From last few months, we are seeing whole of Kashmir burning over freedom struggle. Recently, these struggles become so violent that whole Kashmir got paralysed. In 2007, I wrote this article Are we justifying our self in Kashmir?. In this article, I asked this question that why innocent people of Kashmir are suffering between the struggle of India and Pakistan. After three years, situation in Kashmir has become even tenser and life of people has got halted.
In the place of providing solution to people of Kashmir successive governments have just mislead them. Recent government of Omar Abdullah has become total failure and people of Kashmir do not look to have any faith on him. From last 25 years, we are seeing violent struggle in Kashmir which caused death of lakhs of civilians and arm personals. Still people are dying every day in Kashmir making situation tense in already tensed Kashmir. Today’s Kashmiri youth revolutionaries are using new and modern mediums like Facebook, twitter, flicker and orkut to spread their messages to world.
However, in all this I do not see any solution for Kashmir because both parties are just trying to justify each other’s stand. Indian government treat Kashmir as its integral part which cannot be separated from it whereas many Kashmiris want total Azadi (freedom) from India. Simultaneously, some parties are floating solution of more autonomy. But no one looks for a solution which represents everyone. It is very difficult for Kashmir to enjoy same kind of progress and growth after getting independence from India because main culprits are local corrupt government officials and corrupt politicians.
Azadi is no solution and doesn’t guaranty any improvement in lives of people; however, good governance can solve many problems of ordinary Kashmiri people. Hopefully, in future all parties will look towards a solution which represents all concerned parties involved in this dispute; otherwise, this problem will linger on as such in future too.