Posted on Oct 12, 2019
Given the situation in the Kashmir Valley, do you feel there will ever be peace over this mountainous region?
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Post the Afghan war, terror outfits from Afghanistan were given safe haven in Pakistan. Pakistan, since independence, has grabbed parts of Kashmir from India and even traded a portion of the highest battleground, Siachen Glacier, with China. Having witnessed Pakistan land-grabbing successfully from India, in 1962, China grabbed the eastern flank of the Kashmir Valley (Aksai Chin) from India and then, overran Tibet exiling the Dalai Lama and his followers to India. Then, Pakistan began infiltrating Kashmir with terror outfits and causing unrest, disrupting daily lives, executing attacks for mass casualties and much more. The Sepratists ruling the Kashmir Valley autonomously at the time enjoyed filling their coffers from both sides of the Line of Control (LOC), so they financially supported terror in Valley. Today, the autonomy in the Valley has been erased, Sepratists are in jail and other political leaders are under house arrest temporarily. India's move on Indian soil has caused Pakistan to beg the international community to interfere in India's decision of the inclusion of the Valley into the mainstream as territories of India. The international community has disapproved Pakistan's request. Pakistan has then threatened nuclear war, which has received a befitting response from India. Only President Trump has offered to arbitrate, if both nations ask him to do so. Modi has told Trump that Kashmir issue is an internal matter of India. In two separate encounters, three terrorists were neutralized in the Valley and another three out of five were killed with the rest captured, interrogated, and jailed. These foot soldiers are of Jaish Mohammed terror group that operates from within Pakistan.
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Please Sir, they have been fighting in that area since Abraham got religion and moved.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
The age of Abraham can't compare to the Indo-Pak Wars, because there was no Kashmir in early Biblical times. HAHAHA!
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It’s a mess. Another fine problem created by the Brits as their empire contracted.
CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
Although the rising anti-colonial protests across India and the rapidly draining treasury of the British Raj eventually forced these colonists to leave India. However, prior to leaving India, in a very haphazard manner, at the insistence of Mohammed All Jinnah for the Muslim League, drew incomplete boundaries; imaginary lines in the sand and gave them names after a Brit to help India in history. Jinnah wanted the entire Punjab, but only got half of it. Jinnah wanted Kashmir, which then had been, under a Letter of Accession, entrusted to India by its Maharaj Hari Singh through Lord Mountbattan. Maj Timothy Robertson, Mohammed All Jinnah didn't get what the Muslim League had demanded through Jinnah; the new Pakistan got two arms of India, but couldn't grab the Crown of India. The loss eventually led Pakistan to lose three wars to India and now, Imran Khan is threatening a fourth with nuclear weapons on the international stage; why?
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CPT Lawrence Cable
CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana - I'm not a fan of Pakistan, but I will point out that the Letter of Accession was not a particularly democratic agreement and Singh, a Hindu, apparently signed the agreement to get India's aid against the Pashtun invasion that had decimated his security forces. Now I will agree that the public sentiment in the Kashmir at the time of partition would probably have supported the annexation by India, but that support eroded after decades of warfare, which also displaced most of the original Hindu populations.
Why is Khan threatening to use nuclear weapons? Could it be that his military has taken an ass beating every time they engaged India in a conventional war?. I give India credit for having a relatively modern military and a martial history that goes back centuries.
Why is Khan threatening to use nuclear weapons? Could it be that his military has taken an ass beating every time they engaged India in a conventional war?. I give India credit for having a relatively modern military and a martial history that goes back centuries.
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Personally, I think they've gone well beyond the point of no return, I think if peace is to happen, it will take two generations from now to fix it. Just my thought though.
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