Kashmir Solution needs 3rd party Intervention
By Zaheerul Hassan
Dal Khalsa appeal To Sikhs: display
solidarity with Kasmiri Muslims on 26 July 2013
Kashmir problem emerged just after the partition when
in back dated a Hindu Dogra ruler
Mehraja Heri Singh against the Kashmir population has shown his will of
annexing Kashmir with India. It is well known fact that ma jority of the population
including Sikh, Christians and even Hindus were against the annexation of
Kashmir with India. However, India entered the forces and captured the area
against the wishes of the Kashmiri and since then conflict has become the
burning regional issue between two nuclear neighbours. The Issue could not be resolved
due to Indian stubbornness attitude. It would not wrong in saying that
Kashmir valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder due to
occupied forced brutality against the locals which include Sikhs, Christians
and Kashmiris. The deployed occupied force
keeps on doing acts of nonsense against the innocent people and their religion,
norms and customs.
On 18 July 2013, some members of the Border
Security Forces (BSF) have desecrated Islam's holy book “Quran” and beaten up
an imam. As a result hundreds of people protested outside a BSF camp, agents
opened fire, killing four and wounding 42. The valley of Jammu and Kashmir
after violence broke out in the district of Ramban following the burning of a
copy of the Qur'an and the beating of an imam in Dadam. Indian soldiers till now have martyred 15-16 and
wounded around 60 Muslim citizens of Kashmir.
Therefore, Kashmiri community
has decided to raise voice and show solidarity with the innocent martyred and
wounded of Ramban through valley wide protests on 26 July 2013. In this regard Dal
Khalsa also appealed to Sikhs to display solidarity with Kasmiri Muslims on 26
July 2013. Meanwhile Senior Akali Dal leader from Punjab, Simranjit Singh Mann,
on 23 July 2013 also stated that Kashmir issue could not be resolved without
the intervention of any third country.
“Indo-Pak
dialogue on Kashmir issue has proved always futile and in future too it would
be a futile exercise. Pakistan has no objection over the intervention of third
party but it is India which is reluctant as India has occupied Kashmir
forcibly,” Mann told reporters during a press conference here. He said India
was acting like an Ostrich, closing its eyes and is not ready to accept
reality. “It is a harsh reality that Kashmiri people want freedom from India
and India is ruling over this piece of land by military might,” he said adding
that India has let loose a reign of terror in Kashmir and it is following the
policies which it had followed in Punjab.
Coming
down heavily on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for ‘failing on every front,’ Mann
said, “This man is shedding crocodile tears after every killing in Kashmir. The
luminaries, intelligentsia and the Court should take a stand and oust him from
the chair.”
“It
were the political leaders who helped India invoke AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir
and now it is they who could persuade India to revoke it. It is pity these
politicians follow appeasing policy and every time bend their heads before New
Delhi,” he said.
Holding
Army responsible for Chattisingh Pora carnage, Mann said that Government of
India shielded the culprits “even after it was proved that Indian Army
massacred innocent Sikhs.” “India could go to any extent to meet its interests.
Massacre was done to defame Kashmir freedom struggle but the world knows that
the struggle of Kashmiri people is just,” he said.
He said incidents like Gool, Markundal, Chattisingh Pora would continue to
occur till India is present in Kashmir. “It is irony that Buddhists are being
given every facility and funds and status but Sikhs in Kashmir are not being
granted minority status,” he said.
Anyhow,
the Dal Khalsa has called upon J&K Sikhs to join hands with Kashmiri
Muslims in observing Unity Day on July 26.
In
a statement issued to press, Dal Khalsa chief Harchranjit Singh Dhami on
Tuesday urged Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, to extend his appeal for
unity to other minorities especially Sikhs residing in J&K as they too were
at the receiving end.
Pertinently,
Geelani has asked the people to observe July 26, Friday, as Day of Unity
between Muslim population of Jammu and Kashmir provinces and in the memory of
those killed in Gool.
“At
this critical juncture Sikhs should lend support to Kashmiris against New
Delhi’s aggression,” the statement said.
He
alleged that New Delhi has always played divisive role pitting one section of
people against another. “India has copied British divide and rule policy in
Jammu and Kashmir.”
Strongly
condemning the recent phase of “State repression” on Kashmiris, he said, “It is
ironic that the Indian civil society and western powers were witnessing human
rights abuses committed by the Indian forces as a mute spectator.”
“The
killings and detentions of young Kashmiris have become order of the day and the
State CM Omar Abdullah is being used as a tool to suppress the aspirations of
the people,” he added.
However according to international media Indian Army is on the top in global crimes
list due to its insolvent in bribery, sexual harassment, war crimes,
killing, injuring and raping of innocent
Kashmiris, Sikhs, Maoists, Christians and Gujrati Muslims. The settlement of
the Kashmir is need of the time since it is the main bone of contention between
two nuclear Asian States. Four wars between Indo-Pak are already the biggest
discredit to the regional peace. Therefore, without the interference or
mediation of third party Kashmir solution is not possible. The global community
should exert pressure to India for the peaceful settlement of the issue under
the UN resolutions.
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