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Afghanistan is known as the "tomb of empires"; after 19 years, the United States is still fighting its longest war there, desperately trying to find a way out to save its face. For India, the Achilles heel is Kashmir, and when the history of modern India is written, it is likely that "Hindu expansionism" has died in Kashmir.
India's war in occupied Jammu and Kashmir is over 70 years old, and an estimated 700,000 occupying forces have fought, or seven times the maximum number of troops deployed at any time by the Soviet Union, or United States and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.
Now, including tens of thousands of additional troops recently sent to Kashmir, some estimate that number at 1 million. This is the largest concentration of military forces anywhere in the world. The Kashmir war will end only when New Delhi realizes that it cannot break the will of the Kashmiri people and that it is doing great damage to India.
Kashmiri Muslims would strongly oppose their conversion into a minority in their homeland; article 370 of the Indian Constitution was supposed to include the conditions under which the Kashmiri Maharaja sought to have joined India. By repealing this article, India has removed the only legal argument it has made itself to justify its claim to Jammu and Kashmir.
First, there is widespread recognition of india's illegaloccupation of Kashmir, and the Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations have reaffirmed United Nations resolutions requiring a referendum in Kashmir, but India's position violates those resolutions.
Besides, one could think about how Indian opposition leaders were mistreated and how they had been prevented from entering Kashmir. If India has nothing to hide, why reject the views and positions of its opposition that it has?
Kashmiri Muslims would strongly oppose their conversion into a minority in their homeland; article 370 of the Indian Constitution was supposed to include the conditions under which the Kashmiri Maharaja sought to have joined India. By repealing this article, India had removed the only legal argument it had made itself to justify its claim to Jammu and Kashmir. By the legal standard of India itself, there is now a clear occupation of Kashmir.
India's arrogance, its hostility, Hindutva racism and the apparent suffering imposed on the Kashmiri people have turned Pakistan into a bold ally of the Kashmiri struggle for freedom. Kashmir has once again been declared a fundamental issue for Pakistan. The Actions of the Bharatiya Janata Party have radically reduced hope within Pakistan that relations with India can be normalized and the Jammu and Kashmir dispute resolved through negotiations.
Like the colonial powers of the past, India will eventually lose the debilitating war against the established popular rebellion. This may take another 10 years or even 20 years, but the heroic people of Kashmir , like the famous Hindu Kush mountains, will eventually bury the dreams of the Hindu Empire of India.
