India, Pakistan and Kashmir share a common history !!!!!!!
How far back do you want to go? Afghanistan's association with the Subcontinent is about as strong as Kashmir's...perhaps your RSS militants should start working on occupying that country as well. And why stop there? Back in 200 BC modern-day India and Greece shared a common political history.
There is a common link in all the national identities (I am talking of Punjabi / sindhi / kashmiri as a national identity) with in India or even Pakistan, so frankly I don’t know what you are really talking about it not having a real political / historic basis
I already explained what I meant by "no political or historic basis"...if you want to live in denial and pretend that Kashmir wasn't independent of goings on the in Subcontinent for most of its history over the past 2000 years, then that's your prerogative.
Now if you look at the history of Kashmir, never in history was it in the shape as it is today. The disputed area we can call the “princely state of Jammu & Kashmir”. So the identity of Kashmir as a nation ( to use your words) has been as fluid as perhaps Punjab and Sindh. In fact you would have to thank the dogra’s on getting Kashmir in the shape that it is now.
On top of this you still have Kashmiri’s calling Dogra’s the foreign occupier’s …… it seems they don’t mind the land mass of Jammu but they would not consider the people
The Dogras were foreign occupiers who bought Kashmir from the British for a few thousand rupees. Even the most fanatically pro-India Pandit won't dispute that. Moreover, the area that is considered "Kashmir" has not changed significantly either. The fact that lazy Indians have taken to colloquially referring to the entire colonial state as "Kashmir" and all of its residents as "Kashmiris" doesn't make it true...even today you'll never hear any Kashmiri referring to Jammu or Ladakh as part of "Kashmir."
The tone of discussion changes with time …….. at the height of militancy it was argued that Kashmir had link to Pakistan … and my favourite …. Link to central asia.
Your ignorance of the region becomes increasingly evident with each new post.
The independent state of Kashmir was right along the historic Silk Road, which explains its extensive economic and cultural ties to Central Asia. As for the link to Pakistan, I'm sure even you know that to this day there isn't a single all weather road or railway connecting Kashmir to India. For much of its modern history prior to Indian occupation, Kashmir's economic lifeline was the Srinagar-Rawalpindi road...which meant that its closest outside links were to what is now W. Punjab.
you will see a sea change in a few months
Spare me the colonial condescension. You people have been singing the same tune for 60 years now, and we see how far that's gotten you.
Imperialism can't last forever. The British learned their lesson in India, and India will learn in Kashmir.
