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Even if I were to take your conjectures on face-value & ignore commenting on them just to keep the discussion localized to the issue at hand, I still cannot understand the rest of the argument.
If a 'baby step', as you call it, is able to internationalize the Kashmir Issue by extrapolating one incidents which is asked to be investigated purely along 'forensic' & not 'diplomatic' or 'political' lines then one might, also, be justified in asking that couldn't such an internationalizing occur during the Dam Construction issues for they too were in the same 'disputed territory' which Indian maintains is an integral part of its country; Pakistan could have very well have adopted that line of reasoning & asked for an indefinite stay-order on that Dam's Construction owing to the Status of Jammu & Kashmir.
And yet we didn't....why ?
Because it would not work ! Because courts & bodies act in the purview of a set of parameters within which they are to judge for or against a petition. They do not, however, extrapolate an incident to a larger dispute if they did India would be the first to register to an objection.
Furthermore if it was Internationalization of the Kashmir Issue that could be sought through such incidents & others like them than the Mumbai Bombings & '02 Stand-Off or even the '99 Kargil Skirmish would have done that very well for any neutral observer when trying to understand the root of the problem that could have caused Pakistan or Pakistanis to acts they way the did & India to react the way she did is an open wound - Kashmir ! And yet none of those events did that not even Kargil did that !
In fact, conversely so, the Kargil War, poured in sympathy for the Indians & stronger than ever support for India on their stance on Kashmir because we were wrong to do what we did. Similarly if India thinks that Pakistani soldiers or irregulars crossed over the LOC, took out their boys & beheaded one then a UN sponsored probe would demonize Pakistan to no end & if this is an Internationalization of the Kashmir Issue then it would be one in favor of India.
India's refusal to doing that casts doubt over the sincerity & veracity of their claims.
Don't know why are u comparing Apples with Oranges.
Dam construction & river distribution in state of J&K is TOTALLY a different issue since for that we have Indus water Treaty for the sharing of the water of Indus & it's tributaries under the mediator-ship of World Bank, it has NOTHING to do with the Kashmir Dispute as such ( for eg. Even in it's early days of formation, Israel had water agreements with it's Arab neighbors when they din't even acknowledged that a state of Israel exists) , it is completely technical issue not at all political issue, this was done for the simple fact that the water is the most important requirement of Human Lives, for that our two countries had sidelined the dispute as such & just wanted to address the need for better water sharing b/w the two. The Treaty has certain Guidelines under which Pakistan can build dams & India can also build dams, if both follows the proper guidelines set by the Treaty than there will be no objection raised by the other in this case. These are it's brief Provisions if u want to have a look:
http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Brief4661612656.pdf
Now u do know that UN is a political organisation while the WB is not, going to UN itself means Politicizing an issue.
As far as Kargil is concerned, it is not me but ur own former President - Gen. Musharaff has acknowledged that it was a military operation to achieve political gains vis-a-vis Kashmir but what he did not imagined was the massive Indian response & International outrage against Pakistan, even one of the best allies of Pakistan - US abandoned it in Kargil.