India and Pakistan: Freedom Lost but Animosity Flourishes

ASIA--PACIFIC, 5 May 2025

Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service

India and Pakistan could Flare-up new regional War

India alleges Pakistan’s involvement in a recent attack on 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir Valley Pahalgam – disputed territory and parts occupied by India and Pakistan. Unthinkable flare -up could lead to war between the two nuclear rivals unfit to conduct their domestic politics in peace and order. India and Pakistan continue to manifest the history of “divide and rule’ perpetuated by British colonialism. Time and opportunities were stolen from the new and educated generations of young people to breathe sigh of freedom and rethink for a new order of peace, harmony and emancipation of friendly relations between the religious, nationalistic and ethnic divides propelled by British imperialism. The State of Jammu and Kashmir was never part of the British Raj of India, and its people have geography and history connected to neighboring people of Pakistan, not India. Were India and Pakistan unprepared for national freedom and incapacitated by colonization to imagine a new beginning for the good of deprived masses? Politics of opportunism and slanted vision of “Mahabahart” – Greater India extend sadistic face of reality to PM Modi’s superior Hidutvata ideology. Intellectuals like Ashoka Mody (India Is Broken, 2023 ), points out how national freedom was lost and economic resources mismanaged to usher typical Hinduism comforting political manipulation PM Modi. Aakar Patel’s (Price of the Modi Years, 2022), evokes new issues of political reckoning and exploitation and exposes PM Nirendra Modi’s record on diplomacy, war, security and assault on press freedom and civil society organizations; monetary corruption to tilt political funding in his party’s favor; and his marginalization of Indian Muslims. PM Nirendra Modi, a decade earlier when a chief minister of state conspired to burn alive about 2000 Muslims in Gujrat and was banned from travelling to Europe and America due to human rights violations.

Nations once colonized by Europeans remain colonized in thoughts and practices. Political despotism could be changed into political reasoning and wisdom to reconstruct a sustainable future in the sub-continent. But Indian or Pakistani leaders hardly possess the proactive capacity to envisage a navigational change to serve the masses. Zeyad Masroor Khan (City on Fire – A Boyhood in Aligarh (2023), tells of socio-economic and political threats that Hindu nationalism poses to India and shares his own experience of existential fear that minority citizens experience in India today, the people of Kashmir are no exception under constant fear and hatred of Hiduvata domination, seeking freedom from Indian occupation since 1948. Suchitra Vijayan (Midnight’s Borders :Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India, 2021), exposes an insane cruelty of Hinduism that runs India more bluntly than at their margins. Suchitra Vijayan’s shows orphaned citizens mostly beleaguered Muslim citizens and how a majoritarian nation turns citizens living on its margins into aliens for reasons of petty politics and dehumanization of its people. An impartial observer could well imagine why about 12 millions people of Kashmir would prefer to be a free nation rather than being forcibly occupied by a million or so posted Indian armed forces throughout the Kashmir valley. If there were public institutions of accountability and intelligent political leadership as was Imran Khan, an international conference should be organized to hear the grievances of the people of Kashmir for freedom. Pakistan needs a political change, wherever the military runs a country, it is an invitation to deceit, defeat and dreadful consequences.

Pakistan – How the Nation Lost Time and Opportunities for Political Change?

Having used the Indian subjects to fight the 2^nd World War on European fronts, British colonizers left the sub-continent in disarray and horrors of sectarian warfare. The colonizers were extremists  to rob the people of their cultures, history and wealth of the Mughal Empire and make Britain Great. Wherever extremism comes into power, it  perpetuates chaos, killings of the innocent and insecurity to fight for survival. History offers lessons  and leaders of India and Pakistan need to see the mirror. PM Modi is a self-centered politician dragging India into his own generated disasters. Greed of self and political power made ZA Bhutto and General Yahya Khan a traitor and ended up losing half of the country (East Pakistan) to India in 1971, and India occupied Kashmir by force and the nation continued to lose more in socioeconomic and political domains because of the dishonesty and failed leadership of Bhuttos, Sharif brothers, Musharaf and few Generals. These thugs and indicted criminals stole billions and billions of national wealth to buy palaces in the UK, France, Dubai and elsewhere in Europe. Please see more by this author,“British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost National Freedom.”https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-colonialism-how-india-pakistan-lost-freedom/5765810andhttps://ms-my.facebook.com/Uncommon-Thought-Journal-161860380533165/photos/4916004181785404/and“Pakistan, Planned Political Chaos: Imran Khan a Victim of Hope for the Future”, Global Research: 11/06/2022.

Pakistan embroiled in its own internal insecurity clashes with Afghan intruders and continuous skirmishes across Baluchistan province lacks strength and leadership to engage in another war with ten times bigger Indian. The massive corrupt networks of politics and military involvement have turned Pakistan into a colonial satellite of the US. After six military coups and enlarged Bhuttos-Sharif’s family thrones have crippled the nation for a viable and legitimate system of political governance. Imran Khan, the people’s leader and political winner of 2024 national elections (Tehreek-E-Insaf Party), charged with 150 bogus legal cases, remains in jail indefinitely. Constancy to reason, law and justice are missing in Pakistan.The nation and its moral, intellectual and political strength solely rests in developing public institutions, systems of governance and transferring power to educated and intelligent people of the young generation to rebuild Pakistan.Have the few phoney Pakistani Generals learnt any lessons from the living history? Pleas see: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/17/senior-pakistan-official-admits-election-rigging-as-protests-grip-country“Pakistan: What Next after the Rigged National Elections?” https://countercurrents.org/2024/02/pakistan-what-next-after-the-rigged-national-elections/

India and Pakistan would waste time and opportunities if the Kashmir conflict continues without an agreed upon plebiscite (The UN-SC Resolution, 1949), engage in military confrontation; PM Modi could stir a fake “terrorist” incursion to blame Kashmiris or Pakistan. Pakistan’s strength lies in its unity of political contrasts causing domestic strife and socio-economic disintegration, a navigational change to confront India with moral and political stability as a model of survival and people of Kashmir should have their natural rights to determine their freedom, their future and their humanitarian progress for change and a better future free of foreign occupation, killings and violence being experienced in the name of fake democracy. Current affairs call upon new and educated generations to take initiatives for rebuilding friendly relationships in the sub-continent – what was lost under British colonialism and what is being wasted by a few antagonists and mindless politicians make no rational sense.Progressive nations are built by educated thinkers, people of new ideas and ideals belonging to new generations of informed and honest people. Deprivation of the new generation is a systematic process to keep the old bags and corrupt families in power with the alignment of few egoistic Generals.

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Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution,  Dec 2019.

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