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While I do not condone the terms used for the professional Army. Whether it is barracked or not, its presence itself shows a need for some policing on the off chance something does go wrong. Leave aside the usual tit for tat lobbing of mortars or the claims of some mythical border action team chopping heads off that would make even the darkest editions of Frank miller's Batman look almost benign. As if somehow the only role then the IA is to play is to sit in barracks and make tea while this seemingly rock solid border is penetrated in manners that would make Sunny Leone feel virtuous.
Which brings the question on whether have you been to Kashmir? Or interacted with them on a daily basis and lived among them. Oh I dont refer to the resettlement in the Jammu region but the vale itself.
All things considered your words here are worth no more than the 1010101 that represent them; all you could be is some wag from Coimbatore who took his college vacation in the Valley and found the daily grind as an assumption that all is hunky dory in the vale and those killed in places like Shopian are actually militants from some obscure village in Pakistan and not local lads.
There may not be the spite that the poster claims, but your assurances of Hunky Dory because you have "Been" to kashmir makes the likelihood of whatever you say seem pretty "9 o clock" propaganda feed rather than some actual ground reality.
Kashmir is not going anywhere nor is there some massive insurgency going to recur. Economics fuels these and better economics will always lull any storm. But to assume that the storm is over or to claim it so without providing the economic uplift and independence that form the basis for the issue is to live in a fool's paradise.
As for Pakistan and the Kashmir desire, lets get this straight. The Kashmirs can hate India or carve the Ashoka wheel into their hearts. All that matters is the water the flows from Kashmir and the strategic position of the valley. The Kashmiris; men and mice alike.. come way down in the rungs of this ladder of priority.
The reason for such large presence of Indian army personal in Kashmir is Pakistan. Everyone knows what happened in 1965 and 1998. You don't need such large army presence to 'quell' a thousand disgruntled Kashmiris. Unless Pakistan uses such cheap tactics to capture Kashmir, Indian army will have the presence there
As on Kashmiris hating Indians, which Kashmiris are you talking? I can be in Jammu and feel that I am either in Chandigarh or in Ludhiana. I can go to a movie and come home at 11 in the night and feel safe. That leaves Kashmir Valley. There is no denying that there is a sizable population that is anti India or at least not pro India. But what many Indians ask is that if 170 million Muslims can call India their home and love it, what problem that 4 million Muslims from valley have?
And again, India is a country of 1.3 billion people. There are many groups such as Maoists that hate India. You cannot go on making a new nation for each such group. You will have a million counties instead of one India.