August 12, 2008

Kashmir Burns (blogging LIVE from war scene)

"I swear to speak the truth, nothing but the truth”
Just logged online to see what the world had been writing about the situation in Kashmir (The civil curfew is so strict that we can’t even step outside our houses to breathe the fresh air of the valley, leave aside the daring task of buying very few local newspapers with an unheard side of Kashmir’s story…!)
The media is shockingly biased as always (though nothing seems like shocking anymore, not even the FALSE truths shown on T.V…!)…they are behaving as if nothing is happening in Kashmir and even if they ever tried to add some small news item about the situation…It would be only one side of the story…surely not our side…!
Going through the websites of some of the leading newspapers both national and some international, it was really shocking to see that how the written media had portrayed the whole situation and even the headlines of some leading daillies read something like “Kashmir back to 1990”…And the whole “Muzaffarabad Chalo” march had been portrayed as an attempt to cross the border into Pakistan….
But no one ever wondered what prompted the people do all that kind of shit which could result in the destruction of their beloved homeland and the loss of their precious ones…No ,one ever wonders what the people dare to risk their lives for….
The media has gone blind and deaf over the real issue which happens to be a total non-issue when one reaches the ‘Ground Zero’ i.e. to the root of the whole Amarnath Land row…
Ask any Amarnath Yatri if he or she ever wished that the arrangements would have been better or if they they ever felt that they needed more land….???
TRUST ME, the answer will a BIG NO….

It brings tears to my eye to see such a biased media…And no, it’s not the fault of ‘an ordinary Indian citizen who sees only what the media wishes him to see’…an ordinary patriotic Indian who thinks that Kashmiris are some religious fanatics seeking independence from India without any explainable reasons, or maybe some other fellow Indians putting the situation in Kashmir as a work of some separatist Kashmiri leaders misleading the otherwise innocent and peace loving people of Kashmir…Or as the common opinion goes around the country, no one sees a patriot in a Kashmiri…!
Yes, you are right to some extent to think of us as the initiators of our own doom…Quite true, we have started our own destruction and maybe our end will come even before the actual dooms day but I wish the whole world could see the cause of our this so called ‘self destructing nature’ which we never ever possessed in our history….
Our fellow Indian brothers you need to awaken your conscience and see beyond the beauty of this cursed valley…you need to act upon your right to information act….all our fellow Indians never get to hear our side of the story…The unheard side…As they say, "Every coin has two sides”
When the media fails, it’s the responsibility of theordinary people to find out the actual truth hiding beneath the superficial truths….
Even the local media news channels have been barred from extensive reporting….Holy heavens, at least freedom blogging still prevails…!!!
The Jammu-Kashmir highway which happens to be the only single route connecting Kashmir with the rest of India (also known as lifeline of Kashmir) has been choked leading to the fears of starvation and eventually death…Yes, the situation might not get as bad as starvation leading to death because thanks God at least the DEPENDENT Kashmir is independent when it comes to local vegetables supplies but the fact remains, we are being subjected to the worse case scenario by a bunch of influential, unchallenged communal fanatics trying to win the votes and the seats for their political parties in the upcoming elections…Even the print media that includes the only few newspapers which report the real story of Kashmir have been badly affected by the highway blockade…print media is running out of paper and ink and soon they might just stop reporting the truth….!!!
Even worse.. the power hungry politicians termed it as a ‘Jammu VERSUS Kashmir issue’
The fact still remains that Kashmir suffers and suffers badly…And as always, we remain unheard and un cured..!!!
The rally to the LOC(Line Of Control) ”Muzaffarabad Chalo” march which the media along with BJP and VHP portrayed as an attempt to cross over into Pakistan was actually an attempt by the ordinary local people (mostly fruit growers) to save their families from being starved because their only source of income comes from the markets outside Kashmir valley..and no highway means no life for the ordinary and poor…”Muzaffarabad Chalo” was an attempt to at least save their lone source of livelihood, if not from the traditional Jammu-Kashmir national highway then from the forgotten traditional detour which goes through the forbidden city of Muzaffarabad…It was deperation which urged them to take such extreme measures which would sent a wrong message trough out the country (and that was where the only hope of salvation lay)
No, definitely the people would have never actually expected the Government to allow them to cross over the border but it was just an attempt to put some pressure on the Indian government to open the life giving highway…
Tell me now, how can anyone justify the fact that army opened fire on around 500,000(five lac) strong crowd leading a peaceful procession in Baramulla to fight for their right to earn their three meals a day…!
If they used such force to disperse a five lac strong unarmed Kashmiris then why not the same force has been used to prevent the protests in Jammu and open the highway???
And as if the devil itself had arrived, the military blasted some tear gas shells and fired inside the various city hospitals adding to the miseries of the already injured….
My heart bleeds…..
Had I not been an educated mind, I would have definitely joined the people on the streets or taken up arms to fight back….But my mind is strong enough to understand the policies and propogandas which have led us to our own destruction
Now tell me why won’t the innocent and young next generation fall in the enemies trap and pick up arms to dedicate the rest of their mortal lives for what they would call as the struggle for freedom????
Time to ponder over the fact, where did all those militants come from….???
What motivated them to take up arms and risk their lives…???
I think…though unintentionally but the armed resistance is actually a creation of the opressive Indian army itself…the oppression and the aggression over the innocent will finally lead to some freedom fighters who will have their minds controlled by the enemy and their hearts by their emotions to wage a war against the army which burnt their mothers, raped their sisters, tortured their fathers and murdered their brothers…
The emotion of hate has taken over the emotions of joy and happiness, the anger over the will to forgive and forget…The volcano has to erupt some day…
The fact remains that people themselves are not quite sure which side are they with, but believe me…they are very sure what they are fighting for, a fight against oppression and aggression over the innocent families which forms the beginning of an extremist mind ready to take up arms against India….
As, I am writing this blog I can hear the voices of the people who have defied the civil curfew and have come on the streets raising anti India and pro Pakistan slogans (least do they know, true friends are rare and not even the hope of a fake Pakistan can make their lives a little less miserable)…
I swear it’s a war like situation on the streets with people raising anti India slogans and military crushing the people with open air firing and shelling on the protestors…(Have you ever heard of the term, ‘Take no prisoners’..!)
The sound of ambulance sirens and the tear gas shells is not enough to break the will of the people…I just stepped on the street outside and felt ashamed to sit at my home and watch the procession go by from the lanes and alleys surrounding my locality…a guilty feeling of not doing anything to save my people…The people in the procession looked down on me as a betrayer or some coward…and I couldn’t look back into their eyes, feeling humiliated I rushed to my room to write this blog as an attempt to do something for my people and put my conflicted conscience to peace …
And even as I sit here by the window of my room trying to look over the nearby houses onto the streets to see my people in blood and sweat being crushed by army, my parents pull me back…they can’t even let me sit near the window during open air firing session when the orders are loud and clear “FIRE AT WILL ”..they say it’s unsafe to sit near the window because you never know when a stray bullet might just knock you down…..
No, I have never ever hailed the protestors who fight on the streets with just their spirit as their weapon against an army batallion armed as if in a war…No, I never hailed the aggressive ways to protest an aggression …BUT this time, for the first time the cause is justified and right…this time it’s a fight against brute aggression and oppression…a fight to save our people from starvation…a fight to stand up for our rights, the basic human rights to live and live freely, a fight to account for the death of the innocent civilians…a fight to save the future of our land….
Yes, I know all you fellow Indian out there , reading this blog might think of me as some anti-national element…But trust me, I am enough educated to differentiate between what’s right and what’s wrong and I can’t be mislead by some fellow…I know, it’s not easy for you patriots out there to understand this blog as anything other than an anti-national article but believe me sometimes I speak my heart out and my heart never lies…You have to be a Kashmiri to feel the pain and grief hidden in this blog…A kashmiri who dies everyday for a fight which is all but lost…and the last ray of hope we have left is you….Yes, YOU
This is an appeal to our Indian brothers to realize the fact that we Kashmiris are not against any religion or region, we are just a bunch of ordinary but resilient people who have been subjected to tremendous oppression and torture…Our fight is not against India but against the policies of government when it comes to Kashmir…we are fighting to account for the death of our sons and daughters who are murdered every day and the murderer never faces any trial….this is an unheard side of the tortures of Indian army which the media never reports…
I know all you people out there love your country and your brave army but what I just told you will not be told to you by any news reporter or any newspaper because they go blind when it comes to Kashmir…
India is a great nation and even greater are it’s secular and warm hearted people…WE WANT YOUR SUPPORT…WE KASHMIRIS ARE ALONE AND INJURED IN THIS NEVER ENDING BATTLE AGAINST OPPRESSION…WE NEED OUR INDIAN BROTHERS TO STEP FORWARD AND HELP US WHEN WE NEED THEM MOST….WE ARE TIRED AND WE ARE BATTERED BUT WE WON’T GIVE UP…WE ARE CRYING OUT FOR HELP…

I better hurry now before some stray bullet pierces the armor of my room and straight into my skull or some military official finds about this blog and charges me with an attempted propoganda…so I better get going and hide myself shamelessly somewhere in the corridors of my home…..!!!!!!!!!!!

Freedom Blogger, blogging LIVE from the war scene…..!
(These views are mine but reflect the opinion of the general public…Just an 18 year old trying to raise the awareness among the warm hearted and unaware Indian brothers about his fellow people whom he can’t see bleeding anymore…)
“I SWORE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH”

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi
I empathize with your predicament and feel sorry for what you are facing.
I agree that both sides are to blame, however please explain to me why you say that "If you ask even one Amarnath Yatri it they would like better arrangements and they would say NO?"
Why do people want to stay at the Haj house in Mumbai on the way to Haj? They can just stay out on the streets in tents like the Amarnath Yatris cant they?

Stay safe though friend.

- Mumbai wala

Anonymous said...

ur write up made my eyes go wet.. what an unfortunate plight r v kashmiri's going through.. where is d other end of d tunnel??

Musadiq Ali said...

dear 'Anoonymous' as I reply to ur comments I fear what tomorrow might hold for me and my people...
Yes, 'Mumbai wala' you have made your point by saying that Yatris can't stay in tents...very true; we never disagree...Infact we are even ready to cut down the forests for better infrastucture through out the yatra...BUT ALL WE ARE SAYING IS THAT, LET THE STATE GOVERNMENT BUILD THE STRUCTURES THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF GIVING THE LAND TO SOME FOREIGN BODY...ENTRUST THE JOB UPON THE STATE....WE PROMISE WE WILL DELIVER A WE HAVE SINCE THE LAST SO MANY DECADES...BUT DONT TAKE AWAY OUR LAND IN THE NAME OF RELIGIOUS PLIGRIMAGE...PLZ DONT....
well the other side of tunnel...it's all mislead by BJP and VHP who have communalised the whole issue...Jammuites are protesting for no justified cause...for heavens sake tell me what's the point of protesting..when the state promised to provide even better facilities to yatri's just that state will do the job itself which earlier it had entrusted upon shrine board..that's the only difference....let the pandits take charge..we never care for religion or region after all it was only a muslim kahmiri who discovered the cave...an ordinary kashmir is the most peace loving soul on this earth...just that we dont wanna lose the right to call our land as our own...!!!

Anonymous said...

I find this all strange... the blog where i got this link from states that other Indians like punjabis and Biharis are moving in to Kashmir for work... bhai Kashmiris are also all over India ...agar soch hi liya hai ki country ko divide karna hai then there is very little one can say or do.... why Muzzafarabad.... yeh to could have been done towards JAmmu also ..... either ways the security forces would have reacted.... this is nothing but a threat that whenever there is a problem start black mailing ki we will go the other side.... guess what you know what real hell is .... read about tibet that is aggression. Be glad that we are all in a democracy and can air such views.... PAK mein kar ke dekho.... even NawazSharief the PM of the country was thrown into a dungeaon.... stop crying and uth ke kaam karo.... nation ke saath mein Kadam se kadam milao...

Anonymous said...

This is a disastrous and shameful moment for all us INDIAN muslims.... why do KASHMIRI'S always talk of seperating. Even when the Kashmiri Pandits were DRIVEN OUT OF kASHMIR... the Hindus who are in a HUGE Majority did not react.... they let a peace process take place.... why are we always crying as though the whole world owes us an apology. U think the Mirwaiz or Geelani actually understand economics ,GDP etc... Kashmir will be converted into a fundamentalist state and will follow the way of Afghanistan or Pakistan and this is reality....Even Pakistan and Afghanistan are in the same region than how come their tourism is so badly raped and why do u guys feel that an independent Kasmir would do any better... see the state of POK.....STOP THIS NONSENSE AND GET INTO NATION BUILDING.... SEE THE YOUTH OF KASHMIR.... GIVE THEM A DIRECTION

Musadiq Ali said...

I totally agree with the comments, neither the Pakistan nor our separatist leaders are gonna help the Kashmir issue...WE VERY WELL KNOW IF THERE IS ANY SALVATION THAN THAT WILL COME FROM NDIA...I guess u ppl didn't get my point...
In the miodst of BJP,VHP,Mirwaiz,Gilani and Pakistan..We the ordinary Kashmiris suffer and we still remain unheard...I appeal all u indians out there to come forward and help us...
PLEASE JUSTIFY HOW CAN INDIAN ARMY GO ON A CONTINUOUS MURDER STREAK AND DESTROY OUR SENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS...The question is of human rights violation which goes unreported in the Indian media...I THINK U BETTER RE-READ MY BLOG TO THE PARAGRAPH WHERE I GIVE U ALL THE REASONS AS TO WHY A KASHMIRI RISKS HIS MORTAL LIFE AND TAKES UP ARMS FOR A STRUGGLE TO FREEDOM.....Finally a revolt will come, we are opressed and we are tortured everyday....We have to fight back...and we are alone....we the ordinary Kashmiris are alone....we are bleeding....hope u get the point now....

Musadiq Ali said...

I know how would it feel to read such comments about your own country but trust me, come and live in Kashmir...See how an ordinary Kashmiri suffers everyday at the hands of armed forces....
JUSTIFY HOW AN ARMY MAN IS SUPPOSED TO RAPE YOUR MOTHER, BURN YOUR SISTER, MURDER YOUR BROTHER AND TORTURE YOUR FATHER...The media never reports what we suffer everday and no leader can help us on that....we ordinary kashmiris are calling for help from u ordinary patriotic Indians...Hope u hear us....

Unknown said...

SELF-DESTRUCTIVE NATURE.....u have rightly said dat v r binging doom down on ourselves.People r behavin jus like Pavelvolasov.......eva heard of him ????....he actually set fire to his OWN mother n later crushed er beneath his feet!!!!....SMBODY STOP DIS MADNESS!!!

Si_Lee said...

You know .. I am a kashmiri myself though not from kashmir .. I have 2 questions ..?
1) why is that piece of land such a big issue ?
2) what happened in 1989 to the hindus and pandits there ? why did people not protest in such numbers then ..?
educated uneducated does not matter ...No, i am not targetting any religion hear but i am quoting tht a bias exists .. it always did ..lets not cover that up .. local media is showing the truth .. what about the protests in jammu which has both hindus and muslims marching hand in hand ..?
You may be unbiased and a patriot .. I dont question that ..but what I question is what about those who were kicked out and massacred ???
The present is always the culminationof various moments i the past my friend .. and the past of kashmir is not an unbiased and an immaculate one .. I could not visit my home, my families because of the scenario there... why ? itsa obvious why ?
A few acres of land !!!!
he he its a disrace ... thw world must be laughin .. hell with the world .. I am laughing ...
If you are really concerned dont talk about oppression talk about hardliners and fanaticsm .. which is the truth of kashmir .. back to 89 .. you may deny it , but many were a victim of it .. so sorry ... call me a communal call me a fanatic but I for one want kashmir to burn .. why ? because I dont love it ..? no. because i hate muslims ...? certainly not ?
because it is a disgrace to my heritage and yours ...? absolutely yes ... !
@mirallionz ..
let pandits take charge ???
how many were left alive and in kashmir after 89 91 ..?
If you want things to change ... comeout against ur govt be it congress , Nc , BJP or VHP.. all are blood suckers .. I have no doubt .. all are selfish .. i have no doubt ..
its the people I wonder about ..
why did they not save lives of people then ..?
I fail to understand .. why ?
what was wrong there then ? why did that butcher ask my grandfather a proffessor then to leave in 84 because things would get dangerous ??
You suffer at one end but so have many others at other end .. If you feel i am lying about the sufferings .. well i wont proceed with this discussion , because I cant , because i wont deem it rational ..
Somethings wrong .. gravely wrong .. not with the religion but with its propogators who turn and twist it agreed .. but then hey ... gehoon ke saath dhun bhi pista hai na ..? ye hindustan , pakistan bangladesh sab ki kahaani hai ... iska hal agar aap chahte ho to awaam ko jagrut karo ... sacchaiye ka her pehloo dekho ...sarkar zalim thi to kya hua .. awaam ne khud ek dusre ki madad kyu nahin ki ....?
kuch gaz zameen ... he he ... you say OUR land ..? what is that OUR ??
you own it ?
your privacy is being tresspassed or you feeel that no other citizen of your country can own ... who is this OUR ? Is he an Indian or NOT ?
If he is then everyone comes under that OUR and if all indians are t then there is an issue ..and that is why there is an issue ...

Unknown said...

1 more thing...i would jus love 2 know who dis ANONYMOUS is???.......dnt hav da guts 2 write under ur own name......how can dis prson compare the stay in mumbai Hajj House vd da stay in kashmir 4 Amarnath Yatra.Brother it seemz dat ur knowlegde in geography is quite poor.I vld jus like 2 clear his point by sayin dat muslims go 4 HAJJ to Mecca vch is in Suadi Arabia......n u must b knowin dat Suadi Arabia is a different country n da stay in Hajj HOUSE is meant 4 orderly exit n entry of the muslims 4M India......(as this FREEDOM BLOGGER has rightly said) v kashmiris also vnt da smooth functionin of THIS yatra but v dnt want sm foreign body 2 cm n own our land.....v the people of kashmir have been servin da yatris 4 da last sooo many years n r willing to continue doin so.....and 4 ur kind information da yatris dnt sleep in tents on the STREETS fo GODS sake........v have a huge area (kind of a ground) 4 dis purpose.......hope u understand my point brother

Unknown said...

now dis is 4 DESCRYING DA SHADOWZ: u wanna know wat BIASE is really???....den read on.....


You wont believe this but there are grades of dealing with protest and roits in the so-called democratic nation ofIndia.How???Well everyone is well aware of the situation of jammu & kashmir.......but a point worth observation is the technique adopted by the india army in dealing with the PROTESTERS in kashmir and the RIOTERS IN JAMMU.while the goverment hesistated even in deploying a mere hundred troopers in jammu,there are no second thougths when it comes to kashmir.One can easy notice dozens of army personals at every nook and corner of kashmir and they just need a prick to open fire on the kashmiris protesting for their rights.When the people in jammu (NOT jammuites) protested against the revocation of order of the land transfer to the amarnath shrine board,it was on the 7th or 8th day when the jk govrment decided to deploy indian army there to control the situation.And that too when 2 of the so-called patriotes were killed the army actually came out vd an apology stating the incident as an error....GOD!!!...can u believe dis....apart 4m protests in j&k their have been wide spread demonstrations 4m the BJP against the revocation order....in chadhigarh and lucknow...and sm other places.....and here are the grades :water cannons in chandigarh,lathi charge in jammu...n....ofcourse BULLETS for kashmiris...NO VALUE FOR HUMAN LIFE IN KASHMIR!!!!..

Si_Lee said...

@SAHER...
was there ever a value for life in kashmir after 89 ?
See in all my stmts .. i never differentiated .. I did not sya that army is right ... I myself said all polit parties are playing the devil ... all .. hardliners or not hardliners .. communal or secular ..
the only issue i raised over and over again was "over a piece of land"
and the incident i higlighted was the massacres from 89 onwards ..so yes i have become stone hearted when it comes to J&K ... irrespective of the caste creed or religion of the J&Kites...
tell me hw much is the elctricity and water charged ofr ? you will retort by sighting power cuts and shortage of water .. agreed but still for what you get hw much do you pay ....
the problem friend here is that we even though educated fail to realise that something went wrong sometime back and nothing was done to heal it .. and now it has become cancerous .. so such things will happen .... what about mujahirs in pakistan ? the sindhis ? why did bangladesh separate ? why did people who fought hand in hand for independence against britishers turn arch rivals in one night ?
whom do i blame ? if i start blaming people ? gandhi ? jinnah ? nehru ? pate l ? then king of kashmir or the then prime minister ? whom ??
the truth is solidarity and secularism never existed in kashmir .. they never did .. they never exsted in india they still dont ... so go ahead curse protest and call others who protest rioters .. I dnt care ... for you are still not wrking towards solving a probllem .. u r only further taking sides ... and as long as u take sides ... i will always laugh at J&K

Unknown said...

NO 1 IS TAKIN SIDES BROTHER......truth remains da truth!!!....true the kashmiri pundits had to suffer in 89....no 1 can deny dat......but y r u raisin dat issue here?????....it vz 1st about da land n now its for the rigths of kashmiriz....y the economic blockade???....y the boycotin of kashmiri goods???...vat do deez people wanna show??...dat da kashmiriz r at dere mercy??...NO NOT AT ALL....vn they close 1 road many more will b opend ...dats wat i wanna say brother

Musadiq Ali said...

@descrying the shadows
brother I completely agree with u that our kashmiri pandits had to leave their homes in 89 and they had to suffer...and when they left, with them went the huge pool of legendary teachers and educationists who were mostly pandits and often that moment has been referred to as the beginning of an end in the kashmiri society...the real beginning of moral degradation in kashmir because we no longer had the culturally sound pandit brothers to show us the way...
u r saying that u hate kashmir not because of religion but because of what it did to u and ur fellow pandits...brother, I think u r educated enough to realise that it wasn't the common people who moved u out of here...it was the various enemy agencies alongwith the then governor of state, who misleead the people...THE COMMON ORDINARY kashmiri would have never even imagined of a kashmir without fellow pandits...we still regret the days when we were mislead....
brother we must realise one thing..in the midst of all this politics....WE THE COMMON ORDINARY KASHMIRIS..(both the pandits as well as muslims) suffer evryday...And I wrote this blog with an intention to speak the mind of a common man...who still desires to see his pandit neghbours back in the valley....it's the common ppl who need u...the political parties have divided us to rule their will but we the intellectuals need to realise the real root of the problems and then try to find out the solutions


@saher
well, I know u r hurt with what the Indian military has been doing in kashmir, but we must realise it doesn't mean that its the ppl of India who are responsible for it..I mean the Indian ppl definitely never know what actlly is happening in kashmir...and just the fact that Indian military kills us doesnt mean that our fellow Indian brothers are murderes...It doesn't make sense to raise pro_pakistan slogans...But as they say, the illiterate and ignorant don't have the mind to realise the fact of the matter that our fight is against the human rights violation by the Indian army but not by Indians
20 years of terrorism hasnt been able to divide us on the basis of religion or region and now today this small issue of land threatens to break our will to stay united...saher let's realise that it's a work of some blood thirsty politicians and not our fellow indians...
we are one....DONT let the politics decide our opinion about the whole issue...the common ppl are suffering.......
It's a shame, that in the land of the great "Mahatama Gandhi", we fight in the name of region or religion and in this great land government uses such brute force to supress the will of the already discriminated ppl.......guns and grenades is not thhe answer and unfortunately that's all what Indian armed forces have to offer...!!!!

Si_Lee said...

@saher and @mira..
Well I am not saying what is happening is right .. I never did .. all i said is the main issue here is something else .. the repercussions of which is what you are protesting against ..
why 89 ... because that started this vicious circle ...
anyways .. I do not see a solution because i feel it takes wisdom and not education to find a solution and it is this wisdom that has been missing in the valley ...
I have loved some things about muslims .. the first thing being what we call nazakat ... and the other their language which are the direct reflections of the culture and its refinement ... but as i said its a disgrace to see what form its taken all over the world .. same stands tru for the hindus .. wen u look at shiv sainiks or vhp's or other agencies ...
I live like an Indian here .. I rarely bother to ask someone who he/she is or where they come from .. to me it doesnt matter as long as u r a human being and a gud one at that ...
so, the fight i believe should not be against govt or religions or creeds ... but against this mentality that has spread wide in our pathetic sub continent as a whole ...
as i said it took one day .. many call 15th & 14 th aug to be the golden dawns .. i call them our darkest nights ..
that is why i dont feel sorry ... as a human i would but as a person who has seen and understood the ground zero reality ... I know its futile as the very shibboleth of these actions is flawed ..
You see to me the individual and his respect matters more than a community or a nation ...
but does that exist even within our society,religion or culture ?
does it ..?It does NOT.. social equality is a farce .. and that is the issue here .. fight against that ... but will we ? will we ever ? no ? and by we I talk about the 1 billion people .. why kashmir talk about any state ... its the same .. only the magnitudes are different ... I am not justifying it but i am saying that it is the order of the day and it cant be changed .. why ? because it is impossible ? No ! because people are not wise enough .. yes ..!
I rst my case and hope your lives get normal infact everyones life gets normal ...
The main thing though .. the media .. well I agree they dont tell even 10% of the truth but then even our leaders dont and a majority follow them blindly ..
we need to understand wen i cote 89 i am trying to say that a bond was broken beyond repair in J&K and this cannot be denied .. no point blaming ppl for what happened .. fine ..? but was anything done to mend it .. no .. so will things change ???
will they really change ..?
If you really think about what i said you will know that i havent targeted anyone but everyone everywhere who lacks that wisdom !
adios ...

Musadiq Ali said...

@DESCRYING THE SHADOWS
Brother I think u actually can't figure out why we Kashmiris protest for a piece of land...

Well here's ur answer:-
The reason why Kashmir chose India over Pakistan during independence was the fact that India promised a special status to Kashmir...And most importantly the ARTICLE 370 (which if u don't know then refer to my previous blog "don't sell kashmir")..the article doesn't allow any non-resident of JandK to buy any property in the state of Jandk...
So with this land transfer, the special status was actually broken and it would not have been long before this whole thing would have come up as a CONSPIRACY to dissolve the article in totality...thus with it would have gone the last hope which J&K has left in these days of turmoil...
We never are against any Yatra or any world class infrastructure FOR yatris...yes, we will provide u with what ever you need...but just the fact that now we have decided to keep our land in our own name as our own property but to be used for yatra purposes and it will be given to the government for building any structure they want..just the fact that now the land will remain as the property of state of J&K only and no transfer would be done...
you have our land, go ahead build what you want to build for the yatris...we wont interfere...infact we will rather support you by providing all the labour and all the assistance including some extra funds for more comfortable yatra...

FOR HEAVENS SAKE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS JAMMU PROTESTING FOR...?????
You got the land...yes u did...just the fact that the state has decided to take back it's decision to rename it as a property of some foreign agency...it will stay as it has been since ever, a property of JandK,.....
where the hell does the issue lie????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Just a propoganda created by communal BJP and VHP for winning some votes in the upcoming election..
now tell me, do u expect us Kashmiris to sit in our homes and do nothing....????
No, absolutely not, we will fight for whats right....we will fight for our freedom to live free...we will fight against all the opression and depression of the last 20 years...
This issue just became a reason for the volcano to erupt which had been gaining pressure since last two decades.....It had to erupt...and now it has got it's reason to erupt...!!!

Musadiq Ali said...

CAN ANY ONE TELL ME HOW THE REST OF INDIA WILL REACT IF WE KASHMIRIS ASK BJP LEAD GOVT. IN RAJASTHAN TO TRANSFER THE LAND BELONGING TO AJMER SHARIEF DARGAH TO SOME MUSLIM ORGANISATION BECAUSE IT'S A MUSLIM DARGAH....
PLEASE CAN ANY ONE ANSWER THIS QUESTION...?????

Si_Lee said...

he he ...
kashmiris did not choose india .. the king of kashmir did .. ! why this need for article 370 in the first place ? y join because of an incentive ? why not join because you want to join ... how was kashmir different from other indian states which joined the indian soverign ..
please yaar .. hyderabad and kashmir were the two states which had problems during accession .. u need incentives to join .. thts why i said the problem is something else ..
do you even know what ppl think of kashmir outside of it say down south ?? or in the west or east ?
Why jammu is protesting ... simple .. why was it revoked without even consulting with them ... ? u see if talk of being equal u cant ask for special reservations .. if u say u need it .. werent 40 years till 89 enough ???
Dont talk about 370 ..please i am well aware and if u say u r facing oppression for 20 years and if you want me to talk in those term s.. so have I ..
u see if that is how we want to play ... who was oppressed first ??? why did u not shout then erupt then ? because it did not hit you ..
and this debate wud never end on these lines ...
you see you are saying our land and saying non j7k ... i am saying thats where ur separating urself from the rest of the country ..
article 370 ..! what article 370 ... did the people have a say in it ??? did they ? or did the king run for shelter when pakistan invaded kashmir in 47 ?
You may not like it .. and I dont .. but I still say the reasons are wrong .. not wrong maybe by some perceptions but wrong if u really want the ISSUE to be resolved ...
article 370 .. what is that ..? a reason for kashmir to be an indian state ???
from the way you put it .. it seems the answer is yes .. IS it ?
talk about pok .. no indian govt there ... so what is it ? the real heaven ? or a breeding ground for proxy war ..?? I would rather you protest for a separate sovereign..
is there no oppression in pakistan wich has had a history of coups..
or afghanistan which is now devastated ...? or bangladesh from where people cross into india in thousands everyday ???
open your eyes .. open eyes of ppl around you .. if you dont and instead keep arguing with me ... you will still have these issues even after you and i have kicked the bucket ...!

Si_Lee said...

@mira..
reg the dargah ... well if you think they will oppose it do u think it is right is my question ..?
see thts the point .. they will and it will be wrong and dont say rest of india ... rest of india dreams about visiting kashmir and i know this better because i have been around and been in various parts .. rest of india ...loves the place wants to be there and does go there ... but is also scared of the terrorism ..
by raising tht question in a way u are acknowledging the point i conveyed the issue is something else .. it is more than that piece of land...

Musadiq Ali said...

@DESCRYING THE SHADOWS
well I can understand wot ur problem is...the fact that u had to suffer for being a Kashmiri Pundit...
and yes, for ur info there was no king at the time when J&K agreed to join India..It was the then CM Sheikh Abdullahs decision...
u say that ARTICLE 370 is something which we kashmiris use as an excuse to seperate ourselves form rest of India...that's true, very true...
the fact still remains that Kashmir is a disputed territory and even UN says so...infact UN says that it's the right of kashmir to decide it's future..let the people decide whether to stay with India or to gain independence...(n i pray that day might come soon and I wish we chose to stay with India)..If u ppl are so sure...then let there be a PLEBISCITE as recommended by UN....!!!!

well , we never support pakistan, (at least me personally)...but the fact still remains that Indian military continues to torture and oppress people which in turn results in sympathy towards Pakistan..the Indian army itself is responsible for the support that majority of Kashmirs population has for Pakistan....because they think that's the only way out of this opression and grief....(wish they knew that Pakistan was not the answer)

now coming on to the question which I asked about giving the Ajmeer Sharief land to some muslim organisation....that was just an example to show u how we kashmiris would feel when Govt. will tell us to transfer our land to some other organisation in the name of religion....
come on, wake up...compare the two situations..put urself in our shoes and then dare to talk.......!

Si_Lee said...

he he ... i suggested the vote myself .. did I not ... look i dnt care about the pandits as well becoz i am not one .. rather i am not by my actions ... again .. i did not justify the army's acts or say tht what u said was a lie .. did I ?
so lets not play with those ideas .. all i said dost was ki ... the root issue is not this land or that article .. it is the mindset of many ...
ajmer sharif .. well what did i say to that ? if they protest it is wrong .. so again I conveyed the same thing .. the mindset ... how does it matter who maintains it as long as it is maintained properly ...
all i have been saying is that the root of the problem is something else ... and i am totally in for a vote .. have it and end the misery is my motto even if it comes at the cost of a separation ...
you are nt getting me .. i am not opposing ur feeelings or suggesting tht u r lying ... i am just telling you that the root cause is not being attacked by the masses even today by that i mean the root cause of this genre of problems ... you do agree that this is not the only issue in kashmir ... dont you ...
and lets not talk about shoes my friend nor about daring .. lets not compare the two situations ...
It is easy to show pictures and say that this is the plight of ppl .. i cud do the same and i wud have enough .. but as i said thts nt the way ... the real way is to end it ... have that vote ... and then end it give the answer to politicians terrorists and everyone ...
but will it happen ??
tell me will it really ... ?
as far as pakistan goes ... he he i dnt hate the pakistanis as well .. why shud i ? i dont even know them .. but i do resent the propoganda of its govt . i mean first apne ghar ko dekho fir doosre ko .. khud ki dal jali hui hai doosre ko khana pakana sikhate ho .. he he ...
badlaav awaam laati hai .. manzoor magar wo badlav kaisa hoga wo us awaam ke neta par nirbhar hota hai ..agar tum apne awaam ko aise netaooon se azaad kar unki aankheen khol sakte ho ... to tumhari mushkil khatam ho jayegi ..
btw .. u said land of mahatma .. i will say the land where the mahatma was assassinated ! agar ye ladai hai to sonch ki ladai hai .. kya aap us sonch ko badal sakte ho ..? agar haan to jannat agar na to jo abhi ho raha hai wo kal bhi hoga ...
and please dnt raise the question of shoes .. i believe we can argue at a much more mature level .. after all .. thts what we intend to do ...

Musadiq Ali said...

@DESCRYING THE SHADOW
brother now i think we are on same wave length...a bunch of intellectuals trying to find solutions to the problems...
"If we are not part of the solution, then we are definitely part of the problem"
A plebiscite vote will never be allowed to take place...
I think we need something as dramatic as "Rang De Basanti" to help us find the solutions....!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Do you want to know the history of the plight of Kashmiris???

Till 1947 kashmir had never been ruled by any nation. Kashmir was never a part of India at first... It was never under Mughal rule. Even Alexander could not yield Kashmir... Kashmir has resisited against a power 10 times stronger than the Mughals. Bt unfortunately it was by treachery that Yusuf Shah Chak was captured. And nott many of us know that how much pains Mughals have caused to kashmiri people???As one intellect has said righty, " Leave politics aside. Dont you see how much pains n cruelty The Mughals had caused on kashmiris? If I became the leader of this nation, the first thing i would do is to destroy all the Mughal gardens where kashmiris where tortured and slaughtered."
In 1856 Kashmir along with its people was sold to Dogras for a mere Rs 50,000 or so(dnt knw d exact figure). And history itself tells that how much injustice n cruelty the Dogras have committed on the kashmiris.
It was Jawaharlal Nehru who rendered army support to kashmir in 1947. But only aftr he gave a written consent under UN that he will withdraw all the army once situations are suitable in the valley. But as Nehru stated " Army ek baar aagayi, to phir jaati nahin", defying his written assurance.

Kashmir, the door to asia...

Why cant kashmir be independent? is it that we cnt support ourselves??? the fact is that it was a deliberate attempt, a deliberate policy of india not to develop industries in kashmir beacuase they just wantd kashmiris to be dependent on supply from outside. Otherwise why the hell cant we survive? WE CAN RULE THE WORLD... and not as dictators, but as a real democratic nation.
A German firm had told India that they would drill the mountains around banihaal tunnel but only if India would allow the Germans to stamp the drilled resources as a German patent. But india denied just becasue they want to show that kashmir has no natural resource.

Kashmir has resources, kashmir has intellectuals,, kashmir has the people who can run and survive this paradise.. the paradise which would once be called
" Jamuhriyah Islamiah Kahmiriah"...
Islamic republic of Kashmir...

Kashmir zindabad...

Musadiq Ali said...

@KASHMIRI

well being a Kashmiri myself, I can understand what pain and grief u must be going through...but brother let us all intellectuals realise that what we are really fighting for is not independence but freedom....freedom to live freely...a free kashmir as it existed efore 1989...a kashmir which never knew of the term "human rights violation"...u united states of budhist,sikhs,hindus,pandits and kashmiris....

and well coming onto ur point about that German drilling company....the fact that Indian Govt. didn't allow them to take away the drilled rsources is because the resources are so rich in minerals and ores that they worth a fortune and certainly Indian govt couldn't have let the Germans take away such a treasure...
infact it is said, that if exploited properly...then the natural resources of kashmir are so rich that they can make India among the top three biggest economies of the world...
the region around wullar alke is considered to be one of the richest deposits of natural ores in the world....

Dr. Qazi Mamoon said...

I am a Kashmiri, its my crime.....
Independence day!! Thats the time!
"I am a Muslim" so kill me!
Invade my land! My territory!
Alter my leadership and see!
But Still you call it democracy!
I deserve to be humiliated.
I deserve to be harassed.
I deserve to be mauled.
I deserve to be killed.
Put Boiling water!
Grill me Alive!
I am a Kashmiri!
I will surely survive!
I demand my rights
Is it my crime?
I demand my dignity
I demand my life,
I am a KASHMIRI,
I want to live,
but a living life.
Not a dead man's life.
It is my crime.
I can die struggling for freedom rather than giving it up and living.
Living a life which was never mine!

"QMamoon"


Good Job man!! Keep it up!!

http://eldinbleze.blogspot.com/2008/08/indian-media-is-actually-indian.html


Qazi Mamoon
http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=8400682073142057017

Musadiq Ali said...

@ qazi mamoon
ur poem is so ironically true...da words contain very deep meaning indeed...gr8 job...

Unknown said...

salam brother.
I would like to congratulate you brother on doing such a wonderful job.
I being far from my motherland presently feel bad that i cant be there to support the holy cause of having an independent kashmir for ourselves and for our future generations to come.
well on my behalf i can just congratulate you brother on starting such a blog system where in we can actually come to know about the real situation of kasmir coming directly from true sources.
keep it up brother.
khuda hafiz
ovais
from
United Kingdom

Musadiq Ali said...

@boom
dear ovais, thnx for appreciating...
but I guess it's a duty imposed on all of us kashmiri to let the people know what the media never tells them...
any ways brother, thnx for such encouraging comnts

Pinku said...

hi!

a truly sad phase we are all in. As we sit in our homes, hearing only reports of curfew being withdrawn from certain areas of the Kashmir valley. i cant help wondering why they never mention it when the curfew is imposed.

Know what I had prayed to shiva to relocate to perhaps Jammu or even new delhi so that Kashmir could have some peace.

Wish you the very best, stay safe and if possible ask those around you to show restrain and not be swayed by propaganda.

One more thing, there is more than what meets the eye...otherwise a 5 lac strong rally doesnt start on its own towards the LOC...it could have moved towards Jammu also.

Anonymous said...

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MOHTASHIM said...

Good job dude ...Keep it up..
Allah Bless!!!

Unknown said...

Well I felt very sorry wben i gone through this full amarnath episode.what i felt from My Government there is no value to kashmiri people life.I know how it fells for those who are growing under the shadow of guns.My personal opinon is army should come out of the residential areas then only any solution will arise.

Unknown said...

I also fell kashmir has dumb politicians who don't have longer vision .well I heard people saying about huryath leaders they never will able to serve your problems.I heard these people saying trifurcation of J&k.does it solve problems or increases ????????

Unknown said...

I know J&k more about kashmir because I have very nice friend from Ladakh as rommie.He told how kashmiriath had died in the vally (when pandits are attacked) and now in Jammu how people are attacking intially muslims (I felt ashamed of my self) how it is effecting ladakh.I felt very very sorry about the situation arising beautiful vally

Musadiq Ali said...

@sravan
I think the best you can do for our cause is to spread the awareness of the true situation on the ground rather than the various made up false stories which media runs at prime time...we need help from people like you who have the courage to analyse the situation with their own brains and see for themselves that maybe the brave solidiers of their own counttry might have just gone wrong in a heavenl valley...the human rights vioalations have to stop and it can be done only with the help of many other fellow Indians like you