It’s evident that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Agriculture in East Punjab and Haryana is sustained by the Rivers Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas - all three of which originate in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, and never cross through J&K. Like I said, India doesn’t need Kashmir for water.
As for Pakistan, its main water supplies come from the Indus; the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej also provide water to West Punjab. Of those rivers only the Jhelum originates in the Kashmir Valley. The Chenab (which originates in India) briefly passes through a Kashmiri-dominated district. Other than that, all of Pakistan’s water supplies are independent of Kashmir.
Why shouldn’t it? It has no problem negotiating water rights with the same huge, hostile India that its gone to war with 4 times. I don’t see why it couldn’t potentially extend the same courtesy to a smaller, and likely friendlier neighbor.
Oh please. As you’ve so eloquently demonstrated, Pakistan’s so called “help” was entirely for its own selfish reasons. In any case, shunting left-over wannabe Jihadis from the Afghan War across the border at this point isn’t help. Thanks, but you can keep them in FATA where they belong.
We’ve already established that isn’t very much.
Most of the Muslims of Kashmir are converted Pandits; they are as much the “original inhabitants” as any Pandit. We also never “kicked them out” - some left when the violence began (along with tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims); the rest were evacuated by the Indian government to make way for the unmitigated civilian massacres of the 90’s.