Making peace is harder than making war
LAHORE: After the arrival of Narendra Modi in power, the expected escalations between India and Pakistan are at their peak. How he earned attention through anti-Pakistan rhetoric elucidates his malicious intentions. The alleged Indian involvement in the instability of Karachi and Balochistan is known without reservations. His resentful policies are putting the peace of South Asia at conflict. However, I would like to shed light on the volatile state of India, which has been suffering from unprecedented insurrection for decades in its neglected northeast region. The movement for a ‘free sovereign Naga nation’ boiled right after the British withdrawal. The situation worsened after the promulgation of the notorious Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 till now, that grants special powers to Indian forces to arrest anyone without warrant. It is highly criticised by various human rights activists.
Once Gandhi said, “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.” Such sort of heinous crimes by the Indian forces on the disturbed territory need to stop. They are in the form of unparalleled social, political and economic inequalities and discrimination by Indian authorities in the integrated states of Siliguri Corridor. This conflict has engulfed the precious lives of thousands but it is yet to be solved. More than half of the Indian states are also suffering from the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency led by the support of the poor rural population.
Mr Modi, in such sort of horrible circumstances, where your state union isn’t assured, intervening in a sovereign state’s internal matters is like sending out an invite for your dissolution. Making peace is harder than making war. I, on behalf of Pakistani society, wants this issue to be put under the honourable attention of the authorities concerned.
Syed Kafeel Abbas
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2016.
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