[Reader-list] Trespassers in Kashmir?

[inder salim]

Dear Aditya

let us read it again, what this sexy old man writes:

"Every village in the Valley has its quota of unmarked graves. How
> long can this be allowed to go on? Give the Valley azadi it wants. .... put an end to this sorry state of affairs."

Yes, it is all sad that Indian militrary presence in Kashmir has
produced graves and disappearances, how long this will go,
so it is better, to give them the azadi, Roughly this is what
Arundhati Roy  too said...



yes, i am not in favour of a kashmiri army at Lakah pur with guns in
their hands..... the police in the present form is enough....


 so, grant every kind of automony to them, this pain should comes to
an immediate end.

with love
is


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Trespassers in Kashmir?
> *Khushwant Singh<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/Search.aspx?q=Khushwant%20Singh&nodate=1>
> *
>  September 19, 2008
>
> I have yet to hear a Kashmiri Muslim describe himself as Indian. It was, and
> is to this day: "I am a Kashmiri." Perhaps among the exceptions are Sheikh
> Abdullah, his son Farooq and grandson Omar. Right from 1947, whenever India
> played cricket matches against Pakistan, Kashmiri Muslims supported
> Pakistan. If you don't believe me, read Basharat Peer's Curfewed Night
> (Random House). Don't dismiss this as a trivial aberration because it does
> reveal the Kashmiri Muslim's mindset. Now it has been revealed for all to
> see.
>
> They want us, Indians, out of the Valley. They may or may not throw in their
> lot with chronically unstable Pakistan. But have the leaders demanding azadi
> from India considered the consequences that may follow our getting out of
> the Valley? The language they use to rouse the rabble indicates they
> haven't. And that applies to leaders of all the separatist factions.
>
> The most serious consequences of *azadi* will be the exodus of non-Muslims —
> Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs — from the Valley. Don't accept their assurances
> that it will not happen. It happened when Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley
> in large numbers because they felt insecure. Mohammad Ali Jinnah and
> Jawaharlal Nehru gave us similar assurances preceding the
> Partition.
>
> If and when Hindus and Sikhs are pushed out of the Valley, right-wing Hindu
> groups, extending from the RSS, the VHP, the Shiv Sena, the Bajrang Dal to
> the BJP will press for the expulsion of Muslims from Jammu (where they are
> in majority in two tehsils) and elsewhere. The Valley's only commercial
> outlets and tourism is linked to India. There is not a hotel in the country
> that does not have a shop selling Kashmiri handicrafts, carpets and shawls.
> Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims work as labourers in Indian towns and cities.
> Will not their future be jeopardised by the call for azadi? If there is the
> slightest risk of starting mass migrations, we must reject it, come what
> may.
>
> The situation has been going out of hand since 1990. Basharat Peer tells us
> that ever since, thousands of Kashmiris have crossed over to Pakistan to get
> military training and arms and sneaked back into the Valley to create mayhem
> and murder.
>
> The locals give them shelter and food.
>
> The only response India could make was to send in more troops, impose severe
> restraints on the locals and kill those they thought were anti-Indian
> militants. Every village in the Valley has its quota of unmarked graves. How
> long can this be allowed to go on? Give the Valley azadi it wants. But spell
> it out to mean only internal autonomy to manage its affairs. No more. India
> must retain its military presence to guard its frontiers against intruders.
> But at all costs, put an end to this sorry state of affairs.
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