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Written
by eminent scholar and leader of JKLF, Dr. Shabir Chowdhry, the article
speaks volumes about the intricacies of the relations between India and
Pakistan. The writer has genuinely said that there are some people both
in India and Pakistan who are averse to Indo –Pak friendship. He is also
justified to say that violence has become an industry for a specific
section of influential people who think that their domains will be ruined
once peace is restored between the two countries. Even in Kashmir a
strong lobby is playing havoc with the peace process. Whereas their own
kitchens are run by others, the separatist leaders call for bandh
without realizing as to how the kitchen of a common man who earns his
bread and butter through hard work would burn in the evening. The example
of Mohammad Shafi a shikara owner is not an isolated story, it is a story
of lakhs of people whose children starve as and when bandhs are
observed or bombs are blasted. The fight in fact is between those who
have made violence as an industry and those whose children sleep empty
stomach in the wake of a bomb blast or a hartal called by the so
called leaders.
Showkat
Hussain, Badgam
It
needs two hands to clap
CM’s
statement that for lasting peace in the subcontinent both India and
Pakistan need to join hands was very genuine, but unfortunately, the
response of Pakistan Government has never been positive. The above
mentioned editorial is an elaborated version of CM’s statement. By adding
the version of Mubassar Hassan, the Chief of the Indo-Pak People’s Forum
for Peace and Democracy based in Pakistan that India and Pakistan could
become a strong economic global power the writer has emphasized the need
for Indo-Pak friendship. But he is equally right to say that Pakistan has
always withdrawn its hands whenever the time to clap came. It has become
clear by now that Pakistan is not interested in peace. Its aim is to
annex Kashmir a part of which it has already annexed about a half century
ago. As long as Pakistan did not succeed in her misadventure, it cannot
befriend India and India cannot afford to lose its integral part so
easily. For this Pakistan will have to wait till the dooms day and dooms
day is not any where round the corner. Till then peace will remain a
dream and people will continue suffering.
Arvind
Sharma, Jammu
Elections
in PoK a fraud
Written
by Mumtaz Khan is an eye opener for those who still believe that their
rights will remain safe in Pakistan. Mumtaz Khan is a Muslim. All the
APNA candidates were Muslims, too. Still their nomination papers were
rejected because they had declined to accept accession of Gilgit and
Baltistan with Pakistan.Ms. Khan is right to accuse Pakistan for adopting
double standards. According to UN charter, the sate of Jammu and Kashmir
is a disputed territory that includes those parts of the State also,
which are under Pakistani control. If Pakistan says that accession of
Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir with India is illegal then how can it
justify accession of Jammu and Kashmir that is under its occupation with
Pakistan? Pakistan is certainly adopting double standards, which is
absurd and unethical. Tomorrow if not today, Pakistan will have to
realize its follies, but by then it would be very late. Resentment against
Pakistan is fast brewing, which might result into yet another partition
may be this time into various parts.
Ch.
Mohammad Hussain, Poonch
The
Uneasy Calm
Written
by Aaditi Verma has unveiled the fact that relations between India and
Pakistan have once again become sour. And she is not wrong any way.
Pakistan has been using violence as a tool to annex Kashmir and unless
she achieves her goal, it can not afford peace. That is why attempts to
derail every peace process are made and the recent serial bomb blasts are
a part of that strategy, which all the subsequent Indian Governments have
failed to understand. They think that today or tomorrow, Pakistan will
abandon its anti India policy and become its friend fully forgetting that
it is the slogan of Kashmir alone that has been keeping Pakistan united.
The day Pakistan withdraws its claim on Kashmir it will disintegrate in
fragments. In a way, keeping the Kashmir issue alive and becoming enemy
of India is the compulsion of Pakistan. If India has any weakness for
Pakistan it should hand over Kashmir to Pakistan in a platter otherwise
the only way to deal with Pakistan is like an enemy is dealt with. There
is no mid way and this India should realize once for all.
Neraj Bhandari, Doda
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