Kashmir: The burning paradise
A report by Ash-r Ali (10th Class)
Calling the issue of the ailing valley of Kashmir “a hot potato” would rather be an understatement. Everyone knows about Kashmir for a reason or another - to some, it is a Godly piece of architecture, an immaculate, flawless beauty while others are more interested in its current geopolitical situation, something which has borne attentions from minds from the last 70 years. The value of Kashmir, known as the heaven of earth, has been the primary cause of tensions between the two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan for the last 7 decades. Gone are the days when Kashmir was cited as a region filled with merry squeaks of children, the cheerful Kashmiri folksongs and marked with the aroma of spices brought from far east. As I write - today - the vale is going through one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the recorded history to date.
The lively valley once bustling with the crowd now echoes with the cries of helpless Kashmiri people, its gravely soundless streets gazing back into the eyes of the viewer. The subjugation of the valley by so-called protective Indian forces has done nothing other than bringing agony and misery to the lives of suppressed local inhabitants, a fact viewed from their eyes and read from their faces.
In the past 30 years, as the records suggest, 47,000 people have died along with 3,400 disappearances in the suppressed valley. And these are only the figures approved by the tyrant Indian government. No one knows how many other mothers have lost their kids and how many other sisters have been deprived of their brothers.
Speaking about the women of the valley, the figures which were the embodiment of virtues in all these years, I’m not able to describe in words the innumerable cases of rapes and ill-conduct done with them.
What are the misdeeds of the Kashmiri people? Is being their Muslims enough to justify the infliction of such genocide by the tyrant Indian forces? Or the fact that years of struggle and raising of voice from Kashmiri nationalists against the illegal occupant forces makes them invalidated from living in their own homeland?
The first nervous impulse that strikes the human mind in such arguments is why the world supports such atrocities in the first place? Why is Modi given a peace award by the UAE? Why was the PM of Myanmar given the award of peace by Oxford? The answer is very simple. The whole world runs on monetary influence nowadays. Pakistan has recorded innumerable protests, both locally and internationally, raising voice for our brother Kashmiris which is justly, rightly and justly part of Pakistan. An example is the recent PM Imran Khan's speech in the UNGA, whose core principle was the emphasis on the issue of Kashmir.
Now coming again to the point, why these significant measures haven’t borne any significant fruit? “The monetary influence”. I would again mention it. India is having one of the largest GDP in the world. Its trade links in the whole world make it able to control the decisions in UNO and elsewhere.
As I write, there has been constant curfew inflicted to date after imposing the unjust bill passed in the Indian parliament on 5th August 2019 about the accession of princely states which doesn’t take into account any of the views of people of Kashmir.
The only gleam of hope in these dark days is that the thirst for Freedom still hasn’t been wiped out in Kashmiri Muslims. Pellet Guns and Tear gases haven’t done anything other than increasing the intensity of Kashmir's struggle. Not far is the day when the 1.2 crore Muslims will achieve their well-deserved Freedom from oppressive Indian rulers.
Lazim hi ke hum bhi dekhein ge.
