I feel on similar lines, Congress even with incompetence was able to keep Kashmir issue dead, even when it was by paying Hurriyet and Pakistan, tough in long run it was real bad for India but in short term it made Kashmir issue irrelevant.
What about 2010? Check for the disturbances and casualties then. This isn't a black & white, open and shut case. Kashmir is a dormant volcano and we're still in the process of nation building consolidation and pacification. Our notions of nation building along Gandhian principles of Ahinsa were chucked out long ago around the time we achieved independence by the Nehru Patel duo. The only ones who think otherwise are the Leftists and the Fiberals for their own motives.
Yaseen Malik is today being hauled before a CBI court for crimes committed in the early 90's.May I ask what prevented previous administrations from doing so? Yet see the adulation he enjoys among Lutyens Mafia today. Look at the Mirwaiz who's father was killed by Pakistan backed terrorists and compare it with what he did later. Hobnobbed with his fathers assasins and is still doing so after nearly 3 decades.At least Sajjad Lone is cut from a different cloth.
If Sajjan Kumar has been convicted today a full 36 years after the Sikh massacres, why didn't any GoI in Delhi think of doing so earlier? And this for a rank and certified coward like Malik, who facing extermination chose self preservation, surrender and tried to sugar coat it in typical Kashmiri style as appealing to India's Gandhian conscience - duly lapped up by Leftist and Fiberal scum in MSM, by opposing Delhi with non violent means. When the PDP - BJP govt there declared their intent of re setling Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, he threatened retaliation.Whom is he fooling?
On Kashmir day ISPR motivates local news channels to discuss Kashmir, almost every anchor on that had a retired military personnel telling about Kashmir and all that but they were incredibly sad that issue is dead and not picking up heat. They use to conduct interviews of Pakistani public and nobody was showing any interest in Kashmir beside the usual bla bla bla.
But a change occur after BJP came to power and started taking tough tone w.r.t to Pakistan and Kashmir, it may not have changed ground realities but Pakistanis felt disrespected and also a grudge against Modi made Kashmir a topic of debate every other day in Pakistan. Then came Raheel Sharif and he invested a lot in Kashmir by regular speeches, cfv and terrorist attacks. He was able to make Kashmir hot, combined with our own BJP government.
The change occured for a precise reason. The co alition of two opposite poles namely the PDP & the BJP whom every MSM in Kashmir and Jammu , if I may add & the rest of India , every local party including cadres of the two and most of the recognised national parties in India wanted rendered unsuccessful & humiliated. This is our story. Do I need to tell you what Pakistan wanted?
The fact of the matter is by encouraging and engaging soft separatistism like tolerating the Hurriyat, turning a blind eye to their interactions with the international community particularly the Pakistanis, by facilitating their visits abroad to raise and further the Kashmir issue, we've encouraged them.
How long would this continue and what's the signal we're sending across to our CAPF's and the IA? What's the signal we're sending to other separatist movements in India? After all this isn't the only separatist movement on. What's the signal we're sending across to the rest of the world? Most importantly what's the signal we're sending out to Pakistan? Don't you think course correction was needed? If 7-8 million Kashmiris can hold a nation of 1.25 billion to ransom, God Forbid, what do we do if tomm the Jats decide to secede or the Ahirs or say an ethno linguistic group like the Tamils?
I say we've been too soft on them for too long. Clamp down on them, read the riot act and pin them under the jackboot. The world over that's how insurgencies were extinguished. We need to adapt ourselves to our age as well , which is where hybrid solutions are called for too. But this notion of forever being defensive and proving our credentials as a democratic and liberal regime - time & again, in the face of external sponsored terrorism, is to mind too much.
We've the example of Punjab before us. We've Xinjiang and Tibet too. Forget these and look at Pakistan quelling such unrest in FATA / KPK since the days of the ANP under Baadshah Khan or the Baloch resistance.
So for Pakistan BJP presented an opportunity to radicalize Kashmiris on lines of Islam and Hindu vs Muslim and make it international topic, thanks to our motor mouth ministers top to bottom they just made it worst and it became headline of everyday.
I think you're getting carried away. I quoted Najam Sethi to present his PoV not to uphold his view. His is a defeated man's argument. He also claimed in that interview that after what happened on 27th Feb, Pakistan enjoyed more support and great esteem in the world. Do you share his view?
Kashmiris can be radicalised all they want. They want to meet their maker. IA and the CAPF's will arrange it. As far as the JeI in Kashmir goes, they'd get their long overdue reward too. Let's not sound like UndyTV by giving little known ministers amplification of their views and thereby respectability.
Then we let social media unregulated in Kashmir which helped in creating Burhan Wani, the killing of whom provided a massive propaganda value and most of that propaganda was done by Indians, starting with Barkha Dutt who washed all his sins and then left parties notorious for their love with violence and terrorism kept that issue alive.
Create an alternative narrative. For every Barkha, unleash 10 Arnab ( Find local ones) and Kukka Parrays in Kashmir. More importantly find such gems, hone them, nurture them and protect them. Don't do to them what you did to Kukka Parray.
For every Burhan Wani there's an Aurangzeb. What did we do to further his narrative and sacrifice?
On the one hand you decry UndyTV. Next you despair at their coverage and what's worse sub consciously believe in it as well. This woman is the same one who justified KP genocide by declaring that they cornered all the prime jobs in the Government, were generally well off as compared to the Kashmiri Muslim and what's more were seen as collaborationists. Hence their fate was justified. Do we deduce that hard work, law abidement, thrift and industriousness among the citizenry are undesirable traits?
This is exactly the reasoning the Communists with hindu names used to justify the genocide of the Bengali Hindus in the then East Pakistan. Including that old fart Joe Shearer whose family got their due Pondy tike lath, only for him to repeat these tired and perverted strains out here couched in the safety of our land. What prevented them from staying back and reciting the Shahada? This includes the madam of Radia tape infamy - a Mohyal brahmin from across the LoC.Would have saved the Oxygen they breathe here that some worthy Indian citizen true to his salt could consume and productively utilize.
Aren't you lending credence to their perverted theory by believing it?
Indian express facebook cover pic and endless articles daily on how we are losing Kashmir and how a greatest ever freedom fighter was killed in cold blood and what not. An information war was unleashed on us exaggerating things many many folds and in all this both our government and security agencies did nothing. Only RW trolls tried countering that propaganda on social media, it was spectacular failure.
Please refer above.
Snakes were organizing students protests in JNU and other universities to "highlight" imaginary rapes/killings by Indian security forces and our goverment did nothing. When they did tried to crack down another spectacular idiot Rahul Gandhi went to support such anti national activities without even knowing what he is walking into.
Immaterial and irrelevant. Mainland India is strongly opposed to terrorism and separatism in Kashmir, MSM esp JNU inspired ones notwithstanding.
Rest is history then, country got divided, manipulated, agitated, always angry, both sides. I was a Pakistan watcher, use to keep a close eye on Pakistan on daily news and what's happening and I saw this in real time, Kashmir, from complete irrelevance frustrating Pakistani military thinkers to Nuclear flash point. Pakistan played her cards very well and we walked right into it most of the time.
Whom to blame? Decide yourself.
Pakistan is waging a lonely war. These are battles in the war of attrition. We need to get out act together. Pakistan has done all including thrown the kitchen sink at in the past 3 decades. Pls compare the situation in Kashmir today to what it was in the early 90's when the terrorists were running riot there and everyone thought it was a matter of time before India called it quits.
The narrative of Pakistan is discredited, defeated and lies buried. You can resurrect it at your own peril. Let's not emulate Lutyens and their pimps - the Congress and the Left and cut our nose to spite our face.
You don't 'deploy' at Port.
I was focusing on the wrong structure the whole time.
