If everyone had genuinely participated in democratic process for 40 years we would have not come to this situation.
You're right. In the summer of 1947, the popularly elected legislative assembly of J&K unanimously passed a bill demanding that the Maharaja merge the state with Pakistan. If the democratic process had just been followed, none of this would have happened.
What i am interested in is the issue of land transfer. Now that the chief minister has taken over the land, you should have no objection to it. After all your point was that land was going to a non-state subject and communal organisation. So would you agree that the construction on temporary accomodation for the yatri's should be started by the state government.
The land transfer must be formally revoked first.
Until that's been done, there is absolutely no reason to believe that this isn't yet another instance of the Indian government lying to/tricking the Kashmiri people with their smoke & mirrors. If they actually do follow though and do what they're saying then I certainly don't have a problem with it, and I don't anticipate most other Kashmiris having any objections either. This has never been an issue of keeping the yatris out of Kashmir.
hence his feeble effort at garbage collection.
Dismiss their efforts all you want...it won't change the fact that Green Kashmir has done more for the preservation of Dal Lake than the Indian government ever has or ever will.
On the effort of Indian authorities, the high court had passed an order for demolishing the illegal strutures ..... let us see how that part goes.
It's never going to happen. You want to know why? Most of the illegal structures named by the HC are owned by the Indian government/military, or their Kashmiri cronies. The HC ordered that virtually everything along the exclusive Boulevard Road be torn down...that includes dozens of government offices, the government owned Centaur Hotel, the Royal Springs Golf Club (next door to the hotel...also government owned), the convention center, and a number of hotels and businesses owned Kashmiri businessmen who are cozy with the Indian administration.
Ha ha good, did you ever think that , that they wanted jaunagadh as a bargaining chip for kashmir. Liaquat Ali Khan opinion on accession is well know and documented. He wanted the rulers to decide whom to join.
First of all...let me just point out how, in your haste to throw together a response, you've completely contradicted yourself. If Pakistan did indeed eventually accept Junagadh's accession so it could be used as a bargaining chip, then its entire case would depend on rejecting the will of the rulers in favor of plebiscite (thereby letting India have Junagadh and claiming Kashmir). I repeat...such an arrangement would necessitate rejecting the will of the ruler...which pretty much flies in the face of your absurd claim that LAK wanted to uphold the will of the rulers over the will of the people. It also doesn't make sense given the fact that in early October, 1947, the GOP issued the following statement in reference to the Junagadh situation: *"The Pakistan Government has also informed the Government of India of their willingness to discuss the conditions and circumstances in which a plebiscite should be taken by any state or states."
*India, on the other hand, upholds the concept of the plebiscite in Junagadh...and the instrument of accession in J&K...pure hypocrisy, plain and simple.
There is no accurate number as to how many were killed and how many went to POK ( all they say is 20k are missing).
The Times of London reported that 237,000 had been killed as of October 10, 1947. If you can't accept even the most basic facts, then that's just pathetic.
Debatable, more like having seen how their brothers were faring across the border in the north punjab province. There is a strong punjab influence in these areas I believe.
If you bothered actually reading anything on the topic rather than just speculating/making things up as you go along, you'd already know that the rebellion in Poonch began as a no-tax campaign.
I dont know what you call a person who is been appointed specifically at the instance of Jinnah.
Even if that is true, how is it any different from Gandhi & Nehru insisting that the Maharaja fire Kak and appoint Mehr Chand Mahajan instead?
And about Kak. He was taken out at the instance of Nehru who was a great friend of your Sheikh Abdullah. With kak in , Sheikhs political agenda would not have prospered.
Few people have betrayed us, and done more to harm to the Kashmiri cause than Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah. And as for Nehru's "friendship"...spare me, we all know what a treacherous snake the man turned out to be...using Sheikh Abdullah for all he was worth and then throwing his alleged "friend" in jail without any trial or charges. What a friendship!
When pathans invaded, people in the valley wanted India to take over.
Ha ha ha. And what, pray tell, are you basing that nonsense on? Opposition to the Pathan invasion hardly constitutes a desire for an Indian takeover.
If the people in the Valley had any interest in Indian occupation, lord knows the GOI would have just held the plebiscite and silenced Pakistan once and for all like in Junagadh. The fact of the matter is that the Indian authorities have known since day one just how hated Indian rule is in Kashmir.
