Everybody has a view on Kashmir, a long pending dispute between India and Pakistan in South Asian region since last seven decades.
I also have my own view on Kashmir. Since childhood I grow up witnessing harshment, torture, abuse and so on.
As I grow up I learnt Kashmir is a big Poltical Dispute between India and Pakistan.
While India calls Kashmir as its “Internal Organ”, Pakistan also says Kashmir is our “Jugular Vein” but the politicians of both the countries fail to address and solve the real Kashmir issue. They raise “Kashmir Issue” to get public attention in order to get votes and come in power but they forgot everything to deliver on ground when they come in power.
Its a common Kashmiri who suffers a lot of emotional trauma by witnessing killings of little buds, youth’s and old age people almost on daily basis because of their political greed.
Besides this, torture, harassment, manhandling by government forces also adds fuel to fire, which is forcing lot of youth’s even well qualified/educated students also are picking up arms to fight against these atrocities and this is really alarming.
But, the seriousness of this issue has no effect on politicians from either side, by talking about this issue, they either want to remain in news or just do a vote bank politics. For them, Kashmir certainly is a political tool to grab public attention.
During election time “Kashmir Issue” is being raised randomly by politicians from both the countries for their political benefits, and after getting in power, the don’t work on ground so no change can be seen in Kashmir from last seven decades.
United Nations have also asked both the countries to come forward and start dialogue process to solve the Kashmir Issue. Till date the resolution of Kashmir issue has been put up 18 times before United Nations but no action was taken on it.
The people of Kashmir also feel disappointed and betrayed as the leadership of both the countries and Kashmiri separatist leadership (Hurriyat) also failed to address the aspirations of people of Kashmir.
Kashmiri people want peaceful settlement and resolution of Kashmir issue without any bloodshed as they are witnessing bloodshed, inhuman activities on daily basis and If both the countries sincerely want to solve “Kashmir Issues” then they should come on table and start dialogue with Kashmiri people, so that this long pending issue can be solved peacefully and let peace prevail in the whole South Asian region.
Otherwise, “Kashmir Issue” will always remain a political ground for politicians of both the countries and Kashmiri’s will always suffer a lot if its not solved peacefully by both the countries.
Raouf Dar can be reached at darraouf404@gmail.com
