Re: “The line of control could fall like the Berlin Wall”
Let us study what USCR report says……..
http://www.refugees.org/countryreports.aspx?id=483
Displacement from Kashmir : As many as 350,000 Kashmiris, mostly Hindu Pandits, have been displaced since 1990 as a result of long-standing conflict in Kashmir between the Indian armed forces and separatists among the majority Muslim community. According to the Kashmir Times, continuing violence in Kashmir led to the deaths of more than 900 civilians in 2001.
Some 250,000 displaced Kashmiris are living in or near the city of Jammu, both in private homes and in nine camps for the displaced in Jammu District. As many as 100,000 Kashmiris are displaced elsewhere in India, primarily in the New Delhi area.
The Indian government provides cash assistance and food aid to many of the displaced Pandits. Former government workers continue to receive full salaries or retirement benefits.
http://www.refugees.org/countryreports.aspx?id=512
Kashmiris : Pakistan continued to host about 17,000 refugees from the region of Kashmir that is part of India, some of whom have been in Pakistan since 1947. The refugees live in 17 camps in the region of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir known as Azad and Jammu Kashmir, where the local authorities assist them.
In addition to the refugees, about 2,000 Kashmiris are internally displaced in Pakistan. Most were displaced in the late 1990s from areas under Pakistan control. A majority of the displaced live in one of two camps for displaced people in Azad and Jammu Kashmir, while the remainder live in a makeshift camp in the Northern Territories. An unknown number of other Kashmiris are also internally displaced, but because they live with relatives and friends, they are not readily identifiable. Because the Pakistani authorities want the displaced to return to their villages along the frontier to reinforce Pakistan’s claim to that area, the government does not provide the displaced the same level of assistance that they provide the refugees from India. The International Committee of the Red Cross assists the displaced.
Since the late 1980s, the Indian armed forces in Kashmir have fought Kashmiri Muslim insurgents—allegedly supported by Pakistan—who seek either union with Pakistan or an independent Kashmir. On occasion, the conflict, whose origins lie in the 1947 partition of India, pits India and Pakistan, now both nuclear powers, directly against one another.
Tensions between Pakistan and India increased in late 2001 when a suicide bomber killed about 40 people in the building housing the legislature of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on October 1. India demanded that Pakistan detain members of a group that the Indian authorities blamed for the attack, while Pakistan warned India not to send troops into Pakistani territory to pursue the alleged culprits. Tensions escalated significantly when another suicide bomber mounted an attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13. Pakistan and India massed more than 800,000 troops along the border. According to Agence France Presse, 26,000 people fled the area due to skirmishes and shelling near the border, but it was not clear whether they remained displaced at year’s end.