This Girl Lost Her Father To Kargil War And Her Message To Pakistan And India Is Getting A LOT Of Eyes

By Momina Mindeel | 5 Mar, 2017

Pakistan and India have a history more violent than anything else on this planet and this Indian girl has a message for the two countries, after she spent years hating Pakistan for killing her father in the Kargil War.

Gurmehar Kaur is a 20 years old Indian girl, currently studying at Delhi University. Last year, she released a video through Voices of Ram titled A message from a girl to those who killed her father. Gurmehar Kaur lost her father in the 1999 Kargil War, between India and Pakistan.

Kaur narrates her story through placards and the 4 and a half minute video is an epitome of courage, bravery, speaking up against the injustices and what not.

 

She says that she grew up hating Muslims and Pakistanis because directly or indirectly, she thought they were responsible for his father’s death and she always thought that somehow all Muslims are Pakistanis.

“I’ve very few memories of him but I have memories of how it feels to NOT have a father,”says Miss Kaur. 

Source: NDTV

 

The video resurfaced a few days ago, after she condemned the state sponsored violence and hooliganism at her college, Delhi University. 

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad,a right wing, Hindu Nationalist all India student organization that is also affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang, a paramilitary, right wing volunteer, Hindu organization (in other words, something similar to Jamaat ud Dawaah in Pakistan), have been engaged in violence at the Delhi University campus of late.

Ever since Kaur’s condemnation, a number of students from Delhi and other universities in India, have come out for her support. There are, however, people who have been trolling her, threatening to rape and kill her, simultaneously. But given the courageous video that preceded this condemnation, a year back, it is very unlikely that it will waver a woman as courageous as Gurmehar Kaur.

Source: Business Standard

 

Amidst all the chaos, a Pakistani man, Fayaz Khan – hailing from Swat – recently came out with a response to Kaur’s message to Pakistan over her father’s death during the Kargil War

He says in the video, through similar placards as Kaur used in her original video, that he has seen war and death very closely in Pakistan too. He further says that Pakistan too is inundated with thousands of Gurmehar Kaurs and that he will make sure to fight the restrictions between the two countries through education and better understanding.

Here’s Fayaz’s message:

Moving back to Gurmehar Kaur’s original video, Miss Kaur further narrates she almost stabbed a woman when she was little just because she was in a Burqa and she somehow thought that she was responsible for her father’s murder.

Her mother stopped her and made her realize that it wasn’t actually the Muslims or Pakistan that killed him, it was the WAR. 

“It took me to while to know but today I have learnt to let go of my hate. It wasn’t easy but it’s not difficult. If I can do it, you can do it. Today, I am a soldier too just like my dad. I fight for peace between India and Pakistan. Because if there was no war between us, my father would still be here. I am making this video because I want the governments of both countries to stop pretending and solve the problem… Enough State sponsored terrorism (because) enough people have died on both sides,” says Gurmehar Kaur.

 

This is Gurmehar Kaur’s entire message to Pakistan and India, about state sponsored violence:

 


Cover Image Via: Voice of Ram

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