Righting the Wrongs in Ladakh-Baltistan

Ismail Khan Sahib,
Thank you for a very informative article about the Northern Areas. I have always been fascinated by the spectacle of the world`s highest peaks all arranged in a semicircle in a theatrical display of awesome majesty. One day I hope to travel there and see it for myself. Inshallah, your hope of peace in the mountains and glaciers will come true. I do regret the loss of Aksai Chin and Shaksgram to a nation that has no real attachment to the area. When will India and Pakistan appreciate their common heritage and stop losing ground to outsiders?

Hamid mian

(i mean let`s inter-marry, )

There was a Hollywood movie sometime back where they ask a drunk Presi candidate his solution for the race problem, his reply I believe was ``Lets F*** each other till we are of the colour``

(gilgitis and baltis might be backward and simple, but they are about as partiotic an paki can get without actually going out and killing a hindoo to prove his credentials )

However when a gilgiti and balti does get killed killing Hanuds, his corpse is let to rot on the mountains.

Regards

I consider this to be an extremely well-written article, and for some one like me based in Mumbai it has been very instructive. I have learnt a lot from the interacts too.

I should think that the author has made very sincere proposals based on eminently sound and acceptance-worthy grounds. One hopes that the policy-makers on both sides decide and act fast. The direction is clear but it is only a matter of time. Elements prone to resort to terrorism/violence should abdicate their mentality. If there is peace in the region, the Berlin-Wall will have to come down soon.

--V.S.Gopalakrishnan

By the way, the article should have commenced with, perhaps, ``In July 2005`` and not July 2006.
--V.S.Gopalakrishnan