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Human Wrongs Watch By Sohail Mahmood*

7 March 2019 (Wall Street International)*The February 14 suicide attack on a convoy of paramilitary police in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IOK) which killed at least 40 paramilitary police was allegedly claimed by a Pakistan-based Islamist terror group. There was great anger in India and people called for revenge. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, quickly promised a harsh response. As expected, tense relations between India and Pakistan now appear to be moving towards an alarming conflict.

Dispute on Kashmir | Photo from Wall Street International.

Kashmir is a Muslim-majority region which is divided between Pakistan-occupied Kashmir commonly called Azad Kashmir, the IOK and parts under Chinese control in the North. Since 1988, militants have taken up arms against Indian occupation and has resulted in a very big deployment of Indian security forces.

More than 60,000 Kashmiris have been killed in the last three decades. However, the total number of people killed each year had declined from more than 4,000 at its peak to under 150 by 2012.

The coming into power of Modi in 2014 and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) changed everything. His ‘get-tough policy’ has led greater unrest in the Region.

The yearly number of terror-related incidents in Kashmir then rose by 177% between 2014 and 2018. Also, the death toll of Indian security forces increased by 94%, to 91 in 2018.

Over the past five years more than 800 insurgents have been killed1. India blames Pakistan for infiltration into IOK, but it is increased in local recruitment which is due to cruel policing methods. Police actions have left hundreds of Kashmiri youth with impaired eyesight and other harsh injuries2.

The Economist has noted that: “Kashmiri resentment also reflects disillusionment with Indian politics. Last year Mr Modi’s BJP pulled out of a coalition to topple the elected state government, and then imposed direct rule from Delhi.

*Sohail Mahmood
Dr. Sohail Mahmood is an Independent Political Analyst based in Chapel Hill NC.He got his higher education in the US and has taught for about 33 years in various universities in Pakistan and United States.
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*Sohail Mahmood’s article was published in Wall Street International. Go to ORIGINAL.


Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2019/03/15/the-kashmir-conflict/


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    • Black Humor

      This article is false. Pakistan is a terrorist country unwilling to uphold agreement made during the dividing of India to Porkistan and India proper. Pakistan tryes to wash it’s hands from it’s support to terrorism, but even from distantance their lies are transparent.
      1000 years is actually only the time people over there have suffered from inbred Moslim aggression. Islam is not compatible with civilization and just because Indias patience has ran out, there is little room for apologists of degenerative disease called Islam.
      As long as inbreeding is the defining point of Islam, there can not be peace between Moslims and plenipotentiary members of human race.
      It is not a coincidence that Moslims have trouble with: Bodhists, Shintoists, Taoists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, secular people and original religions of various continents.
      It’s all naturally everyone else’s fault. Because Moslims feel entitled. Or maybe these inbreds just are the elementary threat to civilization and world peace they have always been? :idea:

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