when a son was not able to attend his mother's funeral ; Dark sides of conflict and partition
HEART OF THE MATTER
“Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British were able to secure agreement over how independence would take place. At the time, few people understood what Partition would entail or what its results would be, and the migration on the enormous scale that followed took the vast majority of contemporaries by surprise
Partition triggered riots, mass casualties, and a colossal wave of migration. Millions of people moved to what they hoped would be safer territory, with Muslims heading towards Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs in the direction of India.
Even though Pakistan was ostensibly created as a “homeland” for India’s Muslim minority, not all Muslims even supported its formation, never mind migrated there: Muslims remained the largest minority group in independent India
A CONFLICT WAS BORN:
Both states subsequently faced huge problems accommodating and rehabilitating post-Partition refugees, whose numbers swelled when the two states went to war over the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947-48.
Today, the two countries’ relationship is worst. Kashmir remains a flashpoint; both countries are nuclear-armed. Indian Muslims are frequently suspected of harbouring loyalties towards Pakistan
Many people in the territory do not want it to be governed by India, preferring instead either independence or union with Pakistan.
Nightmares of conflict:
Both Pakistan and India, humiliate citizens who request for visa by asking them to provide too much documentation, invites, verifications. Because if we started visiting each other, then we would know the reality and people will not be interested in fear mongering and war.
Now what when your mother is battling for life on one side and you are turning mad on other side of border because your visa is denied due to security reasons:
Who should you blame ?
Even when she died
you didn't get the visa to attend her funeral..
The person who lost his mother is one of my close relative .I have never seen anyone feeling more miserable than him,how unfortunate
Whatever may be the case, first the partition ,
then the Kashmir issue should have been properly handled rather than going again and again on the negotiating table when things get hot on the roads of Kashmir and betraying the hopes of the people by slowly stepping back from the initial claims. UN has failed miserably for the last 68 years, expecting it to intervene and resolve the issue ahead is nothing but self-deception. It can be safely stated without any exaggeration that UN has been an absolutely useless platform when it comes to issues related to the Muslim world which include nations like Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, chachnya, Syria, Libya etc.
Then i forgot that this is not a big deal here
there are millions of such miserable stories happened and happening here
untold and unheard!
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