How One Can Interpret The Indian Reorganization Of It’s State Of Jammu and Kashmir
By Colonel Awadhesh Kumar
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government in line with its Poll promise discontinued the temporary special provisions incorporated in the Indian Constitution as applicable to its State of Jammu And Kashmir.
While removing the temporary provisions all together, the Central Government, in a solid blow to the miniscule Separatist elements of the State, also carried out a reorganizations of the State.
The entire region has been divided into two Union Territories, of Jammu& Kashmir and Ladhakh respectively. Though it is not clear yet whether the region of Gilgit Baltistan, presently under illegal occupation of Pakistan will be a part of Ladhakh or will be made the tenth Union territory of Indian Union.
This recent move of the Indian Government has been seen by many as an attempt by India to not only eliminate terrorism and separatism but also to check China’s growing influence in the region.
Chien-Yu Shih, Secretary General of the Taiwan-based Association of Central Asian Studies, is of the view that Indian premier Narendra Modi has taken this bold action to show who is in Control, even while Washington and Beijing, were maneuvering and posturing against each other to dominate the region of South Asia.
New Delhi getting report of a Pakistani plan to create mischief in the Kashmir Valley during ongoing Amarnath Yatra, after Trump’s foolish utterances on Kashmir, first rushed in additional 40000 Central Police Forces and then took action to tighten the Security Grid so as to meet any kind of disruption by the terrorists or the separatists.
This move by the Government of India though an internal matter, is definitely going to pose a big check on China’s further economic expansion in Pakistan and onward as planned into Afghanistan and Central Asia.
China has taken economic control of Pakistan by funneling nearly $50 billion into Pakistani infrastructure with the aim of constructing roads, buildings, highways, bridges, cities and power plants, part of what is called the “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor” (CPEC) to connect China’s western Xinjiang province to Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast in Balochistan.
CPEC has been declared a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeking to recreate the centuries-old Silk Road passing through over 100 countries. This $ 50 billion is actually a loan which Pakistan will be paying back through Its Nose at a very high interest rate and thus become an economic slave.
New Delhi’s move has triggered a massive sobbing, whimpering and tantrums from Pakistan which finds its illegal occupation of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir slipping out of its grip. People of POK are now already demanding freedom from Pak occupation and in foreseeable future may become the tenth Union Territory of Indian Union. Pakistan has foolishly played into Indian hands by downgrading its diplomatic relations with India, banning all trades and over flights. It has indicated that it would take the case to the UN Security Council.
Though India has already rebuffed any UN move by declaring that UN has no role in internal matters of India.
China has also criticized the move, though in a more restricted form. It said the reorganization of the disputed region undermined bilateral relations between India and Pakistan. Now China is worried because the China Pakistan Economic Corridor passes through Gilgit Baltistan an Indian territory, presently under illegal occupation of Pakistan.
Beijing referred to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh region — one of the two Union Territories — and said the country’s border concerns had not been addressed. Even China is in illegal possession of parts of Ladhakhh called Askaichin..
As per Shih “China-India relations have been managed in quite a good way in recent years,” adding that though Beijing sought to manipulate relations through “soft” means, the situation between the two countries was still “not out of control.
One of the major concerns for China is the transportation of oil and gas through the Indian Ocean to Western China. With the current move by India, showing that it definitely had powers to cut this jugular vein of Chinese Economy.
Shih also underlined that China had many issues at hand including the ongoing Hong Kong protests, criticism of the so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang, upcoming polls in Taiwan which — which it claims as its own territory, South Korea-Japan tensions and North Korea.
