THE INDIAN STATE RELISHING OVER ILLEGAL OCCUPATION IS NOT THE SOLUTION, UNITY FROM THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN OCCUPIED IS:HABIB YOUSAFZAI,CHAIRMAN OF THE KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM!
India occupied Kashmir by force on October 27, 1947 in order to establish its hegemony over South Asia. The fact remains that the people of Hindu faith never ruled united India. The Muslims united Indian sub-continent and ruled it over a thousand years despite the fact that they were a fraction of the total population. Abul Muzaffar Muhiuddine Mohammad Aurangzeb Alamgir (Rehmatullah-Elahe), who was born November 04, 1618 and died on March 03, 1707, ruled the entire sub-continent. His reign lasted 49 years from 1658 until his death and he was a very good practicing Muslim. Unfortunately, his heirs and subsequent rulers could not maintain such a huge empire because of disunity among the lines. This disunity was ultimately caused by various different factions of the empire identifying with an identity other than Islam and this problem persists today.
Similarly on August 15, 1947, the day India received freedom from the British, an entirely different nation of Chinese descent of Arunachal Pradesh apart of Southern Tibet was also occupied by the Indian government which was recently highlighted by Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stated that “Indian should refrain from complicating the boundary issue” (PTI Updated Oct 27,2014). Aside from this, the Sikhs of Punjab, Khalistan (Sikh Homeland an inherited state of Sikhs) were also occupied. Just like in the past, disunity and division and the influence of the Indian state also led to the dismemberment of Bangladesh formerly known as East Pakistan. A renowned newspaper The Greater Kashmir reported on October 31st quoting the statement of Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh who stated that Pakistan has seen an adequate response for the so called recent transgressions along the LoC.
The shocking fact is that this new government is stating this like it is something to celebrate? Despite claiming to be the largest democracy in the world, rather than providing those it has occupied with democratic rights, it is propagating military victory over a territory that it has illegally occupied? This is a disgrace to democracy, and all moral and ethical behaviour. The Indian state needs to move past rhetoric and propaganda and come to the table in order to come to a peaceful resolution to the issues at hand in all occupied territories. Are not the lost lives of hundreds of thousands in the occupied territories such as those in Kashmir who has lost more than 200,000 and Khalistan which has lost more than 270,000 lives each, and the thousands in Arunachal Pradesh enough?
At the same time the Pakistani state must also become united as one, and as well as the Muslim Ummah. How can we fend off and stand for justice for ourselves, when we are too busy fighting one another? We must not forget the days of Aurangzeb Alamgir (Rehmatullah-Elahe) when we were standing strong and united, and justice was administered throughout the Indian subcontinent. Similarly, until we join one another on common grounds, whether that is Islam, or in the case of other territories oppressed by the Indian state as brothers in human kind, we will never free ourselves of oppression.
