By Amjad Ayub Mirza
On September 29 Imran Khan arrives in Muzaffarabad to deal with a public rally within the capital of Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK).
He’ll as soon as once more use Islamic non secular rhetoric to subdue a rebellious, oppressed inhabitants which has over the previous months demonstrated its resilience past a doubt.
To ensure that the Pakistan army institution to take care of its conquest of the land and other people 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 non secular indoctrination of the entire inhabitants may have paved the way in which for 75 years of oppression in PoJK and PoGB. If consciousness of the plenty weren’t basically settlement with the narrative of the army institution, the subjugation wouldn’t have lasted for such a protracted time period.
The ruling concepts of the Pakistan army institution nonetheless play an enormous function within the moulding of the final consciousness of the folks of PoJK/GB.
Human consciousness is a social product and particular person consciousness is decided by the individuals’ place in society. In the present day the folks of PoJK/GB realise that their social place is, if truth be told, that of second class residents who haven’t any political or financial rights.
The homogeneous social consciousness between the oppressor and the oppressed is glued between them via a non secular (Islamic) narrative and has been used to make our folks settle for the plunder of our pure assets 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 data in a approach that 20 years in the past couldn’t have been imagined.
From Muzaffarabad to Neelum and Mirpur and from Gilgit to Skardu, the folks of PoJK/GB are difficult the character of the social relation between Pakistan and PoJK/GB as by no means earlier than.
Nevertheless, the dominant world outlook within the occupied territories remains to be derived from the faith of Islam. However, slogans comparable to ‘Allah hu Akbar’ and ‘Pakistan ka matlab kiya: Lailaha illal la’ are steadily being changed by slogans comparable to ‘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 continuing occupation is submitted to the pursuits of Islam. Land seize in each PoJK and PoGB is executed by the Pakistan army within the identify of defence (learn Islam) in opposition to a ‘Hindu’ India.
However issues are altering. The forceful imposition of gas costs (taxes) on electrical energy payments, cuts in subsidies of important items, political manipulation guided by the Pakistan army institution in each PoJK and PoGB to kind pro-Pakistan governments and the brutal suppression of peaceable protesters in latest months have contributed to a change on the planet outlook of the oppressed.
The blatant acts of colonial plunder of our pure assets comparable to valuable stones, forest wooden and diversion of rivers to construct hydropower vegetation for electrical energy provide to the Punjab, have left a deep influence on the consciousness of the folks 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.
Nevertheless, 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 folks of PoJK/GB to a stage when the entire break free from the cultural (Islamic) world outlook takes place. And consider me, that stage is approaching quick.
With stories popping out of Jammu and Kashmir relating to financial and infrastructure growth, suppression of terrorism, international funding, panchayat and DDC elections and an unmatchable surge in tourism, the oppressed folks of PoJK/GB can really feel the distinction between residing as an oppressed nation and a folks residing 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 instrument to carry collectively the oppressed folks 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.
