Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Times of India wants indpendence for Kashmir

As if Avijit Ghosh, Times of India correspondent in Kashmir was not enough, senior columnist Jug Suraiya has also joined the separatist bandwagon and has called India to think of giving freedom to Kashmir as this was a peaceful movement against the Indian nation and there was no violence. I wish he had written in the same vein for grant of mere 40 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board, but he is a secular Indian and those who talk for Hindus are branded communal in this country.
Jug Suraiya points out that even after 60-years the government of India has not been able to coerce the Kashmiris into submission and this was the time to think in rational terms. While it is good that Indians at last are thinking about freeing Kashmir from slavery but they should also think of absolving the people of Jammu from the yoke of Kashmiri imperialism.

Suraiya should also tell where will the Kashmiri pandits live, when freedom is granted to Kashmir, which undoubtedly would be the abode of Islam. Would Hindus of Kashmir and Jammu and Budhists of Ladakh granted the status of Zimmis there. Will they need to pay Jizya.

The only problem with India is that the government, media and all politicians see Jammu and Kashmir through the prism Kashmir Valley alone. What Jug Suraiya does not know is that there a huge population of Paharis in Kashmir valley, who are dead against freedom to Kashmir or accession to Pakistan as majority of them are serving in Indian army.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India_minus_K-word/articleshow/3382132.cms