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

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

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Aditya Raj Kaul (One among lacs of J&K Citizens who are proud to be Indian)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Aditya Raj Baul <adityarajbaul at gmail.com>wrote:

> did the survey find 'any' majority for Indian rule?
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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