How we are pushing Kashmir to the brink: Omar has some questions

February 22, 2019 09:59

Omar Abdullah, who had delivered one of the finest moments of the republic by declaring in the Lok Sabha in 2008 that "I am a Muslim and I am an Indian, and I see no distinction between the two', on Thursday confronted India with a telling testimony on the state of the nation a decade later.

"An environment is being created today where you are forcing those who never looked at the (Kashmir) issue through (the prism of) the two-nation theory. They are forcing us to think whether that was a right or wrong decision," Omar told a news conference in Srinagar against the backdrop of attacks on Kashmiris in several parts of the country after the Pulwama massacre.

Omar's words mark a seminal moment in the history of India. The two-nation theory, propounded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the cornerstone to create Pakistan, essentially holds that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations by every definition. Jammu and Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority state in India, is a repudiation of that argument. Read the report here.

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