News:
For
weeks, Indian-administered Kashmir has been plunged into the worst violence in
the region for some years. There has been a curfew and bloody clashes between
protesters and security forces, all sparked by the death of a popular, young
militant leader.
Comment:
The
despicable use of force by Indian security services to silence Kashmiris is a
bloody stain permanently etched onto India’s sham democracy. In fact, India is
a longstanding member of democratic nations that frequently slaughter Muslims
and pillage their resources in the name of democracy and freedom.
The
uneven handed approach of India’s security forces towards Kashmiris is not new.
Over the years, India has routinely deployed overwhelming force and extra
judicial measures to quash any form of dissent and subdue the Kashmiri people.
India’s
brutal force is accompanied by two notable concerns. First, the Kashmiris are
not the only separatist movement. There are some twenty odd movements that aspire
to cede from India, but Kashmiri separatist sentiments are viewed to be the
most dangerous by the Indian establishment and occupy a significant proportion of
Indian armed forces to quell dissent. India fears that any concessions made to
the Kashmiris will increase the demand of other separatist groups thereby
compromising the country’s territorial integrity.
Second,
India overtly subscribes to the idea that Pakistan has a hand in stoking
resentment and orchestrating the Kashmiri rebellion. There is some element of
truth but this does not underplay the injustices suffered by the Kashmiris for
the past 70 years at the hand of successive Indian governments.
Pakistan
only interferes in Kashmir at the behest of America, and has always exploited
Kashmiris to fulfill American objectives. The purpose of the Kashmir uprising
in the late 1980s was to internationalize the issue and weaken the Indian
economy. By doing so, America was able to intervene in India’s domestic affairs
via the UN and IMF.
The
aim of the recent uprisings is to rekindle the normalization process between
India and Pakistan and lay the groundwork for an American inspired settlement
of Kashmir post US-presidential elections. America covets peaceful relations
between New Delhi and Islamabad, so that India under US tutelage can
effectively counter America’s latest adversary China. Apart from Sharif, Modi
and sellouts from the Kashmiri resistance movements most people are oblivious
to America’s role in fomenting dissent to attain her interest in the
sub-continent. America is able to conceal its devious plans by exploiting
divisions between India and Pakistan. Had India remained united and never
partitioned it would have been difficult for America to exploit such
sentiments. More importantly, had Muslims continued to rule by Islam the
Kashmiris and other minorities would never had felt the need to separate.
To
prevent the exploitations of Kashmiris, Muslims in both India and Pakistan must
work together to return the land of the Sub-continent to Islamic rule via the
establishment of Khilafah Rashidah (Caliphate) upon the Method of the
Prophethood. Only then will the bloodshed stop and peace will return to Hind.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut
Tahrir by
Abdul
Majeed Bhatti
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