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August 10, 2020 | Anil Gupta

Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir is the main cause of its economic collapse and international labelling as fountainhead of terror. Pakistani political and military leadership continues to brainwash its “awam” (native people) with rhetoric like “Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the partition”, “Kashmir is umbilical cord of Pakistan”. Ever since 1947, Pakistan’s obsession can be gauged from the fact that it has fought three wars and the Kargil Conflict with India. Failing miserably to fight the Indian Army, it embraced the strategy of “Bleeding through Thousand Cuts” conceptualised by their radical dictator Zia ul Haq. It then launched a proxy war in Kashmir duly backed up with militancy terming it “religious militancy.” It’s obsession with Kashmir has forced it to adopt militancy as an instrument of state policy with the Pakistan Army maintaining the militants as the “strategic assets.” Despite the Damocles’ Sword of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) hanging over its head, it continues to support militancy with a few cosmetic changes to hoodwink the FATF.

Pakistan’s blind obsession with Kashmir has resulted in it losing friends globally particularly among the Islamic countries. To begin with, Pakistan enjoyed a little bit of international sympathy on the matter of Kashmir. But as Pakistan’s obsession grew stronger by the day and it set in motion the process to snatch Kashmir from India through any and every means particularly mmilitancy, it began to lose international support. The situation has reached to such a situation that barring one or two nations none is willing to support Pakistan on the K question with most of the countries dubbing it as an internal matter of India.
Reasons for this obsession are not difficult to gauge. First and foremost is Pakistan’s greed for the water of the Indus that flows through Kashmir. It is the life line for the Punjabis who rule Pakistan. Pakistan is not at all interested in the Kashmiris but is interested in Kashmir because of the water. Its sympathies for the Kashmiris is superficial and all pledges of support and celebration of Black Day on 05 August is just symbolic and amounts to shedding crocodile tears. Their fear lies in the fact that their canal network will be starved of water when India stops the excess flow of water without violating the International Laws on sharing the waters with the riparian state.
Pakistan Army rules the roost in a democratic Pakistan. Pakistan Army’s authority over the populace & the democratically (?) elected Government will remain intact so long as they are successful in keeping Kashmir on the boil and sustain the myth that India as a ‘Hindu nation’ is an existential threat which suffers from “Islamophobia”. But for the Pakistan Army, India would gobble up their country and change the Muslim-majority identity of Kashmir. Though, this logic holds no validity since Pakistan through unilateral actions has not only changed the demography of the occupied territories of J&K, denied them civil and political rights but also illegally ceded parts of its territory to China. If India is no longer seen as a major military threat, the army will lose its raison d'etre.
After losing its Eastern Wing in 1971 after suffering a humiliating defeat from Indian Army, it had nurtured the idea of taking revenge by annexing Kashmir.
Last but not the least, Kashmir acted as a glue to unite the otherwise disintegrated Pakistanis. Through emotional blackmail and speeches of atrocities on fellow Muslims, Pak leadership found this as a convenient method to divert the attention of their “awam” from serious domestic issues. Pakistan is almost a FAILED STATE and Kashmir issue fosters some JINGOISM in the hearts & minds of the people which keeps Pakistan intact. The day this jingoism vanishes, the country would get disintegrated.
With the “ends” defined clearly, Pakistan deep state has been employing all “means. Apart from direct and clandestine intervention in Kashmir, Pakistan for decades has tried to internationalise the problem in Kashmir to gain international support hoping it could change territorial status quo in its favour. But the events of 05 August 2019 including a few historical decisions taken by India including bifurcation of the state into two union territories took the sail out of the winds as far as Pakistan is concerned. India has not only made Pakistan irrelevant through universal acceptance of India’s stand of the issue being India’s internal matter but sent unmistakable signals of her claim over the occupied territories by Pakistan including the ones ceded illegally to China. Imran Khan and his military mentors were clearly taken by surprise by India’s move.
Thereafter, Pakistan went into a spin mode, desperation was visible in all its moves. It tried all tricks in its book including military build-up on the Line of Control (LoC), raking up the issue in United Nations General Assembly, appeal to Islamic nations, seeking emergency meeting of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), pleading before the US President Trump, upping the ante of militancy, increased ceasefire violations (CFVs) and global propaganda against India through its paid think tanks including social media jihad. But Pakistan suffered humiliation everywhere to the extent that its leadership had to eat a humble pie.
Meanwhile, India continued with its slew of measures to set the house in order in Kashmir through administrative reforms, operations, employment generation, developmental projects and strengthening of grassroots democracy. Pakistan all the while kept interfering through its proxies to ensure that Kashmir continues to remain on the boil. Kashmiris’ rejection of Pakistan and Pak sponsored terrorism is evident from the fact that more and more Kashmiris are coming forward to share information about the militants with the security forces.(To Be Continued)

 

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Kashmir Obsession Must End -1

August 10, 2020 | Anil Gupta

Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir is the main cause of its economic collapse and international labelling as fountainhead of terror. Pakistani political and military leadership continues to brainwash its “awam” (native people) with rhetoric like “Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the partition”, “Kashmir is umbilical cord of Pakistan”. Ever since 1947, Pakistan’s obsession can be gauged from the fact that it has fought three wars and the Kargil Conflict with India. Failing miserably to fight the Indian Army, it embraced the strategy of “Bleeding through Thousand Cuts” conceptualised by their radical dictator Zia ul Haq. It then launched a proxy war in Kashmir duly backed up with militancy terming it “religious militancy.” It’s obsession with Kashmir has forced it to adopt militancy as an instrument of state policy with the Pakistan Army maintaining the militants as the “strategic assets.” Despite the Damocles’ Sword of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) hanging over its head, it continues to support militancy with a few cosmetic changes to hoodwink the FATF.

Pakistan’s blind obsession with Kashmir has resulted in it losing friends globally particularly among the Islamic countries. To begin with, Pakistan enjoyed a little bit of international sympathy on the matter of Kashmir. But as Pakistan’s obsession grew stronger by the day and it set in motion the process to snatch Kashmir from India through any and every means particularly mmilitancy, it began to lose international support. The situation has reached to such a situation that barring one or two nations none is willing to support Pakistan on the K question with most of the countries dubbing it as an internal matter of India.
Reasons for this obsession are not difficult to gauge. First and foremost is Pakistan’s greed for the water of the Indus that flows through Kashmir. It is the life line for the Punjabis who rule Pakistan. Pakistan is not at all interested in the Kashmiris but is interested in Kashmir because of the water. Its sympathies for the Kashmiris is superficial and all pledges of support and celebration of Black Day on 05 August is just symbolic and amounts to shedding crocodile tears. Their fear lies in the fact that their canal network will be starved of water when India stops the excess flow of water without violating the International Laws on sharing the waters with the riparian state.
Pakistan Army rules the roost in a democratic Pakistan. Pakistan Army’s authority over the populace & the democratically (?) elected Government will remain intact so long as they are successful in keeping Kashmir on the boil and sustain the myth that India as a ‘Hindu nation’ is an existential threat which suffers from “Islamophobia”. But for the Pakistan Army, India would gobble up their country and change the Muslim-majority identity of Kashmir. Though, this logic holds no validity since Pakistan through unilateral actions has not only changed the demography of the occupied territories of J&K, denied them civil and political rights but also illegally ceded parts of its territory to China. If India is no longer seen as a major military threat, the army will lose its raison d'etre.
After losing its Eastern Wing in 1971 after suffering a humiliating defeat from Indian Army, it had nurtured the idea of taking revenge by annexing Kashmir.
Last but not the least, Kashmir acted as a glue to unite the otherwise disintegrated Pakistanis. Through emotional blackmail and speeches of atrocities on fellow Muslims, Pak leadership found this as a convenient method to divert the attention of their “awam” from serious domestic issues. Pakistan is almost a FAILED STATE and Kashmir issue fosters some JINGOISM in the hearts & minds of the people which keeps Pakistan intact. The day this jingoism vanishes, the country would get disintegrated.
With the “ends” defined clearly, Pakistan deep state has been employing all “means. Apart from direct and clandestine intervention in Kashmir, Pakistan for decades has tried to internationalise the problem in Kashmir to gain international support hoping it could change territorial status quo in its favour. But the events of 05 August 2019 including a few historical decisions taken by India including bifurcation of the state into two union territories took the sail out of the winds as far as Pakistan is concerned. India has not only made Pakistan irrelevant through universal acceptance of India’s stand of the issue being India’s internal matter but sent unmistakable signals of her claim over the occupied territories by Pakistan including the ones ceded illegally to China. Imran Khan and his military mentors were clearly taken by surprise by India’s move.
Thereafter, Pakistan went into a spin mode, desperation was visible in all its moves. It tried all tricks in its book including military build-up on the Line of Control (LoC), raking up the issue in United Nations General Assembly, appeal to Islamic nations, seeking emergency meeting of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), pleading before the US President Trump, upping the ante of militancy, increased ceasefire violations (CFVs) and global propaganda against India through its paid think tanks including social media jihad. But Pakistan suffered humiliation everywhere to the extent that its leadership had to eat a humble pie.
Meanwhile, India continued with its slew of measures to set the house in order in Kashmir through administrative reforms, operations, employment generation, developmental projects and strengthening of grassroots democracy. Pakistan all the while kept interfering through its proxies to ensure that Kashmir continues to remain on the boil. Kashmiris’ rejection of Pakistan and Pak sponsored terrorism is evident from the fact that more and more Kashmiris are coming forward to share information about the militants with the security forces.(To Be Continued)

 

Email:--anil5457@gmail.com


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