Kashmir dispute

Kashmir dispute
10th December, 2010
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/12/10/letter-kashmir-dispute.html

It is not clear to me what Aziz Butt (The Jakarta Post, Nov. 30, p. 8) is trying to convey in his letter “Remarks on Kashmir unacceptable.” All I could understand from it is his concern in addressing and solving this problem early.
I don’t know anybody who would oppose that! In the absence of the information regarding whether Butt is an Indian, a Pakistani or a Kashmiri Indian living in Kashmir or a Kashmiri Pakistani living in occupied Kashmir, it is difficult to address my response.
What does he mean by “leaving the area to Kashmiris”? Indians in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are already “free” because they have participated in every election held there. This clearly brings out that Kashmiris have very much been left to themselves, doesn’t it?
The government of Pakistan should undertake to use its best endeavors:
To secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purposes of fighting, and to prevent any intrusion into the State of such elements and any furnishing of material aid to those fighting in the State.
To make known to all concerned that the measures indicated in this and the following paragraphs provide full freedom to all subjects of the State, regardless of creed, caste, or party, to express their views and to vote on the question of the accession of the State, and that therefore they should cooperate in the maintenance of peace and order.
Actually, Pakistan has never completed the first step of the resolution and only talks of the second stage of Plebiscite.
Thus Pakistan should ask itself why it has failed to meet its basic obligation.
Of course, by now, we Indians are used to Pakistan’s style of making mistakes and blaming the whole world for the outcome including their blaming the whole world for a lack of enthusiasm in helping Pakistan’s flood-affected citizen when its own rich and elite class hadn’t paid their taxes!
Having realized that it has no chance of winning the plebiscite (if and when is held) for the merger of J&K with Pakistan, it has now started promoting J&K as an independent state!
Are we now talking of remaining unfulfilled actions of 1948 or a new demand for an independent state? If the former, the ball is clearly in Pakistan’s court. It can speak on this issue only after fulfilling its obligations.
K.B. Kale, Jakarta
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Edo E., Jakarta | Fri, 10/12/2010 - 14:12pm
There was a very interesting article in the Pakistani 'Express Tribune' written by Fasi Zaka in August. Here it is:
"The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2010
Pakistan’s human cockroaches
Pakistan, you are a failed state. Not because of Zardari. Not because of America. But because you are a failed people, all of us undeserving of sympathy. We are diseased, rotten to every brain stem, world please make an impenetrable fence around us, keep us all in so we don’t spread it to other people, other countries.
These were words I posted on a social networking website. I have an unusually negative mindset these days. It happened after I saw the video of the two teenage brothers brutally clubbed to death by a crowd frenzied with blood thirst in Sialkot. The police watched gleefully. The video has blurs at certain parts, but even this sensible sensitivity does not prevent one from seeing mists of blood flaying from the heads of these teens as they are hit relentlessly, and remorselessly, again and again.
The murderous crowd was truly representative of the richness of Pakistan. Some wear jeans, others shalwar kameez, some were bearded, others clean shaven. The Pakistanis had gotten together to have some fun.
Do not be shocked. This wasn’t isolated, it’s just that the crowd wanted to make sure their orgasmic moment could be captured for later viewing, at one’s pleasure. We blame our ill-educated brethren for the barbarity we witness, but that’s a self-serving lie.
The middle and upper classes are immune to education it seems. They hold opinions of everyday violence even if they have never raised their hand at anyone. If you believe Jews are the scum of the earth, all Ahmadis deserve to die or that Hindus are inferior, well why not two teenage boys?
I want Pakistanis to feel shame, in fact a substantial loss of self-esteem would be great. This is the only way for us to begin to doubt ourselves and the incessant excuses we make. Yes, the world is right to add restrictions on our visas, to see us as dangerous. If for even a while we felt we were the cockroaches of the human race, maybe we would get to the point we stopped the lies we tell ourselves and let this continue.
The fact is, if we had real democracy, there would be no internet in Pakistan, women would not be allowed out of their homes, education would come to a standstill and we would begin a programme of killing off every minority. Thank you corrupt generals and politicians, you keep this at bay with some sense of being answerable to a world that still has some humanity in it, even if you don’t.
And please, no excuses, no excuses. Don’t give us that, “If only there was true Islam they would be better”. I think a thousand years is enough, we can’t wait longer. And there was no America in existence for most of that, or even western colonialism.
You want to know just how sociopathic we are? In response to these killings some are happy to say we deserve earthquakes and floods. Typical. Don’t change yourself, but give credit to the indiscriminate and inhumane forces of nature. The floods are a tragedy, an atrocity and should never be used to bolster an argument that really only demands self-reflection.
And please, in your self-reflection don’t call us animals, most of them are benign vegetarians. Also don’t blame Sialkot; they were just unlucky because they are subject to scrutiny. There is so much more out there.
There is such a sense of sickening moral superiority in Pakistanis, it needs to be addressed. All we care about is foreign policy, eager to point out the hypocrisies of the world, silent on our domestic, or even local life. Why should the world take what you say seriously, why should you be a regional power, or a leader in the comity of Islamic nations?
Truth is, there is only one way to get change, and it’s not hanging the people who killed these boys. It is raising your voice to contradict people who advocate death for others, no matter who they are speaking of. To internalize that murder of any kind, for anyone is wrong. Sounds easy? Well just try it."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/42158/pakistan’s-human-cockroaches/
I wonder if the Kashmiris want to become cockroaches...
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K B Kale, Jakarta | Fri, 10/12/2010 - 12:12pm
After the third paragraph ending with "This clearly brings out that Kashmiris have very much been left to themselves, doesn’t it?" a line has gone missing. This is the correct text:
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The links http://tinyurl.com/2f5nktw (PDF format) or http://tinyurl.com/2drf34j (WORD format) spell out the clauses in UNSC Resolution No 47 passed in 1948. The very first clause says and I copy-paste them:
A – RESTORATION OF PEACE AND ORDER
1. The Government of Pakistan should undertake to use its best endeavours:
(a) To secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistani nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purposes of fighting, and to prevent any intrusion into the State of such elements and any furnishing of material aid to those fighting in the State;
2. (b) To make known to all concerned that the measures indicated in this and the following paragraphs provide full freedom to all subjects of the State, regardless of creed, caste, or party, to express their views and to vote on the question of the accession of the State, and that therefore they should cooperate in the maintenance of peace and order.
Actually, Pakistan has never completed the first step of the resolution and only talks of the second stage of Plebiscite.
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Thanks/regards,
K B Kale
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