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I am a Kashmiri Man.
A father, brother, son and husband.
I know that I can't have independent nation. Even if it is granted, whoever moves its forces out, other nation may make a move to occupy the land. We will have new LOC but no Independent state.
Since, independent state is out of scope, what options we have. Maximum autonomy ? Well politics will increase and Pro India and Pro-Pakistan lobbies will be the one who will gain as they can ask whatever they want in order to take "Autonomous" decision benefiting which side paid the most.
As for joining either India or Pakistan, I consider the facts that my coming generation will have opportunities especially in economic stability security and more chances of survival. If I am given the choice, to join one, I will look at how Muslims who moved from India to Pakistan were treated and how those who stayed back in India. At any given day, I will see I am safer at current place and I can provide my family basic needs easily.
I will also think that if they consider us Brothers, then why did they send terrorists who killed innocent men women and children ? They did kill their brothers in East, they killed us too. Should we trust them ? They just want water control. They don't love us as they pretend. Its a same mirage they shown to their Eastern brothers. They are safe and sound in their land separated from their brother.
I want acceptance and right to live. Would I be called Muhajir and bombed like Tribals if some terrorist hides in my village ? What if my kids will get AK-47 rather than Advance Knowledge -101.
Would my daughter safely go to school and not shot down. Will my mother be safe and not attacked by any drone ? Will my sister be married to a Engineering than an Extremist ? Hundred questions runs through my mind.
While I think about it and dodge off in sleep, planning about my next day, knowing that an Indian soldier (most probably a Hindu or Sikh) will be awake with his gun in out cold, protecting me from my so called Brothers.
This is not about you if you are a Hindu or Budhist.
The decision of the Kashmiri Muslims is most important in this case because they are a majority.
The point is that they have been brought up on sermons of Jehad, Islam and Pakistan since they were born. The school kids throw stones as a hobby. They became wahhabised slowly but as surely as the sun rises in the East. When they started throwing out Kashmiri Pandits out, they started exhibiting in their actions, what had been brewing in their minds.
That is the problem.
The most fortunate thing that could have happened to us is that Pakistan is in the shape it is now. Earlier days, Pakistan had been created in their minds as a land of opportunities and Islamic brotherhood. However in today's age of media and information, what is happening in Pakistan for the last decade escapes none in Kashmir.
They also see that Pakistan is imploding in the name of Islam. And thus it fuels their rage further that they donot wish to stay with India and yet Pakistan is no longer the golden land they imagined it to be. And they also see that India is growing.
Till some years back Kashmiri muslims treated India with contempt, they tried every act possible to damage India. Always imagining that they would end up either in Pakistan or independent.
Today they see that merging with Pakistan is absolutely impossible. Having an independent Kashmir is also tedious as its not very sustainable.