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You left out the Indian invasion of Junagadh, the invasion of Siachen and Indian support for terrorists and insurgents in East Pakistan and subsequent invasion there.^^^
Peaceful being the operative term,
From the tribal invasion in 48, to operation Gibraltor in 65, support to militant in the 90s and Kargil war in 98, the peaceful solution was never given a chance. It takes time to build up to the peaceful solution and every violent act excludes the settlement of the problem.
But when India herself violates her commitment to plebiscite and declares that the LoC shoudl be made the border, without any resort to the Kashmiris opinion, then it is India herself that is moving away from 'political settlement'.
I disagree that the Indian side has ever been interested in anything except prolonging negotiations - I have my suspicions over the cancellation of the talks with Musharraf just when they were about to be finalized as well. India chose a domestic issue in Pakistan to cancel the talks, that to me sounds suspiciously like a pretext to stop negotiations and end any forward movement.In this case, three Kuwaiti MPs were present in the conference out of the entire 100+ Kuwaiti parliament. It is there right to speak and air their opinion, however from their statements they seem to not know the complex nature of the conflict and have a one-sided view. The government of Kuwait however probably will have a more nuanced approach. There is no doubt that many people want the settlement of this issue. Many Indians including the govt. wants a settlement of the issue. But this can be made only in an atmosphere of peace.
Case in point is the post 2003 era under Musharraf where all support to militants was stopped and peaceful era ushered in Indian side of Kashmir. As per Kasuri, a settlement was almost done and just had to be signed. However, the judicial crisis and later the Mumbai attacks scuttled that solution.
So its not like India is not trying to even solve the issue. All PM whether it be the BJP led govt. or Congress led govt. have tried to solve the issue inspite of several provocations in contrary to the peaceful settlement agreement. Even now, the official GoI position is, just convict the Mumbai attack planners and we will talk on all issues including Kashmir.