The United Nations list of “unresolved” issues represents every major global issue and long standing regional conflict across the world. The Kashmir issue is one of the longest running disputes in the world, with a history of more than 27 separate UN resolutions spanning back to 1948.
One cannot help but beg the question why is the Kashmir issue now removed from that list? This is even more of a prominent point when we have come to understand that 150,000 people have been killed, 40,000 women raped over the 60 year occupation and seeing the recent peaceful unarmed protest being slammed down violently by the Indian Army.
No doubt there has been some political maneuvering on this issue. What was it for? Is it because India sees new economic potential in the region?
Alas, this arises an even sadder picture. Despite Muslims now representing close to one in five people in the world, not a single Muslim country has a permanent place on the UN Security Council.
And yet we find the same people, (that is us), holding our heads in our hands murmuring weakly “what can we do?” Since when does a Muslim ever despair? Are we not taught that it is an obligation to strive to help the oppressed?
Is it time for Muslims in the world to break away from the United Nations in give it the same respect that it has give Pakistanis and Muslims? Or is it time for everyday Muslims to politically engage proactively into national and international politics?
Either way, we cannot simply sit in our comfortable despair.
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