Some commentators are treating Kashmir as if it were a normal place like Washington DC or London or Chandigarh or Pune & now suddenly has turned abnormal because New Delhi invalidated Article 370. Fact: India has been fighting a war with Pakistan in Kashmir for last 30 years.1/n
In the 30-year-long war with Pakistan, India lost thousands of its people, most of them being Kashmiri Muslims. Every leader in Kashmir who tried to reason with Pakistan was shot dead by ISI—Mirwaiz Farooq, Abdul Majid Dar, Abdul Gani Lone, Moulana Showkat, Shujaat Bukhari. 2/n
Most pro-Pakistan separatists in Kashmir stopped invoking Pakistan & switched to ‘freedom’ slogans realizing that ISI sooner or later would kill them too if Kashmir was not handed over to Pakistan. It was a strategic decision of separatists to distance itself from Pakistan. 3/n
But experts without any knowledge or sense of what has happened in last 30 years of Pakistan’s war against India will project what they see on surface. Hence, ‘Kashmir is burning’, ‘Kashmir under siege’, ‘Kashmir brutalised’ etc. Yes, true but since 1990 because of Pakistan. n/n
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