How is the outcome 'fixed', unless you believe that the majority of the residents (including displaced Hindu pandits) would vote for Pakistan in a plebiscite?
I said the Pakistani expectation of the "talks" is fixed - not the plebiscite itself. Pakistanis come to the "talks" with India with a "fixed" mindset that India will hand Kashmir on a platter.
Plebiscite,
under the current circumstances, can't be implemented - simply because Pakistan and her proxies f*cked up with the original demography of the subject area on both sides of the LOC and hence didn't satisfy the first condition for the plebiscite. It is that simple.
'Ghazwa-e-Hind' is an outdated meme, as is 'Strategic Depth' - they continue to live long past their shelf life because some 'analysts/commentators' find them useful in presenting a simplistic caricature of Pakistan while grappling (and failing) with the complex Pakistani and regional dynamics. Others realize these memes are outdated but use them calculatedly in building up an anti-Pakistan narrative since they are the ideological twins of Pakistan's Ghazwa-e-Hind types.
I couldn't care less if Ghazwa-e-Hind, as an ideology, is true or not!
All I care about is a bunch of high profile idiots on your "national television" debating about it, openly calling upon the 'believers' to follow through with it as a religious duty and an almost limitless supply of 'believers' to do their bidding with glee.
India, as a country, simply can't be expected to have 'faith' in the saner elements of Pakistan (like you) to overcome these 'nutbags'.
Pakistan's territorial disputes with India are well documented, and Pakistan has never seriously pursued policies or strategies (formally or informally) that suggest a desire to grab Indian territory beyond what is already claimed. If Pakistan, or powerful elements in Pakistan, had any intention of using the resolution of the Kashmir dispute as a launch pad for additional territorial gains, you would have seen Pakistan bring up the issue of Junagadh much more forcefully on the international level.
Who said anything about Pakistan wanting to
'grab' the rest of Indian territories even after settling Kashmir? I am only talking about the propensity of
'Islamic' Pakistan to foment trouble in
'Hindu' India even if they can't occupy the territory.
Kashmir has always occupied the collective mindset of the Pakistanis. But that didn't stop them from meddling in Indian Punjab and even far off places like North Eastern areas bordering Bangladesh (in addition to Kashmir itself). Did it?
Who is to say that they won't turn their attention to what is left of India if they are allowed to usurp Kashmir? In fact, if I were you, I would be crazy to let the matter settle at Kashmir itself.
Remember the 'bleeding India with thousand cuts' slogan?
Then why do you ASK for Kashmir
And why do you send infiltrators into Kashmir
Do you really expect India to just GIVE you Kashmir on a platter
They are not war-mongers but don't even mince words saying that
they will convert Delhi/Mumbai into Hiroshima/Nagasaki if we don't give them Kashmir!
Obviously India is the warmonger for NOT complying!