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India recognises this stance of Pakistan ..... and India is cool with it ..... rather India has reconciled itself to having a perpetually hostile neighbour on its doorstep and is reacting to a situation not of its own choosing ..... but a stark reality nonetheless.
So India arms itself. So India locks down its borders. So India shuts shop as far as dialogue is concerned. So India looks within and continues to grow ..... slowly but steadily. So India engages with the world ..... increasingly as an equal.
India will not budge on kashmir dear pakistani brothers and sisters.
As an Indian I will not allow it.
And I shall teach my children not to allow it.
And they will teach their children.
We will work harder. We will generate greater wealth. We will pay a larger chunk of our earnings to our government too if need be.
We will outarm you. We will outmaneuver you. We will outnegotiate you. We will outlobby you. We will outsmart you. We will outspend you.
But we will keep Kashmir.
You and your future generations have a choice.
Give up Kashmir and join hands with us as friends.
Or continue on your present path.
Yes Kakgeta ..... our grandchildren (and their children) will get to see the results of your choice 70 years from now.
That I promise you.
Cheers, Doc
Quite a passionate speech, i understand how India must also be possessive over Kashmir but the feeling is mutual....................
Every Pakistani is equally passionate over Kashmir and everything you are willing to do, we are already doing. But personally I would like to see this issue being resolved through a plebiscite, no matter who comes out on top, that does not matter, then we can move on, if Europe can have free trade and open borders after fighting two world wars with each other, why can't India and Pakistani................
And thousands of Kashmiris who support him are also funded by Pakistan dahhhhhhhhhhh
And oh Mirwaiz Omar also wants Kashmiri land back, Yasin Malik also wants Kashmir land back which is occupied by India.
The millions of Kashmiris also want their land back so who are funding them???
We are Pakistanis, says Kashmiri leader Geelani
because india dont want to have - 26/11 every week.
no free trade untill - pakistan stop helping let and other so called jehadi --terrorist groups.
The report of the pro-Indian government of Kashmir claimed that the two women a 17-year-old and her 22-year-old sister-in-law died by drowning, and not rape and murder at the hands of Indian occupation soldiers.
The events of Dec. 15, 2009, mark another Kashmiri uprising against oppressive Indian rule. This is embarrassing for New Delhi and its allies in Washington and London, especially Pakistan cannot be blamed for this and after the move by China to stop treating Kashmiris as Indian citizens and World Banks decision to decline treating Kashmir as Indian territory.
Thousands of angry Kashmiris took to the streets on Dec. 15, a day after federal police investigating the deaths of two women said they "drowned" and were not raped and killed, triggering claims of a cover-up.
The deaths of Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law, 17-year-old Asiya Jan, in May had sparked protests in the disputed Himalayan region. Locals said they had been sexually abused and killed by the security forces.
Four police officers were later arrested on charges of suppressing and destroying evidence in the case. The officers were freed in September, a move that further angered residents.
Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistans former envoy to Washington and a potential replacement for the incumbent ambassador there, wrote in her column in todays The News:
In the month that marked 20 years of the uprising against Indian rule, occupied Kashmir once again erupted in anger. The shutters came down and life was paralyzed by a strike across the Valley on Dec 15. This time the protest was ignited by the findings of a federal police investigation into the rape and murder in May of two women in Shopian, a town 35 kilometers from Srinagar.
Even more interesting is the reaction of pro-Indian Kashmiris who are part of the Indian "government" in the occupied region. This is how Dr. Lodhi referred to one of those Kashmiri leaders, Mehbooba Mufti:
Mehbooba Mufti, the opposition leader in the state assembly, had this to say: "The whole charade of investigations by multiple agencies was aimed at shielding the culprits rather than bringing them to book."
She was referring to the bizarre sequence of events since May when local officials initially claimed that the girls had drowned, then retracted this in the face of mass protests and agreed they might have been murdered.
In September after weeks of protests, India's Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI took over the case.
In a report for India's high court Monday, the federal agency concluded that the two had "drowned", ruling out rape and murder.
"International Probe"
On Tuesday, thousands of people gathered in the main square in Shopian chanting, "We want freedom" and "Sisters, we are ashamed that your killers are still free."
In both Shopian and Srinagar, shops and businesses stayed shut and public transport remained off the streets in response to a strike called by the Majlis-e-Mashawarat, a local group demanding justice for the two women.
The strike is also supported by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, head of the All Parties' Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of pro-independence groups in the region.
On Tuesday, Farooq called the CBI report politically motivated and said that he supported the Majlis-e-Mashawarat's call for an independent international probe into the deaths.
Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani also strongly condemned the CBI report, terming it as "an attempt to shield the men in uniform".
Tens of thousands of Muslims have been killed since simmering discontent against Indian rule turned into a full opposition in 1989.
In 1948, the United Nations adopted a resolution calling for a referendum for Kashmir to determine whether the Himalayan region should be part of India and Pakistan. But India has rejected to hold referendum in Kashmiri territory. Kashmiris see India as an "occupier state".
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With all due respect to your sentiments please do a reality check...We were not kicked out during 65 war...we were not kicked out when militancy was at its peak in Kashmir...We were not kicked out in Kargil...and now when India - the worlds second largest growing economy is growing like anything how on this earth you think we will be kicked out??
My advice check the cost-benefit ration of your protest and you will soon realize that it don't make sense...
SRINAGAR: At least 60 mourners were injured on Saturday when police used batons, firing in the air and tear gas to break up a procession by hundreds of Shia Muslims in Indian-administered Kashmir's main city, officials said.
During the first Muslim month of Muharram, Shias across the world mourn the death of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in the Iraqi city of Karbala in the year 680.
But in Kashmir, Muharram processions and public gatherings by separatists have been banned since a rebellion against Indian rule broke out in 1989.
More than 50 people were also detained, police officer Ali Mohammad said.
Saturday's procession in Srinagar was headed by members of Ittihadul Muslimeen Jammu Kashmir, part of the region's main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference.
Stone-throwing Shias clashed with police in several parts of Srinagar after the procession was stopped, forcing police to fire tear gas shells, witnesses said.
The mourners were beating their chests with their fists, and chanted La Ilaha Illalah (There is no God but Allah).
We strongly condemn the police brutality, said Moulana Abbas Ansari, a leading Shia priest and chief of Ittihadul Muslimeen.
The injured included at least six photojournalists, police said.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state since an anti-India insurgency broke out two decades ago.