A Return to Kashmiriat

policy is no policy at all. Implementing a policy which is not result-oriented is just a waste of time and energy. Anachronism The goal of the movement launched after 1947 in Kashmir was to make Kashmir into a separate pocket. This was plainly an anachronism. The present age is one of international relations. In such a situation, the making of separate pockets is an irrelevance. In this connection, one lesson-giving example is that of Pakistan. The formation of Pakistan was based on this same concept of a separate pocket. Prior to 1947 the theory advanced by the Muslim leaders who advocated the creation of Pakistan was that creating a separate pocket was a must for the survival of their national identity. Yet, once Pakistan had been brought into existence, the majority of the educated people of Pakistan opted to go to Europe and America and abandoned Pakistan, the God-given country, as they called it – ‘Mamlekat-e-Khuda dad’. Earlier these leaders had insisted on Muslims being a separate nation, but then they adopted the nationality of other countries — America, France, Britain, Germany, etc. They preferred to live in these countries rather than in Pakistan. Now the Kashmiris, who are trying to form a separate political pocket, should learn a lesson from this sorry state of affairs in Pakistan. They should refrain from basing their movement on unrealistic objectives and then later going against their own stand under the pressure of circumstances.