Indian Occupied Kashmiris: “no solution to the Kashmir issue other than merger with Pakistan,” Gilani “Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai” (We are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours).

|  RUPEE NEWS | August 23rd, 2008 | Moin Ansari |  معین آنصآرّی | Indian Occupied Kashmiris have made it very clear to the world that they not only want freedom from Indian occupation, they have made it clear to the world that they want  to join Pakistan.  Indian Occupied Kashmir:-Children of the stones yearn for freedom and Pakistan. “We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam,” he roared, as the crowd cheered him and chanted: “Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai” (We are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours). Syed Gilani

Fed on a steady diet of triumphalist media reports it is very hard for the Hinduvata India to comprehend. Very recently parts of the Indian press has begun to recognize the real problems.

The war cry for ‘azaadi’ in the volatile valley of Kashmir has suddenly found a chorus among some of Delhi’s sharpest thinkers. Ironically, and unnoticed in the current breathless discourse, the advocates of azaadi come from two entirely extreme positions. There is the ultra-liberal faction that has always seen India as the oppressor and the Kashmiri people as her throttled victims. While they propagate self-determination in the Valley, for many of these commentators, the citizenship of a Nation-State is at best an irrelevance and at worst a jingoistic anachronism. Arundhati Roy, for example, famously declared herself to be an “independent, mobile republic”, while protesting the nuclear tests.Our politicians also need to pay much closer attention to the sense of neglect perceived in Jammu. You can’t let its people feel that just because their sentiment is not separatist, it figures lower on the list of priorities. And if azaadi is now a palatable word in drawing-room debate, how about making a more realistic start with autonomy? Autonomy proposals for all three regions of the state have been gathering cobwebs for close to a decade. How about wiping the dust off those files and resurrecting their suggestions?

The other (and opposite) lobby is batting for freedom precisely because it believes in an idea of an India that should no longer be held back by the violent and contentious history of Kashmir. These writers, (my friend and HT’s Vir Sanghvi prominent among them) make a cold cost-benefit analysis to argue that India has spent more political energy and taxpayers’ money in the Valley than in any other state, but with no results to show for it. India, they say, doesn’t need lecturing by two-bit countries on Kashmir; it’s time to leave the past behind and embrace the future.

 

In the end, that old fox Pervez Musharraf may have had it right. Before you can seriously look at sub-nationalism, you have to first find a way of making borders irrelevant, or at the very least, porous. But the government has to first react like it understands the gravity of the problem. And we need to pull our political class out of its slumber instead of pushing them deeper into stupor by going on about how tired we are of a dispute called Kashmir.
Barkha Dutt is Group Editor, English News, NDTV

Upping the ante, Geelani told the mammoth gathering at the Tourist Reception Centre, a short distance from the UN office: “We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam.” Thai Indian

“We ask India to start a dialogue over Kashmir, open the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road for trade and release all Kashmiris in Indian jails,” he said. Thai Indian

“I said the Delhi-based electronic channels and the owners of the print media were acting as part of India’s war machine in Kashmir by blacking out the recent developments in J&K.” NDTV Arabia

Indian Occuped Kashmir: Protesting for merger with Pakistan

Other Indian authors are also discussing Kashmir like never before:

Gandhi has equated the unrest in Jammu and the Valley to Muslim versus Hindu whereas Advani has said in the third para of his letter, “The problem in J&K today is not Hindu versus Muslim, nor is it even Jammu region versus the Valley. It is essentially nationalists versus the separatists.”

“Kashmiris chant azadi & Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan in equal numbers and with equal intensity” “There was a green flag on every lamp post, every roof, every bus stop and on the top of chinar trees. A big one fluttered outside the All India Radio building. Road signs were painted over. Rawalpindi they said. Or simply Pakistan” Arundhati Roy on Kashmir

Geelani calls for merger with Pakistan August 18th, 2008 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS -

Srinagar, Aug 18 (IANS) Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani Monday demanded the merger of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan, as leaders of the moderate Hurriyat faction spoke about independence and a dialogue over the state.Addressing a mammoth gathering at the tourist reception centre here, Gillani said there was “no solution to the Kashmir issue other than merger with Pakistan“.

“We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam,” he roared, as the crowd cheered him and chanted: “Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai” (We are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours).

Taking a dig at the moderate Hurriyat leaders who shared the stage with him, Gillani said the leadership issue of the Kashmiri separatist movement was “solved today”.

“Do you have faith in my leadership? I will be faithful to you till my death and will carry everyone along,” he said, as the crowd applauded him shouting in unison “zaroor” (certainly).

Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in his speech earlier called for a trilateral dialogue over Jammu and Kashmir, whose ownership is disputed by India and Pakistan.

“We ask India to start a dialogue over Kashmir, open the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road for trade and release all Kashmiris in Indian jails,” he said.

Pro-independence leader Yasin Malik said that Kashmiris want “complete freedom” - implying from both India and Pakistan.

However, Gillani countered their remarks saying all these issues would be solved once Kashmiris get their right to self-determination and merge with Pakistan.

The two factions of the Hurriyat Conference had been at loggerheads till recently but got united when the Kashmir Valley saw protests against the transfer of government land to the Amarnath shrine management two months ago.

The state government cancelled the order - provoking protests in Jammu region and triggering an unprecedented communal divide in the state.

‘Restore trade through LoC’ Srinagar, DHNS:

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, on Saturday announced that the ongoing agitation in Kashmir would end only after trade is restored through Srinagar-Muzaffarabad (PoK) road.

He was addressing a public rally in the saffron rich town of Pampore, 23 km from here. Thousands of people attended the rally which was held to pay tributes to senior Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Azad, who was killed in police firing on a Muzaffarabad-bound march on August 11. Pampore was the ancestral town of Sheikh.

Mirwaiz said the resumption of trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road was imperative in view of the economic blockade of the Kashmir valley by protesters in Jammu.

He said a march would be taken out to the UN military observers’ group (UNMOG) office here on Monday to lodge a protest against the alleged economic blockade of Kashmir.

In his speech, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of hardline faction of the Hurriyat, appealed to the UN secretary-general to send a team to Kashmir to take stock of the situation.

He called upon leaders of mainstream parties to join the separatist movement failing which a call would be issued for a social boycott against them.

Kashmir strike witnessed Pak flags, Jinnah posters(Merinews)

The leaders who shared the tables with the all party team, held aloft Pakistan flags and big portrait of Jinnah on Monday. Centre has adopted a Nelson’s eye approach towards Kashmir, while Jammu bashing has become a habit with those at the helm..