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From Militancy to Stone Pelting: The Vicissitudes of the Kashmiri Freedom Movement

2020

Since 1947, the Kashmir issue remains the most obstinate between nuclear rivals Pakistan and India. Pakistan controls around 30% of the disputed land while India controls around 55% of it (Pakistan ceded the remaining 15% of the territory to China). Both countries have fought three wars over Kashmir and the area is infamous for being the world’s most militarized zone. In fact, another Pakistan-India war seems to be looming over both nations’ head yet again. The reason being the same as before – Kashmir. The intractable issue of Kashmir remains the oldest unresolved international conflict in the world. Following the 1947 war over Kashmir between Pakistan and India, UN resolution 47 was passed on 21 April 1948 that asserted that the issue must be resolved through a free and fair plebiscite. The Indian government under Nehru promised that a plebiscite would be conducted per the will of the Kashmiri people but this never transpired. In fact, since 1947 India has ruled Kashmir with eithe...

UNMASKING THE ONGOING GENOCIDE IN INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR

UNMASKING THE ONGOING GENOCIDE IN INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR, 2023

The region of Indian Occupied Kashmir has been embroiled in an enduring conflict, marked by violence, unrest, and human rights exploitations. However, in recent years, there has been growing international concern over what many experts and observers describe as a genocide unfolding in the region. Genocide is considerd an international crime under international law. The genocide crime against Kashmiri Muslims was started in 1947 when more than 2 lakh Muslims were murdered by cruel army (Hindus and Sikhs) of Maharaja Hari Singh. Numrous international human rights reports stipulate that Indian security forces are violating human rights for decades. Extrajudicial assassinations, arrests, night raids, enforced displacements, burning of houses, sexual violence, rapes, looting and other global crimes of war are commited by Indian military in the disguise of war on terror. After abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A, Kashmir has been placed under siege by over eight lakh Indian security personnel. Political workers, protesters, leaders, human rights supporters, and media persons are stressed and many of such persons have been detained. In fact, Indian government has headed strategy of ethnic cleansing, and demographic change against the Muslim population of occupied Kashmir. Pakistan demands a free plebiscite in Kashmir to decide future of Kashmiri people according to UN resolutions. The majority of the Muslim and non Muslim countries support Pakistan`s stand on Kahmir to resolve the issue according to UN resolutions.UN has approved 18 resolutions over Kashmir dispute but India does not care for any international law. UN has failed to implement approved in Kashmir. India is committing international crime of genocide in occupied Kashmir whereas world seems powerless to prevent it. The research study aims to uncover the grim realism of the ongoing genocide in Indian Occupied Kashmir.

Siege, Resistance, and Politics in 'New Kashmir'

Journal of Governance, Security & Development, 2020

In August 2019, the populist Modi government, after getting re-elected in a massive landslide, rescinded the semi-autonomous status (constitutionally guaranteed under Article 370) of the disputed Muslim-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by putting its 12 million residents under an unprecedented lockdown. This article will examine the ramifications of this decision, which earned praise in mainland India but generated anger and fear among the people of J&K, especially in the Kashmir Valley, the epicenter of the Kashmiri self-determination movement? It situates the prior measures Indian government took to impose its decision on the population which strongly opposed it and assesses the human cost of this imposition. It looks at the international community's response to the political and human rights crisis obtained due to the siege imposed on the people of the contested Himalayan region. And, finally, the article indicates that the political future of Kashmir, which has been the main source of intense geopolitical rivalry between two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors (India and Pakistan), and a site of protracted armed conflict and unarmed anti-India resistance, is likely to remain caught in a cycle of relative calm and unrest that has marked its modern history.

Untold Stories of Human Rights Violations in Kashmir

2016

A BSTRACT: Kashmir is an intractable conflict between the two South Asian countries : India and Pakistan. It had affected people of tiny nation badly. Every individual suffered here in this vale of paradise which was known as the beautiful region across the globe. But its irony that due to unrest, turmoil , and cycle of violence , people lost their kiths and kens ; and because of all that , State of Jammu and Kashmir suffered a lot. This valley has seen plenty of untold stories of massive violations of human rights committed by Indian army, police , and by some of the militant groups. Since 1989, the people of Kashmir were killed, tortured, humiliated , and injured. Thousands of the people were killed due to cycle of violence prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir. Thousands of the people got injuries and they became disabled to work. Many are those who lost their beloved children’s, daughters, sisters, mothers , and some women have lost their beloved husbands, who were only the source to c...

Confronting the Indian State: islamism, secularism, and the Kashmiri Muslim question

International Journal of Asian Studies, 2022

This paper investigates the framework of Islamist politics of Jama'at e Islami in Indian-administered Kashmir. Even though Jama'at e Islami creates the notion of "other" in the Indian state and challenges it but Kashmir's provincial relationship with India also forces it to work within the limits set up by the same state. This paper, thus, conceptualizes the relationship between Indian state and Islamists in a Muslim Majority region that demands the right to self-determination. In doing so, the paper interrogates Jama'at e Islami's rhetorical opposition to the political doctrine of Indian secularism and raises queries about minority rights and their place in the Islamist project.

Kashmir Conflict

Kashmir the Crown colony of India If one could describe the Global Political Order, Most of us would say Democracy. But what happens when Democracy becomes Demonocracy? What is Colonization? Well, textbooks broadly call it Territorial Amassment and forcible Retention for Capitalistic gains . Today we see both these dimensions heading towards Sophistication and Advancement. Colonizers have left India yet we still relish the imprints of colonization. A classic example of this is the case of the Crown colony of Kashmir. A day in Sutejgad is a mixed experience of hospitality in hostility. The story of how years of luring has irked innocents to become volatile. Set in an internationally sensitive ‘Fringe and Buffer’ zone where promises made ages ago far from being kept, this study emphasizes on how India and Pakistan wants to prolong this gamble of lives for modern Colonial Intrests.