Massive quakes have struck the Jammu and Kashmir landscape. Lives and property have been lost on both sides of the border. An already suffering people are tested yet again by the forces beyond human control.
As of writing this post, atleast 19,000 people were declared dead in Pakistan. Such a massive scale of death and destruction in the Indian subcontinent soon after the Tsunami that took its toll is disheartening.
Somehow the people of that beautiful piece of land have had lots of bad luck all these decades. Starting with partition, wars, violence and terrorism and now this. Its interesting that before today, all destruction were man-made. Man started them, so its up to man to end them.
The violence should stop now. It must. The people have had enough. Whatever grudges they have, we should find someother way to solving them.
The foreigners pumped into JnK must be asked to back-off. This moral, social and diplomatic support extended from across the border must stop. The JnK leadership, both the elected and self-proclaimed one's, should say enough is enough. Its now our problem. People of AJK and JnK would decide respectively with their own governments.
External threats bring about internal unity. This has happened before when terror struck London and the IRA responded. China struck India and the DK responded.
Now a quake has struck JnK-AJK. Who is going to respond ?
13 comments:
Seems like you are in a hot mood buddy! haha! hmm I agree that this violence should stop atleast now that so many people have already died. Ultimately it is survival that counts not national integrity. If only we realize this we wouldnt have international borders or armies.
That would come about robbie. But for the whole world to go beyond borders and nationalism...it would be atleast another 100yrs. Or if there comes by an "external" threat, a threat from outer space !!
The toll now according to Sun TV is 30,000. India has expressed its willingness to help Pakistan as the PoK is the worst affected. This is a good step forward in Indo-Pak relationship.
When we take a 15000 feet view of history, we will realize that 50 years of Kashmir problem is a small period.
Even though smaller states/countries are easier to govern, in the globalized world it makes sense to be part of a bigger entity. In years to come, India might teamup with China, Russia, Mongolia to form another Asian Union. Like the countries in Europe, Kashmir even if it becomes an independent nation will want to be part of the big union for economic reasons. And all the borders and country state concept will evaporate just like in Europe...
Eshwar,
I think 'status quo' is the only solution to the Kashmir problem. It's impossible for India to retrieve PoK from Pak or Pak retrieving IoK from India or worse China returning Aksai Chin to India/Pakistan.
'Status quo' doesnt hurt any country's ego, hopefully better sense prevails among all the parties rather than indulge in pointless agression for land.
Imagine if Kashmir has oil-wells, then even USA will stake a claim on Kashmir, promising to mediate a solution!
Karthik...I agree. I suppose what EU is doing today is what India acheived in 1947 (partially). Next step would be SAARC. About AU, hmm...lets see.
Sancho...oil wells in JnK !? Wow ! that would solve the problem in a flash. No prizes for guessing who would annex JnK !!!
NO1, ppl ll suffer, the violence ll go on
AJK????? its POK!!!
Anonym...India calls it JnK and Pak calls it IOK.
India calls it POK and Pak calls it AJK.
So for IOK I have used JnK. And for POK I have used AJK. Fair enough.
Eshwar,
How come you missed out on the immediate, unconditional hand of help that India has extended to them ?
Robbie,
Thats where we all came from - no borders, except that drawn by nature.
We all need to have a home-coming ;)
Arvi...duly acknowledged. But would it not be good if the other side also accepted it with open arms ?? I suppose trust is something that cant be built that easily. Pak would rather allow western nations choppers to fly around than allow indian choppers.
We still have a long way to go.
Karthik...if we plan too far ahead into the future, we could end of screwing up the present. So lets not be over-zealous.
well written..like a bob dylan song goes the solution my friend is blowing in the wind..the LoC must be converted into the international border.
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