AhsanAmin
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Many people say that Kashmiri blood has become very cheap, which might be true but inviting people to fight or attempts at military solution will make the blood even cheaper, and possibly far more cheaper than we can naiively imagine.
Kashmir problem has to be solved on the following lines.
1. Kashmiris get maximum say in running their own matters within the jurisdiction of countries they currently lie in. Pakistan already has a separate government run by Kashmiris in Pakistani Kashmir.
2. Kashmiris, and those with Kashmir domicile would be allowed to cross the border freely, unarmed and since the transfer of goods/trade concerns both countries, they could be inspected by security institutions of the larger countries.
3. Both countries demilitarize Kashmir to normal extent, meaning army deployed in both parts of Kashmir to defend that part, must not increase a limit considered 'normal' in ordinary peacetime environment.
4. The military could only be increased beyond a certain minimum in both parts only if asked by their respective Kashmiri governments, or some other extraordinary circumstances decided by their larger countries if they see that this arrangement is in peril.
The reason for this suggestion is that Pakistan can never militarily conquer Indian Kashmir, and India cannot easily do any similar action. Asking Kashmiris and others to go across the border and fight is more shortsighted and this myopic approach will result in more militancy in our society, which we will later proudly solve by doing military action on our own people and calling other people who want to show relative restraint for their own population as traitors. Better understand to do nothing of the sort right at the start that will breed evil everywhere including in our own society without a possibility of achieving any intended goal.
Better compromise is to let Kashmiris, Muslim or Hindu, do everything as freely as they can, including but not limited to, practicing their religion and running their own domestic government affairs.
If peace follows any such settlement, the benefit to people of both countries will be truly huge. But if we continue to follow the current status quo in which armies are ready to fight on a short notice, there will be no solution to the problem and people of both countries, especially Pakistanis will suffer.
Kashmir problem has to be solved on the following lines.
1. Kashmiris get maximum say in running their own matters within the jurisdiction of countries they currently lie in. Pakistan already has a separate government run by Kashmiris in Pakistani Kashmir.
2. Kashmiris, and those with Kashmir domicile would be allowed to cross the border freely, unarmed and since the transfer of goods/trade concerns both countries, they could be inspected by security institutions of the larger countries.
3. Both countries demilitarize Kashmir to normal extent, meaning army deployed in both parts of Kashmir to defend that part, must not increase a limit considered 'normal' in ordinary peacetime environment.
4. The military could only be increased beyond a certain minimum in both parts only if asked by their respective Kashmiri governments, or some other extraordinary circumstances decided by their larger countries if they see that this arrangement is in peril.
The reason for this suggestion is that Pakistan can never militarily conquer Indian Kashmir, and India cannot easily do any similar action. Asking Kashmiris and others to go across the border and fight is more shortsighted and this myopic approach will result in more militancy in our society, which we will later proudly solve by doing military action on our own people and calling other people who want to show relative restraint for their own population as traitors. Better understand to do nothing of the sort right at the start that will breed evil everywhere including in our own society without a possibility of achieving any intended goal.
Better compromise is to let Kashmiris, Muslim or Hindu, do everything as freely as they can, including but not limited to, practicing their religion and running their own domestic government affairs.
If peace follows any such settlement, the benefit to people of both countries will be truly huge. But if we continue to follow the current status quo in which armies are ready to fight on a short notice, there will be no solution to the problem and people of both countries, especially Pakistanis will suffer.
