The convenient answer: Kashmir

“Kashmir”: valley of flowers or the valley of death?

As I started to write, my mind went blank………….

‘INDIAN OCUPIED KASHMIR OR PAKISTAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR’

What am I writing on? The question popped up, although I tried ignoring but the question kept haunting me!
Finally, my heart answered “Kashmir”

A valley of flowers, a valley of love, a valley of serenity or just a valley of ‘tribulation’.

Few days ago, a kindergarten child asked me, “Where will I go during summer vacations?”

I replied “Srinagar”

She immediately retaliated ‘that horrifying place’ everyday some or the other person is killed there!
I kept mum and went back home………………….asked myself why didn’t I reply? But what should I reply?

When the astute politicians have not been able to answer it!

We are just puppets, who stand against the tyranny of our elected representatives and even military personnel.

The partition of the two countries occurred in 1947 and since then we are divided. Divided in mind, in thoughts, in hearts ……

But the only thing we are not secluded are the living conditions,

or perhaps the pathetic conditions.

It was in the year 1966, a 24 year old miss Laura Jane lambie, a Canadian agricultural student, was on a stroll on the boulevard Kashmir, she was having a chat with three local boys and was immediately way laid by personnel of the national security guards. One of them, warned Laura not to get into conversation with local Muslim youth.” all of them are very, very dangerous terrorists and can molest you in this desolate spot,” he told her.

“You shall have to accompany us to the police station” and then she was gang raped by five guards which continued until she until she fell unconscious. The matter when brought to the higher authorities in the state and when taken by the Canadian high commission, the authorities acted swiftly and judgment was taken in record time!

Here lies the difference between the rape of a foreigner and that of a Kashmiri woman. The latter is treated as an allegation and passed of unnoticed and unwept.

The incidents are numerous and the judgments are negligible, still we fight to acquire ‘Kashmir’.

‘Kashmir’ is just left as” the convenient answer”

The dream is distant and the path is barren……….no body ready to take the initiative!

Whether India or Pakistan?
Kashmir is just left as a no man’s land! It is indeed left as a rolling stone with no concrete solution. It’s just used as a tool to capture vote banks and play with human emotions.

Being a second migration child even I haven’t witness any policy on Kashmir. As seen in the yesteryears, when Benazir Bhutto came in power, her triumphal return in 1986 drew mammoth crowds at rallies all over. The basic agenda which led to her victory was her convincing

Power on the “Burning Issue of Kashmir”

More over as Pakistan awaits elections on Feb. 18, “There will be a shift

From ideology to pragmatism says Musharraf and Kashmir” again left

As a Ballyhoo!!!

“Kashmir is merely a toy and everybody loves playing with it!

“The Real Kashmir is so wastefully dead”