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[This is a press release by a Kashmiri political party]
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That Day Kashmir Was Occupied
62 years ago on this day (October 27, 1947) India landed its army at
Srinagar airport to occupy Kashmir. The disaster would have happened, but
could have not continued, if the political foot soldiers, like the one
mentioned below, had not been first cultivated by the Indian state. While
narrating the events of 1947 in his autobiography 'My Life and Times'(1992:
Allied Publishers, New Delhi, India, p39)The late Syed Mir Qasim, once a
puppet chief minister of Kashmir, and himself a front-ranking foot soldier,
writes::
"...As they [Indian Army] landed at the airport some of them killed a few
Muslims. This shocked and infuriated the local people who were there to
welcome the Indian army as their savior. The shocked people thought of
carrying their dead ones to Jamia Mosque in a procession. This could have
created an uncontrollable situation and turned the people's anger against
India instead of the invaders and perhaps could have given a different
direction to the history of Kashmir. No Kashmiri leader, including Sheikh
Abdullah, could possibly stem this uprising. But Khawaja Ghulam Mohiuddin
Qarra intervened and managed to stop the procession at Lal Chowk. He talked
the mob out of its procession plan so convincingly that one of them stood up
to shout that his son was among those dead, but he would sacrifice another
son if Khawja Qara so demanded. The mob was pacified..."
The two foot soldiers, one who is talking and the other who is being talked
about, both are no more. Gone from this world. However, the misery their
actions, as well as of those like them, brought still persists. We have to
take on the burden, do what best we can to end the misery, and secure the
future of coming generations.
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