When will we have Azadi?
The World Reacts to the Kashmir Attack
The Valley of Shepherds, Sheep and horses grazing on the green grass, cool breeze touching the skin of the villagers, among the hills lies the beauty of serene, calm, waiting, as the people take in the air of Kashmir. The streams flow through the confluence of Sheshnag Lake and the Lidder River, Pahalgam.
Amid this serenity, there lie victims cold in pools of blood.
“We were just having bhelpuri… and then he shot my husband.” “The gunman said my husband may not be a Muslim and then shot him,” — a survivor of the Pahalgam terror attack recounted in a trembling voice.
There have been at least 26 people dead, and many injured, according to multiple news sources, such as THE TIMES OF INDIA, HINDUSTAN TIMES, AND BBC.
Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. According to the Oxford dictionary.
Especially between India and Pakistan, Kashmir has always been an area of hostility. When we note the attacks throughout history, the implications of international relations have been a rollercoaster. India’s geographic position is one of great fear, considering all neighbours are in debt to China due to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). India has always had hostile relations with Pakistan and China, in recent times, Bangladesh as well. Each and every move taken by Prime Minister Modi invariably needs to be a very calculated move in the sphere of International Relations.
Coming to terrorism itself, throughout the media, it has been misrepresented and generalized to the vast majority of Muslims, where non-Muslims have forgotten how to understand the line between religious fundamentalism and religion. Terrorism is a problem that world organizations like the UN, EU, and NATO are trying to solve. The UN has developed key strategies such as, in a move on 8 September 2006, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (A/RES/60/288).
However, it is important to understand the history of this state and its implications for International Relations and victims who lie dead today. Kashmir has been inhabited since the Neolithic era, with archaeological sites, indicating early human settlement. Over centuries, Kashmir became a melting pot of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikh and later Islam. The region was known for its rich cultural and religious diversity. Various dynasties ruled Kashmir. In the 14th century, the Shah Mir dynasty established Muslim rule, which lasted until the Mughal conquest in the 16th century and the Afghan mid’ 18th century, and Sikh and Dogra Rule in 1819. Lastly, Kashmir turned into a princely state under British rule.
The conflict started due to the 1947 partition, before which the conditions of the Hindus and Muslims were unified as they in union, fought for independence of the homeland. The partition intensified tensions due to the abrupt and sudden timing and violent nature of displacement right after the war to remove the East India Company, the sole reason the geographical coerced borders have caused Hindu-Muslim riots that are still relevant to this day, speaking of the Pahalgam attack.
The very intense discrepancies of the religions are violent, even though religion is something that teaches you ethics and morals, religious fundamentalists and world leaders make one focused on the conflict between countries rather than the stories of the victims, the sensationalism and the insensitivity of media only highlights the power of the leaders and protection provided by the leaders, at the end consumers completely being desensitized to the feeling of the headline “A TERRORIST ATTACK” whether or not the prime minister seeks revenge, only for a never ending cycle of conflict between the countries, what countries need is protection, respect of the victims and taking steps to end global terrorism.
Vladimir Putin issued his statement with surgical precision —
condemning the attack, affirming solidarity with India,
wrapped in the familiar language of anti-terrorism.
But beneath the condolences lies strategic empathy considering the war with Ukraine has been for land ownership.
The United States, caught in a new chess game,
now it juggles its “strategic partnership” with India, considering the new tariffs it put on the world, diving into a trade war.
And China?
China is not watching.
It is building.
Paving roads through contested terrain,
planting cables, stations, and whispers
across a land still grieving.
Hodophiles longing for peace, not war, now rest in peace —
beneath an eerie, unrelenting breeze,
becoming one with the ice that tore them apart,
And the mountains? still watching —
holding more than snow,
holding grief, cold, colder still — as the final state of heart.
Not tryna be famous
just tryna feel less alone.
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