You were Muslims? By Dr Shabir Choudhry

  

You were Muslims? By Dr Shabir Choudhry

 

·      You claim that your nation was created in the name of Islam.

 

·      Yet we are not your jugular vein. Jinnah never said such a thing.

 

·      By staging the drama of the "jugular vein," you violated the Standstill Agreement.

 

·      You attacked us with the intent to occupy us.

 

·      Dishonoured our women, abducted them, murdered our men, and looted with recklessness.

 

·      Which verse of the Quran permits you to do all this in the name of Islam?

 

·      Which book of Hadith allows you to break treaties? To kill innocent people?

 

·      To abduct and sell their women?

 

·      I won’t dwell on the atrocities you committed in Balochistan.

 

·      Nor will I ask why you are killing people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with jet fighters.

 

·      Because you’ll say it’s your "internal matter."

 

·      I didn’t know that killing women, children, and men could be an internal matter.

 

·      Israel claims what it does in Palestine is its internal matter, a security issue to protect Israeli children. They lie.

 

·      Who gave you the right to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries?

 

·      According to the August 1948 UN Security Council resolution on the Kashmir issue, you were supposed to withdraw all your forces from Jammu and Kashmir.

 

·      Only then was India to withdraw the majority of its forces.

 

·      You neither withdrew your forces, and because of that, there was no need for India to do so.

 

·      By violating the Standstill Agreement and attacking us, you forced our Maharaja to seek help from India.

 

·       Out of compulsion, he acceded to India.

 

·      As a result of the war between the two nations, our homeland was forcibly divided.

 

·      The oppression, injustice, violation of honour, and bloodshed caused by this forced division—you are equally responsible for it.

 

·      We acknowledge your expertise in killing Muslims.

 

·      You are the remnants of British India—your services ensured the British Raj’s hold over all of India.

 

·      Whose hands are stained with the blood of Muslims in a united India?

 

·      In the First World War, Arab Muslims’ blood was spilt.

 

·      In the Second World War, Muslim blood stained your hands again.

 

·       From the moment of its creation, Pakistan’s first attack was on the Muslims of Kashmir.

 

·      The second attack on the Muslims of Balochistan.

 

·      Which atrocities should I recount?

 

·      Honestly, I could write more books on this.

 

·      I have never been your facilitator, nor anyone else’s.

 

·      I write what is best for Jammu and Kashmir and its people.

 

·      If that angers you or anyone else, what can I do?

 

·      My homeland is dear to me; my people are dear to me.

 

·      You could call white, black, and many pawns would say, “Sir, you’re absolutely right.”

 

·      What you did in East Pakistan—who held you accountable?

 

·      You made Mir Jafar’s great-grandson a Major General in Pakistan’s army. No one challenged you.

 

·      You made him Defence Secretary. No one opposed you.

 

·      You made him Governor-General of Pakistan, and no one batted an eye.

 

·      When he became Pakistan’s first President. No one opposed him.

 

·       When, after nine years, Pakistan finally got a constitution, he dismantled its constitution and the assembly. What did you do?

 

·      After this long prelude, all I want to say is:

 

·      We acknowledge, you are powerful.

 

·      We accept you are the master,

 

·      The creator of this new Pakistan.

 

·      But stop treating the people of Kashmir as slaves.

 

·      We have discarded the lessons of Pakistan Studies.

 

·      Our political consciousness has awakened.

 

·      We don’t want war with you.

 

·      But we cannot abandon our rights just to please you.

 

·      The resources belong to us; you control them, and this, we cannot accept.

 

·      These resources are meant for our children’s future, and we cannot sacrifice them to you or your facilitators.

 

·      I’m certain you’re not angry with me.

 

·      Because I’ve spoken the truth.

 

·      If I were wrong, your anger would be justified.

 

·      One final point—reflect seriously on these words.

 

·      The people of Azad Kashmir are beginning to understand my words.

 

·       They realise we are not free; Pakistan is also an occupier.

 

·      Our resources belong to us, yet Pakistan controls them.

 

·      If you treat us the way you treated people of East Pakistan, the outcome could be the same.

 

·      The choice is yours, what you want to do.

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Dr Shabir Choudhry

 Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said: "Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people."