THE Kashmiri youth who painted Pakistan’s flag on a cow and then made it roam the streets of Sri Nagar showed a good sense of creative thinking. Equally creative was the unarmed teenage Kashmiri girl who held a large bit of rock ready to hurl it at an Indian tank. The photograph was printed the world over.

The United Nations should confer some kind of reward on them. It is India which in the organisation’s early years treated the UN resolutions on plebiscite as papers in which sandwiches are wrapped. It is the brave Kashmiris who by liberating a chunk of the occupied territory implemented the UN Resolution on the right of self-determination forcefully.

The UN should have ridiculed India’s ‘vacate the aggression’ stand on all available platforms. This is a dishonest and laughable subterfuge for justifying the forceful occupation of a territory. The latest is the brutal murder of six Kashmiris by the Indian occupation force. The atrocity was sparked by the fact that the UN acknowledged human rights violation in held Kashmir. India was so nettled on this that it threatened to attack Pakistan.

It is interesting to note that most Kashmiris who die of Indian atrocities, their bodies are draped in Pakistan’s flag. The abuses range from mass killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to political repression and suppression of freedom of speech.

The number of Kashmiris who have been killed by Indians since 1989 stands has crossed the one hundred thousand mark. No one knows where it will stop.

Farhat Ansari
Karachi

Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2018