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Kashmir: the much ignored issue

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Eidolon_Ravi:
 THIS IS MY 100th POST!!!! ;D

 So friends.. I need all ur votes on this damn Important issue which has been in a deadlock for the past 50 years!!!
 
 It involves the world's two newly crowned nuclear powers...

 It involves ppl. of two different RELIGIONS...

 The deep bleeding wound created by the partition has not healed as yet...
 
 The stakes are pretty high.. and so are the tempers... >:(

 What do u think is the
           Cause... and
           Future of this Kashmir Problem..
 
 an issue which has claimed more lives than all the gulf wars put together and affected the lives of billiions...
 
 

Don Seer:
Personally I don't understand all the issues involved.

But.. where two different religions are concerned its it makes for an uneasy recipe in my eyes.

Causes? religion, territorial instincts,

Based on my limited knowledge the future can have two paths.

 war - continuous, destructive, probably until there is a victor. risk of nukes? ouch.
 peace - hmm, maybe if its made into its own nation-state

(votes should be democratic republic)
 
 
reminds me of a the similar situation with the temple mount.. assuming that is there are religious sites and artifiacts related to both parties in the disputed region.

infinite59:
Kashmir, Pakistan, India, and even Bangledash should ALL be UNITED like they were before the colonial period when the West carved up Muslim lands and planted the seeds for the prevailing tyranny and destruction that now plaques the once unified region.

Eidolon_Ravi:

--- Quote from: Ibrahim Islam on September 03, 2003, 09:10:14 AM ---Kashmir, Pakistan, India, and even Bangledash should ALL be UNITED like they were before the colonial period when the West carved up Muslim lands and planted the seeds for the prevailing tyranny and destruction that now plaques the once unified region.

--- End quote ---

 This could remain only *the good samartian's Fantasy*...
 
 The seeds of religion once sown reap a very rich harvest and this harvest cannot be destroyed cuz it feeds so many fanatics.. who thrive on them and will never let them rot...
The colonialists had a hand in the partition but moreso had the political leaders who were driven by the greed of leading a new sovereign...
 The Mahatma (gandhi) was indeed devastated by the partition...

 For the Uninformed:
 
 Bfore independence Kashmir was a beautiful muslim dominated country ruled justly by a Hindu king. The king refused to side with either India or pak after the partition... but when the Pak attacked the land the king took refuge in India nad appealed for indian millitary intervention... the Indian army retaliated and pushed back the invading forces and recovered almost 2/3 of the land. but hten the then PM of India J. Nehru made haste and went to the UN who immediately ordered a cease fire.. so from then onwards there have been regular wars betn the countries...
 
 The countries then signed the Lahore treaty by which the LOC (line of control) was  made official and troops were deployed along it.. there was a lull after the 1917 war till the end of 1980's after which the Jehad againg gained momentum...

 This jehad against the Indian occupied Kashmir is gaining more ground becuz of the volatile leadership in Pak. which has witnessed a number of coups and assasiantions @ the highest level... the jehad is still continuiing with attacks against the kashmiri Pundits ( Hindus) and religious places in Himalayas like that of Amarnath...

 The talks have resumed with the US intervention in the issue and the two nations are now aiming to conduct Bilateral talks to resolve it.. But then again disrupted by the regular incidents of terrorism in Kashmir...
 
 To me only a full scaled Nuclear war seems to be the most feasible option... ;).. keep polling..
 
 

King Tech Quadafi:
There is only one course of action, and everybody in the region understands this.

Put in place the long standing UN Resolution callin for a plesbicite in Kashmir. The people of Kashmir should have the right to self determination. India claims it is a democracy, yet it is suppressing the peoples will in Kashmir.
India refuses to allow a vote, claiming it is an internal matter. The Pakistanis- through years of funding and arming of infiltrating militias- have lost the love of the majority of Kashmiris. The best option is an election.

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