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Including Congress Governments?

You haven't ever shied away from using them anyway.

Now Guardian isn't a reliable source?

So they don't speak Kashmiri? I didn't know. I do realize that they have a very small part of Kashmir but didn't know about the language.

Everyone will stick to their narrative. I suspect @Waz maybe of Kashmiri heritage from the PoK side. Can't begrudge him his thoughts and ideas.

Of course. No disagreement

I agree. Although Aksai Chin is a completely different story. It's up the alley of the history encyclopedia @Joe Shearer . From what I understand, it was never under anyone's control but just marked by both British India and China as part of their respective countries. China just occupied it in...

My friend, I am not the moral police. I gave a credible link. If you have made up your mind beforehand, there isn't much I can do. I have enough Kashmiri Muslim friends who have given me first hand info. I have Kashmiri Pandit friends who have also given me first hand info. There is enough...

I don't see an end to a theological debate. Whether ethnic Kashmiris converted to Islam out of free will or were forced to do so can be debated till the cows come home. Do ALL ethnic Kashmiris have a right to it? This includes Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs? Of course. Theological debates carry too...

Search for the wiki leaks cable. Or don't.

Seriously? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/16/wikileaks-cables-indian-torture-kashmir

But now with end of Article 370 and 35A - hopefully Kashmir will economically begin doing well. https://housing.com/in/buy/srinagar/house-srinagar_1 From what I understand the real estate sector is booming. This will probably lead to a boom in the hospitality sector.

Yes but power without accountability has resulted in many human rights violations. We can't deny that, nor should we.

This simply isn't true. There have been multiple cases of human rights violations. Anywhere in the world if you put an Army in charge of a hostile civilian population, there will be violations. Now with social media and proliferation of cameras, this has come down. But speak to local Kashmiris...

Nope. They don't. Majority of South Asian Muslims live outside Pakistan.

"Let's not use Pandits here?" For the record, there were no troops patrolling the streets of J&K till 1989. That's what caused the Pandit exodus in the first place. Also it is a might Himalayan coincidence that the terrorism in Kashmir in 1989 began with the end of the Soviet occupation of...

When the troops weren't there, the Pandits were driven out of the Valley by rogue elements. Being coreligionists, didn't stop Pakistan from raping, murdering own citizens in East Pakistan. We don't consider ethnic Pakistanis and ethnic Kashmiris have anything in common. It's not as if...

China has 2 parts of Kashmir - 1. which it occupied in 1962 during the war with India - Aksai Chin region 2. Saksham Valley whose claim was given up by Pakistan in 1963. I am not sure if it was indeed under Pak control at any point - some Pakistani member can shed light on this. India is...

According to the Indian Independence Act of the British Parliament which created the dominions of India and Pak, the rulers of Princely States were free to join either nation or remain independent. The Maharaja of Kashmir after an illegal invasion of Pakistan joined India and signed the Treaty...