Paradise on Fire

The present roots of the Kashmir conflict go back to the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the year 1947 by the British Imperialists. The birth of the Kashmir Dispute is a British colonial legacy, and the dispute is among the longest pending and unresolved issues in the United Nations’ list demanding a permanent solution. It has consumed tens of thousands of innocent Kashmiris who became cannon fodder in the raging fires of antagonistic violent tussles between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Meanwhile Kashmir remains divided between the hostile nations of India and Pakistan, and the people of Indian administered Kashmir have never reconciled with India. Despite the conditional accession that was never ratified by the masses, resistance against the Indian rule, what Kashmiris term as a military occupation, has never died.