INDIA MUST WITHDRAW ITS OCCUPYING
FORCES
FROM KASHMIR OR PAKISTAN WILL EMPLOY THE
FIRST STRIKE OPTION:
HABIB YOUSAFZAI KASHMIR DIASPORA
ALLIANCE
As
a result of recent skirmishes around the ceasefire line bordering India and
Pakistan, also known as the line of control (LoC) in the state of Jammu and
Kashmir, deaths have accumulated on both sides. Indian Leader of the
Opposition Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha called for ‘10 heads’ from Pakistan. Her
exact wordings were, “if his (Hemraj’s) head could not be brought back, we
should get at least 10 heads from their side”, referring to Lance Naik Hemraj
Singh the soldier who was allegedly beheaded. Swaraj was accompanied by BJP
president Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. “The question is, will we sit
without any reaction and engage in a dialogue? This should not happen. At least
the government should react in some way. That is why we have said the
government should take some tough measures.” Pakistan has already officially
denied this barbarous act and has willingly opted for a United Nation
investigation. Ravish Tiwari of The Indian Express commented on January 15,
2013.
Unlike
India, Pakistani forces are apt followers of the laws of war as per the Geneva
Convention. India is and has historically been a serial violator of aggression.
In 1947, it forcibly occupied Junagarah, Manwader, Hyderabad, and 42,000 square
miles of State of Jammu and Kashmir enslaving 14 million innocent Kashmiris.
India’s aggression against Pakistani citizens does not end in Kashmir. In 1971,
it dismembered the East wing of Pakistan which at that time was known as East
Pakistan and is presently called Bangladesh. It has gone as far as committing a
broad swath of human rights violations against the Sikhs, once their close
allies who sacrificed wholeheartedly in the effort to eject the British forces
from India. Subsequently, it has deprived the Sikh nation their birth right of
the Sikh Homeland Punjab Khalistan. As per United nation records, more than
270,000 Sikhs has been mercilessly killed to suppress their voice for freedom.
The
fact is the Pakistani state does not need the friendship of India. Keeping up
the “facade” of friendship does nothing but delegitimize Pakistan’s very
legitimate cause. Historically, the Indian state has acted as an aggressor
attempting to establish a role as a regional hegemony. Simultaneously, it has
indiscriminately violated its neighbors. Economic incentives should not impede
Pakistan’s decision to cut off ties with the Indian state. Pakistan can do
business with the plethora of other sovereign states in the international
system. The Indian state has killed more than 200,000 Kashmiris and
enslaved fourteen million of its citizens for over six decades which are bona
fide citizens of Pakistan. What other means of aggression can be constituted as
legitimate to break off ties and be designated as hostility towards a state?
India is strategically propagating discourses in order to isolate and corner
the Pakistani state to give up its claim to Kashmir and its fourteen million
inhabitants.
The Nuclear
doctrine of the State of Pakistan is its military strategy which it uses in an
attempt to deter the very real presence of aggression against the state and its
citizens. This deterrence is based on a guarantee of massive retaliation to
anyone who seeks to take aggressive military action against Pakistan. Pakistan
must not back down from the Indian state which has long acted as a rogue state
and violator of basic human rights and make its stance and intentions clear to
both India and the International community at large. Kashmir Diaspora Alliance
strongly urges Pakistan to act swiftly upon its implied and constitutional
policy that it will not only use nuclear weapons in a retaliatory strike, it is
also ready to take the lead and use nuclear weapons first to counter Indian
conventional aggression.
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