On July 8, when Eid festivities were still alive around the Muslim world, the Bundoora village of Kokerang, Kashmir, witnessed yet another youth, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, falling to liberate his motherland from the Indian occupation. Burhan was amongst thousands of those who chose not to bow down before brutal Indian forces. The slaying of Burhan sparked protests across Kashmir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following day, the world saw a sea of\nmourners at Tral at funeral of young lad. With welled up eyes, the participants\nraised their hands to wave final farewell to youthful, wrapped in green\nPakistani flag to his eternal abode: young grave. The entire Eidgah ground\nechoed with pro freedom slogans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the wake of protest, the Indian forces\nbutchered more than thirty Kashmiris and death toll is feared to rise, for\nhundreds have been wounded and the protest has not ceased .The fact that these protests\ncoincide with The Martyr Day of Kashmir, would likely complicate and compound\nthe situation further. Yet again the vale of Kashmir is coffined in rage, gloom\nand doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does the murder of Wani have ushered a new\nera in Kashmiris struggle for freedom? Would Wani\u2019s grave sprout more life to\nstruggle? The answers seem to be in affirmative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born to Muzaffar Wani,a mathematics\nteacher ,Burhan opted to take up the route to resistance at unripended age of\n15 ,apparently angered by murder of his elder brother Khalid Wani by Indian\narmy in 2015.This act of Wani added an\nindignant character to armed struggle after the mass protests in Kashmir in the\nsummers of 2008 and2010.The willowy Wani,\ntrained indigenantly , would quite invariably appear on social media ,wowing to continue armed struggle. Clad in fighters\u2019\noutfits, Burhan would appeal the indigenant Kashmiris, especially youth to stand\nup against Indian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Indian press, Burhan\u2019s videos\nhad a significant appeal; numerous youngsters said yes to his call. The anger\nof these technical savvy youth, mostly in their twenty\u2019s, is a newer dimension\nof armed struggle. In the recent past, and the current spade of protests, most\nof the killings by Indian security forces have included the youth. Are these coercive\nyouth killings an attempt by Indian army to mow down the Kashmiri youth or\ndeter the people to follow the suit of resistance? The latter notion appears to\nprevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the strength and slogans at\nformidable funeral of Burhan appear to have thwarted the Indian plan. Seemingly,\nthe sacrifice of Wani has further fired the struggle of Kashmiris In this age,\nthe globalised world is also witnessing the Kashmiris, by and large, with apathy\n(though), struggling and suffering for seven decades. Would the killing spree\nof young boys and girls stir the conscience of world to speak and stand against\nthe Indian government to stop stalking the humans? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this critical point, the role of\nPakistan also requires focus. While the foreign office has spoken quite vocally\nagainst the extra judicial of Wani and other protesters in valley, the\nKashmiris are looking for more robust role from Pakistan, especially at OIC and\nThe UN to bring the human rights violation before world community. Can these pictures and protests\nfrom valley be relayed to the Saudis also, who conferred their highest civil\naward to Indian Premier Narendra Modi, in April?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As aforesaid, the spring of 2008, 2009 and\n2010, huge protests were launched by Kashmiris to seek the worlds\u2019 conscience\nto their cause. That was a different dimension to struggle to freedom.\nIslamabad could have taken the issue at world fora, to draw attention to\npeaceful protests and demonstrations of Kashmiris. But, unfortunately, the\ngovernment of Pakistan showed rather ignominious indifference; and the people\nof Kashmir felt forsaken yet another time.\n\nIt is hard to deny\nthat the struggle and sacrifice of Wani would rekindle the struggle to Kashmir,\nfor more youth would be drawn to resistance. Keeping in view the track record\nof Indians, more cruelties would be unleashed at the people of Kashmir. It is\nhigh time that world and Pakistan played their proactive role to lessen the\nagonies of people of Kashmir and support them get their birth right: freedom.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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