We reproduce here a review by the Pakistani daily Dawn of Lal Khan's book Kashmir's Ordeal. To read the article on their site, click here.
Kashmir’s Ordeal: A Revolutionary Way Out
By Lal Khan
Wellred Publications. 23rd Thornton Street
London England 1 E S.
Website: www.marxist.com/wellread
ISBN 1-9-00007-25-8
264pp. £8.99
Kashmir is the heart of south-western Asia whose sovereignty is
disputed between Pakistan and India since more than half a century. It
has been the target of a campaign of terrorism propagated and thousands
of lives including those of civilians, Kashmiri militants and Indian
security forces, have been lost since insurgency began to counter the
Indian occupation of Kashmir.
Lal Khan’s Kashmir’s Ordeal: A Revolutionary Way Out is the first major
work on Kashmir’s political perspective on a class basis. The book
makes for a compelling but powerful and illuminating read. The author
is the editor of the Asian Marxist Review since 1987. Having written 25
books from a Marxist perspective, Lal Khan is his pen name as he wrote
most of his works under a brutal dictatorship, in clandestine
conditions. Through this book he brings forth a clear revolutionary
alternative for the solution of the traumatic Kashmir issue.