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Unforgotten Kashmir

2022-04-29
(EDITORIAL) Being naturally preoccupied with grave events which have shaken the Punjab and the North-West Frontier, and lately more so with vital constitutional issues af fecting the future of the nation, Muslim League leadership may seem to have forgotten the suffering Muslims of Kashmir whose leaders are still held in detention without trial and whose wrongs have multiplied manifold since the last popular agitation for their redress grew uncomfortably vocal for the Maharaja`s autocratic Government. A letter addressed to this newspaper by one of the most important Kashmir Muslim leaders out of jail does make this complaint and makes it bitterly.

`Kashmir seems to have been declared out of bounds by the League High Command`he writes, more in sorrow we think, than in anger.

... Such is the plight of [Kashmir`s] oppressed and impoverished people; so has the ruthless hand of a communal bigot turned that `earthly paradise` into a concentration camp. ... But their complaint is unjustified, their fear unfounded. ...[T]he weapon that will break down their prison walls is being forged even now in India`s capital; the message that will bring them hope, good cheer and liberation is receiving its finishing touches. And the name of that message is Pakistan. Dawn Delhi