INDIA MUST WITHDRAW ITS OCCUPYING FORCES FROM KASHMIR OR PAKISTAN WILL EMPLOY THE FIRST STRIKE OPTION: HABIB YOUSAFZAI KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
As a result of recent skirmishes around the ceasefire line bordering India and Pakistan, also known as the line of control (LoC) in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, deaths have accumulated on both sides. Indian Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha called for ‘10 heads’ from Pakistan. Her exact wordings were, “if his (Hemraj’s) head could not be brought back, we should get at least 10 heads from their side”, referring to Lance Naik Hemraj Singh the soldier who was allegedly beheaded. Swaraj was accompanied by BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. “The question is, will we sit without any reaction and engage in a dialogue? This should not happen. At least the government should react in some way. That is why we have said the government should take some tough measures.” Pakistan has already officially denied this barbarous act and has willingly opted for a United Nation investigation. Ravish Tiwari of The Indian Express commented on January 15, 2013.
Unlike India, Pakistani forces are apt followers of the laws of war as per the Geneva Convention. India is and has historically been a serial violator of aggression. In 1947, it forcibly occupied Junagarah, Manwader, Hyderabad, and 42,000 square miles of State of Jammu and Kashmir enslaving 14 million innocent Kashmiris. India’s aggression against Pakistani citizens does not end in Kashmir. In 1971, it dismembered the East wing of Pakistan which at that time was known as East Pakistan and is presently called Bangladesh. It has gone as far as committing a broad swath of human rights violations against the Sikhs, once their close allies who sacrificed wholeheartedly in the effort to eject the British forces from India. Subsequently, it has deprived the Sikh nation their birth right of the Sikh Homeland Punjab Khalistan. As per United nation records, more than 270,000 Sikhs has been mercilessly killed to suppress their voice for freedom.
The fact is the Pakistani state does not need the friendship of India. Keeping up the “facade” of friendship does nothing but delegitimize Pakistan’s very legitimate cause. Historically, the Indian state has acted as an aggressor attempting to establish a role as a regional hegemony. Simultaneously, it has indiscriminately violated its neighbors. Economic incentives should not impede Pakistan’s decision to cut off ties with the Indian state. Pakistan can do business with the plethora of other sovereign states in the international system. The Indian state has killed more than 200,000 Kashmiris and enslaved fourteen million of its citizens for over six decades which are bona fide citizens of Pakistan. What other means of aggression can be constituted as legitimate to break off ties and be designated as hostility towards a state? India is strategically propagating discourses in order to isolate and corner the Pakistani state to give up its claim to Kashmir and its fourteen million inhabitants.
The Nuclear doctrine of the State of Pakistan is its military strategy which it uses in an attempt to deter the very real presence of aggression against the state and its citizens. This deterrence is based on a guarantee of massive retaliation to anyone who seeks to take aggressive military action against Pakistan. Pakistan must not back down from the Indian state which has long acted as a rogue state and violator of basic human rights and make its stance and intentions clear to both India and the International community at large. Kashmir Diaspora Alliance strongly urges Pakistan to act swiftly upon its implied and constitutional policy that it will not only use nuclear weapons in a retaliatory strike, it is also ready to take the lead and use nuclear weapons first to counter Indian conventional aggression.
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