Re: India would NEVER attack Pak
well, Khushaal i admit that you have weight but the reason we could not get the plebiscite in kashmir were partly our own as well.
we were so busy in political musical chair and went straight away into Cento an alliance which did not give us anything that we gave India all the reasons to avoid the plebiscite.
Question is that after 60 years, no country can afford to open a pandora box of division, i think plebiscite is a wonderful and only viable solution to kashmir, whole goes to Pakistan or India, because partitioing of Kashmir on religious lines is something which India can ill afford.
How early Kahsmir solution can happen depends on how early we can normalize our relations, because it is political suicide for anyone in India to suggest some solution of Kashmir which involves redrawing of Indian map and in Pakistan it is political suicide to agree on LoC becoming international boundary.
What Pakistan should do is to keep its principled stand on Kashmir, no need to hurry on anything by accepting LoC as international boundary as demanded by the Indians, however keeping the two countries hostage to this dispute is also not a solution but aggravating the problem. Only once the relations will be normailzed and stay normalized for quite sometime, we can reach a point where people can get accomodative, once you are at logger heads you are simply not accomodative.
Kashmir problem may need more than one generation to solve. Why is Pakistan in a hurry. The illegitimate stand is in our eyes, but we have ourselves made the issue complex by repeated military adventures & insurgency by giving Indians excuses to avoid the issue & mediation / arbitration.
However had we not encouraged mercenaries going into Kashmir and let the indigenous population take charge of Freedom struggle and just provide logistics and weapons, perhaps Kahsmir issue might have reached near to solution. However it would have taken a lot of time and we are a nation asking for quick results (we planted euclypyus every where for the same reason & now cutting them all over because of their problem, evident of our nature).