It is high time that we also showed some muscle to our adversary
RAWALPINDI: Now that India herself has brought the Kashmir issue under international focus by stupidly claiming to have carried out surgical strikes against Pakistan, which has appropriately alarmed the world powers of its escalation into a fully fledged war between the two nuclear states, Pakistan should make the most of this opportunity to its full advantage and to the advantage of our Kashmiri brethren. In that, an all-out effort must be made to demand the plebiscite under the 1948 UN Resolution to settle the 68-year-old long outstanding dispute between the two countries, due to which three conventional wars have already been fought and the fourth one, which could be nuclear devastating.
The very thought of such a war is horrendous as it would not remain confined to the subcontinent only but could engulf most of the rest of the world also. Along with it, Pakistan must demand of India to stop the most inhumane kind of atrocities being perpetrated by the Indian armed forces upon helpless unarmed Kashmiris, where even old men, women and children are not being spared. Pakistan must boldly and unequivocally make it known to the Indians, in particular, and the world powers, in general, that from here onwards, Pakistan will lend its full moral, psychological and relief support in all forms and kinds to Kashmiris across the border. For starters, Pakistan could ask India to allow it an air corridor for its C-130 aircraft to drop relief goods and supplies to beleaguered Kashmiris who are almost around 90 days of the curfew imposed upon them. It is high time that we also showed some muscle to our adversary, who is now talking of stopping our waters and isolating us from the international community. We should say, “enough is enough”.
Col Riaz Jafri (retd)
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2016.
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