The Core Issue
By the Editor

BEAMING to the Orb, Pakistan’s bona fide standpoint on the Confidence Building Measures [CBMs] which are aimed at normalizing ties with India with dignity, honour, hallmarked by equilibrium as the podium, Prime Minister Ch. Shujaat Hussain has said that Kashmir is the core issue between the two nuke-neighbours and peace in the region hinges on its resolution—atop.

With this pragmatic perception, he asked New Delhi to shun the tendency of hurling baseless accusations on Islamabad about the so-called cross-border infiltration.

Endorsing the PM’s views, we would like to point out that its’ really unfortunate that alike the BJP-led gone-by set-up, now even the Congress Government in India has started rhetoric of ‘cross-border infiltration’ into occupied Kashmir—apparently in line with New Delhi’s traditional antagonistic policy vis-à-vis the Kashmir Issue.

The Indian leaders are seemingly resorting to the same capricious policy on the core issue that has bedeviled the Indo-Pak relations over the past half a century. Paradoxically, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has chosen to harp on the old tunes also after his Defense Minister’s unwarranted threats to Pakistan on the Issue.

Singh has sadistically opted to utter that ‘India will put down with force and determination Kashmiri groups’ crossing over to ‘Indian territory’ from Pakistan to stage attacks.

It’s really deplorable that divergent to expectations Manmohan Singh has also resorted to unsubstantiated allegations about the so-called ‘cross-border infiltration’ like his predecessors.

The entire world is well-acquainted with the fact that the people of the Himalayan State of Jammu & Kashmir are fighting their own indigenous war of liberation, which they were forced to launch in view of India’s persistent refusal to respect the UN Security Council resolutions, which guaranteed their inalienable right to self-determination.

Its’ also as clear a crystal that Kashmiris are enduring reckless and wicked type of State terrorism at the hands of the Indian occupation forces. By now, they have laid down about point one million lives in pursuit of their freedom struggle.

To make visible this reality, the graveyards of Srinagar, Kupwara, Hindwara and other cities and towns of Indian held-Kashmir bear witness to the indigenous nature of the Kashmiris’ freedom movement. As ever-one knows, in addition to many other freedom-loving global organizations, the Amnesty International has also asked India to stop State terrorism in the Occupied Kashmir.

We are constrained to point out that Indian leadership’s reversion to the old theme of hurling allegations of diverse nature with the vague and groundless accusation of ‘cross-border infiltration’ as a typical oratory to hoodwink the world will—eventually cause serious set-back to the current process of dialogue between the two countries, fetching nothing except loathing for New Delhi by every nation which is eager to see tranquility in this part of the globe—the South Asia.

India perhaps is not mindful of the implications of its wavering policy on this highly significant and foremost Issue. We would like make ever-one understand that the series of CBMs, set off by both sides [India and Pakistan] over the past months will be of no use in the process of normalization between the two countries if no headway is made on the Kashmir issue.

There can neither be peace in South Asia sans addressing the Kashmir Issue—in line with the aspirations of the people of the State—nor can India inflict its hold over IHK by lingering it on—in any style as in the long run it [India] shall have to quit the part of the State, which it invaded with hefty armed military might—in 1947—[which now stands close to almost a million] against the aspires of the Kashmiris.

Amid such a resolute pledge by the real owners of the State, New Delhi is ought to bend before the veracity that it can’t suppress the pragmatic and legitimate voice of the gallant people of Jammu and Kashmir—for seeking their birth right of self-determination, any-more and in any-way. ●