{"id":17090,"date":"2012-07-06T06:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=17090"},"modified":"2012-07-06T06:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:59:06","slug":"pakistans-kashmir-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/07\/pakistans-kashmir-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#039;s Kashmir Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Some things just don\u2019t change. \u00a0There is a verse:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dil jala hai to zaalim apna ghar bhi jala kar dekh;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Duniya ko akhir pata to chale ke kahin aag lagi hai<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(if you heart is burning, then you should burn your house as well;<\/p>\n<p>at least the world will realize that fire has erupted somewhere after all)<\/p>\n<p>That is how Pakistan\u2019s stance on Kashmir is. \u00a0They have almost burnt their own house down, in trying to keep their dream of Kashmir alive. \u00a0And, when I say keep the \u201cdream of Kashmir\u201d alive, its not some altruistic thing, but an expansionist and an Islamic agenda. \u00a0Their idea of Kashmir has been to first Islamicize Kashmir and then get it for keeps, because it is Islamic. \u00a0Well, things haven\u2019t really gone their way.<br>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17091\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17091 \" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/raja-pervez-ashraf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"223\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Pakistani PM Raja Pervez Ashraf<\/figcaption><\/figure><br>\nMany have died and many more will die, but Kashmir \u2013 once the abode of greatest of Sages \u2013 will prove to be the death knell for Pakistan itself in the end. \u00a0It already has. \u00a0After all, the Jehad factories that were set up in Pakistan to \u201cwin back\u201d Kashmir are tearing the entire country apart.<\/p>\n<p>After the corrupt Yousuf Raza Gilani, there is a new PM in Pakistan \u2013\u00a0Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. \u00a0He made his customary \u201cMy Heart beats for Kashmir\u201d statement to the media, which is enough to galvanize public opinion for him one guesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government would continue its support to the people of Kashmir till the resolution of the issue, said Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday, a day when talks between India and Pakistan ended in New Delhi. Ashraf said that the government would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir till the resolution of issue in accordance with UN resolutions and the aspirations of Kashmiris, reported Associated Press of Pakistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I was leading India and if I had to completely destroy Pakistan, I would just do one thing. \u00a0Not resolve Kashmir. \u00a0Which is what Pakistani Army also wants to do. \u00a0Except that, India has been able to handle the Kashmir fallout. \u00a0Pakistan won\u2019t. \u00a0It will have to pay for it with its own existence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don\u2019t change. \u00a0There is a verse: Dil jala hai to zaalim apna ghar bhi jala kar dekh; Duniya ko akhir pata to chale ke kahin aag lagi hai (if you heart is burning, then you should burn your house as well; at least the world will realize that fire has erupted somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,51,57],"tags":[1793,1809,2830],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-jammu__kashmir","tag-jehad","tag-raja-pervez-ashraf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan&#039;s Kashmir Obsession<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some things just don&#039;t change. \u00a0There is a verse: Dil jala hai to zaalim apna ghar bhi jala kar dekh; 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