Kashmiris and the Supreme Court
In utter wonderment whether it serves any purpose for Kashmiris to approach the Supreme Court of India.
Since 1947, I can’t recall any single judgement which the Kashmiris could recall as pathbreaking. Or contrary to the narrative.
Kashmir has seen rigging, violence, human rights violations, PSAs, disappearances. And one name conspicuously absent is the Supreme Court. Typically Supreme Court intervention could have been suo moto, such was the gravity of events.
Law was not even ornamentally visible for a decade.
Then came the abrogation of Article 370. And we all rushed to Supreme Court. The court endorsed the Union government version and literally closed the legal doors on 370 for all times to come.
Alongside Article 370 came up the issue of statehood. The Supreme Court set a date for elections, but was non commital in statehood.
In the statehood petition, there was one v v important factor. And that was whether the act of relegating a state to UT by the Union government was legal or illegal. A ruling on this question would have set a legal precedent for all other states. If the Supreme Court had ruled that the act of relegating a state to UT was legal, that would have been a big big challenge to Federalism in India. Any Union government could have at whim relegated any state partly or fully to a UT without any justification.
Had the Supreme Court ruled that the relegation was illegal, we would have automatically got our statehood back.
The Supreme Court simply decided to not answer the question, thereby evading a challenge to federalism, saving other states from the sword of relegation. And Kashmir. Well Kashmir continues to be a UT.
So now Farooq sahib and CM sahib want to go to court. I suspect another fixed match. Supreme Court has not delivered in the past. Why on earth would it deliver now.
Is it yet another trap to end the statehood dreams in the near future through legal intervention. Forget the history. Going to Supreme Court in the aftermath of war, fought in J & K does not make sense.
What transpired on 4 August 2019, between Farooq Sahib , CM sahib and PM— no one will ever know.
Where we will end as a result of the fixed matches— nobody will know. It doesn’t look good though.
What we see is certainly not what it is. What we don’t see is certainly what it is.
@JournoMirror You don’t have to be a Muslim to stand with Palestine, speak out against genocide, or call out Israel’s actions. You just need to be human and have a heart.
Israel has now bombed Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, and still plays the victim. This rogue Zionist regime isn’t defending itself, it’s behaving like a colonial thug.
Attacking sovereign nations at will doesn’t make you powerful, it makes you a terrorist state.
Iran, like any sovereign nation, now has every right to defend itself and take full, punishing revenge. The Zionist regime should pay for its crimes in Gaza, for its bloodlust, for its massacres.
India once stood tall among postcolonial nations, defending the rights of the oppressed, including the Palestinian people. Nehru was unequivocal in his support for justice in Palestine. Indira Gandhi upheld that legacy. What changed?
Today, India abstained from voting on the Gaza ceasefire resolution in UNGA. Nothing in Gaza has improved, if anything, the suffering has intensified.
This is the ‘strategic autonomy’ we boast about?
This day reflects a shrinking of moral imagination. An abandonment of global solidarity. And most tragically, a betrayal of our own history.
It's time for courageous leadership, honest dialogue, and a commitment to justice — not just to end wars, but to prevent them from beginning in the first place.
Let us hope for wisdom, restraint, and a genuine commitment to peace.
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This war serves yet again as a stark reminder that the Kashmir issue must be addressed at its root — through a just and lasting solution.
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A temporary ceasefire is not enough. Permanent peace cannot prevail without a permanent resolution. History has shown us, time and again, that postponing or sidestepping this issue only leads to further pain, mistrust, and instability.
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"The second move the government has made is to emulate the Israeli tactic of inflicting collective punishment on poor Kashmiri families for the alleged sins of their black sheep." @svaradarajan
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While Kashmiri’s collectively condemn the heinous crime at Pahalgam, and it is imperative to bring its perpetrators to justice, indiscriminate arrests and videos circulating on social media of demolition of houses and neighbourhoods, is disturbing and distressing. I urge the authorities, that in seeking justice for the innocent victims not to punish innocent Kashmiri families.