"Democracy Now" contrasting Modi with PMIK...

[Shahzaz ud din]

"Democracy Now" contrasting Modi with PMIK...

 

[Shahzaz ud din]

India Is Making a Mistake in Kashmir : Bloomberg
India’s shock decision this week to revoke the autonomy of its restive state of Jammu and Kashmir is a crucial test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Without a change of course, he’s likely to fail.

Kashmir is arguably the worst legacy of the fratricidal partition of British India in 1947. One of more than 500 princely states in the subcontinent at the time, its Hindu ruler cast his lot with India after tribal fighters from Pakistan attempted his overthrow. The two nations have since fought three wars over the overwhelmingly Muslim territory. India controls the bulk of the state; Pakistan administers about a third and China claims a portion of its Himalayan plateau.

How India treats its portion of Kashmir matters for two reasons. One is that the state is the primary flashpoint for the world’s most dangerous nuclear rivalry; terrorist attacks there have repeatedly brought India and Pakistan to the brink of hostilities. It’s also the lone Muslim-majority state within Hindu-majority India, and thus an essential test of the country’s diversity and tolerance.

Given these sensitivities, Modi’s government might’ve approached the matter with discretion. Quite the opposite. With no warning, it revoked Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted Kashmir a degree of autonomy, while breaking up the state into two “union territories” largely controlled from New Delhi. Authorities placed hundreds of local leaders under house arrest, dispatched thousands of troops to the already heavily militarized state, evacuated tourists, imposed a curfew, and cut off communications links. The parliamentary maneuvers the government used to ram through its decision were so dubious they’ve already landed beforethe Supreme Court.

All this hardly needed doing: Most of the special privileges afforded to the state on paper had long been whittled away in practice. Nor is anyone challenging the unique rights enjoyed by some other states in India. The clear implication is that Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was intent on eliminating rather than celebrating a Muslim-majority state.


Changing Kashmir’s status won’t do anything to ease tensions with Pakistan. To the contrary, it will further empower the Pakistani military, long the main roadblock to peace on the subcontinent. India desperately needs a real strategy to engage with Pakistan, commercially as well as diplomatically. Instead Modi’s government seems convinced it can continue to ignore, isolate and deter its rival. One result is that trade between the two countries has now broken down entirely.

Perhaps most galling, though, is that Modi neglected to bring on board those Indians with the greatest stake in his decision: Kashmiris. BJP officials insist that closer integration will improve the lives of Kashmiris by opening the floodgates to jobs and investment, but this is questionable. (Private investment in India hit a 14-year low earlier this year, while unemployment stands at a 45-year high.) In any case, a sudden influx of outside businesses would fuel paranoia and resentment among locals, as it has wherever elsesuch policies have been tried.

The issue India ultimately needs to address in Kashmir isn’t a lack of jobs, or even Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. It’s the lack of agency felt by too many Kashmiris, exacerbated by a suffocating security presence they view as an occupation. Forcibly imposing the central government’s will over the state will only intensify those grievances.

Democracies as large and heterogeneous as India cannot escape internal tensions. But the way to relieve such pressure is to decentralize power and give citizens a greater stake in their governance, as well as more control over local resources.

Modi’s government is heading in the opposite direction in Kashmir. Until India finds some way to make Kashmiris feel like full citizens, in control of their lives and their destinies, their land will remain what it has been for far too long: a troubled place, and a threat to peace and prosperity.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[Path-Finder]

I wonder what that tulsi gabard has to say!!

 

[Dual Wielder]

I wonder what that tulsi gabard has to say!!

She's anti Pakistan, regardless what India does, plus Indians are her main donors for her Presidential campaign, if I remember correctly..

 

[Yankee-stani]

She's anti Pakistan, regardless what India does, plus Indians are her main donors for her Presidential campaign, if I remember correctly..

Correct I kinda did like her earlier on but too cushy to the Indian American lobby so I am with Andrew Yang for the Democratic race I know he wont win but at least he is not like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris

 

[Winchester]

Correct I kinda did like her earlier on but too cushy to the Indian American lobby so I am with Andrew Yang for the Democratic race I know he wont win but at least he is not like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris

Lol....Is that a confederate flag with the Pakistani one?

 

[Yankee-stani]

Lol....Is that a confederate flag with the Pakistani one?

Yeah SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN YER

 

[Winchester]

I hope Pakistani-Americans get the message across to the Bernie crowd in the U.S. This is our chance boys; lets get the information out on Kashmir and demolish India's image.

Yeah SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN YER

Pakistan will be the first country to establish diplomatic relations and open up our embassy in Nashville.

 

[Yankee-stani]

I hope Pakistani-Americans get the message across to the Bernie crowd in the U.S. This is our chance boys; lets get the information out on Kashmir and demolish India's image.

Pakistani Americans need to get out and stop voting one party f..cking Line Democrat I hate both the GOP and the Democratic Party however we need to be bi-partisian screw CAIR and these Arab/Pali infested groups who Pakistanis follow Muh free Balstine while Kashmir gets drained out as usual The Indians play both the Democrat and Republicans here smart way unlike dumb Pakistani uncles

 

[Dual Wielder]

Correct I kinda did like her earlier on but too cushy to the Indian American lobby so I am with Andrew Yang for the Democratic race I know he wont win but at least he is not like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris

Yes same here, she was against the Iraq war, and the Syrian intervention. But when I heard her anti-Pakistan comments, that was it. For me its Bernie sanders, though not perfect his anti-establishment, its unfortunate that war hawk Clinton cheated with the backing of the democrats in the last election.

 

[Yankee-stani]

Pakistan will be the first country to establish diplomatic relations and open up our embassy in Nashville.[/QUOTE.]

You mean Richmond,VA lol

Yes same here, she was against the Iraq war, and the Syrian intervention. But when I heard her anti-Pakistan comments, that was it. For me its Bernie sanders, though not perfect his anti-establishment, its unfortunate that war hawk Clinton cheated with the backing of the democrats in the last election.

I voted Trump in 2016 cause he seemed to Anti War than Clinton I still think he is but the problem is the US deep state and folks with money this is the problem with the US too many ethnics have their own interests over the US ever wonder why US foreign policy is flux tho I like Ron Paul better, however I dont care about party unlike some retards like Linda Sarsour who like homo f...gots than other pressing issues

 

[Winchester]

Pakistani Americans need to get out and stop voting one party f..cking Line Democrat I hate both the GOP and the Democratic Party however we need to be bi-partisian screw CAIR and these Arab/Pali infested groups who Pakistanis follow Muh free Balstine while Kashmir gets drained out as usual The Indians play both the Democrat and Republicans here smart way unlike dumb Pakistani uncles

Let the uncles handle the Republicans but the young ones need to bring Kashmir into the spotlight of the American left.

By left, I don't mean the Hillary/Biden neo-liberal left but the Bernie-A.O.C left. Also Trump supporting Republicans will not have any sympathy for a Muslim population under siege. It would have been a different case, had Kashmiris been Evangelicals.

 

[Dual Wielder]

I voted Trump in 2016 cause he seemed to Anti War than Clinton I still think he is but the problem is the US deep state and folks with money this is the problem with the US too many ethnics have their own interests over the US ever wonder why US foreign policy is flux tho I like Ron Paul better, however I dont care about party unlike some retards like Linda Sarsour who like homo f...gots than other pressing issues

he definitely did seem less anti war, she would had invaded Syria and stayed in Afghanistan indefinitely. lol I remember ron paul 2012 campaign, I was about buy one of his t-shirts, which made no sense, me not being American.

 

[24 Hours]

I voted Trump in 2016 cause he seemed to Anti War than Clinton I still think he is but the problem is the US deep state and folks with money this is the problem with the US too many ethnics have their own interests over the US ever wonder why US foreign policy is flux tho I like Ron Paul better, however I dont care about party unlike some retards like Linda Sarsour who like homo f...gots than other pressing issues

He purposely heightened tensions with Iran and came really close to attacking the country. And US troops are still in Syria. In what way is he remotely anti-war compared to Hillary, who at least supported the Iran nuclear deal?

 

[masterchief_mirza]

He purposely heightened tensions with Iran and came really close to attacking the country. And US troops are still in Syria. In what way is he remotely anti-war compared to Hillary, who at least supported the Iran nuclear deal?

Fundamentally he himself wants to get out of afg and Syria theatres and indeed this is the ticket he rode into power on. He is negatively influenced by deep state actors. Bolton is Cheney 2.0. Regarding Iran, it's deliberate sabre rattling by trump but he himself deliberately stops short of actual conflict. Recall the American drone being shot down. Bolton was fuming over the cancellation of the retaliatory strike.

Trump in my opinion is isolationist, pro-economic confrontation, pro-sabre rattling and pro-brinkmanship...but I believe he is anti-war.