Majority of kashmiris are not in support of independece. Only few ungrateful whining people from valley support it.
On top of that majority of pakistanis(100m+) and i am sure indians (?1b+) do not support independent kashmir, they want it to be a part of their individual countries. Also UN resolution is pretty much dead, a fact that pakistani establishment has come to accept. Sooner we can decide on a solution agreeable to pak and ind the better both countries can stop wasting their resources on bunch ungrateful of “woe is me” people of vale and try to improve lives of majority of people in the sub-continent.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/kashmiri-majority-not-in-support-of-independence-850
SRINAGAR, May 27: Less than half of residents in both zones of Kashmir favour independence as a solution to end unrest in the disputed Himalayan region, a survey said on Thursday.
Conducted by British academic Robert Bradnock, the independent survey found that 44 per cent of people in Azad Kashmir favoured independence, and 43 per cent in occupied Kashmir.
United Nations resolutions soon after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 called for a plebiscite to determine whether the region should belong to India or Pakistan.
“These results support the already widespread view that the plebiscite options are likely to offer no solution to the dispute,” said the survey, which was released by the London-based Chatham House think-tank.
Titled “Kashmir: Paths to Peace”, it was a rare attempt to assess the opinions of people on both sides of the Line of Control.
“Any solution will depend on the Indian and Pakistani governments’ commitment to achieving a permanent settlement,” Bradnock said.
The survey interviewed about 3,800 people to record their views on how they saw the future of Kashmir.
In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a 20-year-old struggle against Indian occupation, between 74 per cent and 95 per cent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
But in the Hindu-dominated Jammu region support for independence dwindled to less than one per cent.
The survey found that the “overwhelming majority” of people wanted a solution to the dispute, even though there were no “simple fixes”.
More than 47,000 people have died in occupied Kashmir since the eruption of the movement in 1989.
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, but a recent peace process has brought a reduction in violence.–AFP
