Wahidudun Khan as always is annectodal .Wahiduddin Khans narration of an stray incidence has nothing to do with any Islamic content to his political views . Whatever he wrote in above is a political judgment and has nothing to do with his Islamic scholarship and His political judgement is very suspect .As I have said earlier the only case India has in Kashmir is naked power and if Wahidudin Khan wants to peddle this power as something else It speaks much more about him than our struggle .
It is also strange that rather than cuationing his own government in delhi he cuations people in Kashmir and Pakistan .
Did you even read the article?
The article has less to do with ISlam and more to do with the progress and peaceful resolution of KAshmir dispute. Just because his sound arguments do not mesh with your understanding does not mean his points are not valid.
At the end of the day, who has suffered more because of the dispute, the Kashmiri people or GoI? Who is suferring more right now? That is the bottom line he is addressing.
People think that India will leave Kashmir like the US left Vietnam, Russia left AFghanistan e.t.c but the situation is more akin to Chinese in Xinjiang where not only do the Chinese consider it strategic but the population comprises of less than 4% of the total Chinese population. The 4.5 million valley KAshmiris dont even comprise 1% of the Indian population and without the Indian electorate on your side you will not get indepedance constitutionally. Making the movement religious in colour and anti-Hindu alienates the electorate even further.
Before 1989 there was no army presence so its not like army was there all the time. You should read up on the tribal invasions of Baramulla and the rapes and looting by Tribals from present day FATA in 1948. If you want democratic rights from India you have to first accept that you are citizens of India. You can't ask for democratic rights when you are not willing to even give democracy a chance.
I don't expect you to convince otherwise, but its something to think about.
I know that in Hyderabad, which use to be the richest independant muslim state in the world pre-1947, after being amalgated with India, there was still sepratist sentiment during the 50s-60s. Infact, when people from UP or other parts of India would come to Hyderabad,the question would "aap Hindustan se aye hai?" or people from that area would be referred to as Hindustanis vs Hyderbadis.
But once peace was restored, the Hyderbadi muslim leaders decided to redefine and accept that the sucess of their community lies with India as long as India fully gurantees freedom of religion to practice and preach; economic oppurtunities were provided and a new generation of Hyderabid muslims came up to grab the oppurtunities, now they have no problem in calling themselves as Indians.
And it was the Hyderbadi MP Asasuddin Owaisi that raised the voice for Kashmiris in the parliament over the senseless violence in Kashmir.