Re: Kashmir - a new, interesting, and dangerous viewpoint
Easiest thing to do is make Kashmir its own state and let them do what they want. Anyone in Kashmir that really wants to be a Pakistani that bad can cross the border and settle in Pakistan. Truthfully, how many Pakistanis leave the country in hoards abandoning their identity as Pakistanis. To grab ahold of a piece of land, where people don't even REALLY want to be Pakistani, and the cost is instability and poor safety internally in Pakistan? Why is the Pakistani government willing to pay that cost?
These so-called jihaadis who do not even know the true meaning of a jihad, who have no education or understanding of the ploy they're being manipulated in by ISI and the Raegan administration are now destroying villages and killing the freedom of people in NWFP to live and breathe peacefully and stopping them from any advancements. And for what? We still do not have Kashmir.
Kashmir has been way too expensive for Pakistan, and I fear Pakistani citizens will be paying by experiencing Taliban horrors.
Its just a piece of land. And for an "Islamic" republic to be so greedy to run after land, and ignore the pleas and needs of its own people, makes it no better than the trashy Taliban now taking over its northwestern lands.
If Pakistan ends up being drawn in as a 3rd target in the US "War on Terror", so be it. I'd rather have the cancer killed before it spreads. Taliban takes over perfectly beautiful secular SWAT today. What happens tomorrow? Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad will fall to them too. And then rohtay rehna. I'm sure most people here may not have family in SWAT, but you probably have family in more urban areas of Pakistan which could be next.