Bharatiya Pragna - Dr. Th Chowdary

R ecently, some columnists have advocated
that India should let go of Kashmir. While
not wanting to wear patriotism on my sleeve, I
would say that the silent suffering majority of India
wants none of this.
The Kashmir “issue” in fact can no
more be solved even by dialogue either with the
Pakistanis or the Hurriyat leave alone the constitutional
impossibility of allowing it to secede because
in a few years hence we do not know what
kind of Pakistan there will be.
The Pakistan army today, by all informed
sources available to me, has a majority of
captains and colonels who owe allegiance to the
Taliban and Islamic fundamentalism. In another
five years, these middle ranks will reach, by normal
promotions, the corp commander level. We
know that the government in Pakistan has always
been controlled by the seven corp commanders
of the army. Therefore, a Taliban government in
Pakistan five years hence seems a highly probable
outcome. Jihad i.e., war against India will
then be the logical consequence of that outcome.
Decisive war
Since the Hurriyat in Kashmir is an organization
that cannot go against Pakistan, India
has about five years to prepare for a decisive and
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“A Nation’s Integrity”
Dr. Subramanian Swamy
The writer affirms strongly that Kashmir is an integral part of India, despite the
argument of some Muslims that plebiscite must be held as for U.N. resolution.
defining war with Pakistan and we must prepare
to win it to avoid the balkanization of India. We
should, therefore, refute those Indian columnists,
academics or politicians who crave or preen themselves
on being popular in Pakistan, by sounding
reasonable and secular on the issue of Kashmir.
Kashmir is now our defining identity and a touchstone
for our resolve to preserve our national integrity.
The population of that state may be majority
Muslim, but the land and its history is predominantly
Hindu. For our commitment to the
survival of the ancient civilization of India and the
composite culture that secularists talk of, we have
not only to win that coming inevitable war but
also never to part with Kashmir.
I will not blame the jihadis for the coming
war. They are after all programmed that way
by their understanding of Islamic theology. I will
blame ourselves for not understanding their understanding
of the fundamentals of Islam as propounded
in the Sira and the Hadith. It is foolish,
therefore, in the face of this reality to expound
the banal sentiment that “all Muslims are not
terrorists or fanatics”. Of course that is true. Or
that the Quran is a message of peace. May be it is.
However, the Islam of the cutting edge
of Muslim fundamentalism that is propounded by
leaders such as Osama bin Laden is in Sira and
November & December 2008 Bharatiya Pragna