MT Desk: A tragedy unfolded in Jammu and Kashmir in November 1947, which was the first Genocide of Muslims in post-colonial South Asia. Situation in Gaza, disease outbreaks if Israel doesn’t fully remove the blockade that has been unlawfully imposed. What is happening in Gaza, just like the Jammu genocide, is not spontaneous; it is well planned and deliberate, and effectively orchestrated. Both were intended to depopulate and dominate through demographic re-engineering, mass killings, and forced displacements. Global Silence is not different from the Past. In 1947, Western powers ignored the Jammu genocide, dubbing it as a regional issue. Setting a dangerous precedent, the silence that still echoes today in Palestine, which is under the same fate of ethnic cleansing.

However, in 2025, the same western powers, such as the United States, have called for a ceasefire in Gaza blocking the UN Security Council Resolution, so as to effectively shield Israel against accountability. Selective humanitarianism has become the hallmark of Global politics. The tragedy of 1947 in Jammu remains forgotten in the International media, Indian textbooks, and Western scholarship. This historical precedent set a fertile ground for the future normalization of impunity. Jammu genocide remained widely unacknowledged and became a blueprint for future crimes from Shatila and Sabra (1982) to Gaza (2024-2025); the wrongdoers rely on denial, silence, and bias in international politics to escape justice. Pakistan’s stance however, remains consistent. It has always recognized Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory and called for an independent Palestinian State under UN Resolutions.

As Pakistan observes “Black Day” every year on 6 November in memory of the Jammu victims. But, the same tale from Gaza serves as a reminder that the rest of the world remains unlearned from its past experience. Both tragedies reveal the sad failure of the global institutions that are the flag bearers of human rights when the tragedy struck the Muslims. Jammu massacre must be recognized as genocide. Whereas the genocide that is happening in Gaza must be put to a proper halt through international intervention, and with unified Muslim world, not with just statements and fake ceasefires. Because, this is the time that the world should wake up to see the reality and accept this uncomfortable truth that it is unjust to side with neutrality when the wrongdoers and innocents are evident.

The failure to acknowledge the Jammu genocide paved the way for the one happening in Gaza, and if not now, then we will see such a situation in the future too. The act of remembrance, justice, and recognition are not merely symbolic. These are the moral steps that will help stop this vicious cycle of impunity. Resilience against the atrocities is the key characteristic of the people of Jammu and Gaza. Both tales tell us that genocide doesn’t occur in the darkness of the night but in the daylight where the world remains standing with closed eyes. From both Jammu and Gaza history is the witness of one reality that when the world chooses to stay silent over injustice, the victims change but the crime stays the same, the conscience of humans must be awakened, not when the ashes settle but while the fire still burns.