Kashmiris in India caught in wave of violence after Pahalgam attack

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After the recent attack in India, the natural paradigm of Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was occupied by 26 tourists, killing 26 tourists, increasing violence against Kashmiris across India.

According to the BBC report, a video of a dangerous incident in Missouri, which has been circulated on social media, shows that Shabbir Ahmed Dar and his colleague seller have been attacked and harassed by members of the Hindu right -wing group.

Shabbir and his friend suffered physical violence and verbal abuse when the attackers broke their stall on a stirring road.

Shabbir said, “They accused us of attacking, told us to leave the city and never show our faces again.”

Its goods, which are worth thousands of dollars, have been left at the stall. “But we are very scared to go back,” he confessed.

In response to public anger over the incident, police arrested three persons involved in the attack, but their immediate release for bail and apology from the victims has done little to overcome the fear among the Kashmiri community.

Many, including Shabbir, have left Missouri, leaving a city that they once called home, because Kashmiris feel insecurity.

The Pahalgam attack has eliminated the wave of enmity with Kashmiris living in various Indian cities.

According to the BBC, more than a dozen reports have revealed the Kashmiri shopkeepers and students by the right -wing groups, and even with the details of harassment, adultery and threats by their own classmates, consumers and neighbors.

Herving videos that have been circulating online show that Kashmiri students were chased and attacked on the roads.

In appeal for peace, a survivor of the Pahalgam attack, whose naval officer’s husband was killed, urged people not to target Muslims and Kashmiris. “We want peace and just peace,” he pleaded.

Despite these demands of calm, fear has forced many Kashmiris like Shabbir to return to their homeland.

Nursing student Umayat Shabbir at a university in Punjab said how women in his neighborhood called it a “terrorist should be thrown away”.

“On the same day, my classmate was forced to be taken out of the taxi by his driver when he found out that he was a Kashmiri,” he said. “It took us three days to return to Kashmir but we had no options. We had to go.”

However, for many people who have returned, even the home does not feel safe.

When investigations into the Pahalgam attack are underway, security forces detained thousands of people in the IIOJK, closed more than 50 tourist destinations, deployed additional troops and paramilitary forces, and detained suspected “terrorists”.

Crackdown has given rise to fear and anxiety among ordinary citizens, many of whom have called them a form of “collective punishment”.

Although IIOJ’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah emphasized the need to punish the culprit, he warned against “suicide attacks on innocent people”.

Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also criticized the demolition, and called on the government to distinguish between “terrorists and citizens”.

“Whenever stress increases, we are the first person to suffer from it. But we are treated as suspects and they are expected to stop their lives,” another student, who wanted to be anonymous, told the BBC.

Shafi Susan, another shawl from Kopwara district, also worked in Missouri for two decades, noting that the current reaction seems to be significantly worse than in the past.

He said that even after the 2019 Paloma attack, he had never faced public threats before, in which 40 paramilitary police forces were killed.

To him, Missouri felt like a house, a place where she found peace – despite being hundreds of kilometers away. He said he had distributed emotional relationships with his customers, which came from all parts of the country

“People were always kind to us, they wore our clothes so happy,” Saban reminded. “But on that day, when our comrades were attacked, no one came to help. People are just standing and watching them. He physically hurt them – but emotionally, even more.”

Peace in the region has been critical for a long time and has caught the citizens in an uncertainty.

Although officials have pointed to the recent improvement in infrastructure, tourism and investment, the region’s special constitutional status in 2019 is a sign of stability, the critics believe that it has come at the expense of calm civil liberties and political freedoms.

“The injection of doubts is always on the locals, even in the past decades and a half decades,” says Anuradha Bhasin, a managing editor of the Kashmir Times newspapers. “They always have to prove their innocence.”

Following the recent attack, Kashmiris organized a march in the light of the candle and a protest march, a complete shutdown was observed a day after the black front pages printing killings and newspapers.

Omar publicly apologized for acknowledging his “failure” in protecting visitors.

Bahasin noted that Kashmiris condemned such attacks is nothing new, emphasizing, “No one condoles the civilian casualties – they know the pain of losing their loved ones well.”

“This will cause more fear and people will have to be more separated, many of which already feel isolated from the rest of the country,” he said.