there is a communication gap between New Delhi and its Intelligence
network as IM has nothing to do with independence movement in Jammu and
Kashmir. It seems that the statement has been propagated to hide the
series of terrorist acts carried out by Hindu extremist groups, who have
already made confession before Indian courts with regard to their
involvement in Mumbai, Bangalore, Nandand, Samjhota Express and other
bomb blasts.
Confessing Indian home-grown terrorism, Indian Union Home Minister,
Sushil Kumar Shinde claimed, “The terror outfit IM is responsible for
three out of four terror attacks that have taken place in the country
this year while the forth blast that took place in Bangalore was the
handiwork of some misguided Indian fundamentalist belonging to Al-Ummah
outfit”. The Home Minister pronounced, “India is facing multifarious
challenges on the internal security front in the form of militancy in
Jammu and Kashmir insurgency in some parts of the North East, the threat
of left wing extremism and terrorism in hinterland of the country”. In
other words, the Minister has admitted that terrorists behind Hyderabad
twin blasts, explosions in Bodhgaya, Patna and Bangalore were carried
out by Indian home grown terrorists. In the same regard, Indian
government claims major breakthrough in fight against terrorism by
arresting hundreds of Indian terrorists in order to bring them to
justice. With all the respect for Indian IB’s judgment in
differentiating between freedom struggle, insurgency and terrorism, how
they term Kashmiris’ links with Kashmiris across the Line of Control
(LOC) in Pakistan as insurgency, when right of self-determination of
Kashmiris on both sides of LOC have been recognized by UNSC’s
resolutions. No doubt, the artificial LOC cannot stop the Kashmiris
including the minority to visit their own land on the other side.
During the recent Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) at New Delhi, top Kashmiri
leader Syed Ali Geelani as well as other Kashmiri leaders of repute met
the Pakistani delegation and demanded a resolution on the Kashmir issue.
Although, under the mutual agreement between the representatives of
Hindus (All India National Congress) and Muslims (All India Muslim
League) on partition, state of Jammu and Kashmir as well as other
independent states were to be dealt vide Cabinet Mission Plan but in
1955 India backed out from the agreement and illegally announced held
Jammu and Kashmir state as integral part of India. The Resolutions of
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed in 1948 and 1949,
accepting the right of self-determination of Kashmiris through
plebiscite was also not honoured by New Delhi. Criticizing meeting of
Kashmiris with their Pakistani brothers on the sidelines of ASEM, Indian
puppet Chief Minister of disputed Jammu and Kashmir-state, Omar
Abdullah while dubbing Kashmiris as enemies of India said, "The biggest
misfortune of Kashmiris is that our enemies are not outside our state,
we ourselves are our enemies." The Kashmiris are behind the ‘Iron
Curtain’ but how long the civilized countries of the world and
International humanitarian organizations would ignore right of
elf-determination of these Indian black propaganda ridden state
citizens, internationally recognized as refugees.
It is interesting to note that Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh in
his address to the UN General Assembly this year pronounced UN
Resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir outdated, asked Pakistan to shut down
terrorist machinery on its soil and said that there can be no
compromise on the territorial integrity of India of which Jammu &
Kashmir is an integral part. He said, "State-sponsored cross-border
terrorism is of particular concern to India, also on account of the fact
that the epicentre of terrorism in our region is located in our
neighbourhood in Pakistan." If we analyse the statement of Chief
Minister of disputed Jammu and Kashmir state we would come to the
conclusion that Kashmiris who vow for the right of self-determination on
the basis of UNSC resolutions are treated as enemies of India, “... our
enemies are not outside our state, we ourselves are our enemies." One
wonders why India fails to track back her own statements about its home
grown terrorism and malign Pakistan for terrorism on India soil at
international forums and platforms. It has become a routine for Indian
leaders visiting foreign countries during conferences, seminars,
workshops and high level visits to malign Pakistan for her own misdeeds
but this time they have crossed all limits and dubbed their own Muslim
minority as terrorists. The international intelligence community has
been so much brainwashed by Indian agencies and leadership that they are
unable to distinguish between persons holding hard-line beliefs for
independence and terrorists. It is an open secret that the Indian Army
Northern Command and Para Military Forces have been tasked by New Delhi
to hunt Kashmiris in fake encounters and operations, just like wild
rabbits, in order to prove their link with other half of their state in
Pakistan. Kashmir living in Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir state are
lucky that their state is not under the Indian Union otherwise their
fate would not have been different from Indian Muslims who are dubbed as
Indian Mujahideen.
New Delhi is much perturbed as Indian terrorists have penetrated in a
number of foreign countries including Gulf and neighbouring South Asia
states. According to an estimate, alone in Pakistan, over 4.8 million
Indian national are residing illegally. Most of them penetrated
illegally after 1972 and many of them have even arranged computerized
national identity cards to evade their illegality and are in occupation
of abandoned properties. In the recent past, on the request of Indian
government, Saudi Arabia has deported three wanted Indian terrorists,
who have been identified as Abu Jundal, who was involved in Mumbai
attack, IM activist Fasih Mohammed, who was involved in Delhi and
Bangalore blasts and another terrorist Abdur Rayees, who was involved in
2009 explosive haul case in Kerala. Few day back New Delhi has again
requested Saudi Arabia to deport a group of another four Indian
terrorists, who entered Saudi Arabia on Indian passports. The said so
called terrorists are claimed to have been involved in bomb blasts
Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and New Delhi. It has also come also
come to light that a number of Indian terrorists have been successful in
acquiring Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali passports to operate their
terrorist activities from other countries. One wonders how a country
like India can dreams permanent seat in UNSC when it dubs its own Muslim
minority as terrorists and is not ready to honour UNSC resolutions.
The writer may reached afshain@hotmail.com