Defend themselves by firing shotgun shells at kids? If you want to supress the protestors, there are more convential ways. Lets face it, your estalishment dont consider them as their own and Kashmiris clearly got nothing to do with you lot, then why being a nuisance to each other. Just part ways and let them decide their future.
Kashmiri struggle is much older then both Pakistan and India. They were resisting the dogra raj long before 1947. This pandit issue is tbh is non sense and a non issue raised by India, just to be nuisance. India need to get out of Kashmir and let the Majority of Kashmir decide what they want. If they decide that they see their future lies with Paksitan, India needs to except this, after all, this was the fundamentals on which the present Pakistan and India came into being, with individual states deciding which country they will merge into. Minority pundit cannot dictate or being made as an excuse for India to hold onto Kashmir. If there are genuie concerns of Hindu Pandits, Pakistan can look into the ways of accomodating them as citizens of Pakistan after the merger, unless they want to stay in India.