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By Manzoor Ahmed
Pakistan’s loud protests at the killing of a Kashmiri terrorist a few days back is uncalled for, patently wrong and in violation of basic tenets of international laws and conventions. Burhan Wani, killed by security forces early July, was a terrorist and had taken guns to kill people. He was certainly not a leader of the people; but a misguided and violent person who found killing was easier than talking peace. Pakistan’s move to call him a `` Kashmiri leader`` was a grave falsehood and mischief.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has put his personal reputation at stake for forging better relations with India, should have on his part desisted from making an official comment. He knows fully well that such comments would only spoil the atmosphere for any kind of dialogue between the two countries and encourage violent and extremist persons and groups like Wani and Hafiz Saeed. He should not have endorsed terrorism and terrorists. It will have serious consequences not only for his country but also for the entire region as a whole.
Prime Minister Sharif and his government have been trying to tackle terrorism at home ever since the new government had formed. Their attempts have had mixed results with Pakistan and its people suffering heavy damages in the recent past. Terrorists are his enemy, Prime Minister Sharif has been saying time and again. So are India’s. Terrorists who kill innocent Pakistani children and women and men are monsters. So are men like Wani who do not care about their victims. They want to be ``martyrs`` led by false propaganda and their agent-provocateurs. Mr Sharif is acutely aware of the dangers of labelling terrorists good and bad. All terrorists, he knows as well as others, are terrorists, interested only in self-glorification and their twisted violent ideological pursuits.
By hailing Wani as a Kashmiri leader, Pakistan and its leaders have rendered themselves a great disservice. In Balochistan, for example, Pakistani security forces, have been illegally arresting, torturing and killing innocent men and women in the name of protecting sovereignty. Baloch people call it a ``war of liberation`` or `` Azadi``. Pakistan calls it a rebellion or insurgency. Pakistani forces have been killing Baloch for several decades now, labelling them first as rebels and now as terrorists. India has not chosen to comment on the Pakistan military’s inhuman and repressive actions against innocent Baloch people. India has not hailed any of the Baloch leaders as heroes or martyrs, which in fact they are; fighting ceaselessly and hopelessly against one of the most powerful armies in the region.
Balochistan is not the only place where Pakistan has been committing gross human rights violations and repressing its own people. In the tribal areas, the land of Pashtun tribal communities, Pakistani forces have been carrying out high-calibre military offensive since 2002. Hundreds of innocent men, women and children have been killed in these attacks. Several hundred villages uprooted and pulverised to the ground. In fact, the official policy of Pakistan Army is to demolish all the houses in the villages where the forces had met with resistance from the local tribesmen. Towns after towns have been bombed in the recent years, leaving them looking like shells—broken down houses, tore up roads, fallen street poles, rubble, mounds of bomb shells and cartridges and rotting bodies. The scale of forced migration from the tribal areas in the recent times has been staggering, several thousand still living in ramshackle tent colonies or making do with inhuman conditions in slums of Peshawar and Karachi.
Closer to Kashmir, in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan forces have been suppressing people for long. Night raids and disappearances have been so rampant that such incidents no longer find a place in newspapers and on news channels. For several decades now, Pakistan had turned the part of Kashmir under its illegal occupation into a vast training camp for terrorist groups. New terrorist groups have found easy shelter in the mountainous areas since the 70s, first to foment trouble in the erstwhile East Pakistan and then in the Indian Kashmir. People in the Pak occupied Kashmir have no fundamental rights, cannot even protest openly and do not have any hope of living a normal life under the Pakistan Army’s stranglehold.
Given this track record and the countless problems facing the country, Pakistan and its leadership would do well to focus on setting their house in order instead of meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign neighbouring country. Kashmir is an integral part of the Indian union and has been so since 1947 and will remain so. Problems in Kashmir are being dealt with in best possible manner and in all probability many of the issues could have been resolved amicably but for the interference of Pakistan since 1948. Pakistan first send tribal militias to capture Kashmir and on failing to do so, launched several wars, in all of which it lost and then resorted to launching proxy war using terrorist outfits spawned and groomed by Pakistan Army with no success whatever.
Over two decades of proxy war having boomeranged on them, Pakistani leaders have been trying desperately to find something to support their illegal claim on Kashmir. In the past too, they have venerated terrorist leaders, giving shelter to Kashmiri terrorist leaders like Syed Salahuddin and several Khalistani terrorists. In trying to glorify Wani, the Pakistani leadership is merely trying to replay their old trick—exploiting Kashmiri Muslims to achieve their strategic goal of cutting a part of India, once more, which as always, is bound to result in failure.
(The writer is a Free lance journalist based in Kashmir)
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