Web Desk (December 28, 2018): Once again, Kashmir is living proof that it is not going to compromise, far less abandon, its demand for freedom which is its birthright and for which it has paid a price in blood and suffering which has not been exacted from any other people of the South Asian subcontinent.
Compared to the sacrifice Kashmir has had to endure, India and Pakistan themselves gained their freedom through a highly civilised process.
That is a most poignant truth. But even more bitterly ironical is the contrast between the complex and decades-long agony the Kashmir issue has caused to Kashmiris, to Pakistan and to India itself and the simple, rational measures that would be needed for its solution.
No sleight of hand is required, no subtle concepts are to be deployed, and no ingenious deal needs to be struck between an Indian and a Pakistani leader with the endorsement of the more pliable Kashmiri figures.
Earlier this month a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day, revealed Indian troops, in their unabated acts of state terrorism in occupied Kashmir, martyred 95,238 innocent Kashmiris, including 7,120 in custody, since January 1989 till date.
The report said that the troops molested or disgraced 11,107 women and damaged 109,191 residential houses and other structures during the period.
Indian troops and police subjected at least 8,000 people to custodial disappearance in that time.
The time for deceptiveness is gone. All that is needed is going back to the point of agreement which historically existed beyond doubt between India and Pakistan and jointly resolving to retrieve it with such modifications as are necessitated by the passage of time.
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