Joe Shearer
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Hello Sir ji
I wanted to Know WHERE do you get the ENERGY for debating Kashmir Issues and Topics
For most of us here ; there is nothing to debate ; It is Indian territory
( We only believing in shooting all Anti nationals and foreigners both )
But Sir you have amazing passion and energy for debating the LEGALITIES and the Legalese
of Kashmir
A very good question. A valid question. One I had hoped would be asked, but that never was.
I believe that there is a lot of confused thinking about Kashmir. Our Pakistani friends feel that it should have gone to them. Reasons:
- Muslim majority
- Uprisings in parts of it (not the Valley, but in Mirpur and in Gilgit-Baltistan)
- Pakistan military might
- Plebiscite (they have been told that this was promised by UN and forced on India, and that India has very cleverly avoided it, and that Pakistan has loyally supported this demand right from 1947)
- The right to ask for a not-Pakistan, not-India settlement, essentially, for independence from both Pakistan and India
- Restoration of state rights taken away by devious means
- Curbing of human rights violations
- Investigations into missing persons and into encounter killings
- Blaming Nehru for going to the UN, and accepting UN compulsion to hold a plebiscite
- Failure to let the Indian Army expel the Pakistanis from Kashmir when they were winning the war
- Giving too much importance to the Abdullah family, the Sheikh, the Doctor and the Baba
- Giving far too much importance to the Mufti family and their soft separatism
- Failing to realise that some Kashmiris don't like India, don't like Indians and don't like any religion other than Islam and that they are hugely different from other Indians
- Owing to their ignorance, falling back on the stupid position that India is there in Kashmir because of superior strength, and will stay in Kashmir due to superior strength
- People do not know how Kashmir was built up, and why, when the time came, the state dissolved into its components so easily
- People do not know about the massacres of Hindus in Baramula and in Rajouri, or the massacres of Muslims in western jammu
- People do not know about the uprising in Sudhanoti and the expulsion of state troops by local insurgents
- People do not know about the cocktail that was the composition of the so-called tribals, who had elements of genuine Afridi tribesmen, demobilised Indian Army veterans mobilised, armed and deployed by regular Pakistan Army officers, residents of west Jammu and Muslim deserters from the J&K state troops
- People do not know that the instrument of accession and the question of princely Indian states joining India had been decided decades ago, not at the time of partition, by the first round table conference, by the princes themselves
- People do not know about the mutiny and betrayal by Major Brown, or the uprising in Gilgit Baltistan, which made it clear that G-B would never return to the Maharaja
- People do not know that the question of a plebiscite was an Indian condition, initiated by Mountbatten and Nehru
- People do not know that the plebiscite was suggested to the UN by India, and that it was not pushed onto India
- People do not know that the UN resolutions call for total vacation of the territory by Pakistan and that Pakistan flatly refused, and that this caused the derailment of the plebiscite
- People do not know that the option of independence from both Pakistan and India was removed from the terms of the plebiscite by Zafarulla Khan, the Pakistani delegate
- People do not know that the number of graves found of unknown persons matches the number of infiltrators shot by the Army and the border police and handed over to the local police for disposal, plus or minus 5%
- People do not distinguish between victims of terrorist violence, victims of accidental death due to cross-firing and terrorists shot in gun battles, or innocents killed in cold blood by the police or by the para-military
- People do not know about the very large number of Kashmiris who have lost faith in the methods used by the communal Tehreek
- People do not know about the increasing male domination and the increasing oppression of women by communalists in Kashmiri society taking advantage of the support of armed terrorists from across the border
- People are simply not willing to listen to how this terrorism is bad for general morale, is bad for a business climate or a tourism industry, and is an unacceptable basis for any kind of further movement towards a settlement.