Exactly! No one cares a fig about Kashmir anymore. Check this out........
Kashmir issue left unmentioned in United Nations
Yup. That's what I had posted the other day to someone who was actually surprised when I posted this. LOL!!! The amount of obfuscation that is prevalent in Pakistan especially with regards to the history and facts, even the original spin master forgets the facts because (s)he is so involved in lies that the sense of paranoia and lies prevails all around them.
One must study the thesis submitted by some of the US Army officers for their PhDs on Counter-Insurgency operations before they drafted their doctrine. They extensively quoted Indian method of dealing with CI Ops.
When someone posts the various incidents of unrest in valley one totally fails to understand why India allows the world to see it. Lets try and sum it up so that trolls and the 'professionals' (who actually have no idea of things) can join in :
The fact that stone pelting and civil unrest accompanies any CI operation in valley is as old as the movement which started way back in 1989 in earnest. It was marked by women being posted as lookouts, who would seemingly be going along with their daily chores while at the same time, militants would be hiding in the space between the double walls of a typical Kashmiri wooden house with an approximate 2-4 inch diameter slit where the weapon would be placed and as soon as a convoy/column of security personnel would appear, they would initiate a firefight and immediately be screened by the women as they fled the area. It is not as if this is a new phenomenon and it marks a shift to Palestinian form of 'Intifada' in the Kashmiri separatist's campaign, instead, it is the result of increased permissiveness of the Indian authorities to allow these reports to filter across the globe. Why would India be doing that?
The reasons why so many incidents of stone pelting and unrest are being reported are as follows:
1. The mandate of Indian army, when being inducted in 1989 for CI operations in the valley was "to bring down the level of violence to a level wherein a political dialogue can take place". As such, the situation wherein there were thousands of trained and battle experienced foreign fighters including SSG elements of Pakistan in the 90s waging an undeclared war in valley, today the situation has trickled down to a couple of hundred militants who are part time at best and who have merely created incidents of violence in order to keep the issue highlighted. Thus, the Indian Army has been able to achieve it's mandate. However, we are yet to see the local administration and law enforcement agencies to step up and plug the deficiencies of good governance in the state.
2. The successful completion of the last general elections with independent estimates giving an average voter turnout of between 65-72% in the valley, emphatically demonstrated to the world that the democracy is working in the valley! The election of PDP, a seemingly pro-separatist party to power, further served as a diplomatic and political coup for the Government of India to strengthen its claim that democracy rules in J&K. This has further strengthened the view of UN member countries that indeed, the assimilation of J&K is not an issue for it to consider as was decided by UN in 2010 and instead is an issue wherein the countries have to solve their differences bilaterally - something that India has long maintained.
3. The telecast of such incidents and the reporting of such incidents, indeed, work exactly in favour of the Government of India wherein the transparency is being maintained and the world is aware of what is happening and Pakistan is not allowed to spin tales of mass atrocities as was the case with Syria, wherein the government reacted with disproportionate force and banned media reporting, thereby allowing itself to play into the hands of its opposing countries. These scenes indeed serve to strengthen the view of democracy as such demonstrations are usual in other parts of India too, be it on reservations (like the recent Jat stir) or even water ..., hence, can be passed off as a law and order issue at best.
4. By presenting repeated incidents of violence and releasing data on illiteracy and poverty with unemployment and population indices of the state as a whole and not Kashmir alone, the government has brought into the stark contrast the indices in Kashmir with respect to better development and social parameters in Ladakh and Jammu region, further underscoring the socio-economic hardships of people due to support of terrorism from across the border.
5. By successfully getting J&K removed from list of conflicts at UN, the GoI has been able to ensure that diplomatically, the status quo is recognised as being sacrosanct, thereby check mating the Pakistani design of reneging from both the Shimla Accord and Karachi Agreements.
sorry .. its a draft hence wrote what came to mind while travelling .... edit as you like.
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