This refers to Aijaz Hussain’s response to Firdous Syed’s article ‘Wish you well Pakistan’. It is sheer idiocy on anyone’s part to think that Kashmir is a contiguous part of Pakistan. Kashmir was a princely state, preferring to remain independent. It was only treachery and deceit from both India and Pakistan (and of course Kashmiri leadership), which have pushed us to the trouble we are in. Plus it is of no logic going from one sort of ‘Ghulaami’ to another. Ask any youngsters who are fighting on the streets, what they want and you will get the answer. It’s true that Kashmiris out of emotions were wishing to accede to Pakistan, but times have changed and so has the generation. UN Resolutions have no meaning, Indian promise of plebiscite dumped deep under, Pakistan occupying 1/3rd of Kashmir, and so on. Times have changed and so has the thinking. Kashmiris neither want to become a part of a nation which is Islamic for only namesake nor of that nation which in the name of secularism in the most communal in practice. Kashmiris are fighting for their own identity, which they never had the opportunity to possess!

Afsheen Azad
Srinagar
asalways@rediffmail.com

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