[Reader-list] KASHMIR SURVEY FINDS NO MAJORITY FOR INDEPENDENCE

[Samvit]

Inder,
can you stop repeating the same paragraph again and again. I do not
understand what kind of behavior this is. You are making a mockery of this
forum. You have every right to put forth your views and contradict others
but that does not mean you stoop to such levels that you have to send spam.
This kind of behavior is very juvenile.
-SR

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
> In the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, which has been at the heart of a
> > 20-year-old insurgency against Indian rule, between 74 percent and 95
> > percent respondents favoured independent Kashmir.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i_ynr0-yXCshxv0x802hR9DLu
> > 4fA
> >
> > (AFP) - May 27, 2010
> >
> > SRINAGAR, India - Less than half of residents in both the Indian and
> > Pakistani zones of Kashmir favour independence as a solution to end
> unrest
> > in the disputed Himalayan region, a survey said Thursday.
> >
> > Conducted by British academic Robert Bradnock, the independent survey
> found
> > that 44 percent of people in Pakistani-administered Kashmir favour
> > independence, and 43 percent in Indian-administered Kashmir.
> >
> > United Nations resolutions soon after the partition of the sub-continent
> in
> > 1947 called for a plebiscite to determine whether the region should
> belong
> > to India or Pakistan, both of which claim Kashmir in full.
> >
> > "These results support the already widespread view that the plebiscite
> > options are likely to offer no solution to the dispute," said the survey,
> > which was released by the London-based Chatham House think-tank.
> >
> > Titled "Kashmir: Paths to Peace", it was a rare attempt to assess the
> > opinions of people on both sides of the Line of Control (LOC) -- the de
> > facto border that splits the region between the two rival nations.
> >
> > "Any solution will depend on the Indian and Pakistani governments?
> > commitment to achieving a permanent settlement," Bradnock said.
> > The survey interviewed about 3,800 people to record their views on how
> they
> > saw the future of Kashmir -- a scenic region that has been a constant
> source
> > of tension between India and Pakistan.
> >
> >
> >
> > But in the Hindu-dominated Jammu region -- which is also part of Indian
> > Kashmir -- support for independence dwindled to less than one percent.
> > The survey found that the "overwhelming majority" of people wanted a
> > solution to the dispute, even though there were no "simple fixes".
> > More than 47,000 people have died in Indian Kashmir since the eruption of
> > the insurgency in 1989.
> >
> > India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, but
> a
> > recent peace process has brought a reduction in violence.
> >
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