None of you, and i mean none of you have countered the arguments made in the opening thread. Instead, you all have tried to deflect the argument by highlighting the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Sorry, but there are already a million threads on India's "oppression" of Kashmir. This is about the so called Azad Kashmir.
Please answer the charges made on the opening thread -
Is it not true that the Pakistani establishment handpicks the PM of Kashmir? That the Parliament of Pakistan can dismiss any law made by the Legislative assembly of Azad Kashmir? That the head of the Azad Kashmir council is actually the President of Pakistan and not the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir? That the Mangla Dam accounts for over 65% of Pakistan's electricity needs and yet Azad Kashmir receives less than negligible returns? That the Pakistani government is forcefully relocating Afghans to Azad Kashmir and thereby altering the demographics of the area?
Comparing this to the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir, are you people aware that no resident of any other Indian state can own land or reside in Jammu and Kashmir? That the Legislative assembly has the power to over-rule any law made by the Indian Parliament? That J&K has one of the biggest budgets (in comparison to number of people residing in the state) in India?
These are important questions. Since our Pakistani members keep reminding us, let us also remind them that Azad Kashmir is also disputed territory.
You claim to know how Kashmiris really feel, but then admit you haven't met any Kashmiris or been there too many times Kashmir (probably went to some BSF garrison town at that). I have, to Azad Kashmir. I have never met a single Kashmiri that was pro-India and anti-Pakistan, either from Azad Kashmir or Indian Occupied Kashmir, and I have met more than most of you combined.
So you claim to have met more Kashmiri's than most of us combined? This despite the fact that since we claim the state as our own and consider it our territory, we in all probability would have had far greater interaction with Kashmiris than a Pakistani.
I've met a lot of Kashmir's, not only Muslims but Hindus as well. Buddhists too, if we count Ladhakh (and somehow no one seems to remember Ladhakh). While some of them, especially the Kashmiri University crowd, want to be separate from India. None of them wish to be part of Pakistan. They want independence from both.