Maung Zarni on May 9, 2025
On 26 and 27 April, the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (founded in 1947) based in Karachi, hosted an international conference, “Seventy Years After the Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. That is, the struggle(s) against colonialisms/imperialisms.
Pakistan’s suspenseful wait was over. Finally, India’s expected military struck targets in Pakistan – and Pakistani-administered Kashmir on the evening of 6 May, 2025.
In our mass media age, powerful states – which are typically rogue states, disregarding diplomacy and international law, with hardly any exception – attack any territory, any human community and any buildings and tell the world the targets and the victims are “terror suspects”. Prime Minister Modi’s government did exactly just that: India has retaliated against the terrorist infrastructures from which “a militant attack that killed at least 26 people, mostly tourists, in the picturesque resort town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April”.
The only problem with this BBC-amplified official Indian narrative is the following: it chooses to ignore the fact that the main source of pervasive discontent in Kashmir is Delhi’s systemic repression and colonial occupation of 8 million natives of Kashmir, most of whom are proud and practising Muslims.
Background on Kashmir: 2015 Interview with legendary activist André Vltchek
