Re: An Independent Kashmir.
^ Didn’t mean to cause any offense, I like Pakistan, I think of it as a second home, I just don’t want my homeland to be a part of it . Pakistan aside, if you were to go to Kashmir valley, I’m sure you’d find over 90% of people would rather have Kashmir independent than a part of Pakistan.
I think you’re confusing Jammu with Kashmir, I’m pretty sure Kashmir was not part of the Indus civilsation. The indus civilisation stretched upto Jammu, u have to get over 30k ft high mountains to the north of Jammu to get to Kashmir. We really don’t share much history with Pakistan. Even when it comes to muslim conversion, Bin Qasim was unable to get to the valley, which is why kashmiris were still primarily bhuddist and hindu untill the 1400’s, which is when the Turks and Persians started coming to the valley.
Also the language of Kashmir isn’t Urdu, its Koshur, although Urdu is used widely in cities, its still second to koshur and outside cities, its use is very minimal. An urdu speaker will not be able to understand a person speaking koshur, its not like how urdu speakers can understand Punjabi, hindko, siraiki with ease.
http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=90785#compstory ← have a quick read <3