The Andorran Model, acceptable to the Kashmiris involved with the JKLF, are the subject of who wants what.
Your view is honest and open as to the rivers and waters. But, those remain status quo and would continue to exist as is under the existsing rivers and waters treaties. No changes there. People still have to go along to get along so to speak.
The concept of Pakistan, India, and China remaining in charge of national security and international affairs speaks to that...as does the in existance today Indus and related water/dam treaties. Those remain in force, as I wrote before.
I presume to know but do not know the hard facts, that today for example that Pakistan sells power generated from the Mangla Dam which built with World Bank with US financial support earns electricity sales revenue. IF an Andorran Model Kashmir central Parliament were created with a stand alone non-religious constitution for all three parts, the Mangla Dam would have to complete, if not yet completed, it's worldwide debt amortization. But if that amortization is already completed (likely the case) then the operation of Mangal Dam would continue but the revenue should then reflect income to the Kashmir Parliamentary system to help fund public (not religious) schools and any other non-sectarian infrastructure which meet daily needs of the ordinary grassroots Kashmiri.
I did not give this detail, power revenue sharing, net of overhead which has to be paid always, even if capital debt is paid off, you still have overhead cost of operating, maintaining, repairing, and generally running outfits like the Mangla Dam, in my prior articles on using the Andorran Model. I offer it now to get the subject of water and hydro power out in the open so it is not a shadow factor in negotiations over the future of all parts of Kashmir.
A British engineer who was a social friend of mine worked on the Mangla Dam project. A humerous example of in 1965 poor understanding of the "meaning" of language in business was when he asked his Kashmir office clerk to "post some documents to the file." The young, semi-literate office clear got a pot of office glue and "posted" as is glued the pages of the document onto the side of the metal filing cabinet!
To be fair, in Karachi, later, as my engineering friend got his property ready to be shipped back to UK when his job contract was up told a Texaco station employee to change the oil and to grease his Triumph TR-4. The Texaco station employee dutifully spread grease all over the outside of the Triumph, due to his limited understanding of English! This time we are not talking about a semi-literate Kashmiri but about a semi-literate native of Karach/Sind.
These two examples, up north and down south, in then West Pakistan demonstrated and may even today for all I know demonstrate the raw lack of language education in English, the most common language inside Pakistan...which emphasizes the great need for basic English language training in the few, you need more, free public schools for all people of all walks of life inside today's Pakistan. Parochial emphasis on Urdu, Pashtu, etc. does not help people improve their lot in the economic world, there or internationally, from the bottom of the economic ladder on up.
In summary what I thinkchanges under an Andorran Model is to have a single Kashmiri Parliamenet which over many lifetimes would sort things out peacefully and quietly, not all the bravado back and forth which currently is limited to just Pakistan and India. China's grab of a piece of Kashmir in 1960 was "cheered on" by religious extremists even back then in Pakistan who then, and perhaps even now, would "goad" or "insult" India at every chance. This is and was all driven by differences over religion which is not what is needed today, and was harmful back then. Hatred and illiteracy driven in the wrong channels by religous thugs "in the name of religion" are a curse and help hold down, suppress, and keep in abject poverty and servitude the poorest among you.
Thanks for your opinion, which is important, as your concerns are important, but the wants and needs of all the Kashmiris themselves should come first...the water resources have long been the hidden worry-agenda and should not be such under the Andorran Model.
What everyone wants, including me as a outsider who cares about the future of the entire Indian subcontinent, is to end the excuse of threats of war over Kashmir. The average Kashmiri will have a unified vote but the three nations are still practically in charge of international relations and defense matters. Difference is everyone has to work together for the common good of the Kashmiris instead of focusing on religions and this country vs. that country. That is out of date thinking.
Remember, President Musharraf was working on an Andorran Model...the ISI in Pakistan was against it and him, and he is now deposed. Etc.
Cheers.
