September 14, 2019
Chaos, confusion, conundrum on Kashmir
By Syed Rifaquat Ali
With the abrogation of Article 370 and 35a on August 5 and total shut down in Kashmir, including the house arrest of ex-chief ministers -Farouk Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti -- and other tall leaders and thousands of civilians, the BJP government may be giving a second thought of embarking on a path which may boomerang as there is chaos, confusion and conundrum in the Valley called a paradise.
The central government had not taken the Opposition into confidence before treading on such a dangerous course for which it will now pay a heavy price. It is more than a month and Kashmir has now turned into a prison.
Men, women and children are feeling the heat and their anger may snowball into militancy and terrorism once they are set free. As one Kashmiri remarked the other day: the only option left is that every Kashmiri should pick up a gun to fight against the barbaric Indian forces.
There are media news that young children are being tortured. An eighteen-year-old boy is alleged to have told the army brute: don't torture me, but kill me.
Such is the plight of the Kashmiri people today.
The Indian prime minister Narender Modi, who was banned from entering America when he was the chief minister of Gujarat where about two thousand Muslims were killed, talks of uplifting the lifestyle of Kashmiri Muslims just to throw dust into the eyes of the people and befool the world.
His sinister design is writing on the wall and the Muslim community should not fall into his trap.
The RSS is bent upon to erase the Muslim culture in India which is a moonshine. And Modi is part of this nefarious design as he wears the mantle of RSS: an organisation that never took part in India's struggle for independence and sided with the British before 1947.
The RSS has no shame that it gloats over the killing of Mahatma Gandhi and labels
Nathuram Godse, the killer, as a nationalist. Today Kashmir is a hell on this planet and
the United Nations is just silent and hangdog.
What steps UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has taken to stop the brutalities in Kashmir? Any debate on Kashmir in the United Nations is meaningless and the only option left is referendum.
The will of the people of Kashmir must prevail.
For how long the central government will keep Kashmir under siege? Once the restrictions are lifted, perhaps there will be anarchy in Kashmir and implacable violence and the central government will not be able to quell it.
Syed Rifaquat Ali is Sydney-based journalist
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