SHOULD WE LET KASHMIR GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FOR GOD'S SAKE SPARE THE GOD!!!!!!!!

The Amarnath shrine land issue,is unnecessarily being blamed as the bone of contention,between the Hindus and Muslims of the valley or rather between Kashmir and India!The shrine is just being made a scapegoat by the Kashmiri Muslims to went their undying desire of freedom from India!! This is probably the last nail in the coffin of relationship between,India and Kashmir,and this very statement sounds as if Kashmir is not a part of the country. The issue however,is nether the land,nor the Hindu shrine,but AZADI !

And this azadi is,less as a freedom from the so called step treatment of unfair India,but more of an overambitious desire to live independently.The root cause of this cannot be identified or pin pointed,as there are three processes working simultaneously towards a so called similar goal.Firstly the Pakistani forces,which are still thirsty for the revenge of partition and want to acquire Kashmir back.Secondly Pakistan again trying to break Kashmir away from India,as a revenge of Indias role in the independence of Bangladesh,and thirdly the struggle of Kashmiris who want to be azad from India.

These two agencies are working hand and glove.The local population may be helping the outside terrorists in their attacks,and the outsiders are be sustaining the struggle for kashmiris in their battle of independence.But,surprisingly the goals are different,Pakistan may have the distant dream of taking kashmir,but most of kashmir has the determinant desire of being independent,and may be even acquire back the POK,and such sleeping with the enemy situations are eventually self destructive and fatal!!!!!!!!!!!!.

While Kashmiris,considering themselves Indians may be counted on finger tips,the number keen to attain Pakistani citizenship,is not bigger either.Majority of the Kashmiri is just a Kashmiri at heart

The normal life of a civil war or local insurgency is usually a decade,but in Kashmir the fire is alive since almost two decades.It was 18th Nov 1989,when the insurgency started in Kashmir,and since then the snow clad mountains of the most beautiful land of the world,have been painted red by the blood of innumerable people,mostly innocent and including a large number of woman and children.The Khalistan movement was as bad and strong,if not worse,but died its natural death,since the masses were not with the agitators,but here it is a movement of the complete Kashmir

Having spent almost four years,in the valley,in the thick of insurgency,treating the casualties,I have had the opportunity to interact with the Pakistani terrorist,foreign missionaries,local agitators and the common kashmiri,The Pakistani terrorist is in a trance in the name of Jihad,the missionaries are on a payrole,the local kashmiri militant a freedom fighter and the common man just fed up.
But it is this fed up common man,who is playing the strongest silent role in keeping this battle alive.The common man neither wants India to win,nor Pakistan to succeed,but wants a free Kashmir

The threat to become part of Pakistan and the march to Muzzafarabad are just kiddish acts,as in school we would often exchange tiffins with our best friends enemy,just to tease him,when we were not on good terms,temporarily or permanently.And the green flags are again no indicators of love for our dear neighbor,but the show of Islam against Hinduism(read Kashmir against India)

What has been the cause for this,one cannot say.Weather it is the mistake of partition,the poor governance of center,the support of Pakistan,the demographic barrier,the exploitation of the poor Muslim craftsmen by the rich Kashmiri pundits,the will of separatists or the over confidence of belief in to be able to survive independently. The geographical bottle neck of Jawahar Tunnel has proved to be a great culprit,preventing the Kashmiris to mingle with the rest of India.Kashmiris generally form the least number of friends , neighbors and collogues we can think of,compared to those from any other state,and may be even from Nepal or foreign countries.This scenario has isolated the Kashmiri, physically and emotionally forcing him to think of only AZAD KASHMIR!
And this too,when Kashmir in spite of all allegations,still is one of the most and the only privileged state,where,with the support of the central and state government,there are no beggars,no one without a house,no house without electricity and even subsidized electricity and food.

Letting Kashmir go,besides being painful emotionally,would mean loss of tourist destinations and fruit orchards,but the later are available at other states too.It may give impetus to freedom struggle of the eastern states and may re kindle the fire of Khalistan movement,but all these may be handled.but to keep the bodies of people by force under the tricolor ,when their heart,mind and soul is yearning for freedom,or is already free,would not only be difficult,but even impossible and may be unfair ! So we should just let Kashmir go! Free it from India,and lets give it a chance to fly and feed and fend for itself,if it can,without India,whose years of support has failed to win their hearts,or of Pakistan which cannot sustain itself !!

I say this with a heavy heart,just as I often take the hated decision,as a surgeon,of amputing a dead or dying part of the body of my patient,where the cruel kindness of my knife may save a life,by sacrificing a limb

Dr Sanjay Kapoor lucknow