Policy on Kashmir related threads

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Of late we've been hitting ideological debating road blocks between Indians and Pakistanis about the issue that stems from the use of the word terrorists for Kashmiri Separatists" or the use of the word terrorists for the Indian Army.

To move the debates forward, we're enforcing the use of the term "Kashmiri separatists" and enforcing ALL uniformed armies be given their due respect as soldiers.

The debates on this forum would never move forward without this and every debate would come to a stand still.

A few explanations to the arguments we've heard:

1) Why can Pakistani Taliban be called terrorists and not Kashmiri Separatists?

The UN recognizes Kashmir as a disputed territory. Hence all the fighting on this disputed territory becomes legitimate. The simple notion is, whoever controls as much territory by whatever means - that's theirs till someone else forces a change.

Kashmiri Separatists, by mission target the Indian Army and Indian Army targets the Kashmiri Separatists. That by definition makes them Enemy Combatants not terrorists. Discounting collateral damage of course as intent is almost impossible to prove or disprove.

The Taliban are fighting and bombing Pakistani citizens and on Pakistani land, the UN recognizes Pakistani government as the ultimate authority on all places Pakistan. For the UN there is no disputed territory within Pakistani borders.

The Taliban have targeted and killed civilians in the thousands and that by definition makes them terrorists.

2) Why not allow the freedom to choose whatever term is preferred?

We can't allow the freedom to use any term as the user wants to, as we censor and prohibit a lot of offensive terms that others might want to use for the uniformed armies. Some may be okay with it, but the quality of this forum demands that soldiers not be described with any obscene expletives.

The terms that must be followed:

1. Kashmiri Separatists, for all separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir
2. Soldiers, for all uniformed armies

Our proposed solution utilizes neutral terms to make it acceptable for all parties to continue on with the debate and remove the focus from the name calling. This is in no means an enforcement of a point of view, you're free to criticize/support a political point of view. Focus should be on the debate of issues, not on mocking/point scoring.

Compliance is mandatory.

 

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Please note, this is now in effect.

 

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Expanding upon what was said earlier, we are once again stressing upon understanding the spirit of this policy.

There is an ongoing war in Kashmir and it makes no sense to make any sort of celebratory statements for people being killed in Kashmir on either side. Celebration of people being killed has no relevance on this forum, it will be seen as done with the agenda to flame, infuriate and stoke emotions.

You discuss issues, you discuss resolution of issues, you discuss war, methodology, strategy, tactics, ideology, morality, etc of the Kashmir issue - as if there is any limitation of topics on this.

Don't come here with the agenda to piss each other off. Everyone's efforts into this forum is not for this purpose. Please take care and try to co-exist as a single community here no matter where you're from. Basic common sense would go a long way.

 

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Strongly advised to follow this policy very strictly on Kashmir. As witnessed before, bans had to be laid out on violations of this policy. Compliance is mandatory.

 

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This is to serve as a reminder to all parties about one of the most important policies of Defence.pk.

Respectful discourse for all parties engaged in the fight must be maintained. Name-calling and jingoistic posts would especially come under scrutiny.