INDIA’s latest move to annex occupied Kashmir should come as no surprise. New Delhi has resorted to such blatant provocations for the past 70 years. That is not all. Extremist Hindu politicians have always strived to wipe out Muslims from India.

The famous Indian civil servant, D.P. Dhar, led a commission to study how the Muslims were extreminated and driven out from Spain.

New Delhi also carried out a detailed study of the brutal tactics used by Zionists in turning eight per cent Jews in Palestine into a majority.

The Bharataya Janata Party’s move to annex Indian occupied Kashmir may turn out to be more than they bargained for. The Indians should also take into account other ground realities like:

India is sandwiched between two nuclear powers; b) separatist movements like Khalistan are simmering besides that of Naga Land, Gorkha Land, Mizoram, Nixal Bari movements and many others. In fact there are 30 plus separatist movements in India; c) The people residing in the south half of India resent the arrogant behaviour and supremacy of the northern Indians.

d) India’s Muslim population is about 200 million while there are 400 million Dalits (low caste Hindus). These underprivileged people are fed up with the excesses committed by the upper caste Hindus; e) poverty and over population smite India where about 400 million do not get two meals, have no washrooms, nor sufficient clothes and are bare footed and without jobs.

History is witness that no colonial power has stayed forever in a land that it has colonised and ruled over through brutal tactics. India herself will fall victim to its cleverness.

The undoing by the BJP of the Indian constitution’s Article 370 & 35A may prove to be that country’s undoing and the liberation of Kashmir.

Lt Col (retd) Syed Iftikhar Ahmed

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2019