Freedom fighters or employees of Pakistan and Indian Agencies?

Dear residents of Kashmir,

For a long time I have been pondering on what to write and I came to the conclusion of what is better than self-experience. You can call this my personal journey from childhood for the struggle of independance of Kashmir. I am a resident of Kotli (POK) and have been actively involved with the cause for Independant Kashmir. Many fellow Kashmir activists are aware of me. I joined JKNSF in 1983 during the 6th grade in school. I was an active member of the party. 1984 was a very critical time for Kashmir when Maqbool Butt Saab was martyrd. I was involved with the demonstrations against India and Pakistan. After this period many different parties were formed under different names all for the cause of Independance of Kashmir. This however was untrue as we were to find out much later that some of the very well known parties and individual members of these parties were in fact working for the ISI.It became apparent to us much later that these individuals had actually been bought by the ISI.

We disconnected ourselves from these people and parties as they were not going to speak up about Pakistans atrocities against Kashmiris as they were being fed by them. I felt that although there were different parties formed in the name of Independant Kashmir, their aim would be the same as ours, but I was wrong, these so called freedom fighters were not strengthening our aim but were in fact disabling us so that we would not be able to fulfill our aim. We were adament back then that Pakistan will never favour Kashmir and we still hold this view, this has been proved right after the injustice which has occured with Gilgit and Baltistan. These so called Kashmiris who are fighting for Indpendance whilst being used by Pakistan at the same time must admit now that Pakistan will never be in favour of an Independant Kashmir. Pakistan HAS NOT and WILL NOT support us in gaining our Independance.

These recent months have shown how Pakistan has fallen prey to its own conspiracies. All the atrocities happening in Pakistan are its own doings which have come back on Pakistan. Pakistan initiated the distruction of Afghanistan and encouraged the attacks in India, but everything has come back on Pakistan's own doorstep. Innocent Pakistani's are dying today in attacks, when the same was happening in India it was innocent Kashmiri's who were losing their lives.

However the discussion was on fellow Kashmiris who talk about Indepndance of Kashmir but at the same time support ISI. The benfits of working for the ISI have been fruitful for these certain individuals whom I do not wish to name but those clever enough will understand whom I am refering to. They have been successful in writing many books and have become well known in society. To my amuesment the same people who used to work for ISI have switched employers and are now working for India. Before they were employed to tarnish India's name and today they are doing it to Pakistan. These people claim to be fighting for independant Kashmir whilst working for agencies of the opposition.

On a personal level, I have been one of the activists as were many others, who clashed with Pakistani agencies and was arrested on many occassions. We were beaten by police and attacked by the Mujahideen, we faced many harships but not once did we falter from our aim. The aim of freeing Kashmir from these criminals. We were in prime position to cash in on our experiences then but we did not sell ourselves to the thieves who have stolen our motherland. Sadly this was not the case for some who readily sold themselves to India and Pakistan. After many years we are still going strong with our determination and still oppose India and Pakistan but these fellow Kshmiris are still being bought by the opposition.

Dear friends these individuals who talk big talks about Independant Kashmir can never justify talks about Independance as they have Indian and Pakistani tongues in their mouths, so they will speak what is already said to them.

I sincerelt apologise to anyone I might have offended but it was very necessary to raise this issue so my fellow kashmiris are not taken in by their false talk. A true Kashmiri will rise against India and Pakistan both as they both occupy our land, otherwise it is futile to talk about Independant Kashmir.

Azad Raja
Chief Organiser
JKNAP UK