Imran Khan arrives in Muzaffarabad to handle a public rally within the capital of Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK).
He’ll as soon as once more use Islamic spiritual rhetoric to subdue a rebellious, oppressed inhabitants which has over the previous months demonstrated its resilience past a doubt.
To ensure that the Pakistan navy institution to keep up its conquest of the land and folks of PoJK and Pakistan occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), it’s basic that full synchronisation of cultural (learn Islamic) ideology of the oppressor be established on its topics.
Solely spiritual indoctrination of the entire inhabitants might have paved the best way for 75 years of oppression in PoJK and PoGB. If consciousness of the lots weren’t basically settlement with the narrative of the navy institution, the subjugation wouldn’t have lasted for such a protracted time period.
The ruling concepts of the Pakistan navy institution nonetheless play a giant function within the moulding of the overall consciousness of the individuals of PoJK/GB.
Human consciousness is a social product and particular person consciousness is decided by the individuals’ place in society. As we speak the individuals of PoJK/GB realise that their social place is, if truth be told, that of second class residents who don’t have any political or financial rights.
The homogeneous social consciousness between the oppressor and the oppressed is glued between them by means of a non secular (Islamic) narrative and has been used to make our individuals settle for the plunder of our pure sources and denial of our fundamental human rights.
With the expansion of social media and web, the homogeneous social consciousness is now being challenged. WhatsApp and Fb have offered entry to info in a method that 20 years in the past couldn’t have been imagined.
From Muzaffarabad to Neelum and Mirpur and from Gilgit to Skardu, the individuals of PoJK/GB are difficult the character of the social relation between Pakistan and PoJK/GB as by no means earlier than.
Nonetheless, the dominant world outlook within the occupied territories continues to be derived from the faith of Islam. Nonetheless, slogans reminiscent of ‘Allah hu Akbar’ and ‘Pakistan ka matlab kiya: Lailaha illal la’ are step by step being changed by slogans reminiscent of ‘Ye jo dehshat gardi hay is kay peechay wardi hai’ and ‘Hum keya mangey: Azadi’, however the predominant cultural connection of Islam with the Pakistan institution’s narrative has not but ended.
Political justification for the continued occupation is submitted to the pursuits of Islam. Land seize in each PoJK and PoGB is executed by the Pakistan navy within the title of defence (learn Islam) in opposition to a ‘Hindu’ India.
However issues are altering. The forceful imposition of gasoline prices (taxes) on electrical energy payments, cuts in subsidies of important items, political manipulation guided by the Pakistan navy institution in each PoJK and PoGB to type pro-Pakistan governments and the brutal suppression of peaceable protesters in current months have contributed to a change on the earth outlook of the oppressed.
The blatant acts of colonial plunder of our pure sources reminiscent of treasured stones, forest wooden and diversion of rivers to construct hydropower crops for electrical energy provide to the Punjab, have left a deep influence on the consciousness of the individuals of PoJK/GB.
From this the world outlook of the oppressed has for the primary time proven indicators of a break from the world outlook of the oppressor.
Nonetheless, solely by the use of perpetual accumulation of the understanding of the character of colonial oppression over a sure time period can lead the consciousness of the individuals of PoJK/GB to a stage when the entire break free from the cultural (Islamic) world outlook takes place. And imagine me, that stage is approaching quick.
With reviews popping out of Jammu and Kashmir concerning financial and infrastructure growth, suppression of terrorism, international funding, panchayat and DDC elections and an unmatchable surge in tourism, the oppressed individuals of PoJK/GB can really feel the distinction between dwelling as an oppressed nation and a individuals dwelling as a part of a voluntary union of the republic of India.
For the primary time the hyperlink, the connection, and the bondage of Islam that was used as cultural device to carry collectively the oppressed individuals of PoJK/GB and Pakistan has been shattered past restore. Imran Khan’s go to to the capital of PoJK goes to be one other futile train to fix it.
_IANS
