to Kashmir. One major event was focused on Afghanistan. Today’s Kashmir Solidarity Day, held on Feb. 5 each year, sees a busy calendar of events, including a human chain near the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
Last year’s human chain was probably one of the largest in the world. And young Kashmiris and Pakistanis have come together on a single platform through Youth Forum for Kashmir, or YFK, a lobbying group recently launched in Muzaffarabad and Islamabad. An the Oxford University Press has launched a book, The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir.
Australian author Christopher Snedden told an audience in Islamabad last week that his book cleared a common misconception about the role of Pakistani tribals in starting the Kashmir conflict. His research concludes it was the people of Azad Kashmir who started the struggle for self-determination in July 1947. Pakistani tribal fighters intervened much later, in late October of that year.
Over the years, some Pakistani governments damaged the cause of Kashmiri. In hindsight, president Musharraf’s out-of-the-box ideas and one-sided concessions to India were a futile effort and failed to cause any positive change in New Delhi’s mindset.
India does not have many options in Kashmir. With a near civil disobedience showing no signs of abating it will have to do the right thing eventually: give the Kashmiris the right to self-determination, according to the norms of democracy the UN charter.
Email: aq@projectpakistan21. org
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