Neither you can nor am trusting your and ours politicians.
i am talking about fair and free referendum under international observers/.
Since many Indians are under this impression that a meager number of kasmiris want independance or for that matter against India and majority are not against India hence you should not be ducking afraid of referendum on Kasmir
Spring Orange, Let's Face it.......
When India & Pakistan Both got freedom, there was an Indian Independence Act (Pls read it carefully), in it there is a clear mention that any Kingdom is free to join which ever dominion it wants or maybe even remain independent, there was no point made that the future of any kingdom will be decided by there people but only the king is the sole responsible authority to make that decision.
It was Raja Hari Singh, that was under the impression that he can rule entire Kashmir independently without any outside interference until PA raiders started attacking Kashmir from the North, it was under this condition that he signed the "Instrument of Accession" to Union of India, no one forced him & the accession was completely legal under the Indian Independence Act, this was the accession on the same lines as the Baluchistan acceded to Pakistan (only the accent of the ruler not his subjects). Now I know that you will be tempting to bring here Nizam of Hyderabad case here, but there are no. of differences in the two cases:
1. Kashmir is a border state b/w India & Pakistan whereas Hyderabad was surrounded by India on all sides.
2. On the one hand the Population of Kashmir consists of many Buddhists (in the Ladakh region) & Hindus (in the Jammu region) & the Muslim population resides mainly in the valley, so deciding the fate of entire Kashmir on just the aspirations of one part of Kashmir will be totally unacceptable, whereas Hyderabad consisted of 90+% Hindus spread over entire region.
3. In both the cases, India took action only after there were serious Human Rights Violations both in Kashmir (by raiders) & in Hyderabad (by Nizam's army), so India was forced to take action & u can't deny this fact.
Even after all this, it was India that took the Kashmir cause to the UN & agreed to the referendum, but that required all forces to vacate there respective part of Kashmir which PA clearly declined (i wonder why) & after 65 years, referendum has clearly lost it's relevance as the demography of both sides of Kashmir have been completely changed (case being the Kashmiri Pandits) + the world is not the world of 1947-48 anymore. The only logical solution to Kashmir will be making the LOC an IB.
P.S. I am not going into further arguments, since i know there is no end to it, i have made my point & i stand by it. PEACE.