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Does Kashmir belong to India?
Does Kashmir belong to Pakistan?
……………..Kashmir conflict remained a burning issue in the sub-continent since Independence and no solution has come out…nor any such possibility in near future. India claims the entire former Dogra princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and presently administers approximately 43% of the region including most of Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and the Siachen Glacier. India's claim is contested by Pakistan which controls approximately 37% of Kashmir, mainly Azad Kashmir and the northern areas of Gilgit and Baltistan. In addition, China controls 20% of Kashmir including Aksai Chin which it occupied following the brief Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Trans-Karakoram Tract, also known as the Shaksam Valley, that was ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963.
What will be the proper solution for Kashmir issue in your opinion? For years we are being told Kashmir is an inseparable part of India only to be surprised knowing our Government does not have control over more than 50% of this region. What map of our country we kept on drawing in Geography classes is severely dented by Pakistan and China. What is Indian Government doing? It failed to recover the region occupied by Pakistan and China but keeps on muttering “Kashmir is an inseparable …….”. Is sixty years not enough to come to a conclusion?
Before posting on this thread we should go through the history of the conflict once again……….
99% of the population was Muslim in the area prhesently occupied by Pakistan, around 70% was Muslim in Kashmir valley , majority of the population in Ladakh and Jammu is Hindu and Buddhist.
In 1947 people in Poonch,Mirpur and Muzaffarabad revolted against the Maharaja of Kashmir and Pro-Pakistan chieftains of these area declared independence from the princely state and announce the provisional “Azad” Jammu and Kashmir government in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pashtuns from Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province , backed by Pakistan Army tried to occupy Kashmir valley forcing the Maharaja (who was still hesitating whether to join India or not) to seek Indian help by signing the Instrument of Accession. Indian troops entered Kashmir and drove away the intruders from Kashmir except a narrow strip still occupied by Pakistan.
In 1962 after a brief armed confrontation China captured sparsely populated Aksai-Chin region blatantly violating the agreement made between Tibet and British Gvt in India.
Secular India does not support ‘Two Nation Theory” propagated by the founders of Pakistan and can not hand over Kashmir valley to Pakistan just because majority of population is Muslim. Ladakh and Jammu is out of question.
Should India use its military muscles to reoccupy the land it believes belong to India?
Should India leave it upon the Kashmiries to decide through vote.(You can be sure India will have no problem in Ladakh and Jammu but result in kashmir valley will remain unpredictable. On the other hand People in POK clearly vote against India.)
What would be Indian policy for Aksai-Chin occupied by mighty China?
You say..............
Does Kashmir belong to Pakistan?
……………..Kashmir conflict remained a burning issue in the sub-continent since Independence and no solution has come out…nor any such possibility in near future. India claims the entire former Dogra princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and presently administers approximately 43% of the region including most of Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and the Siachen Glacier. India's claim is contested by Pakistan which controls approximately 37% of Kashmir, mainly Azad Kashmir and the northern areas of Gilgit and Baltistan. In addition, China controls 20% of Kashmir including Aksai Chin which it occupied following the brief Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Trans-Karakoram Tract, also known as the Shaksam Valley, that was ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963.
What will be the proper solution for Kashmir issue in your opinion? For years we are being told Kashmir is an inseparable part of India only to be surprised knowing our Government does not have control over more than 50% of this region. What map of our country we kept on drawing in Geography classes is severely dented by Pakistan and China. What is Indian Government doing? It failed to recover the region occupied by Pakistan and China but keeps on muttering “Kashmir is an inseparable …….”. Is sixty years not enough to come to a conclusion?
Before posting on this thread we should go through the history of the conflict once again……….
99% of the population was Muslim in the area prhesently occupied by Pakistan, around 70% was Muslim in Kashmir valley , majority of the population in Ladakh and Jammu is Hindu and Buddhist.
In 1947 people in Poonch,Mirpur and Muzaffarabad revolted against the Maharaja of Kashmir and Pro-Pakistan chieftains of these area declared independence from the princely state and announce the provisional “Azad” Jammu and Kashmir government in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pashtuns from Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province , backed by Pakistan Army tried to occupy Kashmir valley forcing the Maharaja (who was still hesitating whether to join India or not) to seek Indian help by signing the Instrument of Accession. Indian troops entered Kashmir and drove away the intruders from Kashmir except a narrow strip still occupied by Pakistan.
In 1962 after a brief armed confrontation China captured sparsely populated Aksai-Chin region blatantly violating the agreement made between Tibet and British Gvt in India.
Secular India does not support ‘Two Nation Theory” propagated by the founders of Pakistan and can not hand over Kashmir valley to Pakistan just because majority of population is Muslim. Ladakh and Jammu is out of question.
Should India use its military muscles to reoccupy the land it believes belong to India?
Should India leave it upon the Kashmiries to decide through vote.(You can be sure India will have no problem in Ladakh and Jammu but result in kashmir valley will remain unpredictable. On the other hand People in POK clearly vote against India.)
What would be Indian policy for Aksai-Chin occupied by mighty China?
You say..............