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Musharraf’s Agra
summit: an Indian Muslim perspective
General
Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, came, saw and
returned without conquering: not Kashmir but his ancestral
home at Naharwali Haveli, Delhi. Yet another summit-level
talk between India and Pakistan had collapsed. Both
India and Pakistan were preoccupied with their own political
ambitions and not really concerned with the barbarous
treatment of people in Kashmir.
Any summit-level
meeting excluding representatives of the people of Kashmir
is invalid, so it is immaterial whether talks ‘succeed’
or fail. To address the problem of Kashmir as an "issue",
"dispute" or "core issue", and at
the same time hope for a solution, are divergent aims
that neither India nor Pakistan can accommodate in their
political agenda. Musharraf was apparently being bold
when he insisted on Kashmir’s being a "core issue".
Indian prime minister Vajpayee, on the other hand, stuck
to the view that Kashmir is at the core of "Indian
nationhood", thus betraying the anti-Muslim agenda
of his Brahminist regime.
More than
700, 000 troops confront less than 5 million civilians
in the valley. The experience of military repression
has been brutalizing and humiliating. No chronicle can
accurately depict what the people of Kashmir have endured.
The atrocities include torture, gang-rape, cold-blooded
murder and disappearances. Human-rights activists have
documented more than seventy thousand killings and a
similar number of disappearances in the valley. The
horrifying number of ‘disappearances’ exceeds the scandalous
proportions reached in Pinochet’s Chile. The systematic
genocide practised by the Brahminist regime of India
on the predominantly Muslim people of Kashmir is unforgiveable.
Any summit-level
meeting ignoring this grim reality is bound to be fruitless.
India’s Brahminist regime was earlier adamantly opposed
to a discussion on Kashmir involving Pakistan. However,
the Agra summit took shape under compelling circumstances.
Huge defence-budgets involved in Kashmir were a matter
of concern. Moreover, Indian commanders have consistently
admitted that winning the war in Kashmir by military
means alone is impossible, and demanded that political
solutions be sought. As the brutality of the Indian
troops increases, the determination of the mujahideen
increases. The summit was intended to confuse or derail
the confidence of the mujahideen. However, it is too
late to play such tricks on the Kashmiris; they have
realised that jihad is the only way for them to liberate
themselves. Separatist movements elsewhere, especially
in the northeastern part of India, have also gained
momentum because of the Kashmiri mujahideen. This development
has demoralised the Indian security apparatus; desperate
to tackle these problems, the summit is yet another
ploy to divert attention from ‘internal’ problems.
Lastly,
it would be unfair to ignore the enormous pressure imposed
externally on both India and Pakistan to ‘resolve’ the
Kashmir problem. The location of Kashmir on the borders
of China and central Asia is of great strategic importance.
The US has already shown signs of being willing to interfere
to ‘solve’ the dispute if necessary. Kashmir may be
divided into convenient portions or told to exist ‘independently’.
However, the US will make sure that it has firm control
over the strategic location of Kashmir, given its proximity
to China and central Asia. Interestingly, China would
also be wary because of the potential influence from
Kashmir on the Uighur Muslims of eastern Turkestan.
The Americans, Zionists and Brahminists will never accept
the people of Kashmir dictating their own terms for
a real solution.The only real Kashmiri liberation possible
is thus rightly identified as jihad waged by the mujahideen
in Kashmir.
Courtesy:
Resurgence Online. For more news from a Indian Muslim
perspective, please visit www.resurgenceonline.com.
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