India has been reeling under the weight of resurgent Kashmiri freedom movement. Pro-freedom groups have boycotted the poll calling it as an exercise without any credibility and as a futile exercise to "inform" the world about its "democracy standards" with terror military occupation of Jammu Kashmir. Those Kashmiris who voted in Indian poll underway in JK have made it loud and clear that they seek independence from Indian yoke and they have voted for regaining their sovereignty from India.

Not withstanding the protests and anger of Kashmiris India is bent upon showcasing it poll under terror shield in JK. With the first two phases of the Assembly elections having passed smoothly, the focus of various political parties and anti-poll organizations has now shifted to the frontier district of Kupwara where five assembly segments are scheduled to go to polls on November 30 in the third phase. The constituencies going to polls in the third phase include Karnah, Kupwara, Lolab, Handwara and Langate in district Kupwara. Dozens of people were injured and as many vehicles damaged when agitated people hurled stones at various mainstream leaders at many places in Pulwama district. A day after polling in Ganderbal and Kangan constituencies in Kashmir, the cavalcades of several contesting candidates were attacked by mobs in this south district of Pulwama. Murders and injuries of Kashmiris have taken place in the polls highlighting the vulnerability of defenseless Kashmiris. At least 30 persons were injured in the clashes between protestors and cops while four vehicles suffered damages.

India is keen to show its faulty and fractured democracy to the world terrorized by US-led nations by denying any protests by the people of Kashmir and hopes if the poll is "˜done" in JK, then every thing would be OK. The authorities, as usual, have declared that no security restrictions will be imposed when Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani returns to Kashmir after undergoing surgery in New Delhi. It is being expected that Indian authorities, with a view to removing hurdles in the conduct of poll in JK in Indian ways, might impose undeclared curfew in Srinagar on arrival of Geelani "for maintaining law and order". The possible hysterical response of Geelani's arrival for the remaining phases of Indian poll in JK, the Indian strategists hatched plans to strike some where. According to Geelani's family members doctors have advised him to take maximum rest and avoid any stressful and exerting exercise. However, ailing Geelani said that he thinks it is important to be in JK at this turning point of time when Kashmiris are deciding for their future. The septuagenarian leader whose pace maker was replaced by a team of doctors in New Delhi's Escorts Hospital on October 15, has declared his will to resume fighting the freedom cause henceforth.  

As the Poll taking more intensive shift with campaign getting more focused on independence, Indian terrorists once again struck in Mumbai, trying, to dilute the freedom move contents of the campaign. But Kashmiris are now able to se though the hidden dramas of India. In order to foil the prospects of the Indo-Pak bilateral talks as well as the Kashmir resolution, Mumbai terrorism has come to the rescue of India. After blaming a Muslim organization in India for the terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan slowly pinned blame for the Mumbai attacks on militant groups based in India's "neighbors", usually an allusion to Pakistan, raising prospects of renewed tension between the nuclear-armed rivals. The idea behind this focused blame is to derail the peace talks underway now and stop the freedom movement of Kashmiris. But will they succeed now?

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India should feel ashamed of the fact, in spite of the military killings, the Kashmiris condemned strongly deadly Mumbai attack, meanwhile their own civil life is tightened under undeclared curfew by India to thwart anti-polls demonstrations. Both sides, pro-independence and pro-Indian parties condemned bloody Mumbai attack. Senior Kashmiri leader, Geelani while condemning the strikes termed it as an "anti-human act". The perpetrators are enemies of humanity; he said and called for a probe in the strikes by international intelligence agencies. In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has strongly condemned the imposition of undeclared curfew by the occupation authorities to thwart anti-polls demonstrations. Farooq deplored that India was not allowing Kashmiris to perform their religious rites. "We can't tolerate interference into our religious affairs. We are even ready to sacrifice our lives for protecting our religious rights," he said. India claims to be the biggest democratic and secular nation. "However, the infringement into our religious affairs by its agencies has exposed real face of its so-called democracy.

Farooq was scheduled to meet Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi could not fly to New Delhi as he was placed under house arrest. The APHC Chairman compared the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley with the Sikh rule. "It was during the Sikh rule that the autocratic rulers didn't allow Kashmiris to offer prayers at Jamia Masjid. The black history has been repeated by the Indian stooges in Kashmir. New Delhi seems to be so frustrated by the pro-freedom marches that it has snatched our religious right to offer prayers," he said. He maintained that imposition of restrictions to foil the anti-election program symbolizes India's defeat and a democratic victory for Kashmiris, said Kashmiri Media Service.

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Amid reports that the next US administration under Barack Obama might appoint former President Bill Clinton as a mediator on Kashmir, India rejected any third party intervention and asserted that the matter would have to be addressed bilaterally with Pakistan.

JK poll by Indian side is taking place along side the Indo-Pakistan "peace move". Within days of coming to power, President Asif Ali Zardari has become unpopular party for his own faults, but mostly in spite of his best efforts to be popular. India is aware of this too and wants to exploit the situation. While India has all along stuck to its original stand that Kashmir was its integral part, Pakistan, in its bid to engage New Delhi at all costs, diluted its position to the shameful extent. Pakistan has a genuine and legitimate case but it is losing the case because of lack of necessary interest and commitment on the part of our policy and decision makers. There is no doubt that the Kashmir issue has always remained on the agenda of Pakistan-India talks but it is also a fact that there was no progress towards its resolution and the two countries are still poles apart on the issue. India has used the process of talks just as time gaining tactics, Pakistan with drifting postures recently too is to be blamed for the current dismal state of affairs on the Kashmir dispute. In its zest for "˜out-of-the-box' solutions, Pakistan offered unprecedented concessions in the hope that it would get some reciprocal gesture from India but at the end of the day nothing of the sort happened and instead India is hardening its position and consolidating its hold with the passage of time.

India keeps its relations with Pakistan under terror shadow. Whenever there is a positive move to improve the ties, Indian employs terrorist methods to thwart the move, knowing well that Pakistan is keen to have good neighborly relations with Pakistan. Pakistan's new leader Zardari calling the Kashmiris as "terrorists" has created some confidence in New Delhi about the prospects for a better trade deal from Islamabad.

On the Mumbai terror eve, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, not knowing the hidden terror agenda in India to keep the tensions intact with Pakistan , undertook a four-day visit in India from Nov 26 Wednesday during which the two sides will review the Composite Dialogue and consider more confidence-building measures. After opening the Line of Control for trade last month, the two sides are expected to look at more CBMs like expanding the pilgrim places that can be visited by people of the other country.

The talks were taking place in the backdrop of statement by the Pakistani leadership, including President Zardari who promised not to use nuclear weapons against India first and talked about reconciliation to build the bilateral ties. New Delhi , keen to get trade with Pakistan in favor of India , feels that the meeting between Manmohan and Zardari in New York in September had marked a change in Islamabad 's attitude, providing positive impetus to the relations that had witnessed a low after the July 7 attack on Indian embassy in Kabul . Trade has also witnessed a boom, touching a high of USD 2.6 billion dollars officially as compared to about 300 million dollars three years back. Volume of unofficial trade, via a third country, is as high as USD six billion dollars.

Qureshi held talks with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on a whole range of issues including terrorism, Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, trade and river water sharing. India , as a routine strategy to make global media to ridicule Pakistan for fun, keeps "˜terrorism" on the agenda indirectly blaming Islamabad for Indian terrorism. The 2007 blast on cross-border Samjhauta Express train in Panipat that had created tension between the two countries was also expected to figure in the talks, with the Pakistani side likely to raise the matter in view of investigators in India reportedly suggesting involvement of some Hindu groups in the attack as against the Pakistan-based elements as suspected earlier. The two sides also discussed the problem of terrorism, with Pakistan saying that it is a "common threat" and should be fought jointly by the two countries.

Qureshi said Kashmir is an "important segment" of the dialogue process between the two countries and pointed out that Foreign Secretaries of the two countries would be discussing it under the fifth round of composite dialogue which has got underway. Pitching for friendly relations with India , Qureshi said "we have spent six decades in hostilities and acrimony. People of the two countries have suffered. We must add a new leaf in the relations". He said the political atmosphere in Pakistan is "very positive" at the moment as most of the parties, including opposition parties are in favor of improving ties with India . "There is a window of opportunity which both countries should avail of and not let pass by".

India had violated the 1960 Indus water treaty that governs the right over Chenab River, Mukherjee said adequate water should be available in the river so that it could be given to Pakistan. Qureshi alleged that the flow of water in Chenab River from India to Pakistan had decreased substantially because of construction of Baglihar Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Both sides agreed that the issue of inadvertent border crossers should be viewed from a humanitarian dimension and recommended early finalization of a draft agreement regarding inadvertent crossings by the expert group on conventional CBMs, which is due to meet soon, the joint statement said. Noting that a 1974 protocol on visits to religious shrines was due for revision along with lists of religious shrines in both countries, the two sides decided the matter will be discussed under the talks between Culture Secretaries on promotion of friendly exchanges, likely to take place soon. Indo-Pakistan welcomed release of prisoners and fishermen by each other ahead of the talks as a gesture of goodwill. They agreed to exchange by December 31 the names of civil prisoners who had completed their sentences and whose national status has been confirmed to facilitate their release in January next year.

Addressing a joint press conference with Qureshi after their 90-minute talks, Mukherjee said the two sides discussed ways to build on the initiatives taken to improve ties, including launching cross-LoC trade and in-principle agreement to open the Wagah-Attari and Khokhrapar-Munnabao borders for commerce. When referred to reports that the Barack Obama administration could appoint Clinton as a mediator on Kashmir, Mukherjee said " Jammu and Kashmir is essentially a bilateral issue which we have agreed to resolve bilaterally from the Simla Agreement to Lahore Declaration".

A joint statement issued at the end of the two-day talks, held as part of the Composite Dialogue started in 2004, said both countries "condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and affirmed their resolve to cooperate with each other to combat the menace of terrorism". Both sides also made progress on efforts to liberalize their cumbersome Visa regime, with India saying that it would provide a draft Visa agreement to Pakistan within four weeks, which would be based on already discussed parameters.

However, the Mumbai terrorism has been cleverly used by India to thwart any further improvement in ties.

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Some Kashmiri Diaspora members think by appeasing Hindus in India , Kashmir shall have its lost independence back. This is not just innocent but sheer hypocrisy on their part. They have not yet comprehended the issue properly. India has tactfully, more tactfully than this special Kashmiri Diaspora thinks, annexed Jammu Kashmir by cleverly using a Hindu king there. And it tries all tricks and terrorist methods to retain the region under brutal control. As such they would accept appeasement, but would not give back the stolen properly to Kashmiris. There have been a lot of pro-India Kashmiri leaders who have tried all these tricks of appeasing Hindus, but India has shown its foot on the face after creating secret graveyards. Of course the pro-India leaders got some coins form New Delhi for their "services" to India and its terror forces occupying Jammu Kashmir.

With the latest Mumbai blasts it has become pretty clear about Indian state terrorism trends. All evils affecting the Muslims in the sub-continent originate from the Indian intelligence wings, especially the military special RAW that has been waging a hidden war with Muslims in India, Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh. But what has been a hidden agenda for India has become visible now RAW openly revealing its hidden agenda against Muslims. The amount of hatred this democratic and secular organization towards Muslims could be gauged from the regular statements, write-ups and talks by the Hindu leaders in  military, intelligence media and bureaucracy. Indian media are keen to link the Mumbai terrorism to Muslims in Pakistan and Kashmir somehow and defame Islam.

Post-script

There is no doubt that terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces, funded chiefly by the US-led Western nations and promoted by their media and USA remains the global terrorist nation of today which is focused on Midestern energy resources and killing Muslims. 

Terrorism does help Indian posture on Kashmir . Terrorism helped India deviate from the just demand for solution of the dispute as per UN resolution that envisages plebiscite to ascertain the will of the Kashmiri people and has moved closer to Indian position that it was a bilateral dispute to be settled through bilateral talks. In bilateral talks, Pakistan however always maintains that there can't be normalization of relations sans resolution of the Kashmir issue but now we are seeking liberal trade and all-embracing cooperation without any progress on Kashmir issue.

Pakistan government has created confusion among Kashmiris recently, it also has to learn, to invest in them and re-earn their respect. The real strength of the government lies in the people and the parliament "“ both support Kashmir cause.  But the present Islamabad Government is seen somehow adopting a policy of total surrender with President Asif Ali Zardari even vaguely equating the freedom struggle of Kashmiris to terrorism. It is because of this kind of attitude that Kashmiris have lost hopes for solution of the problem through talks between Pakistan and India and are now re-organizing their movement. Under these circumstances, one fails to understand what Shah Mehmood Qureshi meant by "fruitful talks" when the Government itself is not clear on how to proceed further. And, the Indian verbal attack on Pakistan for the Mumbai terrorism is incredible and it makes a point in favor of Kashmir freedom fighters.

Not withstanding the international outcry for freeing Jammu Kashmir, India still resists Independence move of the Kashmiris, but, obviously, in its own peril. Many Indians now do feel Kashmir should be let free and Indian leaders should concentrate on welfare of the people at home. Terrorism tactics cannot keep Indian aggression on for too long. The official Indian ideology offers no accommodation except on its terms, still rules out all compromises, and demands an allegiance with any violation of what was declared blasphemous, inviting instantaneous annihilation. Hence it goes ahead with the polls by adding more terror troops in JK.

How much of international milage would India be able to get out the Mumbai terrorism is not important now. India's options remain fixed at vacating the alien Jammu Kashmir and not to employ any more tricks to silence the defenseless Kashmiris by killing them. India systematically blocks any means that would pave way for Kashmir independence. The Freedom leaders, however, owe to continue with their struggle until the alien Indian occupation of their Kashmir land is evicted. Victory shall be theirs.