At times from dawn to dusk, there are times of quietude. Only gurgling melodies of sounding cataracts are heard. The chirps of the myriad species of the avian world constantly regale the ears of proximate listeners. The chitters of the furry squirrels that keep scurrying beneath the dense bushy vegetations offer a medley of mellifluous delight. Their musical concert ensorcels the souls by warming the cockles of every heart. This is actually the celestial charisma of Kashmir which once upon a time presented a concrete manifestation to the divine of concept of a “heaven on earth”. But unfortunately, the place with its pristine beauty of snow-clad mountains and verdant valleys has lost its salubrious appeal to the very tale of horrendous carnages and ghastly killings. The recent massacre in Pahalgam has once again appalled humanity to the hilt.
Unequivocally, the reprehensible writer of this grotesque story of ruins and rubbles is none other than but our next door nefarious neighbor Pakistan. The pugnacious Pak ( antithetical to its very name) has been fighting a proxy war in Kashmir in the name Jihad since its inception.This very pattern of Pakistan against India bears resemblance with the forked tongue of a poisonous snake that is innately structured to spit out venom and kill the prey. In this case, India is a prey. But times have changed and so has the approach of India changed to deal with our diabolical neighbour. Now India chooses not to be a mere passive prey who will fearfully shut her eyes and surrender to be devoured by its predator . The analogy of the forked tongue has been brought into use to drive home the dual satanic style of Islamic ( read unislamic) terrorism. On the one hand manifesting its brazen shrewdness, Pakistan has been unabashedly striving to seek diplomatic support on the international forum by dubbing the insurgency in Kashmir a crusade for freedom and on the other, it is promoting terrorism on the Indian soil. The hostile nation certainly, antagonist to the idea of peace in South Asia, is now not just confined to its geographical boundaries rather it is an integral part of that massive terror network which is all pervasive, all operational and fatally functioning. It is subverting the world peace even by targeting many other nations like Untied kingdom, United States of America, France et al. Thus, it is not an astounding fact that the Prime Minister of India keeps waxing eloquent and terms Pakistan the “mother ship of terrorism at various international forums.
Undoubtedly, India has attained a comprehensive victory in the arena of International politics and world diplomacy by systematically isolating Pakistan. It has fully unmasked the malevolent minds of blood thirsty terror outfits which unleash chaotic anarchy all over the world. Such bellicose bigots are the living personifications of repulsive ideologies of jingoism and xenophobia. Though they claim to be the ideologues of Islam, in sooth, they have nothing to do with the sacredness of Islam and its canons. These fundamentalists have reduced Islam merely to the religion of fear and much to our chagrin that lexicons like “islamophobia” are nowadays the part of our popular day to day parlance.
This diabolical design of Pakistan is further exposed when its overt and covert involvement is established in many heart- wrenching bloody episodes taking place elsewhere in the world. The wires of most of the massacres taking place in any corner of the world often get connected with Islamabad. Indubitably, the cloak of Pakistan’s hypocrisy is blown off. Now it stands stark naked in front of the world community. Though the hawkish nation does not have any traces of remorse and shame on its already blackened and exposed face. All the nooks and crannies of the POK and the various other parts of Pakistan are the safe haven for terror organisations like TLF, Lashker-e-Taiba,Jaish Muhmaad, Al Quaeda which are in complete cahoots with the modern day active world-terror organisations like IsIs, Daesh and Taliban.
When it comes to Kashmir, Pakistan has been found clamouring in high staccato and attempting to blindfold the world by stating that Kashmir is a disputed territory. Therefore, the prevailing dissent among the freedom fighters over there is responsible for all the riotous bloodshed which is evidently its own handiwork. No one today among the pacifist nations is anymore ready to buy Pakistan’s fake narrative. It is nothing but a hogwash. The sensitive peace-loving countries all across the globe have waken up to the reality. Now they have begun to understand that on the pretext of “Kashmir’s struggle for freedom” Pakistan is just patronizing a large deadly network of ghastly terror not only pan India but all across the globe. The misled entrenched minded dogmatic militia of terror groups pose a potent threat to the idea of world peace. Otherwise no responsible and civilized country in the world will ever have the temerity of giving shelter to the proclaimed terrorist like Osama Bin Laden, Masood Azar, Daud Abraham and so on .
Unambiguously, India has fared very well in the spheres of diplomacy but the lacuna within the state is also quite deep and depressive. Whereas on the one hand the international community is convinced of India’s stance against Pakistan’s terror policies and has also assured support to stand united with India in her endeavors to eradicate the scourge of terrorism but on the other hand a few black sheep in Kashmir are seething with anti state sentiments. Here lies the double whammy for India. she is fighting a pitch battle against the vile forces from across the border and simultaneously, the regime is flummoxed and flustered because the exponents of defunct organisations like Hurriyat in Kashmir and other terror sympathizer elsewhere in the country are fishing in the troubled waters by brainwashing the impressionistic youth. Therefore the battles against Pakistan should be waged with a comprehensive set of strategies comprising not only surgical strikes. There is certainly a paramount need to win the hearts of Muslim community within the borders. Only then can India succeed in breaking the deadlock of Kashmir and outsmart Pakistan in all fashions.
Shiv Sethi is an eminent columnist and literary critic.
