Apprentice
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No...I am sure many rational Pakistanis will agree with me.
How about if I list some.
Because of Kashmir...you have virtually no relations with India and India has become your adversary
Because of Kashmir...the religious nut heads are running amok in your country
Because of Kashmir...you have become a security state
Because of Kashmir...25% of budget goes to defense
Because of Kashmir...you military enjoy more power than your elected representatives
Because of Kashmir...you spend majority of your energy and resources on Kashmir than the welfare of your masses
Pakistan has always performed well, at times even better economically than India when it is under military rule.
The democratically elected politicians are a joke. If Zardari is democracy, we want millitary rule.
Even if Pakistan continues to spend on Kashmir at the same rate, it can continue to look after its people's welfare.
During the 80s Pakistan used to proudly boast that no one slept on the streets, at the same time then India was known as a land of beggars with only the Taj Mahal and some handicrafts to its credit.
Its India's obsession with Pakistan that has hurt it. During the period after 1971 and through the 80s, except for a response to Indian aggression on Siachen and during Operation Brasstacks, Pakistan could not be bothered with India. It was not on Pakistani people's minds.
India invited Pakistan's revenge in Indian Punjab due to its own mischief it created a decade ago in East Pakistan. Tit for tat.
But after your government rigged elections in 1987 in Kashmir the entire situation changed. The Kashmiris had voted in 1987 for pro-Pakistan and Muslim nationalist parties who wanted a plebiscite. But India rigged it in favour of their own stooge government.
The Kashmiri Muslim people had always wanted to join Pakistan and they intended to use democracy of India in peaceful means to achieve that outcome. But when the illusion of Indian democracy ended the Kashmiri Muslim people rose up and (initially) demanded to join Pakistan, and India responded by making it the most millitarsed region on Earth and started massacring and raping Kashmiri Muslims. Due to that thousands of Kashmiri Muslims fled to Azad Kashmir, even before the Pandit drama.
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