WHY WORLD MUST ACT NOW.

ISLAMABAD: The address to the mammoth public rally in Muzaffarbad by Prime Minister Imran Khan was a pragmatic and visionary discourse of a statesman par excellence who was unravelling the gravity of the situation in IOK to his people in the backdrop of the unilateral action by the Modi government to end the special status of IOK and mobilizing their support for thwarting any indiscretion by India; it was an expression of unflinching solidarity with people of Kashmir and commitment to support their cause irrespective of the cost involved; It was a loud and clear message to India that it would not be allowed to get away with its indiscretion and any miscalculation on her part would be forcefully retaliated; it was reiteration of Pakistan's commitment to peace but at the same time an unequivocal assertion of the fact that it was capable of meeting security challenges of any proportions; It was a genuine warning to the world community about the lurking dangers and the looming human crisis of unimaginable magnitude in IOK and a passionate call to it why it must act now to stop the fascist RSS ideology in its tracks before it destroys the regional peace with horrendous consequences.

The world has already witnessed the scale of death and destruction that the ideologies pursued by Hitler and Mussolini inflicted on humanity. The philosophy of Hindutva pursued by RSS and the BJP government in India headed by its child-hood devotee Nrendra Modi, takes inspiration from them. Hindutav means India for Hindus to the exclusion of all other ethnicities and minorities. The scrapping of article 370 and 35 A by the Modi government on 5th August ending special status of the state is meant to change demographic features of the valley and breaking the will of the Kashmiri freedom fighters through ruthless killings which amply reflect the anti-Muslim bias of the policies being pursued by the Modi government. Stripping 1.9 million Muslims of Bengali origin in Assam living there for centuries is yet another ranting proof of that irrefutable reality.

Prime Minister Imran Khan was right on money to say that oppression and atrocities give rise to militancy and radicalize communities. Kashmir has been a hot spot since 1989 when the people of Kashmir picked up arms to win their freedom after having been frustrated by the Indian intransigence to give them their right of self-determination. According to figures compiled by different Human Rights Organizations including...