legally; New Delhi has reneged on its promises and illegally annexed the territory.
If Kashmiris restart the armed struggle, India cannot accuse Pakistan of violating the sanctity of LoC. This temporary line does not have the status of an international border. It is not a border. It is a temporary arrangement meant to give space to negotiators to reach a peaceful resolution.
If India continues to sweep Kashmir under the carpet, Kashmiris are left with only one option. Pakistan should support that option while keeping the door open for talks on Kashmir that India has so far shunned. Supporting Kashmiri resistance across a temporary LoC is legitimate, certainly more than Washington’s interventions in Iraq and Syria.
Kashmir has become an urgency for Pakistan that cannot be ignored. India is waging an organised water war. More than three hundred big and small dams in Indian-occupied Kashmir far exceed India’s need. New Delhi is diverting Kashmir’s water for Indian agriculture. Those dams are not meant to serve the Kashmiris.
As a lower riparian nation, Pakistan is already in the process of desertification thanks to apologetic policies that started under Musharraf’s government and expanded under the elected government of Zardari, a government that exploited the vote of Pakistanis to appease a belligerent and warmongering India.
Even if we ignore India’s extermination of Kashmiris and the water war, we cannot afford to ignore the proxy way that India is waging against us for the last decade using American-controlled Afghan, with the tacit consent of elements in the American military and intelligence.
Pakistan needs to end using images of raped and widowed Kashmiris to beg for international sympathy. Let’s instil dignity and pride in Kashmiris and Pakistanis. We are not begging for our right.
Email: aq@projectpakistan21. org
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