India’s ‘Delusional and Centrifugal’ Trajectory about Kashmir

 

 

 

By Syed Qamar Afzal.

 

It has been all about a story of more than sixty seven years now that the Indian establishments(including both civil and military) have been constantly escaping the ‘inescapable truth’ regarding the future of Kashmir’s freedom.

Needless to say, the governments have been changing in both India and Pakistan yet none of them could ever get rid of the ‘Kashmir obsession’.

More than five hundred thousands of Kashmiris have lost their lives in quest of freedom.Sadly, in the post nuclear South Asian phase,the refractory Indian stance has yet remained unchanged despite much changing global order of ‘globalization’,thereby fostering new dimensions of peace, ( as has been evident of the conflict resolutions of ‘East Timor and Kosovo’).

The Narendra Modi’s doctrine– about Kashmir (intrinsically seeking to exclude the very ‘defacto representation’ of the Kashmir Hurriyat Conference from the peace dialogue process between India and Pakistan)–by no means indicates the sincerity of the dialogue initiative at the part of the Indian government since no history of ‘conflict resolution’ has had such precedence that a conflict solution could have ever been sought out without giving the very warranted entry of the ‘local people’ in that ‘particular dialogue’.

That is highly reflective of the fact that India yet seems unable to go beyond its formerly adopted strategy( a delusional and centrifugal policy) regarding the Kashmir issue.

The fact of the matter is:India’s political leadership has to realize the notion of realism that fosters the idea that India has to give a positive space to its formerly adopted policy on Kashmir, thereby sustaining the truth about Kashmir’s freedom – a warranted right of the Kashmiris.

Both India and Pakistan should restart the peace dialogue by means of reinventing the possible pragmatic options about the Kashmir Issue (that is undeniably a nuclear flash point in South Asia).

Time is already ripe for India to ‘demystify its Kashmir myth’. The ongoing ‘doctrinaire Indian policy’– of controlling the hydro-politics-cum-hydro-economics of the Indian held Kashmir vale– should no longer be continued by accepting the real emerging dynamics of the largely awaited ‘South Asian peace notion’.

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