Kashmir Update While world is fighting COVID-19, India’s dangerous game of colonialising Kashmir continues unabated April 3, 2020 Dr. Syed Mohammad Inayatullah Andrabi Share this story! At a time when the whole world is focused on fighting Covid-19, Modi Government is insidiously making some significant moves in Kashmir.— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 From hiring Altaf Bukhari to do a job which the likes of him failed to do in 70 years and ultimately gave up, to releasing their long tamed poodles– the Abdullahs—, and now to issuing a domicile notification to engineer demographic change in the Occupied Kashmir.— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 India’s ruling elites are working with minds frozen-in-time taking text book prescriptions on how to colonize people, and are again trying out strategies which have run their course and only brought death and misery to Indian state without, in the slightest sense, creating a— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 genuine relationship between Kashmir and India. It is high time India, instead of indulging in subversive activities in Kashmir, focuses its energies on saving its people a vast majority of whom are living in conditions where water to wash hands is a scarce commodity and soap is— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 a luxury item bought and used only on special occasions like weddings. India must open its mind to accept that Kashmiris are not going to live with India, this they have demonstrated time and again by word and deed over the past seventy years.— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 And in the recent decades something far more important has been come out: Kashmiris are ready to pay any cost to end the occupation. The power of armed resistance, as India’s strategic community knows fully well, does not primarily lie in its numbers,— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 or the fire power or its actual operational duration over time; it basically lies in its ability to credibly demonstrate a people’s willingness to fight. So India must address the Kashmir issue, the sooner, the better.— Dr Syed M I Andrabi (@InayatAndrabi) April 2, 2020 Share this story!