SIX DECADES OF OPPRESSION IS NOT ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS THE
KASHMIRI VOICE FOR FREEDOM: HABIB YOUSAFZAI, KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM!
Muslims ruled united India for over a thousand years and were
the real rulers of India. The British
took India from them by force, the Muslims being the real rulers before their
arrival it should have been returned to them. However, when the British decided to depart,
they decided to divide subcontinent and did so unfairly. The Punjab of August 15, 1947 which was the
Sikh majority area should have been a sovereign state for Sikhs where they
could live freely similar to Muslim majority areas designated for Muslims and
Hindu majority areas set for Hindus. After receiving power on a silver platter from
the British, Hindu leadership connived against Sikh leadership and merged the Sikh
state to India. The then Indian Prime Minister, Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru promised
to both Kashmiris and Pakistanis along with the rest of the world that its
forces are entering the state of Jammu and Kashmir to maintain law and order and
in turn under this false pretext proceeded to occupy 42,000 square miles of the
state of the Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim majority state also known as Maqbooza
Kashmir. To this day, six decades later, Indian occupying forces remain in
Maqbooza Kashmir within the false claims of one pretext or another. Since its occupation began, not a single day
goes by when atrocities are not committed upon innocent Kashmiris to suppress
their voice for freedom. In the case
that Maqbooza Kashmir were to slip from the hands of India, its goal is to make
it an independent state wherein it could rule by proxy but at the least to
never allow it become a part of Pakistan. We the citizens of Maqbooza Kashmir
cannot give in to the aggressor India which has occupied our land and enslaved
us against our wishes for much too long. Our goal is the same today as it was at
the time of division of the subcontinent India and that is Kashmir is a part of
Pakistan and Kashmiris are Pakistanis.
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