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Srinagar, July 15: The chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Wednesday reiterated that bilateral talks between India and Pakistan couldn’t yield any result till Kashmiris were recognized as a principal party to the dispute and were included in the process.
Commenting on the forthcoming proposed meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan scheduled to be held at Sharm-ul-Sheikh in Egypt, the JKLF chairman said, “We welcome it and hope that this time the talks will prove constructive and will end on a positive note,” Malik, said in a statement.
“Three generations of Kashmiris have so far been destroyed due to non-resolution of this issue while crores of people in India and Pakistan have been forced to live in the state of continued restlessness and disquietude,” he added.
Malik said the Kashmiris widely known for their intellect, intelligence, hard work and industriousness, had not been provided any opportunity to decide their future. “History is witness to the fact that talks on Kashmir issue between India were always held to meet, talk and leave. There was never any serious and meaningful effort to resolve it,” he said, hoping that this time the prime minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the prime minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, would make a departure from their previous traditions and write a new history.
Malik said the Kashmir issue was not a border dispute between India and Pakistan but it was the matter concerning the determination of the future of Kashmiris. “So their participation in every decision making process is imperative,” he added.
Malik said Kashmiris in 2008 presented a unique example of peaceful and non-violent mass revolution. “So they deserve to be heard and reciprocated with respect and honour for this positive change and Kashmir issue should be resolved on priority,” he said.
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Peace and Justice Post 
December 15, 2009 at 1:34 pm |
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2009-December/057850.html :
The question of ethnic nationalism needs to be put in its historical
and political context while discussing the Indo-Pakistan relations,
especially, when they are related to the Kashmir issue.
While leaving aside some other geopolitical factors, the main
stumbling block that has stood in normalizing the India-Pakistan
relations has been the Unresolved Issue of Kashmir.
But India, ‘the greatest democracy in the world’, has used its
military force to crush the aspirations of the people of Indian-held
Kashmir for self-determination for more than sixty years. That is,
rejecting U.N. resolutions and efforts to that end.
More than 700,000 Indian soldiers as an occupation force in Kashmir
have done what they could to crush and terrorize Kashmiri people
(Muslims) and their resistance against the Indian rule. More than
100,000 Kashmiris (mostly Muslims) thus far have fallen victim to
the bullets and the terror of the Indian army. However, I am not
going to say anything here on the crimes against humanity committed
by the Indian State and its army in the Kashmir Valley.
It is quite true to say that the Mumbai attacks did not help. Perhaps
some readers may find my views relevant in such a connection when I
discuss the major cause of the Indo-Pakistan conflict in one of my
articles, entitled, ”The Kashmir issue and violence in the Indian
subcontinent’ ( http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/58537.html )
The Mumbai terrorist attack or any such misguided acts by some
individuals or organizations to liberate Kashmir from the clutches of
India were doomed to failure. There are substantial reasons for that.
If anyone says that ordinary people under occupation and foreign
oppression (Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, etc.) have no chance
against the great powers then such an assertion can be shown to be
faulty. The people of Vietnam had defeated the U.S. imperialism.
The same can happen once again in Afghanistan.
The human spirit that aspires to liberation lives and refuses to give in.
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