US intervention in Libya

As the NATO backed rebels continue their surge towards Libyan capital Tripoli, with reports of Gaddafi’s sons been arrested by rebels, US and UK seemed jubilant and called it “end of road for Gaddafi”. Nevertheless Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi seemed defiant in his audio messages calling upon Libyans to protect the integrity of their nation.

Whether Gaddafi is acceptable to the people of Libya or not should have been left to Libyans to decide but it is ironic that US led NATO is trying to enforce the regime change through instigating polarization and Balkanization of Libyan society. Already NATO air strikes have reduced many places to rubble their and killed hundreds of people. 

Yet under the guise of protecting civilians in Libya US and its allies are working on their covert plan of installing puppet regime as world is made to believe as if their air strikes are “peaceful bombing’ meant only to disperse not to kill. There is no fair coverage of damages caused due to NATO air strikes which few months back killed Gaddafi’s youngest son and three of his grandsons besides many others.

Gaddafi is quite right that if rebels backed by US and its allies take over Tripoli Libya will descend to imperial powers once again. Where ever NATO made military intervention those places have found themselves in the mesh of mess and violence. World is witnessing events in Iraq where US went under the façade of liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein and Weapons of Mass destruction and deadly violence in Afghanistan which is again a result of US military intervention.

These places were better-off before the US led NATO intervention than what they are presently finding themselves in. After coming to power in Libya Col. Gaddafi made many economic, political and social reforms mainly in education and health sector and Libya was fast moving towards prosperity in all respects. But owing to its bullying attitude and in pursuit of maintaining its hegemony US continues to muzzle every defiance in its way of unilateralism and overlordship.

Whether Gaddafi remains in power or not, oppressed, victimized and vituperated people of Kashmir will always remember him as hero of proletariat and a great leader who empathized with Kashmir cause at international forums. 

Pot calling the kettle black

The statement of Indian Prime Minister ManMohan Singh at the plenary session of G-20 summit at Pittsburg in which he accused the Pakistan of using “terror” as State policy against India has come at a time when India faced diplomatic embarrassment by some world leaders calling for end to Kashmir conflict owing to its inherit potential to destabilize the whole equation in South Asia according to the national aspirations of Kashmiris at many international forums and at UNGA 64th session recently and at a time when foreign ministers of both countries were about to meet.

It is the talk of resolution of Kashmir dispute that pinches the body politic of India as despite promising self-determination to Kashmiris before whole world she backtracked and through sheer military muscle is holding it against the wishes of its local populace and against her tall ‘ideals’ of peace and justice which stand strangulated, pawned and mortgaged by herself.

The rhetoric by Indian P.M at G-20 summit is a desperate attempt by India to camouflage the real dispute of Kashmir under the bogey of cross border terrorism and facilitate commotion to escape from focusing on real issues and in the end to put blame on Pakistan’s shoulders for the failure of dialogue to yield any positive outcome. As since 1947 India has been concentrating on conflict management rather than on conflict resolution to consolidate its hold over Kashmir.

Due to the lingering of Kashmir dispute the peace, prosperity, progress and welfare of one and half billion people of South Asia is in peril mainly due to jingoism and belligerence of India but she can not afford to remain away from addressing this vexed dispute amicably for ever as it will threaten its national integrity, neither valiant people of Kashmir who have invested their every thing be that blood, honor, property for the independence and sovereignty of Kashmir will allow this. Here, we as traumatized, victimized, bruised and enslaved people of Kashmir cannot but express our gratitude to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and Pakistan’s foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit for lending moral support to the cause of independent Kashmir.