Together, these and other undertakings are acting as a kind of transfusion for the damaged body of Kashmir, a transfusion rich with new economic blood, and accompanied with a renewed political and moral will to fight the aggressors who would destroy what so many generations have dedicated their lives to build. Kashmir's war against evil is not yet won. But Kashmir's surprising economic gains in the midst of terror and turmoil are the bright promise, that like the Phoenix of legend, this benighted land will arise from its own ashes, brighter and more glorious than ever before. Focus , Vol. 2, No. 7, July 1992 . Newspaper headlines, TV and radio headlines have been reduced to a litany of death and destruction as the once happy, smiling faces of the people of Kashmir, are transfigured with grief, shock bewilderment and above all, dismay.
Terrorism is no respecter of the sanctity of human life and property.
An ethos that has left its mark on innumerable households where tears are now commonplace and laughter an emotion long forgotten. And the land of laughter and plenty is today coloured by the blood of innocents sacrificed at the altar of terrorism. For if they could, they would with one voice, demand, from the keepers of the world's conscience, a condemnation of the ultimate sacrilege of terrorism, that has defiled and destroyed the peace and lives of the peoples of this once happy valley and now the Valley of Tears. The legal position of both India and Pakistan on Kashmir does not need any repetition. The covert objective of the so called jehad is to complete the 'unfinished agenda of partition' by incorporating the Muslim Majority state of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan in terms of the two nation theory that had rent the sub-continent apart in the past.