Kashmir, India and Pakistan

* Thank you for bringing the news from Indian-occupied Kashmir to the attention of your readers (“Violence Flares in Kashmir; 19 Killed,” July 5).

The people of Kashmir are simply asking for: 1) India, Pakistan and the U.N. to complete the process of demilitarization of Kashmir. 2) End of Indian occupational terrorism in Kashmir, i.e., stop using rape, torture, murder, arson, massacres, detention, custody deaths and much more as weapons to silence the people of the Kashmir freedom movement. 3) India to station and allow international media, human rights, relief, civic and fact-finding missions into the “concentration camps and death valleys,” as created by India. 4) India to withdraw all Draconian laws from Kashmir and abolish the cease-fire line that separates Indian-occupied and Pakistan-held Kashmir. 5) India and Pakistan to keep their national and international commitments to the people of Kashmir, the world and the U.N.

The present Kashmiris’ occupation resistance and freedom movement is the result of India’s refusal to do the above. India’s further inhumanity, insincerity and intransigence as well as the U.N.’s inattention tragically force more and more peace-loving, freedom-cherishing and promise-seeking people of Kashmir to resort to the armed occupation resistance struggle. The people of Kashmir can’t do it alone against the fourth military might of the world, the occupier of Kashmir, India. Last but not least, Kashmiris wish well for India, Pakistan, the Kash-Indo-Pak subcontinent and the world. Kashmiris want “the Kashmir, a paradise on earth” to be restored and to be tranquil and peaceful, where people from all over the world could come and enjoy its magnificent beauty.

A. M. KHAJAWALL

Kashmir American Mission

Diamond Bar

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In reference to the letter by G. V. Chelvapilla (July 7), regarding “Arrest of Terrorists”:

This venomous, Pakistan-hating letter did nothing to enlighten the readers about the subject being discussed.

I would like to remind Chelvapilla that in the U.S., to be a friend of India one does not have to be an enemy of Pakistan. All of us, the transplanted Americans from the subcontinent of India now living in the open and free society of this land, must forget the hate and bitterness that exist in that part of the world.

India and Pakistan have done immense harm to each other by being at loggerheads for so long. The new world order demands that all neighbors should live in harmonious coexistence. As a naturalized Pakistani-American, I offer my hand of friendship to Chelvapilla to overcome this chronic animosity toward Pakistan.

SYED S. SHERE

Los Angeles