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By Zahid Rabbani
The reports of Indian cruelties in Occupied Kashmir have totally dampened the dreams for a peaceful and prosperous South Asia. One cannot expect anything good from India governed by biased rulers, but it is not understandable why major powers are ignoring Indian malice against minorities.
The saner voices over there have long died down. The firebrand Indian microphone warriors are now spewing fire from their mouths. They are not sparing even the basic faith and religion of Muslims. The Indian state is no more a secular state as claimed by New Delhi and Sangh Parivar’s Hindutva has converted it into a hate-based non-tolerant entity.
According to the UN Human Rights Council’s recent Universal Periodical Review of India, twenty-one states, including Germany and Canada, have rebuked New Delhi for the rampant violence and hatred against minorities, particularly Muslims in Indian society.
New Delhi’s iron-fisted bureaucratic control of Jammu and Kashmir, marked by the arbitrary use of anti-terror laws against people with dissenting viewpoints, including journalists, and the summary incarceration of Hurriyat and religious leaders is an established fact.
India’s plan to reorient the region’s demographics has worsened the situation. Irked by the volatile situation in the occupied Kashmir, India’s Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has hinted at the possibility of the Centre considering restoring state status to the disputed Jammu and Kashmir.
After years of monitoring the human rights situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International has come out with an exhaustive and scathing report on the conditions and policies of the Indian government. It has called on it to end the repression of rights in occupied Kashmir, release those arbitrarily kept in detention, and take several other corrective measures.
In effect, it has laid bare the atrocities and brought in focus the inhumane practices of the BJP government to which successive governments in Pakistan and other unbiased international NGOs have been drawing attention for years.
The Amnesty International report states, “three years since the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir the Indian government efforts to put in place unlawful surveillance measures, arbitrary detentions and restrictions in freedom of expression and simultaneously conceal its actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir clearly violated international law”.
However, it is amazing to know that the AI report has not been able to stir the conscience of leaders of major powers, especially of the West which claims to be the champion of human rights and a free democratic society.
The sharp contrast between how the US and the West are engaged in defending Ukraine’s freedom against Russian domination and the gross indifference to the plight of the Kashmiri and Palestinian people is there for everyone to see
So far, apart from a few lone voices and think tanks, there has been hardly any serious opposition to India’s discriminatory policies toward its minorities, emboldening Narendra Modi to pursue his cruel policies relentlessly.
It may not be wrong to assume that the culture of prejudice and hatred inculcated over years and intensified by BJP hawks has placed Muslims in general and Kashmiri Muslims in particular in a precarious condition within their own country and literary built the state security structure to suppress them physically, emotionally and deny them their basic fundamental rights.
Apart from Muslims, the other minorities in India, Christians, and even Dalits are facing discrimination, although the pressure on them is to some extent less compared to the Muslims.
Narendra Modi realizes the repercussions the government would face from Western countries as their public would react strongly to the unfair treatment and prejudice shown toward the Christian community. However, he exploits the indifference of the West toward the ill-treatment of Muslims.
