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| Should we rethink Kashmir? |
| 2016-09-29 |
| [DAWN] PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri people’s ordeal. He and members of his large entourage spoke of India-held Kashmire to whoever they met in New York. By all accounts offered by our media services, the Kashmire mission, carried out with unusual vigour, went off well -- this despite a slight slip while drafting the blurb on the meeting with US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Higher ground counts on the tactical level but O don't think it does on the strategic level. Missiles and planes don't care so much about higher ground. The way I understand it the Kashmiri muslims aren't integrated because they are the majority in Kashmir with a Hindu leader. There is no reason or effort being spent to integrate them. The other Muslims in India tend to be in slums in city-centers and I don't believe they've tried very hard to integrate either. I don't know how many, if any, are radicalized but I agree its an existential issue they need to figure out. A massive chunk of Pakistan are Sikhs, If India was willing to give up a chunk of their country to destroy Pakistan and create a buffer state that might be one way to go. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-29 17:21 |
| #3 Kashmir is the high ground. They lose that and the Gangetic plains and interior of India are vulnerable. If a few million Kashmiri Muslims cannot be integrated and India again partitioned, what about the other 130 million Indian Muslims? More partitions to follow? Kashmir is an existential issue for India. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2016-09-29 15:50 |
| #2 When I was in India back in the late 90s I asked a few guys about Kashmir. Intelligent guys too. They were rabid that India couldn't even think about rethinking the issue. So it'll be an uphill battle to convince the population, in my opinion. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-29 14:50 |
| #1 That song is too long, and it doesn't really go anywhere. I'm not sure what I ever saw in it. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-09-29 11:26 |