In 1971, after the fall of Dhaka, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi jubilantly proclaimed: “today we have sunk Jinnah’s Two Nation Theory in the Bay of Bengal.” It was indeed the saddest moment in Pakistan’s history and gave fodder to Pakistan’s detractors, who were critical of the creation of Pakistan.
It is imperative to reiterate the importance the Two-Nation theory, which is the basis of creation of Pakistan. It states that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations from every definition; therefore Muslims should have a separate homeland in the Muslim majority areas of India, where they can spend their lives according to the glorious teachings of Islam.
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, (in his address to the annual session of Muslim League), stated: History has presented to us many examples, such as the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, of Czechoslovakia and Poland. History has also shown to us many geographical tracts; much smaller than the sub-continent of India, which otherwise might have been called one country, but which have been divided into as many as seven or eight sovereign states. Like-wise, the Portuguese and the Spanish stand divided in the Iberian Peninsula. If Muslims of the sub-continent comprise an Islamic nation then they have the right to have separate homeland as mentioned.
Forty six years after Indira Gandhi’s boast, the clock has taken a full circle, vindicating Jinnah’s prescience. Sagarika Ghose, Indian journalist, consulting editor at The Times of India and the author of the recently published book, “Indira, India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister” in her latest Op-Ed, admitted that India has become a “de facto Hindu country” and the boiling situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) is a sign of triumph for Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Two-Nation theory. She succinctly observes that “Today Kashmir is a cantonment, patrolled by lakhs of security forces.”
It is a fact that although the IOK situation had been simmering for the last seven decades, the cauldron boiled over under the Narendra Modi regime, who has nefarious plans for the Valley. IOK has been witnessing an unprecedented movement and open rebellion against the illegitimate occupation of India. Recent wave of Kashmiri intifada has witnessed repression of Indian armed forces; large numbers of the dead and injured have been youngsters. The pellet guns used by security forces have damaged the faces of 3,600 people and more than 2,100 people have partially or wholly lost their eyesight making 2016 as the year of “dead eyes”. Since the cold blooded killing of Burhan-ud-din Wani last July, IOK is up in flames. Instead of dousing the flames, India continues its reign of terror.
In her article ‘Delhi doesn’t know best: One nation doesn’t mean only one election or one leader, aligning elections not feasible’ published on 17 October 2017,Sagarika Ghose states that “In Kashmir attempts to abrogate Article 370 or remove Article 35A have put backs up in the Valley as Delhi now seems the prime mover of Kashmir events rather than a genuine empowering of chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. Delhi’s attempt to meddle in Tamil Nadu has only resulted in more instability and putative moves to insist on Hindi language signage in Karnataka have spurred anti-Hindi protests. In Bengal, Centre and state governments are poised in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation as they are in Kerala, now seen as the last frontier for Sangh Parivar expansion.”
Another Indian journalist Santosh Bhartiya in an open letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi published on ‘Rising Kashmir’ claimed that although “the land of Kashmir is with us, the people of Kashmir are not with us.”
Titled ‘Aggression, bitterness in every Kashmiri’, Santosh Bhartiya pleads: I want to introduce you by the fact that people have painful aggression in them against the Indian system; be it a man of 80 year old or a six-year-old child.
This aggression and bitterness is to an extent of rejection of not even willing to talk to anybody who represents it. Their pain and aggression had taken such turn of extremism that they now stand with stones in hands and are ready to face such huge system; not bothering about the outcome. I believe this situation would lead us to the disastrous “massacre” situation.
A Kashmiri who do not holds a stone in hand, keeps the stone in his heart.
Ironically, this letter was published in 2016 and since then the massacre continues unabated.
Santosh Bhartiya exposes the myth of alleged Pakistani backing for the uprising in IOK. He says: “I have a question for you Modiji. Can Pakistan, which is financially a weak country, give 500 rupees to each stone-pelting boy every day? And do you really want us to believe that Indian system is so helpless or hopeless that it could not catch a single man who distributes these 500-500 rupees to the young boys of Kashmir?
Is Pakistan that strong a country that it can encourage 60 lakh (6 million) people of Kashmir to raise their voice and fight against India? This is sheer joke and even Kashmiris mock at us.
Labeling Kashmir movement with Pakistan is a sheer made-up story and is not true at all.”
If that were not enough, “New York Times” editorial “Cruelty and Cowardice in Kashmir” also has the same shade commenting on the incident of tying up a young Kashmiri to the bonnet of an army jeep and being used as a human shield in Srinagar. Former chief of R&AW, A S Dulat felt that the ongoing unarmed uprising has worsened under the current government due to alienation and the anger of youth; young Kashmiri minds have gone out of control. “There is a sense of hopelessness. They aren’t afraid to die. Villagers, students and even girls are coming out on the streets. This has never happened in the past.”
The above quoted extracts are not Pakistani voices but Indian non Muslims and a US daily expressing concern at the advent of Hindutva. Indian Supreme Court is examining the option of making it compulsory to sing the Indian National Anthem in schools, parliament and public places for all Indians. Prima facie, this would be a benign order but the lyrics and the meaning of the anthem can offend non Hindus. In Kerala, students belonging to the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious denomination were expelled by school authorities for their refusal to sing the national anthem on religious grounds, although they stood up respectfully when the anthem was sung. On 30 November 2016, Supreme Court of India ordered National Anthem must be played before movies in theaters, in order to instill “committed patriotism and nationalism”. On February 10, 2017, two Kashmiris were booked for not standing during anthem in Jammu Cinema, under provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. This was the first arrest of its kind made by a state government in India.
If Modi continues his drive to make the Hindus supreme in India, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah stands vindicated for demanding a separate nation for Muslims thus propounding the Two Nations’ Theory.
Congrats. Your accomplishment eclipses the great records of all sportspersons of all ages set for all times. That you should vindicate, as you say, your pet fantasy by appealing to a journalist who mouther something pleasing to your ears. Scratch her back? And tomorrow, if she says something else that puts you in a spot, oho, there will be a boiled ehh in a pot. Please please exercise your own discretion. May be the rest of us will be less embarrassed,
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