[Reader-list] Trespassers in Kashmir?

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Inde,
      r there are enough villages in rest of India where the poor can not build the graves in grand style, would you say the same azaadi for these villages also from misrule of oldest party in power. ? These graves also are just mudheaps, after some time merge with earth. If good governance is lacking thanks to "secular" style of the system where discrimination is the name of the game, based on caste and faith, is it not a fit case for aaadi from the sycophants party in rule. ?

Regards. 

----- Original Message -----
From: inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 12:57 am
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Trespassers in Kashmir?
To: reader-list at sarai.net

> 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 
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