Kharaj e Aqeedat




 

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VK said…
For an attorney Altaf is, this is one confused brief. The J & K State was consisting of the Kashmir Valley, Gilgiit-Baltistam, Jammu, and Ladakh. The story of Kashmir has been hijacked by the Sunni Muslim crowd of the Kashmir Valley. The the Shias of Gilgit Baltista,, the Hindus of Jammu, and the Buddhists of Ladakh don’t have the same gripes. The author is totally silent on the atrocities committed on the Pandits of Kashmir Valley. I am really vexed at this oft repeated ‘Kashmiriyat’. What is special about it? How is Kashmiriyat any different from being a Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, or a Naga? Pakistan wants to grab Kashmir for two reasons: (1) protection of the head waters of its rivers, and (2) its continued clinging to the religion-based two nation theory. This moth-eaten two-nation theory had been long ago buried by Bangladesh; the Baluchis also do not believe in it either. Everyone will be better off if the Kashmir Valley Muslims drop the chip on their collective shoulder and join the mainstream India, where there are 200 million plus Sunni and Shia Muslims. Sure there are some serious problems for these Muslims, but how many of them would opt for the bankrupt Pakistan. Seventy years after, Pakistan is still vainly searching for its identity. Pakistan regards itself as the ‘thekedar’ of the Muslims all over the World, especially those of the subcontinent. Pakistan conveniently ignores the Uighurs of China. The whole Kashmir story, whether the author likes it or not, is intermingled with religion and Pakistan; there are no ways about it.
January 17, 2021 at 3:16 AM
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