Kashmir Solidarity Day exposes India’s hubris

Kashmir Solidarity Day exposes India’s hubris

Pakistani columnist Mian Saifur Rehman wrote an article regarding Kashmir Solidarity Day.

The full text of the article is as follows:

Every year, February 5 is observed as Solidarity Day to express all out support for the Kashmiri brethren who are facing the worst type of oppression and aggression at the hands of hubris-ridden Indian governments and their merciless troops.





The government of Bhartya Janata Party (BJP), now led by PM Narendra Modi, has, however, crossed all limits in fomenting social-and-class hatred in the light of their supremacy mentality. The freedom fighters of Kashmir Valley, belonging to the Muslim majority, are the worst hit. All the thinkable and unthinkable tools of suppression have been used to brutalize them with the backing of draconian, black laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) which authorizes Indian soldiers to enter any premises in IIOJ&K without a search warrant and wreak havoc on the poor, harmless inmates at their mercy.

This has also been happening during the incumbency of governments of different political parties but BJP government has gone berserk. There have been other black laws in force, including Public Safety Act (PSA) and Disturbed Areas Act, that confer extra-judicial powers on Indian Army officials to detain innocent Kashmiris for indefinite periods of time without producing them in the courts. Intoxicated with these 'immense powers', around 300 Indian Army personnel resorted to brazen bestiality and gang-raped 150 Muslim Kashmiri girls in the villages of Kunan and Poshpora during a cordon-and- search operation.


Sometimes, it seems as if the Indian troops are following in the footsteps of Dogra troops of Kashmir that committed mass rapes against Kashmiri Muslim women when conflict broke out in Kashmir immediately after Independence. A number of scholars and human rights organizations assert that "rape has been leveraged as a weapon of war by Indian security forces comprising Indian Army, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)and Border Security personnel."

If an in-depth evaluation of Indian leaders’ hegemonic psyche is carried out, it can be inferred that the influential categories of people, like Brahmins or others of their ilk in Hindu-dominated India, are inspired by the philosophy of Hindutva that preaches zero tolerance for non-Hindus. RSS, which is the spiritual guru of BJP and known worldwide for its violent ways, adheres to the same philosophy of zero tolerance for non-Hindus whereas their extreme hatred for Muslims, knows no bounds.

Of late, during the reign of the BJP-led and RSS-inspired government of Narendra Modi, the atrocities against Kashmiris, accompanied with unconstitutional moves like the repeal of Articles 370 and 35 A, have touched heights. These unconstitutional moves can be likened to complete bulldozing of the Indian Constitution as well as the spirit of the Constitution. This unconstitutional revocation is totally violative of the UNSC resolutions that require a plebiscite to be held, recognizing the fact that Kashmir is a disputed territory.


Moreover, IIOJ&K is under siege and/or blockade for 500 plus days so much so that the virtually imprisoned (in their houses) Kashmiris can't move freely for transporting their sick relatives to hospitals. And reports have also come that some people had to bury their near and dear ones in the backyards of their houses. And, as for the communication blockade, that too is quite stringent as if the people of Kashmir were living in primeval times under the rule of authoritarian despots.

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