Kashmir continues to see-saw between hope and frustration: Zaira Wasim

With Kashmir Day just around the corner, the young protégé asked some difficult questions in an elaborate post

Recently the Sky Is Pink actor, Zaira Wasim took to social media on Tuesday to share the plight of residents of Kashmir. Given the Kashmir Day is right around the corner, Wasim penned down an elaborate post, discussing how Indian occupied Kashmir continues to 'exist and suffer'.

She wrote, “Kashmir continues to suffer and see-saw between hope and frustration. There’s a false and uneasy semblance of calmness in place of escalating despair and sorrow. Kashmiris continue to exist and suffer in a world where it is so easy to place restrictions on our liberty. Why do we have to live in world where our lives and wills are controlled, dictated and bent?" questioned the young protégé.

The former actor then added a series of questions, "Why is it so easy to have our voices silenced? Why is it so easy to curtail our freedom of expression? Why aren’t we ever allowed to voice our opinions, let alone our disapprovals to decisions that are made contrary to our wishes? Why is it that instead of trying to see the cause of our view, our view is just condemned ruthlessly?"

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Wasim did not stop there, she rampaged with speculations knowing they would never be answered. "What is so easy to curb our voices so severely? Why can we not live simple lives without always having to wrestle and remind the world of our existence."

She then asked the toughest one of them all, "Why is that life of a Kashmiri is just about experiencing a lifetime of crisis, blockade and disturbance so abundantly that it has taken away the recognition of normalcy and harmony from the hearts and minds?”

Mobile internet services, cellular network, landline and broadband connectivity resumed in the Valley on January 25, according to The Indian Express. The services were suspended on August 5 after Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution.

The 19-year-old Srinagar-born starlet also criticised authorities and added, “Hundreds of questions like these-unanswered; leaving us bewildered and frustrated, but our frustrations find no outlet. The authority doesn’t make the slightest effort to put a stop to our doubts and speculations but Stubbornly tend to go their own way to confine our existence mired in a confused, conflicted and a paralysed world.”

She continued, “But I ask the world, what has altered your acceptance of the misery and oppression we’re being subjected to? Do not believe the unfair representation of the facts and details or the rosy hue that the media has cast on the reality of the situation. Ask questions, re-examine the biased assumptions. Ask questions. For our voices have been silenced- and for how long….none of us really know!”

In July 2019, the Dangal fame Zaira bid goodbye to her acting career, saying it interfered with her faith and religion.

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