It is pretty clear that the Kashmir valley is devolving into yet another place corrupted by Islamic fundamentalism and is regressing backwards. Kashmir valley is definitely the FATA of India and I am not sure how the Indian government will deal with it.
Xeric rightly prescribed that you figure out the acronyms before yapping and wailing away. The fact that you would equate FATA to occupied Kashmir is alarming.
By the way, being a disputed territory where (CLEARLY) the masses are against the occupation it is a delusional approach to consider it part of hindustan to begin with! In FATA, there is cooperation between local tribes and the security forces.
You will pretty much never see anti-Pakistan or anti-Army graffiti or other such sentiment in FATA. Not what I can say about occupied Kashmir. Pictures do indeed speak thousands of words.
But I can tell you that the the CIA is telling the US president that this area will be home to more of what America has been fighting over if it becomes an independent, ungoverned area much like the areas in Pakistan in Afghanistan that have become the breeding grounds for terrorists for years to come.
How convenient
..what about Bosnia or Kosovo? There were HUGE array of Islamics (some whom you could label fundamentalist) who were pro freedom and pro independence. If you look at Kosovo today, they hang the U.S. flag almost as much as they hang their own national flag. Very pro-American (independent) country
Countries do not cause breeding grounds for terrorism
.conditions can cause people to become angry. And in all honesty, people who ARE angry at hindustan for its inhumane treatment of Kashmiris are very much justified in being so. So as a hindustany who is scared of further terrorist attacks, perhaps you should instead introspect and ask WHY
I am still not clear as to how Kashmiris in the valley are addressing issues such as modern education, jobs for youth, lowering the influence of Islamic fundamentalists et al.
Al Jazeera had a report last month about how a huge number of the younger generation of anti-hindustan protestors are actually college students, some even pursuing graduate studies. It is an existentialist issue, not one in which poverty or poor economic conditions are manifesting themselves (for better or for worse)
Maybe a bunch of Kashmiris can be made to travel under Pakistani passports throughout the world for them to realize what a disastrous position that would be...getting screened in world's airports for 3 hours (even for a Pakistani tennis player who finished runner up in the US open this year). Kashmiris can ONLY get the US' support if they can assure that it wont become yet another fundamentalist haven, which is how it is looking now due to all these preachings from mosques
See, now you are just trolling
no need to analye or comment on dust-bin-worthy garbage.
- provide choice to Kashmiris in India to move to Pakistan or their part of Kashmir upon payment of a certain sum of money and a title to a home or business in Pakistani kashmir.
They are free to move anywhere under Pakistani control/influence that they desire. However, keep in mind that Kashmir is their home. Their land is there, their friends/family, their livelihoods. On one hand you call them your citizens (derived from hindustans delusional notion that Kashmir is an integral part) and on the other hand you are contemplating giving them this generous choice you proposed. Basically, you are saying you dont care at all for the people of Kashmir whom you are occupying
This phenomenon seems to be mirrored by the callous recklessness and total unprofessionalism being exhibited by the occupational sissy forces who seem to have wanton disregard for human life in the valley. I am of the opinion that the stakeholders of this occupation are digging themselves in even deeper cow dung.
- make it into a SAR of India much like Hong Kong and give it a 20 year time frame to prove that it will not become fundamentalist like the rest of Pakistan and if they behave, ultimately grant independence.
- sign agreements stating that if Kashmiris were found to be involved in terrorist activities in India or around the world, they revert back to SAR status under Indian rule.
And if they dont behave, continue to occupy it??
What are you, a pre-school teacher???
(Or perhaps pre-school student)
See, the world simply does not believe that Pakistan is able to govern territories and prevent the use of its territories for launching global jihads.
You are merely implying that, based on the statements of a fewmany of whom hail from your own country it implies that it gives a true picture on the ground. Yes there are areas in Pakistan that could do with more state presence (more to do with effective governance). Using the same logic, why cant the Karzai administration along with ISAF fully govern or establish writ in Afghanistan? You would think that with all the resources spent in the past 9+ years would have made the country governed and prevented the scourge of drugs, weapons-pushing, smuggling, and terrorism from spreading across the border into Pakistan.
Of course you would leave that aspect out. You would also (again) forget that the Kashmiri struggle is not necessarily a religious one per se. Though Kashmir is a majority Muslim region; one that is loath to ever accept hindustani occupation
I, for one, will never support a call for freedom when it is coming from fundamentalist Islamic forces. It is another story when respected Kashmiris especially University level educators/doctors etc. want it. No more religious divisions and destructions because of that. The world has seen enough.
You, for one, seem blindly fixated on fundamental Islamic forces and you fail to simply just point out that any religious fundamentalism is wrong if and when it leads to hatred incitement and violence.
Most of the violence in Kashmir is due to frustrated youth who express their anger at an occupation they do not (and will never) accept; as a result, they protest (which is perfectly within their right) and they get shot with (live) ammunitions.
This is no new news. This has been going on for decades. With media taking a more dominant role in this ever-globalizing world - I, for one, would advise Kashmiris to continue to cover and document the atrocities being committed against them.
It is interesting to note that the world's so-called 'largest democracy banned SMS services; banned facebook in the valley (protestors were uploading pictures of the protests and creating pro-Kashmir groups on the networking site); and even place political leaders such as APHC chief under constant house arrest.
A FAILED strategy for failing occupational force that have no idea what to do next; no direction at all, due to their own oblivion.