While expressing traditional solidarity with the freedom movement on this 5th February, every sane mind is more than ever worried about ongoing state sponsored atrocities in IOK. After stripping special constitutional status of Kashmir as a state, RSS’ ideologues sitting at the helm of affairs in New Dehli , have unleashed the monster of Hindutva in broad daylight all over the country. This monster is specially brain washed to devour the Muslim community. Protests against highly controversial citizenship legislation are undeniable indicators of rapidly spreading sense of insecurity among the Muslims of India who rightly find their necks right beneath the hanging sword of Hindutva. Protests in JNU , Jamia Millia and Shaheen Bagh are hard to ignore for non-partisan quarters ! From Assam to Kashmir, thoughts of the Muslims have been taken over by the deadly feeler of uncertainty, fear, dissatisfaction and anguish . Indian parliament, which was supposed to guard the secular values of the Indian constitution, could not halt the disastrous march of hate mongers amid prejudiced citizenship legislation. Spirit of constitution was slaughtered in the same fashion by BJP stalwarts amid unilateral division of the disputed territory of occupied Kashmir through revocation of Article-370. Extreme measures of imposing curfew and the worst communication black out stretched over a period of more than six months clearly depict that New Dehli has no intent to adopt non-violent methods in occupied Kashmir. Instead of looking for internal peace and harmony amid Kashmir unrest, RSS’ dominated ideologues immediately opened up a new battlefront against the marginalized Muslims through controversial legislation. This miserable fall of secular Indian democracy has taken place right at the floor of parliament where the constitution has been altered to fulfill the fascist agenda of RSS. Though, marginalizing the millions of human beings through one stroke of pen is not Childs’ play but RSS stalwarts felt no hesitation in facing the much obvious serious consequences at internal and external fronts. Dangerous mixture of religious hatred and populist political rhetoric have brought the India to a boil. Anguish and unrest is no more restricted to the blood soaked land of Kashmir only! Now, waves of anger, disappointment and retaliation are felt all across the India. It is heartening to see that sane and non-partisan Hindus have stood in support of the oppressed Muslims. Flag bearers of secular democracy are raising voices against the devilish moves of Modi led BJP regime. Moral support to Muslims from Sikhs has significantly irked the RSS followers who already carry sufficient grudge towards Khalsa community for their pleasant approach towards Pakistan amid opening of Kartarpur corridor . Absolute lack of political engagement and infinite use of brutal state force in occupied Kashmir has practically disassociated the Kashmiris from India. This bitter reality was loudly pointed out by prominent icons, like Arun Dhati Roy and late Kuldeep Nair, much ago. Peace can not be brought at any piece of land through persistent violence , marginalization and human rights violation. Credible quarters of international media declared IOK a frozen prison where millions of unarmed innocent humans have been confined until they kneel before the oppressor. Approximately three years ago , late Kuldeep Nair warned the decision makers of New Dehli about rapidly deepening hatred among the Kashmiris towards India. He rightly said “Kashmir is slipping from India’s hand like sand”. The process of slipping is over! Kashmiris have mentally gone parted their way from India. This process of parting ways got accelerated due to ultra violent and extremely prejudiced conduct of BJP government. Extra judicial killings , brutal custodial torture, gang rapes and merciless use of lethal weapons against innocent Kashmiris by Indian state forces have drawn final lines. Die hard supporters from Mufti and Abdullah clans , who happened to be the CMs, have been put under house arrest. With such obvious provoking and uncompromising moves, Modi regime has shown its tilt towards violence and aggression. This horrible rise of extremist cult in India has added to the security concerns of Pakistan! Bringing India towards peaceful solution of prevailing issues is much harder for Pakistan than fighting a war ! If RSS’ ideologues can bring the region at the brink of war thorough stage managed Pulwama attack ; just for an electoral victory then a wider disorder at internal front can also compel the extremist cult to initiate a war against Pakistan to play the game of distraction. Frequent threatening messages from Indian ministers and services chiefs are too serious to ignore! Pak PM very rightly demanded a strong role from UN, in his maiden speech at UNGA , to resolve the Kashmir issue. Flames of Kashmir issue will surely exceed the Indo-Pak canvas and damage the regional peace to unimaginable extant. World should realize that hateful misadventures of RSS’ ideologues are extremely fatal for the regional peace.
Credible quarters of international media declared IOK a frozen prison where millions of unarmed innocent humans have been confined until they kneel before the oppressor
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