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The Implacable Schism: Pakistan and India

"Through the United Nations Security Council, we are studying it now, we will raise it in General Assembly, we will talk to heads of States at every forum... we will raise it in the media and tell the world."
"I am afraid that [India] will now carry out ethnic cleansing in Kashmir."
"They will try to remove the local people and bring in others and make them a majority, so that the locals become nothing but slaves."
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

"What was a temporary and transient provision cannot be treated as permanent. It had to go."
"No dynamic nation can allow this situation to continue. A historical wrong has been undone today."
"My compliments to the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji and the Home Minister Shri Amit Shah for correcting a historical blunder."
"J&K [Jammu and Kashmir] integration with India took place in October 1947. Article 370 came into force in 1952, Article 35A came in 1954, four and seven years later respectively. How can Articles 370 and 35A be a condition precedent to merger?"
"The decision of the government will help the people of J&K the most. More investment, more industry, more private educational institutions, more jobs and more revenue."
Arun Jaitley, BJP Leader

Reuters, Protesters in Lahore, Pakistan chant slogans at a rally expressing solidarity with Kashmir

China, which has done just that, importing Han Chinese to Tibet and to Xinjiang to water down the presence of Tibetans and Uyghurs to 'formalize' and present a picture of Chinese-style legalization of majority rule in both occupied territories; the former which has independent Tibet a part of China, the latter to dampen aspirations for separation from China, exercises the classic, symbolic stance of "do as I say not as I do", in supporting Pakistan in its claims for Kashmir, as opposed to India's administering of the long-disputed territory. According to China, India's declaration of Kashmir's total administration by India is "unacceptable".

Violence flares up constantly within the disputed area of Kashmir. And it is usually Pakistan and its military and most particularly its Inter-Services Intelligence agency that has stirred up passions, grooming Kashmiri Pakistanis to launch violent attacks against the Indian-administered area. The two nuclear-armed neighbours have come close to the outbreak of war in the past over Kashmir. India originally signed Article 370 in its constitution 70 years ago to accommodate Pakistan when it broke away from India as a sovereign state.

What India has reaped for all of those years is Muslim fanatical attacks in a concentrated determination to rid Kashmir of Indian rule altogether. The new decree revoking Kashmir's shared status can be seen as a direct result of Pakistan's incitement to Kashmiri Pakistanis to view themselves as victims of Indian Hindu discrimination who must agitate against India. The violence that flares up from time to time has worn India's patience thin. Leading Narendra Modi, a nationalist, to decide the issue once and for all.

India controls Kashmir and Pakistan had a semblance of autonomy in its segment which it abused, overplaying its hand time and again. India, as the country with the third-largest Muslim population in the world, is well placed to declare itself more than able to administer Kashmir entirely without the intervention of Pakistan whose role in fomenting unrest and violence led the way toward stripping it of any authority in Kashmir. Tellingly, in view of a militant backlash to complement the fury of Pakistan, Kashmir has been overrun with Indian troops intent on keeping the peace.

Getty Images   Kashmir is one of the world's most militarised zones

 Placed under house arrest, a former chief minister of the region, spoke of the decision as the "darkest day in Indian democracy. It will have catastrophic consequences for the subcontinent. They want to change the demography of the only Muslim majority state in India, and disempower Muslims to the extent where they become second-class citizens", she stated.

Labels: India, Kashmir, Militancy, Pakistan, Sovereignty, Violence

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, August 07, 2019