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Promoting Kashmiriat,
Editorial, November, 2006 is an eye opener for people of Kashmir who have
lost their treasure called Kashmiriat that preaches peace and mutual
brotherhood. They have forgotten Haba Khatoon and Sultan Zain-ul- Abdin
the fountain heads of humanity. Instead they have started identifying
themselves with Osama bin Laden and Azhar Masood who preach hate and
violence. People say that it was Jammu where a tiger and a goat used to
drink water in the same pond at one time, but Kashmir has been no less
peaceful. Here people of all religions lived like brothers, but now they
don’t tolerate even their own real brothers. Kashmiri Pandits the
aborigines of Kashmir who once were considered as inseparable part of
Kashmir society have been forced to live in exile and this all happened
because people forgot their past and started copying others.
The editor is also right
to say that behind killing of Kashmiriat are the hands of Kashmiri
leaders who for their petty politics misled the people and took them to a
place from where it has become difficult if not impossible to return.
People will finally return to their original ethics because this is the
ultimate destination. Kashmir will again become paradise and Kashmiriat
will return to it there should be nodoubt about it, but it may take some
more time because the magic of their leaders still works and they still
get carried away by their deceptive slogans though half heartedly.
Reyaz
Bhat,
Avantipora,
Kashmir.
More Autonomy Please
More Autonomy Please, written by M. Ismail Khan on
the socio political plight of Gilgit-Balitistan is an informative piece.
The writer is point blank when he says that Kashmiri leaders particularly
belonging to ‘Azad Kashmir’ have been treating Baltis as aliens though
they are their own part and parcel. Instead of taking care of the
neglected areas, they entered into an unholy agreement thereby ‘selling
the Northern Areas’ to Pakistan. Today, neither Pakisatn takes due care
of these areas nor do the leaders of the so-called Azad Kashmir voice
their concern for their sorrow state of affairs. Pakistan has further
sold a large part of Gilgit and Baltistan to China, which is illegal.
It is rather unfortunate that leaders of Kashmir on
both sides of LOC have forgotten the Northern Areas, which for all
practical purposes has been a part of Jammu and Kashmir. Some of them are
bothered about Indian Kashmir and some are worried about ‘Azad Kashmir’
but none of them are prepared to liberate Northern Areas from Pak occupation
particularly when people there are being treated as slaves and their
natural as well as human resources are being plundered by Pak Army.
Arjun Thappar
On e-mail
Will
India burn if he is hanged?
Will
India burn if he is hanged, is a fine piece of writing. The writer is
justified to ask if Pakistan did not burn when its popular most leader,
Zulifkar Ali Bhuto was hanged amidst violent protests, why should India
or for that matter Kashmir burn if Afzal Guru is hanged for a heinous
crime that he committed by conniving with the enemies of the country?
After all in most of the Muslim countries punishment of hanging prevails
and Kashmir is a Muslim dominated region.
The
claim of the writer that militancy broke in Kashmir because of rigged
elections and not hanging of Maqbool Bhat is also well based. Had this
not been true militancy should have erupted soon after his hanging rather
than waiting for five years. It would be good if law is allowed to take
its course instead of putting hurdles in its way by making politics out
of the sensitive issue. Our President is a noble man. He has the sense to
do justice. What is needed of us is to have faith in him and abide by the
decision he makes on the mercy appeal of Afzal Guru, which is his
constitutional right.
Bashir Ahmed,
Doda City.
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