Resistance Movements

Bleeding Wound: Analyzing Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy

Author(s): 
Irfan Waheed Usmani
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The Historian January-June 2009 (Volume 7, Number 1)
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This article analyses Pakistan’s Kashmir policy from1989 to 1995. This period constitutes a new phase inPakistan’s Kashmir policy as it was synchronized with the resurgence of Kashmiri resistancemovement. During the previous two decades Kashmir issue was overlooked because Pakistan wasentangled with many other problems, ranging fromcrisis in East Pakistan to the problems arising fromthe Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Therefore,Pakistan was providing only lip service by placingrhetorical emphasis on the UN’s resolutionconcerning Kashmir.