India’s border dispute (Part II)

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (Gulam Kashmir which means “bonded Kashmir”)

A Map of Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan and China

(The Green portion is Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, the red portion is China Occupied Kashmir)

The above map shows 3 regions – Namely POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir :  78,114 Sq Km, COK #1 (Chinese Occupied Kashmir: 5,248 Sq Km) & COK #2 (Chinese Occupied Kashmir: 52,307 Sq Km) = 135,669 Sq Km in Total Lost from Indian Territorial Land.

Territory under Indian Actual Control

Approximately 45.5% (101,387 km²) as the state of Jammu and Kashmir, includes three main regions:

·         Kashmir Valley

·         Jammu

·         Ladakh

The State of Jammu and Kashmir is divided into 14 districts:

Anantnag, Baramulla, Budgam, Doda, Jammu, Kargil, Kathua, Kupwara, Leh, Pulwama, Poonch, Rajouri, Srinagar, Udhampur.

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

It is divided up into two main regions:

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir - 250 miles long with width varying from 10 to 40 miles, 13,350 km² (5134 miles²).

Northern Areas - a much larger area, 72,496 km² (27,991 mi²)

Chinese-controlled Kashmir

Aksai Chin - approximately 37,555 km² in size.

A small part, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, of the Northern Areas that was ceded to the People's Republic of China by Pakistan in 1963

Current Situation in POK

·         At least 75 per cent of the population understand that Pakistan is merely exploiting them, without Pakistan having any intention to merge into it. It is just a colony.

·         The POK Prime Minister and President can be pushed around even by junior bureaucrats of Pakistan. POK does not even have a single medical or engineering college till date

·         Pakistan extracts all the natural resources of the region but conveniently forgets to allocate any significant budget for  removing poverty or  uplifting the poor state of the populace.

·         People of POK are neither fully Paksitani citizens nor Indian, they are stuck in between, thus worse than slaves.

·         Human rights violation is rampant

In almost every war with India, Pakistan used soldiers from specific region where it did not bother to have casualties. These hapless youths bore the brunt of superior Indian firepower and considered as one of the reasons of Pakistani disastrous debacle in every war with India including the infamous Kargil war. In Arthashastra Mahamati Chanakya says “You cannot win a war with unwilling soldiers (having bayonets behind their backs instead of in hands.)

This situation can be compared to the tactics used by the Nanda King Mahapadmananda, the clans which he would target to annihilate, he would use them to be the frontline force in any war Magadha used to have, thus Magadha’s own soldiers would be affected the least. China also followed the same strategy in 1962 war with India, they pushed thousands of Tibetans through the border towards the Indian forces most of them without proper ammunition or food or clothing. As if they have come to die…most of the limited armory Indians had, were actually fired on these hapless soldiers from occupied Tibet. They were mostly rounded up from far flung villages mostly peasants, even kids as old as 11 were also not spared.

The above is a ruthless strategy to strip off the youth force of a community so that the community can be further colonized. This concept is even worse than the colonial tactics of the British or the Japanese.

India has been historically showing restraint being a responsible nuclear state knowing that Pakistan harbors numerous recruitment and training camps in Pakistan for carrying out Jehadi activities in India. Indian parliament had once seriously considered the possibility of hot pursuit in line with the use of drones by US in the Norther Areas bordering Afghanistan. History would speak for itself on the inaction of the Indian government on such sensitive issues.

The map of Indo-Pak border

In the above map, the red ones are the recruitment camps and the yellow one’s are the final assault camps in the Pakistan side of the Indian border.

To be continued…