All we are suppressing is the fundamentalist urges of Kashmiris, which have been continuously stoked by Pakistan since 1947.
Supporting a radical ideology is as bad as giving guns to militants.
Oh please - you are suppressing their right to choose where their sovereignty lies - their legal right (under the IoA and UNSC resolutions) and their human and moral right.
"Supressing their fundamentalist urges?" This discussion is really bringing forth an extremely ugly side of some Indians, stereotyping and denigrating millions of people because they do not agree with your irrational jingoism and need to prevent your 'feelings from getting hurt'.
Religion doesn't mean talibanism, but it is always vulnerable to talibanism, and tends to have a good number of people within its ranks with such thinking, mostly within the priestly profession.
Anything is vulnerable to an extremist interpretation, the trick is keeping proper checks and balances in the system. Pakistan, despite all of Zia's efforts, and the subsequent rise of the Taliban, has remained a primarily moderate country, with its people largely moderate. I think that shows the resilience of Pakistanis to Talibanization and the Kashmiris woudl be no different.
That's exactly what I am saying. You have your principles, and we have ours.
Would you approve of it if an Islamic revolution happened in Pakistan on the lines of the Iranian one, or would you want to fight against it?
Our principles also include settling a territorial dispute on the basis of human dignity and allowing the people of that territory decide which nation they belong to.
Your analogy makes no sense - the equivalent would be whether you approved of a Hindu revolution in India. Trying to equivocate a changing political system with the immoral and illegal occupation of a people is just ludicrous.
You will simply make Indians more determined to fight for the unity of their country. You already have.
Nothing to lose - Pakistan stepped back from militarily supporting these groups, and the anti-India sentiment has exploded, and been expressed more strongly than when we were supporting those groups. On top of that, the fact that 40 percent of Indians now support a referendum, realizing that 'development' and relative peace hasn't done much to dampen the sentiment.
That is what the future roadmap of Pakistani support should be, and I am not surprised that the IA is coming up with these ceasefire violations that the PA has no clue about, since the aim now is to reignite the impression that Pakistan is causing this through support of militant groups.
