Kashmir and Indian hegemonic designes

US Advisory to citizen banning to visit Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) exposed Indian policies failure in Kashmir. “Don’t go to Jammu and Kashmir, US advisory tells its citizens. US State Department urged US citizens not to travel to J&K due to terrorism and civil unrest, and also within 10 km of Indo-Pak border due to the potential for armed conflict.

The advisory said, “Indian authorities report rape is one of the fastest-growing crimes in India. Violent crimes, such as sexual assault, has occurred at tourist sites and in other locations”. It added that terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and government facilities. Times of India  Reported.”

Above mentioned advisory is an eye opener evidence of BJP’s implementation of its Hindutva Ideology and changing demography of J&K. “BJP passes political resolution to form govt on its own in J&K”. International community and human rights activist are silent over the slow poisoning of Kashmiri people. They are changing the names of roads and places. Indian forces are killing innocent Kashmiris in fake encounters. Hundreds of Kashmiris are detained but nobody bothers for their plights. If Kashmiri youngsters’ unorthodox Indian atrocities; India starts its blame game against Pakistan and propagate at international forums such as UN, SCO and FATF for intervention into Kashmir although everybody knows what India is doing against Pakistan since independence.

From Modi’s confession of interference and involvement in Balochistan/ Bangladesh to arrest of Kalbhushan Jadav revealed the Indian illicit activities against Pakistan. One of example is “Plan to split Pakistan began in 1965: Senior Navy officer Vice-Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, Flag Officer Commanding-In-Chief, Southern Naval Command, says India had begun thinking of separating East Pakistan from West Pakistan from 1965 though it actually happened in 1971. Chawla’s remarks came at a conclave at Air Force Station Yelahanka celebrating the golden jubilee of the 1971 India-Pakistan war victory. Quoting “declassified” documents that he said were enough to show this, Chawla said: “The thinking started actively after 1965 war, of how to separate East Pakistan from West”.

India’s persecution of its expansionists policies is making consecutively during recent year; especially it is quite evident in Modi Govt tenure, as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Air Command, Air Marshal Amit Dev, hopes one day India will have ‘whole of Kashmir’.

“Indian Union Minister Jitendra Singh said retrieving Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is next on the agenda. He asserted that the leadership which has the capacity and the will to abrogate Article 370, also has the capacity to retrieve PoJK from the illegal occupation of Pakistan.”

“India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pledged that his country would carry out operations across international border into Pakistani territory if it “creates a lot of trouble”. At each of these events, deeply troubling messages have been communicated to the public, and further amplified by hawkish mainstream media. That these cannot be entirely coincidental. As thinking citizens, it behooves us to connect the dots and analyze the implications for our country at national and international levels.

At first India contributed much to separate Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971. But now, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam, another discriminatory BJP-led initiative targeting Bengali-speaking Muslim living in Assam has caused huge shock-wave across the neighboring countries of India, especially in Bangladesh, which borders Assam. These atrocities are not just limited to the Bengali Muslims but overall minorities in India, including Dalits have been targeted; as Deccan Herald Reported Namaz row: Criminalizing minorities in everything they do. A new debate on the use and misuse of public spaces has started after some Hindu groups, aided by local administration and patronized by political powers, succeeded in forcing out Muslims from many spots in Haryana's Gurgaon, where they had been offering their Juma namaz, or Friday prayers, for a long time.

The issue has been framed thus: are Muslims justified in using public spaces for their religious practices? Is it reasonable on their part to demand it as a right to be allowed to use a space not owned by them and is a public space? Why do not they go to mosques to perform their religious rituals?

Before we look into this argument, we need to ask if Muslims are free to build mosques according to their need? For example, in Gurgaon, they have been asking the state government to allocate land and grant permission to build mosques, but their requests are lying pending with the government.

US advisory to its citizen is last nail into the coffin of Nuhruvian Secular Indian state preface. This is not the time to get into the rights and wrongs of India’s interventions in the internal affairs of its other South Asian neighbours. It is enough to note that India’s interventions are a recurring pattern in the subcontinent’s international relations. US is only concerned about the safety and security of Americans but “Kashmiri and Muslims lives does matter”. World must bar Indian hegemonic designs and emanating threats of clash between two nuclear capable adversaries.