A diligent, privately religious, Kashmiri friend who spent his life swatting away bungs (bribes) from green, white and saffron money-changers who all sought to attach him to some political or religious cause, once told us the price he had paid for choosing to be neutral in Kashmir.
He had taken a bullet in the lung (courtesy of the HM - who later apologised saying it was a case of mistaken identity). A grenade had been lobbed at his home (by the security forces who never apologised). Then there were the multiple midnight door-knocks (from renegades). His aged mentor, a well-regarded , secular Hindu, had been gunned down in the street (by a sectarian Muslim outfit). A young prodigy had lost a leg when an IED, possibly set by militants, renegades or an army proxy, exploded beneath a car, killing also a young, female colleague . His best friend had been abducted by the Army, and turned up dead in the Jhelum. Every day his practice in Srinagar filled with people who were the living testament to real crimes that would never be solved and whose perpetrators, although frequently identified, could not be prosecuted.
"Kashmir is about winning at any cost," he told us grimly. And to ensure that the winning continued, he maintained, fear was sown and the truth fragmented. We listened to this depressing view 16 years ago, when the al-Faran episode was underway. The lawyer said: "If you splinter the truth, and abrogate the law, you ensure that nothing can be demonstrably proved." If you cow the people, they will come to accept the improbable as true. Kashmiris lived, he claimed, with an unwilling suspension of disbelief.
The lawyer's view was that those parts of the al-Faran crime that were discoverable had been cherry-picked . India said that a Pakistan-backed group that demanded the release of Masood Azhar and 21 other prisoners had kidnapped a group of Western trekkers. Pakistan said the kidnappers were a rogue outfit and that they and the Kashmir crisis could only be tackled with international "third-party mediation". The only thing that was provable was that after the kidnappings, the Western attitude to the dispute irrevocably changed. Kashmir had morphed from a self-determination struggle into what seemed to be a theatre for a new kind of Islamist terror, incubated in Pakistan. Security force contacts said Pakistan had made it that way through its meddling with extremism, and by manipulating the aspirations of the Kashmiris. The Pakistan military told us that India was responsible, clumsily rigging the 1987 elections, sending trigger-happy forces to deal brutally with an increasingly alienated azadi movement .
However, 14 years later, we found a sea change within the establishments on both sides of the LoC, with many seeming to have changed their view that truth should be sacrificed in order to win and, as significantly, about the nature of the conflict. For Kashmir to move forward, understanding the truth was more important than 'moving on', officials privately agreed. In the West, post-9 /11, torture and renditions, the persecution of Islamists as well as the jerry-rigged grounds for fighting our recent, dubious wars, have ignited debates as to what defines a compassionate society. But nothing of the sort has happened in Kashmir, where the non-war has been poorly reported, and seldom analysed, even though bodies are rising, with 6,000 unmarked graves mapped across the state.
And stories of the state's most intractable missing case came to the surface too and we found ourselves back with al-Faran. It took us to one of J&K's most accomplished undercover agents, a senior police officer who had worked in intelligence and counter-terrorism. Buoyed on by the new mood of truth telling, he began to describe, unsparingly, the philosophy of the previous decade.
He had taken a bullet in the lung (courtesy of the HM - who later apologised saying it was a case of mistaken identity). A grenade had been lobbed at his home (by the security forces who never apologised). Then there were the multiple midnight door-knocks (from renegades). His aged mentor, a well-regarded , secular Hindu, had been gunned down in the street (by a sectarian Muslim outfit). A young prodigy had lost a leg when an IED, possibly set by militants, renegades or an army proxy, exploded beneath a car, killing also a young, female colleague . His best friend had been abducted by the Army, and turned up dead in the Jhelum. Every day his practice in Srinagar filled with people who were the living testament to real crimes that would never be solved and whose perpetrators, although frequently identified, could not be prosecuted.
"Kashmir is about winning at any cost," he told us grimly. And to ensure that the winning continued, he maintained, fear was sown and the truth fragmented. We listened to this depressing view 16 years ago, when the al-Faran episode was underway. The lawyer said: "If you splinter the truth, and abrogate the law, you ensure that nothing can be demonstrably proved." If you cow the people, they will come to accept the improbable as true. Kashmiris lived, he claimed, with an unwilling suspension of disbelief.
The lawyer's view was that those parts of the al-Faran crime that were discoverable had been cherry-picked . India said that a Pakistan-backed group that demanded the release of Masood Azhar and 21 other prisoners had kidnapped a group of Western trekkers. Pakistan said the kidnappers were a rogue outfit and that they and the Kashmir crisis could only be tackled with international "third-party mediation". The only thing that was provable was that after the kidnappings, the Western attitude to the dispute irrevocably changed. Kashmir had morphed from a self-determination struggle into what seemed to be a theatre for a new kind of Islamist terror, incubated in Pakistan. Security force contacts said Pakistan had made it that way through its meddling with extremism, and by manipulating the aspirations of the Kashmiris. The Pakistan military told us that India was responsible, clumsily rigging the 1987 elections, sending trigger-happy forces to deal brutally with an increasingly alienated azadi movement .
However, 14 years later, we found a sea change within the establishments on both sides of the LoC, with many seeming to have changed their view that truth should be sacrificed in order to win and, as significantly, about the nature of the conflict. For Kashmir to move forward, understanding the truth was more important than 'moving on', officials privately agreed. In the West, post-9 /11, torture and renditions, the persecution of Islamists as well as the jerry-rigged grounds for fighting our recent, dubious wars, have ignited debates as to what defines a compassionate society. But nothing of the sort has happened in Kashmir, where the non-war has been poorly reported, and seldom analysed, even though bodies are rising, with 6,000 unmarked graves mapped across the state.
And stories of the state's most intractable missing case came to the surface too and we found ourselves back with al-Faran. It took us to one of J&K's most accomplished undercover agents, a senior police officer who had worked in intelligence and counter-terrorism. Buoyed on by the new mood of truth telling, he began to describe, unsparingly, the philosophy of the previous decade.
Many others spoke out too in their homes and offices. A former IB agent put it this way: 'There were no rules, only outcomes.' The result was a permanent, rumbling chaos in the valley that both prevented Pakistan or the Kashmiris from moulding a resistance that was capable of capturing the state from India. It also stopped India from imposing a profound enough peace to be able to incorporate J&K into its union. And the al-Faran episode was an embodiment of the Game, that had been packaged and sponsored by Pakistan, but then been manipulated by a small group of Indian agents and their renegades to make the perennial enemy pay and pay.
What Kashmir became was a total war, a conflict where all parties have chosen not to differentiate between civilians and combatants , as everyone is a belligerent.
What Kashmir became was a total war, a conflict where all parties have chosen not to differentiate between civilians and combatants , as everyone is a belligerent.
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[nothing happened in Pakistan occupied Kashmir except training of terrorist;to cause furthur problems in Indian Kashmir
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Pakistan was doing TRIPLE GREAT GAME on both sides of the border
FIRST GREAT GAME WAS WITH INDIA BY UNLEASHING ISLAMIC AND OTHER TERRORIST
SECOND GREAT GAME OF PAKISTAN WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME NORTH OF BORDER IN AFGHANISTAN ;WITH AFGHAN GOVT: AND NATO FORCES
THIRD GREAT GAME OF PAKISTAN DURING THIS PERIOD WAS TO SUPPORT BIN LADEN AND ALQUIDA AGAINST AMERICA
NOW ALL THE THREE GREAT GAMES ARE GOING IN FULL FOCE
PAKISTAN IS STILL GETTING PAID BY AMERICA IN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR ALL THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES
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From the CIA to the ISI to the Lashkar-e-Taiba: Mumbai Terror’s Afghan Roots:-http://britishafganistangameindianhunt.blogspot.in/2011/09/from-cia-to-isi-to-lashkar-e-taiba-by.html
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THE SECOND GREAT GAME:-AMERICA IN AFGHANISTAN; FIGHTING SOVIET RUSSIA WITH HELP OF BIN LADEN AND TALIBAN:-http://britishafganistangameindianhunt.blogspot.in/2011/08/then-and-now-afghanistan-short-sighted.html
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AFGANISTAN-2ND ROUND OF WAR (WITH SOVIETS) AND 3RD ROUND OF WAR NOW WITH AMERICAN TRAINED TALIB:-
http://britishafganistangameindianhunt.blogspot.in/2011/06/afganistan-2nd-round-of-war-with.html======================================================================================
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