a year ago, i would have never thought i would be at the point i am at now. Alhamdulillah. Allah swt works in such mysterious ways and brought such amazing people into my life when i most needed it. I wouldn’t be where i am now without them.
a ceasefire does not change that Kashmiris are living under occupation and are facing a genocide under the current fascist Indian state. don’t stop talking about Kashmir, no matter what. it is FREE KASHMIR till every single Kashmiri life tastes complete freedom.
We see so clearly who gains from war and who loses. Among the latter, children in Bahawalpur, children in Poonch; Haidar Ali, a street vendor in Pindi, whom I want to highlight because he is neither a child nor a woman, but his life too was worth something.
the Indian state clearly sees the Israeli model as aspirational and the only people who deny that fact are liberal Indians who have internalised Hindutva propaganda that casts Kashmiris as perpetual terrorists whose blood is halal
everyone framing this as an india-pakistan war and neglecting to even mention kashmir — please don’t forget that kashmiris on both sides will suffer the most and that the occupation has the power to cut them off from the world at any point. don’t look away from kashmir.
India is the aggressor here—and an incredibly irrational one. This has nothing to do with Pahalgam, whose perpetrators we still don’t have confirmed.* It is one of the world’s biggest powers, run by extreme right wing ethnonationalism, armed with nukes and now attacking another nuclear power while the people it occupies, the Kashmiris, will be the greatest casualties.
It also seems that India is using the 2020 Azerbaijani/Turkish approach that was used against Nagorno-Karabakh/Armenia: using drones to test Pakistan’s air defense capabilities before determining weaknesses / targets.
Pakistan has done a great job hiding its military assets — they also have a superior AWAC and air/ground radar systems which allow for them to detect IAF. But if/once the Indians figure out military locations, then we are in uncharted & extremely dangerous territory.
De-escalation is paramount but seems unlikely.
*could be Shehbaz himself, wouldn’t justify what India is doing. Saying this to say that this escalation is using Pahalgam as an excuse, but the Indian government & media don’t care about the Pahalgam story.
Both India and Pakistan claim to care for Kashmir & Kashmiris. Nation states only care about land and territorial boundaries. And neither of them is an exception. They want the land, not the people. Evidenced by their ruthlessness in attacking Kashmiris on either side.
why is no one talking about what’s going on in Azad Kashmir? No hashtags, no media coverage, no statements. Silence in the face of injustice is complicity. This information blackout is unacceptable. The people of AzadKashmir should be protected, and their voices must be heard.