The Saffron Autumn

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How many more Kashmiris have to die before their valley is peaceful.
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Great question. Why not take a little tour of Pakistan, Britain and the Gulf states and ask this question? Why not meet some of the people who are raising $100M US PER YEAR for training ``freedom fighters``?

Please ask them: when a grenade is thrown in a kashmiri market and a 2 year-old is killed, is that freedom struggle? Please ask them how the murders of families of legislators, policeman and innocent bystanders is a form of freedom struggle?

Please ask: when 10 pilgrims are killed within Raghunath mandir, is that freedom struggle? Please ask them: when a community colludes in ethnic cleansing its minorities in Gujarat, it is called murder and genocide --- but when the same happens in Kashmir for the last 15 years, how is it a form of freedom struggle?

Good luck with your trip. Let me know if you need some funds. My advice would be purchase a bullet-proof vest and a good life insurance policy first.

Make love not war.....

For 50 Plus years we Desis have been used against one another.

Maybe, just maybe things are about to change.

Keep hoping.......


Ras

Just curious, about something, perhaps the author can shed some light. The Taliban`s regime granted no civic rights and ran zero growth economy, invited an alien army and foreign fighters to fight a civil war against fellow Afghans, while Saddam during his rule caused the deaths of a million-odd Iraqis in war and genocide. Still, some Kashmiris inspite of suffering under `oppression` took out demonstrations in support of both brutal regimes - which is rather puzzling.

stuka

``But how many Pakistanis have to die before they realize that we will not give up Kashmir``

......... that doesn`t sound a whole lot different from what a wild-eyed jihadi might say ......... you guys deserve each other ......

Typical Paki romanticism of Jihad.

This is the punch line..

``How many more Kashmiris have to die before their valley is peaceful.``

Answer: None. If they want to live in peace, they are welcome to.

But how many Pakistanis have to die before they realize that we will not give up Kashmir. How many Mullahs of the Lashkar e Tayyaba and the Hizbul Mujahideen need to die before they gove up on global jihad?

Do the Pakistanis need more reminders of how the throats of their co-nationalists were slit by Afghans after the fall of the Taliban to realize that they should mind their own business? Or maybe some random bombins in Karachi?

Cry for Pakistan before you start crying for Kashmir. Or you will cry for both.

Asif; you`ve got some great ideas but you need to develop them; things are moving too rapidly to register with the reader. The story needs to be fleshed out.

Aamir