History of Kashmiri Militancy….The Rise of ‘Second Generation’….!! 

The hilly area of India-Jammu&Kashmir is facing the situation of unrest since the last year on a daily basis. But according to a writer named Rao Farman Ali this situation has started back from the time when India had its first war with Pakistan i.e. 1965 Indo-pak war. His book named History of Armed Struggles is Kashmir has described the details of the emergence of ‘Second Generation’.

Defeat leads to finding new ways to detach kashmir :

• Jammu-Kashmir and the problem of terror go hand in hand.
• This all started a long time before we all took birth.
• After the Indo-Pak war of 1965 Pakistan understood that they can’t win in war.
• So they started new ways to detach Kashmir from India.
• According to the book by Farmaan Ali it described how there was the rise of Second Generation in Kashmir.
• Ali writes that 1965 acted as catalyst for the infuriated educated young men of Kashmir as large scale arrests erupted in the valley.
• The ‘Second Generation’ started formulating various resistance cells like Red Kashmir, Young Men’s League and others.
• The book talks in detail about a meeting, soon after 1965 War,
• Which was presided over by Mohammad Maqbool Bhat.
• The meeting mostly revolved around the failure of Pakistan to wrest Kashmir from India besides other issues pertaining Kashmir.
• The author wrote this meeting was significant as far as the armed struggle of Kashmir is concerned.
• In this meeting, it was also decided that an armed guerilla organization under the name of National Liberation Front will be launched.
• The sole aim of this organisation to fight for the complete independence of Kashmir.

Sheikh Abdullah and Indira Gandhi Accord 1975 :

• The book is also a first of kind that touches the topic about the revolt against Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (Sher-e-Kashmir).
• Author has given a vivid description about how for the first time a shutdown call was organised on 15th Feb in Sopore.
• This shutdown was against the Sheikh Abdullah because of Beigh-Parthasarthi talks (Sheikh Abdullah and Indira Gandhi Accord 1975).
• How also for the first time huge anti-Sheikh rally was taken out in Sopore.
• This rally was opposing the Accord led by Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori.
• Which finally led to his subsequent arrest and killing in police custody.
• Similarly, the book provides an insight into the politics of 1975 in Kashmir.
• It talks about the shutdown call given by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on 28th February.
• This was a part of solidarity with Kashmir to support the right to self determination.
• The author says that it was first of its kind when Kashmiris adhered to a strike call given by the Pakistan Prime Minister.
• Such was effect of the call that streets in the Valley wore deserted look.
• The author says the strike call was a grand success.
• The shutdown was also observed in Pakistan Administered Kashmir for the first and only time.