OK say in siachen a a 60/40 type deal 60 you keep while we get -35-40 % say about 300-400 sq mi area while you keep the rest 900-1000 sq mi , now Kashmir "valley" lets just approach the matter as a dispute based of "water" & not "religion" now say something like this possible scenario six from BBC say a transfer of this area on the basis dispute on "water" resources rather then "religion" as that way India's foundations wont be touched, for eg: since 1 of the 5 river's comes from the valley so say we get that one river while you keep the rest 4 as usual
now say asking for some 5 to 6 thousand sq mi only out of your 1.2 million & 40,000 sq mi huge country, tell us how can we accommodate your country's needs along with the accommodation that i have already posted in my previous posts , what else can we give , is there something specific your country wants ? if so please feel free to discuss it, since we are already discussing the matter
With all due respect to your position, as another poster pointed out,all you are doing is asking India to make actual physical compromises in territory but offering nothing tangible in return. I'm not clear what your basis of such demands are? Why should India give Pakistan territorial concessions while getting vague promises of increased trade
(Pakistan serving only as transit)? The only compromises that I see in your demand is a reduction of the Pakistani claim on Kashmir which it is not in a position to secure now. That does not sound logical to me & anyone assuming that India will surrender the valley is simply barking up the wrong tree.
Siachen is even more confusing, there is no way to split it like it is being suggested and more importantly no reason to do so. Is Pakistan willing to hand over parts of the Baltoro glacier, Godwin Austen Glacier to India in return. I don't believe so. Why then should India be willing to cede what it already controls? Territorial concessions cannot happen in a vacuum, you simply cannot expect actual physical concessions from India for a vague promise of improved relations & more trade
(which should also be to your interest). It is as I said, expecting something for nothing.
As for what else Pakistan can give, I'm afraid that there is very little that India wants from Pakistan. Indian complaints on terrorism etc cannot be used as blackmail with which to extract actual concessions from India. That carries its own risk anyways.
Imo, there is very little possibility of any direct territorial concession whatsoever by India. The situation on the ground makes it impossible even to contemplate the soft borders
(on Kashmir) kind of deal that was being negotiated by Musharraf & MMS since even that will open India up to more terrorist attacks until Pakistan can bring its internal turmoil under control. All that can be done is have greater consultation between the two governments on Kashmir & allow each other some say in the developments of the part administered by the other. Co-operation on water resources is a distinct possibility with Pakistanis engineers/experts jointly monitoring dams in India thereby guaranteeing both peace of mind & faster work on such dams. A reasonable possibility of power generated being shared could also be explored. Even storage dams could be set up or presents dams modified to allow storage
(in Indian Kashmir) with the understanding that the bulk of that storage will be used to create a buffer for Pakistan in the lean months to buttress Pakistan's own storage.
if Pakistan wants something to done on Siachen
(only emotional reasons exist), Pakistan will have to put up an equivalent part on its side, all the way to K2 in some sort of joint administered mechanism, effectively creating a large buffer of joint control.
The same principle can also be use in specific areas close to the LoC where Pakistanis might have an interest being balanced with Indian access to an equivalent portion, either adjoining the Indian part of interest to Pakistan or elsewhere along the LoC where India has an interest. Mountaineering expeditions can be allowed to either side of the LoC on prepared points. and controlled tourism
(at least initially) be opened up on either side of the LoC with foreigners being allowed to cross the LoC easily without having to go on a roundabout route. Indian & Pakistani tourists can slowly follow suit. Once trust is built up & the situation of militancy in Pakistan having improved, we can move to more soft borders and have more joint programs based on the trust created.
