Russia just took a swathe of Ukraine. Israel annexed Jerusalem. Syria, Iraq and Libya have been de-facto carved up by various different regional groups or nation states and their sponsors.
Pakistan and India will fight once more over Kashmir. Let covid blow over first, then be ready. Education and prosperity are certainly good things but in our case, they are a means to an end, towards our destiny. Pakistan will not ever abandon its people in Kashmir. We will come for them. If you think otherwise, all the better.
The thing that allowed them to do that is education.
You're getting nowhere with just military power.
So can we get a peace between India and Pakistan if there is no demographic change in Kashmir??
For a moment, think about a perspective from normal Indian citizen and tell me some good reason, why any one will go to a war torn place rather than going to Bangalore, Mumbai or Chennai for work...
There would be peace if the Article 370 is not revoked, and India joins negotiations. It could lead to peace. There had been multiple solutions presented before, and there was a positive domestic response from Kashmiri people on it.
As for demographic changes. No common worker Indian is going to leave for Kashmir just yet, but the perspective is that common folks will buy land to build houses as a retirement or vacation resort, companies will buy lands to setup plants and get more folks in there, as this progresses and more jobs, facilities are opened up to the Indians (who under merit will be more preferred due to better education in mainland India, language requirements and so on), there will slowly be a demographic change. You can't deny that. It will be slow though.
Are you saying Pak proxies did not commit violent militant activities in IOK?
80000 loss is due to Pak obsession with IOK and becoming a pawn of superpowers. Even to this day most Pakistanis believe they will somehow get hold of IOK. Very sad really.
Yes, Pakistan has been obsessed with Indian Occupied Kashmir. Yes, there was a great loss of lives due to the obsession. Yes, there has been no determining result. But are we alone at fault for it? No. What about India's obsession with Kashmir. Why does India oppress the people and not let them choose? Do you not realize that this armed oppression will result in an armed struggle? India is just as much as blameworthy. But let's settle the difference! Pakistan did it for the people, India did it for the land. Our cause was just and right, yours was not.
Pakistan has been doing it for the people and for the sake of the Kashmiri Muslims; and if you think this is some kind of an anomaly, it really isn't. Just read up on Pakistan's history and interventions in UN for the cause of North African states, Indonesia, among many, many other Muslim states. It's just been how our purpose and ideology has been seen. There's a great detail of read on it, book going as far back as 1957, it's fascinating, really.
I don't think we can get it back right now, probably not in the near future. But, I have always maintained, personally, that freeing Kashmir is a big goal, and non erasable, permanent goal of Pakistan; because these people called out to us, and our people sacrificed for them, we have spilled blood for them, and we have done a lot more.
1. Either there should be a step-by-step process to peace, I liked the model proposed in Musharraf's era.
2. Or, we just have to focus on ourselves for now. It really depends, if we come out of this crisis, manage to understand our priorities then the future could be different, or who knows, this could stretch out for another 100 years.
