10-09-2005, 10:57 AM
Read Left or so called Seculars of India thinking on J&K.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Irfan Husain makes sense.
If I can describe the Kashmir problem briefly, I can do it in one word: it is "unsolvable".
Pakistan has indeed paid an enormous price for its Kashmir. But sohas India.
<b>If I were Jawahar Lal Nehru, and if I could foresee the grief Kashmir will bring to India, I would have let Kashmir go, even though it was the land of my ancestors.</b>
But Nehru was building a new nation, it was his job to create the greatest nation he could, while he that risks are involved.
<b>There is one people who have paid the most for Kashmir problem: the Indian Muslims.</b> A large part of the distrust between Hindus and Muslims in India, is due to 2-nation theory promoted by Pakistan, and Pakistan's relentless pursuit of Kashmir. Muslims have become isolated in India, their economic and educational staus has become comparable to the poorest sections of the Indian society.
The only way Kashmir problem can be solved is that either Pakistan or India crumble and weaken due to some unforessen problems, and the other nation takes Kashmir. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
There is a remote chance that India may agree to a largely independent Kashmir, but only if it can be assured that it will be secular. However it is unlikely that Pakistan will accept an independent Kashmir, it would geographically extremely close to Islamabad.
Thus Irfan Husain's suggestions do look appropriate.
Yashwant<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Irfan Husain makes sense.
If I can describe the Kashmir problem briefly, I can do it in one word: it is "unsolvable".
Pakistan has indeed paid an enormous price for its Kashmir. But sohas India.
<b>If I were Jawahar Lal Nehru, and if I could foresee the grief Kashmir will bring to India, I would have let Kashmir go, even though it was the land of my ancestors.</b>
But Nehru was building a new nation, it was his job to create the greatest nation he could, while he that risks are involved.
<b>There is one people who have paid the most for Kashmir problem: the Indian Muslims.</b> A large part of the distrust between Hindus and Muslims in India, is due to 2-nation theory promoted by Pakistan, and Pakistan's relentless pursuit of Kashmir. Muslims have become isolated in India, their economic and educational staus has become comparable to the poorest sections of the Indian society.
The only way Kashmir problem can be solved is that either Pakistan or India crumble and weaken due to some unforessen problems, and the other nation takes Kashmir. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
There is a remote chance that India may agree to a largely independent Kashmir, but only if it can be assured that it will be secular. However it is unlikely that Pakistan will accept an independent Kashmir, it would geographically extremely close to Islamabad.
Thus Irfan Husain's suggestions do look appropriate.
Yashwant<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->