But throwing him in jail for twenty years without a trial, installing a rubber stamp government under the wildly unpopular Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad, and having them abolish Kashmir’s autonomous status…that was the smart way to keep the separatists in check?
The JKLF fell out with Pakistan well before they renounced violence because they supported independence over joining Pakistan. In any case, your earlier statement about their being a terrorist organization is false anyways.
No response to the demographic changes your government is surreptitiously carrying out in J&K? I thought so.
And since when are you so concerned about the independence of Jammu and Ladakh? If they’re happy with the status quo, then so be it…there’s no reason why the Treaty of Amritsar should yoke our future to their’s for all eternity.
Your ignorance is astounding.
The six districts of the Kashmir Valley (and arguably Doda district of Jammu) are the only area that has historically referred to as “Kashmir” and the only area inhabited by actual Kashmiri people. Again, the Treaty of Amritsar didn’t magically transform the Jatts and Dogras of Jammu into Kashmiris as you Indians seem to believe. Why it wouldn’t just be called Kashmir as it has been for thousands of years is beyond me…your rather stupid joke doesn’t make much sense.
Pakistan has no reason not to accept this, as by now, the government has come to terms with the fact that there’s no way Kashmir will ever be an integral part of their country. Most Kashmiri Muslims already support this (the 1987 elections, and multiple subsequent polls are evidence)…as for the Hindus, they would be more than welcome to return to an independent, secular Kashmir, but at just 4% of the total population, they don’t have enough clout to democratically outweigh the nearly unanimous will of the Muslim majority. As for India…decolonization is never easy for imperialist states…but its a reality they all eventually have to come to terms with.
Kashmir’s situation is different…no other state was forced to merge into India or Pakistan so clearly against the will of most of its population. In any case, I would hope that the democratic credentials that you people are always bragging about would be strong enough to prevent the states that have actually benefited from being a part of the Indian union from wanting out. I think these arguments against the independence of Kashmir (the spontaneous balkanization of India, the massive anti-Muslim holocaust in India that would follow, etc) are mostly ridiculous and unfounded.