Bhooka nanga Hindustan; Jaan se pyaara Pakistan. (Starving and tattered India we reject; Pakistan - land of our dreams - we embrace.)
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Kashmir?s struggle is just one of many fighting Indian injustices
Of course the article deals with all separatist movements within India. The problem is simple to show unification of separatist movements of India would only harden India's position to let go of Kashmir. India will undoubtedly see the Kashmir movement has the disintegration of 30-40% of the the nation. Moreover, the cohesive planning that the Kashmiris have done (political parties, international relations, armed power, street power, rich culture), lacks from lets say Maoist movement that seems more like a tribal movement, or the Tamil movement, which is ever ready to bomb civilians to make their point.
I think what the Kashmiris are doing is the best they can out of a horrible situation imposed upon them by India. The fact that Indian Muslims are still ready to appease and fit in with their Hindu fellow citizens really does land them in no man's land. Never accepted by Hindus, yet forced to reject their Muslim causes world over.
It is true that they have to face the brunt of the Hindu violent groups if they fail to do so, so this pretend exercise is something that may also be necessary, but no rights are ever won without a struggle and true secularism will never be in place in India till the culture of appeasement is dropped.