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| India-Pakistan |
| Pinocchio Pervez |
| 2003-09-26 |
| EFL Ever since he landed in the US for the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Musharraf has been singing an old, familiar tune: The violence in Kashmir is due to India’s forceful occupation of that region; the bunch of brave fighting men who have at last count killed over 80,000 people, at least half of them defenceless women and children, in a little over a decade are not ’terrorists’ but ’indigenous freedom fighters’. I won’t bring up the fact that the Pakistan president has, in his time, helped manufacture these ’indigenous’ freedom fighters -- as in Kargil, when he dressed up units of the Pakistan Army in civilian attire and sent them across the border on a ’freedom struggle’ that precipitated a war. I won’t bring up the fact that the Pakistan president, in that earlier avatar as head of that country’s army, allowed the bodies of his own soldiers to go unclaimed for a long time -- because to claim them would have been to acknowledge his role in that ’indigenous freedom struggle’. I think the rest is worth a read. |
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