Pakistan wouldn’t let India be a friend in need



I have a few questions for Pakistan’s elected rulers. Why have they let pass the “tragic opportunity” of floods that uprooted millions across that country— rather than using it to create bonding between our people and building trust between governments?

Why are they averse to Pakistanis breaking the Indian bread in their hour of need? Or what made them ask New Delhi route assistance (US $ 25 million) through the UN rather than sending it directly to Islamabad? Our PM called theirs. Foreign Minister S M Krishna spoke to Pak counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi. But they remained cussed. Unresponsive.

Imponderable of India-Pak relations mired in deep hostility. That’s what it looked to me.

The hurt was all the more unbearable when one saw Pak TV channels beaming footage of planes-load of relief material arriving from Vietnam, Turkey, China, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The irony was lost completely on the Pak media, its rulers and even the bureaucracy. How much easier would it have been to let trucks full of vegetables, wheat, sugar, medicines, tents, blankets and other such relief driven into Pakistan from India via the Wagah check-post.

Barring stray voices, the point got lost in the Pakistani talking space controlled by India baiters. The Pak Mission in New Delhi had no instructions on how or whether to accept relief offers even from common citizens and voluntary groups.

Having agreed at Thimpu to find ways to build trust between our two countries, will Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani explain why his government failed the peace agenda by keeping people apart in this hour of crisis? Can he think of a better confidence building measure than Islamabad and New Delhi together serving the flood victims— taking them as citizens of South Asia?

I am certain these questions will never fetch a considered response. The malaise lies in misplaced national pride that in Pakistan is driven by the baggage of history, the establishment’s militarist mindset and the political myopia of right-wing parties.

They don’t mind celebrating Anjelina Jolie as the face of UN’s appeal for the flood affected. But they have problems accepting money raised by Indian NGOs and peace activists who could have enlisted similar support from Bollywood stars with huge fan following in Pakistan.

Responding to my mubarak message on Eid, Pak television anchor Hamid Mir wrote back asking: “I’ve had many from India greeting me this year. Is it the impact of Indo-Pak unity on the tennis field (read the US Open where Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Qureshi captured headlines by reaching the double’s final)?”

Yes and no, I thought. It has less to do with tennis and more with the devastation wrought by floods. Listen to India’s heartbeat Hamid and play it loud on your channel. Or else there wouldn’t be any asha for aman.

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  • vijay kumar

    I think it was a marvellous gesture on India’s part to give USD 25 million to Pakistan as flood relief.
    Maybe it does not suit Pakistan to publicly acknowledge this. It still need an “enemy’ image of India to justify its existence.

    THe reasonable voices of civil society should openly acknowledge and thank India, as well as tell the rulers that there is no shame in taking help from a neighbour which is doing well and is also willing to help.

    From some postings of Pakistanis like Azhar and Sal on this blog, I can make out that they are told time and again that India is poor and in tatters. Taking help as well as acknowledging help would make the story about India’s poverty look like lies!!

    There could also be fears that that the Taliban and Lashakrs would make this a political issue.

    But then, if the rulers and the concerned citizens cannot speak out loud in their own country, is it not an extraordinary situation?

    Like a poet said, the price of cowardice is death….

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Vijay;
    even if people in pakistan think that India is poor and in tatters, offering of this nature should have been appreciated much more. For example, if a glutton throws few morsel and and a poor person sharing his bread are not equal. Poor person has done much more many times.
    This is what pakistanis should understand, if they can shed their false pride.

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    Anil Ruparelia Reply:

    Hey Imran…… Pakistan has been Internally instabilty since it’s inception as a nation. It has a fixation on India, rather then improving thier lives all they have done is wasted a big chunk of Pakistani budget, every year on arms, instead of taking care of it’s poplulace. And now , because of their own ISI they are being terrorized within. It’s a country whose existance has depended on foreign aids. It’s track record as a Nuclear state is worrysome.It’s a country whose destiny is shaped to fail because of the armed forces.

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    Sunny Reply:

    Correct, by not accepting the goodwill gesture of India, the rulers of Pakistan does not want to help themselves. Pakistan was built by deception, cruelity against the human kind, division of a holy land and killing of lakhs of innocent people. Innocent’s ghost and cries can still be heard on Pakistan’s grey skies. As said, God helps them, who help themselves.
    India should forget helping Pakistan at all in the future, see what muslims have done to our brothers & sisters in West Bengal.

    FM Reply:

    “Innocent’s ghost and cries can still be heard on Pakistan’s grey skies.”

    Wow thats quite a movie story line u have constructed. Are you always this delusional?

    Vinay Reply:

    I agree with the Indian government offering aid as a good will part. But when the Pak government refused to acknowledge and receive it, what was the need for India to go out of the way by UN route? We could have said ‘fine’ and kept the money for poverty programs in India. We don’t have to pester them to take our help. Next; why should we take its denial to acknowledge our help to our heart? First we pester them to take our help, then feel sad that they don’t acknowledge our help. Either way, we keep thinking about them (like a past affair). Can’t we get over it?

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    Rajiv Reply:

    @Azhar ,

    are you blind ? When the Pakistanis killed Hindus and Sikhs in hundreds and thousands and the state was reduced to a Islamic Republic that did not protect its minorities, thahts what forced 85-90% of Hindus and Sikhs to migrate.

    To summarize , India ( current territories , excluding west and east pakistan ) had about 47 million Muslims in 1947. Top estimates 1/2 million Muslims died in partition riots.
    That is 1% of the Muslim population of India in 1947.

    However, 1/2 million of 7 million population of Hindus and sikhs of West Pakistan that were killed, is about 7% of the West Pakistan population.
    So 7% of Hindus and sikhs were killed by w Pakistanis. Thats why 85%-90% of Hindus and sikhs fled. Things got only worse from there as the Pak state further degenarted into an Islamic Republic with uncivilized, anti-minority laws.

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  • Kalyani Kapur

    Why are we so hurt if Pakistan has refused the aid. There are other countries with worst condition than Pakistan for India to help. You can’t help a nation that refuses to help itself. That is the divine rule.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    Excellent point. However we are not guided by reason when dealing with Pakistan and often get sentimental and act in emotional ways.
    Thats why I think we need to get detached and see reason.

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    Piyush, Dubai Reply:

    Why are we so affected by Pakistan…….still. This country should be of no consequence to us except for bing treated as an irritant at the border and the policies of state should be directed by that fact. We have extended a hand of friendship to them many time but they have rebuffed it.

    The basis of existence of Pakistan is “animosity and hatred with India”. They cannot think beyond India and that too in negative terms. In fact we should just ignore Pakistan and if they irritate us, they should be strongly rebuffed.

    We should concentrate on our growth and should put in efforts to improve relations with neighbouring states other than Pakistan because this what they deserve. They deserve to be IGNORED, period.

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    Paritosh Reply:

    @ Rajiv
    you found my last sentence about killing Pakistanis very distasteful , but do you know , the kind of pacifist attitude you have , has resulted in the humiliating situation that our nation is today suffering from

    our leaders , Nehru and Atal were impractical morons who used to think same way as you do. ” they are our neighbours , lets not kill them”

    merely having a defensive outlook and strategy will not help India safegaurd its interests and safety. we need to got o the root of the problem and destroy it

    pacifism is not the right attitude especially when you are having an uncivilized andsavagely neighbor like Pakistan.

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    Paritosh Reply:

    typo-”uncivilized and savagely neighbor like Pakistan”

    Rajeev Reply:

    The population of Nortwest India (today’s pakistan) was around 30 million in 1947 out of which 25% were sikhs and hindus. If we do the calculation it comes out as 7.5 million out of which 5 million moved to India so what happened to rest of 2.5 million.

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Rajeev there are (1998 census) recorded 2,443,614 Hindus in Pakistan. You are right lots of Hindus have left but millions of Muslims left India as well for the same reason. Thousnds of them still keep coming and live illegally in Karachi with their relatives. Again you are going to go into percentage, ofcourse more of them still remain in India because of larger population base.

    But you as also have deviated from your initial claim, that Hindus were murdered and chased away. Around 1947 yes it did happen, and same happened on your side as well. But after the 50’s they might have left voluntariy but not murdered or chased away, as you claim.

    Rajeev Reply:

    But the fact remains what happened to 2.5 million hindus in 1947..where did they disappear. Why don’t you do simple math. In India muslim population was 10% at the time of partition and now it has come upto 14%. There is jump of 4% whereas in pakistan hindus-sikhs were 25% in 47 and now they are just 1.6% officially.

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Kalyani
    I disagree strongly. Pakistan is not just another country. It is our neighbour. If rehabilitation there is tardy or unavailable, it can have grave security implications for its security and consequently ours.

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  • Azhar Hussain

    Vijay you are right, our media should have highlighted India’s help as well. I for one think time has come for us to have the guts to highlight each others positive side, instead of just giggling at eac others short comings.

    Lets start on this forum, any takers?

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Vow Azhar;
    That is the spirit. Let us appreciate each others virtues. I know Pakistanis have fare share of them.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    Sometimes things have to deteriorate to the maximum , before recovery starts.

    In Pakistan’s relations and approach towards India, its hard to say when that bottom will come or if the bottom has already come and the other side has started digging.

    We will know only in retrospect.

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Paranoid Rajiv and Paritosh at it again.

    No substance in your arguments what so ever

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    Paritosh Reply:

    @ Azhar

    its not the fault of your media for not highlighting India’s generous help. its afterall Pakistani media.

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    Vinay Reply:

    Paritosh,
    What is the problem with you? For a change, this person is saying “let us stop fighting” and you immediately say “No. Let us keep on fighting, as we are used to”. Are you a fan of Sunny Deol?

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    Kushagra Reply:

    Don’t get me wrong I am not too sure if I can find anything positive to say about your country. I am really not interested in criticising Pakistan and its ok with me if you can’t find anything positive to say about India either as India has its own grey areas.

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Then what are you doing here?

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    Kushagra Reply:

    A simple thing that if I can’t find a single positive thing about your country then why should I praise it? At the same time just because I don’t have anything positive to say about your country I don’t wish to speak ill about your country. Hope you understand.

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    “Why have they let pass the “tragic opportunity” of floods that uprooted millions across that country— rather than using it to create bonding between our people and building trust between governments?”

    Mr Sharma expects Pakistanis to be as sincere as himself for promoting friendship between the two nations. this clearly reveals the extent to which Mr Sharma is deluded.

    such reprisals from other side of the border will surely make Mr Sharma wake from his dream of delusion.

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Aur kitna jeher (Poison) hain boss tumhare andar? Khatam hi nahi ho rahaa hai!

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  • http://- Rajeev

    Sharmaji,
    I request you to look into Deganga riots (west bengal) and educate us about the facts. I am requesting this from you as you have been recently selected in Minority commission.

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    Shiuli Reply:

    Yeah I second Rajeev on this, as I had posed the question to Zia, who is still sulking for his denial-visa to US, as his surname happens to be Haq. What’s your reading Mr.Sharma on the riots?

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  • Raju Kurien

    Pakistan has to help itself; but successive administrations there have done major injustice to the people by bringing in religion at the center of government. A functioning government for all practical purpose is non-existent; army runs the country; and army is focused on self preservation – constant antagonism towards India, constant troubles internally, and no civilian administration. Even cricketeers have become corrupt, but many (I believe a majority of Pakistanis) may not see any problem with them, because they do namaz five times/day now; and many sport the requisite beard.
    With the cricket fiasco, Pakistan has lost the last remaining pillar of integrity.

    India’s only role should be to ensure the terrorists dont come over here; and berready to assist if they ask for. It is a shame on an already ashamed country not to accept whatever it gets to help its people in extreme distress, especiallyy when the aid comes without any conditions and restrictions. Once again, the poor Pakistanis are left to mend themselves.

    Pakistan should take a lesson from Bengla Desh; they seem to work to make their country a better place ; not an Islamic place.

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  • Kushagra

    Its alright if they neither want to accept nor appreciate India’s gesture. Obviously you don’t want to take help from an enemy country. All it does is that their regular statement that P-a-k-i-s-t-a-n wants friendly relation with India is diluted on Indian public.

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  • Kushagra

    Sharmaji, the fact that you are trying to achieve impossible deserves applauds and I personally respect you for that. It takes tremendous moral courage to even consider making an effort to make peace between the two countries, given the bloody past we share. Noble people like you are in minority, I just wish if there were more people like you world would have been such a better to place to live. The sad and unfortunate part is inspite of being able to see your point even I can’t be like you and can’t forgive Pakistan for the manner it bleeds India. I for one don’t wish any ill to P-a-k-i-s-t-a-n but in the same breadth I can’t forgive them either and my personal idea is we should try not be their enemy nor friends, we should rather ignore Pakistan totally, black them out for our conscious and subconscious memory.

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Sirjee, Ostrich ban kar kuchh nahin hoga!

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    Kushagra Reply:

    If one is making a choice of having no relation with you,neither of friendship nor of enemy, then how is he ostrich?

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  • Paul

    Starving poor people actually helps the ISI and other terrorists organizations. It becomes even easier to recruit people like Kasab. Kasab committed the crime in Bombay for one Lakh rupees. Another point is Zulfikar Ali promised his people an atomic bomb not affluence. He clearly told them that they may have to live on grass. He has more than fulfilled his promise, Pakistan got the bomb and they are still little better than eating grass. They are too fundamentalists to listen to reason. It gives them lots of pleasure to say that people in India are poor. I live in USA and I know plenty people poor. Does that mean USA is not capable of giving aid to Pakistan. Pakistan is eating out of their hands. It is no better than beggary.

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  • bala srinivasan

    until the helpless down trodden pakistani of the street realises how their rulers not only exploit them but also indifferent to their plight with marginal lip service no amount of INDIAN lament would change the existing status of animosity towards INDIA.INDIA should stop expecting any change of heart&mind of PAKISTANI leadership then it will be easier for INDIA to move on.

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  • Haris Chaudhry

    Are you really serious that this nation of pure and Islam’s fortress will be so desperate that it would want aid from blo-0dy Indians.. ??

    They need aid themselves. Look at their shanty towns and poor people. Half of India is naked and hungry and majority sleep on footpaths. They are unpure hindus and have always wanted to demonize Islam and Pakistan. They are enemies of Pakistan and conspiring to break us again. It has been the nature of a hindu to sing “raam-raam” when he meets you but be wary of the knife that he carries under his arms.

    So what, if they have atom-boms – we have 5 more than India and we celebrate the atom-boms anniversary each year. We gave a *** for Indian tat when we blew atom boms in the Baluch land.
    We have meesiles to take those boms to destroy india and its cities. I also heard Zaid Hamid telling us that some of the boms that we have will only kill hindus and spare pious muslims with beard and those that fast and pay zakat but will not spare those that support secular goberment in india.

    Wake up muslims – why would we need handout from this nation of brahmans and dalits. They dont even touch each other and if one dalit walks past a brahmans village, the brahmans first skin the dalits off and then sell all of their land to other unsuspecting brahmans because it is unpure. Such is the state of affairs in India. How dare they offer us aid.. They need aid themselves.

    Look at the dark colour they have.. god made them darker because they do bad things like worship other gods. We are whiter and purer because we are believers and we have atom boms.

    So what if India’s economy is 15 times our economy in size. They breed like rats and they get most support from Israel and US who are helping them build industries and factories and meesile launchers and that is whats making India’s economy better. Israel-US -India nexus is the root of our problems. They want to take our atom bums and throw them into the sea and then americans and israelis will take over Multan and Taxila and Gujranwala and Faislabad- that is their ultimate aim because we have fertile lands and they have now GFC. See how all americans are now suffering because their houses are not worth anything and they now conspire with India to take over our towns and our houses and to build their wealth again.

    We are rich nation. We grow rice and sugarcane and cotton and we have world’s largest salt mine at Keewra. India does not have worlds largest salt mine. We do and we assemble suzuki cars. Indians have ugly cars like that Maruti from 1960s. We import mercedes and I got an email saying the largest market of Mercdes outside of Germany and Lithuania is in Pakistan. We are richer so why do we need Indian aid..? and that only $25 million…

    That is 3 times less money that we evade from tax each day. We dont like paying tax because our rulers take that and want to build roads and hospitals and stuff. We would rather build mosques and more atom bums and meesiles and aeroplanes that can each carry 5 atom bums.

    Indian stock market is going up only because of all the money that hindus took away from pakistan muslims and the muslim ruler of Hyderabad “Nizam”. They looted our wealth and now investing back in its markets. It is all artificial growth. Inshallah that day is near when stock market will crash and we will buy their stock at 90% discount of their own issue price. Then we will tell them – lick our shoes indians because Pakistan now owns your ar-ses.

    And our military has more F16s and atom bums than India and we will have the green flag fluttering over Red Fort in Delhi and we will make Babar and Aurangzeb proud with joy since all land belongs to muslims – And we must rule all of the world and kill those that dont agree with us and let others pay us tax and then we will spare them. We are the most peace loving nation and our religion teaches harmony and respect. Hindus and jews and christians are violent and deserve death or conversion or jaziya.. we are the most peaceful nation and religion.

    We know how these indians got common wealth games. I heard from an email I was sent that Indian terrorists flew to Buckingham palace in London and took the royal family hostage 8 years ago and told them to grant them games or they will kill all (very violent people) and then they agreed and the royal family now in London are all Indians from kashmir (you know gora indians) with make up and wigs … because the real royals will be released after common wealth games are over.

    And Formula 1 race next year..? Blo0dy indians racing around in Marutis and Jeeps – hahahahhaha That will be so funny. We can have it whenever we like but Islam forbids racing because we are peace loving and we dont like to race cars because they run on petrol and when you buy petrol you help Jews as they own BP, Shell and Saudi-Aramco. They are all hatching conspiracies against us but we have atom bums.. they know that.

    We had floods because everyone says that when you select rulers like zardari and dont have martial-law, god makes you suffer so unless we have sharia on our land, we will keep suffering from these punishments by god until we elect Hameed Gul as president and Imran Khan as PM.

    But every act of god has a good side. We now have more water than all of India and we wont send any of that water into india. I sent an email to the editor of Guinness Book of World Records about the entry “most rain water in Pakistan out of entire world.” Hameed Gul also said that jews and hindus will take that water away that is why they are giving us $25 million and then they will build a dam in the arabian sea (alhamdulillah the sea isnt called Hindustan sea because otherwise we will not swim in it) and then suck our water out and then ship it on to the dry lands of India where there is no water, that is why Indians are so black and hungry because they have no water to grow crops. This is all the jewish-american-indian conspiracy – We wish Naxalites to slaughter all Indians and to create mayhem there – Islam is the religion of peace and Pakistanis are very friendly nation.

    we dont need $25 million dollars of your filthy aid – we are the land of pure and we have atom bums -you jealous conniving indians… Very soon, we will have enough money to buy all of your lands and then we will make more atom bums..

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    Kushagra Reply:

    lmao…:D

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Harris

    I have been reading your post and I always knew you were pretending to be Pakistani, your Indian thaught process has clearly come out in the open in this post. I was thinking how long will it take for an Indian like you to come out in the open and start rediculing Pakistan. Its funny you could not hold back too long.

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    Back2life Reply:

    Azhar, plz enlighten us how u reached the conclusion Haris was an Indian?
    Why can’t he be a Pakistani?

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    @ Azhar,

    Azhar, I am a Pakistani (as in born in Pakistan). I am surprised to hear that you thought that one ridiculing its own nation means he is unpatriotic or a traitor.

    Why cant I ridicule my country or the citizens when i see that majority of the citizens are in a time warped and convuluted mindset.

    I was born in Hyderabad (Sind, Pakistan), went to Public School hyderabad, lived in karachi (phase 2) before migrating to the west. I am as Pakistani as they come these days without the prejudices and conspiracy theories that majority of Pakistani believe in.

    I have as much right to ridicule prevailing Pakistani mindset as you have the right to defend it against the ridicule.

    We need to take ourselves a bit less seriously. I have been to India and I travel to Pakistan regularly. In fact in 2003, when I traveled to India (on Pakistani passport as Indians would not entertain providing visas to Pakistani dual nationals on foreign passports which is still the case) I was almost deported and held at Delhi airport for 4 hours. This was because my visa said entry Mumbai and departure port: New Delhi and I entered New Delhi from Hong Kong… It was humiliating but guess what, I was over it and didnt bother to hold any grudges against India.

    So, Azhar, its time for you to calm down and take it easy and call a spade a spade. I am trying to highlight what is wrong with majority of Pakistani mindset. You never questioned me when I wrote similar critical pieces against Pakistanis in dawn, tribune and other publications.

    I also have a Pakistani NIC and travel to Pakistan with work all the time …

    So , my true colours are what you see here. If it makes me a traitor, so be it. But I am not prepared to denounce the whole nation (India) as a kneejerk reaction and paddle to the myths and conspiracy theories.

    Best
    Haris

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    FM Reply:

    Ha ha. another guy who doesnt live here but wants us to go to war. The NRI’s and NRP want us to kill each other while they sip cocktails in the Bahamas. Abe yahan rah kar baat kar. otherwise be quite no one needs your opinion.

    True paki Reply:

    @ Haris -Dirty hindus(kaffirs) ,inject slow poison in the food stuff of muslims to make them mentally retarded.Also,the floods in pakistan are absolutely because of US-India conspiracy.But Inshallah we shall come out of this problem soon.USA changed weather pattern and caused heavy rains and India released enormous quantity of water at once,that has caused floods.Because India follows Chanakya Policy.Chanakya in his book had said ,hate your neighbour,thats why dirty hindus hate pakistanis.Hindus are forcibly converting muslims and kidnapping muslim girls and converting them.
    Also,whatever agreemnts we have with India actually have no value,because,a treaty with kuffar can be broken any time.We have to fight kaffir India with swoard and tongue both.

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    Raj Bhatti Reply:

    It all has to do with unreasonable religious belief. We Indians are not any better. After the earthquake in Gujrat, all villages were blocked by RSS babies. People and organizations that arrived in Kutch with loads of help were asked to handover the stuff to RSS or leave the place. In this case, there are more people in Pakistan who are similar to RSS people in India. Both are blinded by their or pride and religious beliefs.

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    Concerned Human Reply:

    Hey Mr. T p your Great- Great grand parents were Hindu too, you have their blood in you, go & get it change if you can, Get your DNA test done you will come to know reality of life, You Coward ****, dare not blaim others for your failure life, blaim your contry politician & your own people who elect incompetent dough head dead woods to perform jobs, did you watch your aunt Sherry Rehaman & your uncle movie on internet, watch with your whole family.

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    Vinay Reply:

    Concerned Human, omg what has happened to our humor cells? Dead? Haris and True Pa.ki, you should watch Jaspal Bhatti’s ‘Flop Show’. They must be in you tube. They used to come in our TV, long ago. Here (in India) Sardars produce best jokes as they really know how to make fun of themselves.

    Unfortunately, when the thing involved is a nation, the person would be labeled as unpatriotic. It would have been the same with an Indian too. Recently an ex cricketer’s (Vinod Kambli) wife said, she feels bad when people make fun of her husband’s colour and baldness. One of the comments under the article said “Kaale ko kaale nahin to our kya bolenge?”. But the same Indians shouted about racism in England when an Indian actress was mocked for her colour.

    We shout of “white collar racism” in US, UK. India main dekho. Every person has regionalism/religionalism/castism. If a Bihari joins a company, he will make sure to bring 10 more, same with a Mallu(from Kerala) or a Tamilian. Stretch it for Muslims, Hindus (these people again divide into castes). Hum sab ek hain. Ek…. Ek.. Ek… Ek….. Favoring our community (apna log) is not bad in India. Even in US, if Indian companies employ Indians for half the salary, it is not that bad. End of the day, they gave amrici visa to a hungry desi). But if it the other way round, we will shout ‘racism’. What happens, if an Indian jokes about this to other Indians in front of a White? He will be labeled a ‘traitor’, as well. (Such hain, Pataa hain. Par kyu unke saamne bolte ho?)

    We all live in a self denial mode like the story of “Emperor’s new cloth”. Both India and Pak shout “Kashmir is our our pride”. Inside, both of us know it is not the pride, it is the pain. It has drained both our country’s economy. Outside, we will declare “It is our integral part”. Inside we wish, “Chod de usko”. Till, we come in terms with our realities this show of pretension goes on.

    Back2life Reply:

    I repeat my question again, hw did u come to the conclusion that Haris was an Indian?

    Anyways ur low mentality reflects clearly from the unnecessary derogatory comment. I mean it’s literally amazing that the people you are calling ‘kaffirs’ are offering you aid in your time of need? If I follow this line of reasoning shall I call u a ‘Superkaffir’?
    First your president appeals to the world for help and when India provides some you simple reject it?
    It simply escapes me why Pakistan is more than willing to accept aid from UN, US, China, Saudi Arabia etc. but when it comes to India the channels vanish !! Is it bcoz of too much pride that you fail to see the reality??

    I guess this is the reason why peace between India and Pakistan cannot be achieved.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    This post can not be real and I wish you have used dark humor here. Otherwise,using English, you must be knowing at least two more languages. Your mother tongue and Urdu. With three languages at your disposal, obviously, you have not taken advantage of literature, both scientific and otherwise in these languages. instead you are using language of hate and ignorance. It seems, that whom God wants to destroy, first make them delusional.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    this was for a true ****.

    Vinay Reply:

    @Sal, Regarding your solution to Kashmir :

    You said “The Hindus who are minority in valley can live in valley after independence or migrate to India” :
    Do you think, now they have WILLFULLY MIGRATED to camps in Jammu from their house in Kashmir? What do you mean by “migration”?

    You say : “majority (Read Muslims) cannot suffer because of Minority (Read Hindus)”:
    Your argument indirectly hints, minorities should obey majorities sentiments. Does the same thing holds good, if the minority is Muslim? Then why is Muslim community fighting for freedom in western countries about right to wear a veil or free time for Namaaz?

    I need to go back to my previous question then, “What if one day, the majority Hindus want India to become a Hindu nation and say; Muslims who oppose it can “migrate”, does it become legitimate? (Situation is same as Kashmir, except “majority” replaced by “Hindu” and “minority” replaced by “Muslim”).
    We need to agree “Humanity” is different from and is greater than “majority”. Hurriyat leaders, who stress about independent Kashmir hardly care about these people, as if they are not Kashmiris.

    Forget about asking a separate country, Hindus here not ready to build a temple in their holy place, as it could hurt the sentiments of minority. For a Hindu, place Kashi is as holy as Mecca to a Muslim. The temple here has been brought down by Aurangzeb who built a Mosque in the temple premises. But majority (read Hindus) are not willing to change the topography of the land by hurting Muslim sentiments. (Whatever happened in the past has happened. There is no need to turn the clock back now).

    You said to Raju Karein, Pak is not Palestine. But why do you consider India to be Israel? Here, we are not ready to to change the demography of area covering 3000 to 4000 square metres (Babri Masjid demolition is still debated even after 20 years). On the other hand, Israel came to existence by changing the geography of land of 20770 square kilometers already occupied by millions of people.

    Kashmir has a special status in India unlike Palestine or Tibet. Rest of the India has never settled in Kashmir and drove the Kashmiris away like what China has done in Tibet (Kashmir still has its own identity). Kashmiri people are never blocked from working in any part of India (that is not how Israel treat Palestinians). Yes, India has not allowed for a mandate, but that will not make India stand with Israel or China in treating Kashmir. (I agree, India is not a hero, but accept it is neither a villain).

    As far, demonstrators/protesters in Kashmir being killed by the police (peaceful or violent, versions can differ):
    Not only Indian government, everyone in the world will bow to Hurriyat leaders, if they contest the election with “Independent Kashmir” as the agenda and win with a thumbing majority. Hamas, though termed as violent organization is making the world
    listen to them because, they have got mandate from people. Why can’t Gilani? Winning an election makes much bigger noise than these protest march and stone pelting. It will also save many lives.

    You say, if India is not prepared to give independence to Kashmir, then ISI will keep continue its activities/operations in India and particular in Kashmir:
    So you agree, terrorism in India is caused by ISI, right? I feel, Kashmiri Muslims or Pakistanis are like a tantrum throwing kid, who doesn’t mind to bang his head to a wall, when he is refused his favorite toy. True, ISI can induce terrorism and bombings in Kashmir. It can economically damage India to some extent. But who is worse affected? Kashmiri people or India? Do you call this as “love for Kashmir”? I would call it craziness. Please understand the difference and draw a line before self destruction.

    Lastly, you told Raju Kurain “Remember, only 2/5th of Kashmir is under Indian occupation”. What about the rest? Is it independent?

    Diva Reply:

    Great Post Vinay….Want to see sensible dialogue on this forum rather than abuses.

    Mahesh Reply:

    Vinay (and others),
    Sorry to jump in this thread.
    Kashmir is a much different ballgame – at least at this point in time – than the rhetorical Hindu / Muslim thing. Several factors have converged to build a “perfect storm” in Kashmir. Terrible governance, lack of economic opportunities, ham-handedness by central security forces, absence of polity representing centre (read India – for average kashmiri) , Kashmir’s strategic geographical position top the list. Hawkish sections from Pakistani establishment (Please note – this doesn’t indict entire Pakistan or it’s entire government) hellbent on sustaining skirmishes with India also qualify it to the list of top reasons. Actually, past couple of months the situation has been out of Huriyat’s control as well. Anarchy is a very appropriate word here. In fact, a couple of weeks back a HT staffer in Srinagar frustrated to the brink very well articulated his “Stone Throwing” temptation. A frustration articulated and surmised even better by HT columnist Samar Halanrkar. (Sorry – feeling too lazy to post the link here…).
    Having said this – I must also point out here that contrary to the propoganda made by some sections of Pakistani establishment the sentiment in Kashmir definitely doesn’t appear Pro-Pakistani. Speak with any toruist who has visited kashmir for the experience , it will un-ravel a wealth of information about the sentiments. Kashmir is our mess and it is only us who can clean it up. Assuming, we are honest and mature enough in not viewing kashmir from the rhetorical “security perspective” alone.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Mahesh
    Yes, indeed, the absence of politicians and political parties that contest elections. They think their job’s over with the elections, not realising that they can’t leave the talking space to separatists between polls and yet be relevant in the State.

    Sal Reply:

    @Vinay

    I expect honesty from you. Dont dissapoint me. In 47, Kashmiris wanted to go with Pak but that didnt happen. Then Nehro not only made a promise in UN but also in streets of Indian Kashmir for a plebescite. But that didnt happen too. The truth is Kashmirs have never agreed to live under Indian occupation. According to your own Govt estimates, there are not more than 500 terrorists in a valley now. But India has deployed 700,000 security personnels in a valley, not accross LOC. These 700,000 security personnel are deployed to keep under under India’s occupation agaisnt the will of its people, not for 500 terrorists.

    Now after 63 years, they still dont want to live with India. Is not corrcet that atleast now India shoud leave valley now. And as far as Hindus fundamentralist are concerned, you have to deal with them. Why people of Kashmir will suffer beacsue of some fanatics in your country.

    And as far as ISI is concerned. No one is innocent. Neither India nor Pakistan. But it is India who is the wrong in Kashmir.

    Rajeev Reply:

    The first condition of plebiciete was that pakistan was suppose to vacated occupied territory. The pakistani govt. refused to do so and the result was division of kashmir between India and pakistan.

    On top of this pakistan changed the demography of occupied kashmir by settling punjabis and ex-faujis in those areas thus making plebicite impossible.

    Whereas India came out with article 370 to maintain uniqeness of kashmir. This helped kashmir maintain its demography as it was in 47. We kept our part of deal but you pakistan and china did totally opposite. The kashmiris in India have a voice because of democracy and that’s why you hear loud protests but in your parts of kashmir you don’t allow them voice.

    We have seen how you quelled balochistan uprising by using tanks and helicopter gunships against innocent balochi freedom fighter. We should use your tactics to handle kashmiris.

    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Pankaj: This is just plain humour- Lets not even call it ‘dark’.

    I am surprised that I have to even explain myself a few times… Dont tell me that you thought it is a real commentary…?

    Tongue-in-cheek…

    Haris

    Bojir Reply:

    Hi Harish Chaudhry
    Killing those who don’t agree with us and claiming pakistanis are peace loving nation…. What a rediculous agrument. Don’t know how to spell atomic bums as you spell it, wonder you know how to detonate atomic bums at all?? Ha….ha….ha….
    Iam not Indian, however after seeing your coments I realise that your country will never progress if people like you live there. God bless Haris Chaudhry, may allah transform this man to become civilised.

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    ummm…. sounds like the sarcasm in my post was lost on you !

    Heard of ‘tongue-in-cheek’, satire…comedy..?

    That was meant to be a funny post – its actually funny how you took it literally…

    Cheers,

    Haris

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    Vinay Reply:

    There is nothing wrong with people taking your sarcasm literally. People enter this blog, with a different expectation. If a person enters a movie thinking it is Sylvester Stallone, then he encounters a bollywood movie by Govinda, it is natural for him to get confused.

    neha Reply:

    hehe u r too funny..why cant you try your luck in next laughter challenge (which has been one of the most viewed show in ur RICH COUNTRY PAKISTAN) ;)

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Haris,
    Simply great…You made me remember last 15 years of interaction with pakistani nuts on different forum.

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    vijay kumar Reply:

    I am now coming back to the topic of the blog!!

    India gave the money and did not get credit for it !! Now here is a quick non scientific poll I did with my team.

    We were sittiing at a flooded site near Delhi, working on a project. Now here is a quick reaction of the people.

    A Young engineer, ” The govt gives 125 crores to Leh for a cloudburst and the same amount to Pakistan which sends terrorists to kill us.. paagal ho gayi hai kya?”

    A senior accounts officer who knows the world says, ” Paisa bhi diya.. credit bhi nahi mila… kya faida?”

    A construction supervisor, a Muslim says, “Pakistani log, paisa bhi le lenge… phir bhi bomb karange…”

    A senior environmental consultant says, “Is India trying to buy peace for the Common wealth games? ”

    Still all of them feel that it is a brave step for the government and could backfire politically in case of a new terror attack.

    Wish, Pakistanis understand that this gesture by the government is supreme. 25 Million USD is not a small amount for Indians. Wonder why it is not being higlighted by the peacenik of Pakistan?

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  • Goof

    @Harris

    That’s the funniest $h!t I’ve read in a long time. Dude you’ll make a great stand-up comic, in your home country India as well as in Pakistan. Peace through humour!

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  • Manik

    Well you can be friends with someone who wants to be friends with you. You are preaching a country whose sole existence is to spread terror. A failed Nation cannot be trusted..

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  • Concerned Human

    They are dum & brainless creature, they do not know how to live in civilised world, there is no difference between them & Animals. Any way they are begger one way or the other, no matter where thet get aid from.

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Wah! Kya concern hai! Yeh keh kar app apne baare kya keh rahe hain?

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  • Kushagra

    I am sure it must have happened with most of us in childhood years/school/colleges/work place that there would be one person whom you would hate really badly, despiced the very sight of him, you had some grievances borne out of an act he did. Then for some years your paths didn’t cross and then one day you stumbled upon him/her. Was the animosity still the same? Would you hate that with same intensity as before? My feeling is over the years the hatred would have mellowed, you longer considered wasting a strong emotion for someone who is not part of ur life. You probably even forgot some of the grievances you held against that person. So rather than some people banging and shouting for making friends with Pakistan, if we just ignore each other and stop communicating, stop crossing each other’s paths, media just black out Pakistan from discussions, then may be after a decade the hatred would subside and we may no longer put high on hatred towards each other. That might be usher a beginning in workable ties with Pakistan.

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Sirjee, problem ko ignore karke kuchh nahi hoga. Sab log kahi suni pe chal rahe hain. Apne dil se poocho, aur jawaab mil jayegaa. Jab tak padosi theek nahin hai, mahaul theek nahin ho sakta. Hum bhi padiosi hain.

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    Kushagra Reply:

    Na padosi tumhari sunne waala hai na tum padosi ki. Roz padosi se bahes karke gaali khane se behtar hai kuch din dono chup chaap shaanti sey bhaitho :-)

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Sirjee chain se kaun baithne dega sirjee, dekha nahin kitne log lathi le kar ghoom rahe hain? Chup rahoge to aur laathian uthengi.

    Dosti ka haath badhaane se insaan kaayar nahin banta, na hi woh neecha hota hai. Aur balwaan ka farz hai ki woh dosti ka haath badhataa rahe.

    Shanti se baithne ke liye bahut time hai – abhi time hai sulah karne ka!!

    karuna Reply:

    You got to appreciate that for the leaders of Pakistan it is a situation of damned if we do and damned, now that we did not. Have some mercy for Mr. Yusuf Raza Gilani – he of the dainty dimples, and Mr. Zardari – the toothpaste ad!

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  • Akil Akhtar

    Whether Pakistan takes the help or not both ways it is used for propoganda by the Indians so we loose both ways. First improve your relationship with all your neighbours who are afraid of the hegemonic designs of india in the region then ask for acceptance from others.

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    Kushagra Reply:

    For a second even if one accepts your charge, what is more in Pakistan’s interest – helping the flood victims from Indian aid or Indian propoganda? Your statement reflects that Pakistani people would be more happy to allow flood victims suffer to death rather than accept the aid which would have helped some victims at least.

    What more is needed to be done by India if not extend some help during a crisis on your country? By rejecting the aid all you are doing convincing Indian people including myself that civil society of your country is really not interested in healthy relations with India.

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    RedOak Reply:

    Please climb down from your high horse for a minute. Not a single leading Indian newspaper has covered the floods. But all of them headlined the spot-fixing scandal the minute it broke.

    Pakistanis are fed up of Indians maligning our country. Even during these 6 weeks of unprecedented national tragedy there has been no let up in the hate. Many Indian bloggers have actively tried to discourage people from donating to the flood relief.

    Please do us a favour and don’t judge our civil society.

    (I left a similar comment earlier but the moderator did not publish it; I hope they will publish this one).

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    SKChadha Reply:

    Vinod,

    Whatever our Indian and Pakistani bloggers may write here, whether they abuse, criticize, entice or try to persuade each other, by heart the love for each other is overflowing ….. A real Tom and Jerry story …. !!

    The various comments here are reminding me the following famous lines of the great poet “Kaifee Aazmi”:

    “Aapse Pyar Hua Jata Hai, Khel Dushwar Hua Jata Hai, Aapse pyar….
    Tumne Kyon Pyar Se Dekha Mujhko, Dard Bedar Hua Jata Hai. Aapse pyar….
    Is Tamanna Main Ke Tum Do Ge Sazaa, Dil Gunahgar Hua Jata Hai. Aapse pyar….
    Dil Jo Har Kaid Se Ghabrata Tha, Khud Giraftar Hua Jata Hai. Aapse pyar….”

    Long live the relationship. Ha Ha Ha …….

    Kushagra Reply:

    Seems you have not read any of the Indian news paper covering Pakistan flood situation. Anywyas thats besides the point. Majority of Indians are equally fed up with Pakistanies as Pakistanies are with India. Ofcourse I can do the favour you have asked. Please yourself.

    sanjay k Reply:

    Something in the indian Pakistani mix which gets our hackles up ! Years ago in our college days we used to play cricket on shantipath outside the Pakistan embassy ( in those days we could ) sometimes a lofted shot would go into their lawns . It used to take a posse of our captain Anil dahar and fast bowlers vijay dahiya , atul singh etc ( big guys ) to get our ball back after a lot of negotiations ,threats and promises from both sides . Compared to this the whites playing Frisbee used to get their Frisbee back without much ado !
    Bitter estranged brothers complex perhaps ?

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    “They are being suppressed in most ruthless manner by Pakistani army, Chinese Army and Punjabi migrants” a figment of your imagination.

    There is a rebellion going on in your Kashmir, Rajeev they want you people to get F out of their State.

    As far Gilgit/Baltistan is concerned, they are perfectly happy in Pakistan.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    No they are not happy. According to you killing Shias is sign of happiness.

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    As always you peole are very good at running away from subject.

    Show me documented proof that there is killing spree in Gilgit/ Baltistan region against the shias?

    I can show you tons of documents for your atrocities in Kashmir. You really want me to start cut and paste here again, you people are not going to like it.

    I can bet you will never be able to show me the proof, just like you ran away when I asked you to show me documented proof that hindus were systamatically kicked out out of Pakistan.

    You can’t liar Rajeev?

    Rajeev Reply:

    Why don’t you google yourself on Balwaristan? I guess you are expert at that.

    The shias in balwaistan (2.2 millions) are being butchered by punjabi army day in day out Chinese style. These people’s voice is being suppressed but not for long. The BNF will get the required support from India soon.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Here is one of the links…I guess you can do the rest of googling.
    http://www.balawaristan.net/

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Rajeev you are funny I have never heard of this group before. I travelled to region last year from Islamabad on Karakoram Highway all the way to Sust, just north of Hunza Valley. Hunza valley is majority Ismaili sect and Gilgit is Shias.

    No rebellion, No mass murder like you have in J& K and ofcourse no Chinese Army. Lots of Chinese working on making Karakoram four lane expressway from Abbottabad to the Chinese border.

    Rajeev Reply:

    I guess you have not heard of many thing..You are king of ignorance.

    Why don’t you read more on Shafqat Ali Inqalabi, Jaji etc.

    There is genocide going on in Balwaristan under the supervision of tibet-supressers China.

    Pankaj Reply:

    Azhar,
    can you tell me, what high positions hindus hold in pakistan? I remember one Bhagwandas who was
    chief justice of supreme court for some definite purpose. I have seen pakistanis and worked with them, you can not hoodwink me. Can you compare what indian muslims enjoy in India as compared to pakistan, even our top notch criminals are muslims. They enjoyed the protection of law and prospered.

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Vinay

    Lastly, you told Raju Kurain “Remember, only 2/5th of Kashmir is under Indian occupation”. What about the rest? Is it independent?

    The rest of Kashmir is called Azad Kashmir and there is no rebellion against Pakistan.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Rest of the Kashmir is not AZAD..It’s Ghulam where people are not allowed to raise their voice.
    Infact balwaistan is treated like a colony by punjabi mafia.

    Vinay Reply:

    Azar,

    Tomorrow, if I change my name to “Bill Gates”, I won’t become as rich as him. What’s there in a name? Regarding Kashmir: One piece with India, another with Pakistan and one more with China. Azadi hain kahan?

  • Gajanan Taman

    With Kashmir-issue unresolved,Pakistan does not want good neighbourly relations with India.There have been floods in India too. Let us direct our energies in helping our own flood victims.Why should we keep harping on Pak’s refusal/

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  • http://www.hotmail.com J.N.Mahanty

    IT WILL BE FOOLISH ON THE PART OF ANY INDIAN TO EXPECT PAKISTAN ( FOR THAT MATTER ANY PAKISTANI) TO BE A FRIEND OF INDIA. THE PAK NATION IS FOUNDED ON HATRED TO INDIA, DAMAGE AND DEFAME INDIA. HENCE THE PAK NATION CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT HATRED.ANTI INDIAN CONSPIRACIES/TERRORIST STRIKES, ETC AIMED TOWARDS INDIA.
    YES, IT CAN BE A SUMMER FRIEND TO BASK IN THE GLOBAL GLORY, SUCH AS INDO-PAK JOINTS IN USA AND ELSEWHERE, PAK ARTISTS OR PLAYERS TEAMING UP WITH INDIANS, ETC ARE AIMED TO CORNER GLORY FOR THEMSELVES., AS WITHOUT THE HELP FROM INDIA/INDIAN THEY CANNOT ACHIEVE ANY GLOBAL FAME/ATTENTION.
    SO BEAWARE OF PAKISTAN AND PAKISTANIS & ALSO THEIR SYMPATHISERS IN INDIA!

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  • http://HindutanTimes.com Prudent Injeeli

    Pakistan survives on the aid from the kafirs, but it reserves the right to select the kafirs.

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Rajiv

    Once again where is the documented evidence, this is just coming out of your mouth, anything coming out of your face is, you know what I mean.

    Secondly where is the evidence that mass murder is occuring in Gilgit/Baltistan?

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    Rajeev Reply:

    What you did to Hindus in East pakistan is well documented? In west pakistan, you supressed the facts.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Azhar;
    Again this refrain to where is evidence? When the whole system is geared to supress facts, as you know, it is in pakistan, how you expect the evidence. This evidence and proof are for civilized countries and not for totalitarian countries like North korea, Burma, China, Iran Venezuela and Pakistan.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Look at the efforts of ISI to supress Kasab’s origination in Pakistan.

  • Haris Chaudhry

    Azhar, I am a Pakistani (as in born in Pakistan). I am surprised to hear that you thought that one ridiculing its own nation means he is unpatriotic or a traitor.

    Why cant I ridicule my country or the citizens when i see that majority of the citizens are in a time warped and convuluted mindset,

    I was born in Hyderabad (Sind, Pakistan), went to Public School hyderabad, lived in karachi (phase 2) before migrating to the west. I am as Pakistani as they come these days without the prejudices and conspiracy theories that majority of Pakistani believe in.

    I have as much right to ridicule prevailing Pakistani mindset as you have the right to defend it against the ridicule.

    We need to take ourselves a bit less seriously. I have been to India and I travel to Pakistan regularly. In fact in 2003, when I traveled to India (on Pakistani passport as Indians would not entertain providing visas to Pakistani dual nationals on foreign passports which is still the case) I was almost deported and held at Delhi airport for 4 hours. This was because my visa said entry Mumbai and departure port: New Delhi and I entered New Delhi from Hong Kong… It was humiliating but guess what, I was over it and didnt bother to hold any grudges against India.

    So, Azhar, its time for you to calm down and take it easy and call a spade a spade. I am trying to highlight what is wrong with majority of Pakistani mindset. You never questioned me when I wrote similar critical pieces against Pakistani in dawn, tribune and other publications.

    I also have a Pakistani NIC and travel to Pakistan with work all the time …

    So , my true colours are what you see here. If it makes me a traitor, so be it. But I am not prepared to denounce the whole nation (India) as a kneejerk reaction and paddle to the myths and conspiracy theories.

    Best
    Haris

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    Sal Reply:

    @Haris Chowdury

    Azhar Hussein is absolutely 100% right. You are not pakistani. It is better to use your real name.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Hairs

    One more thing to add is you have said so many things about pakistan which are abosulely incorrect. Perhaps You should first calm down and think how could be you pakistani when on indian blogs you talk about those things of Pak which dont exist.

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    Raju Kurien Reply:

    Sal

    Why dont you correct?

    So, u will say text books contain the true history (or history that is taught by all other countries). You will say all religions coexist in Pakistan without any problems. You will say there is no blasphemy law. You will say Pakista is not Indiacentric. You will say army does not control the govt or ISI. You will say there is no feudal landlords . You will say land has been redistributed. You will say LeT is not a terrorist organization. You will say theer are no terrorist tarining camps theer. You will say Shiass and Ahmadis (and christians and Hindus) are not killed there. You will say the two brothers were not killed by the mob when the police looked on. You will tell me there is no “hindu hating/India hating” as the prevalent driving force

    Pride is one thing; but there has to eb something to be proud of. Tell me one single things a Pakistani can be proud of (and dont tell me it is your nuclear bomb).

    BTW I am an Indian of christian background. Mrs Sonia Gandhi was elected as the President of Congress party the fourth time – more than anybody else was ever elected. She is a Christian, was not even born in India.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Raju Kerien

    So will you say Kashmiris wants to live with India. So will you say there was not a single riot occured in India where thosands of muslims/Sikhs/Christians get killed and their women get raped. So will you say there was not a single curfew imposed in valley from last last 3 months, not for even today. So will you say, dalits are very happy in India. So will you say nuns didnt get rape in Orissa. So will you say, Babri mosque didnt get burnt nearly 20 years ago. So will you say, Golden tremple 1984 didnt get occur.

    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Sal : “how could be you pakistani when on indian blogs you talk about those things of Pak which dont exist.”

    Like what things Sal….?

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    Sal Reply:

    @Haris

    There are so many but I will not waste my time to write. Look at your pathetic thinkings.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    igno…. Sal

    I will say riots happn in Kashmir; and the trigger was provided by Pakistani terrorists, under Mrs Bhutto’s ISI/Hamid Gul… For your info, the same terrorists are now after your people! Kashmir will be settled, by force (even if many Kashmiris will have to be killed) as collateral damage) or through negotiations; like China claims Tibet, Kashmir is an integral part of India. So, I do not ahve any problem in stating that we do have problem in Kashmir, worsened by our inept political leaders for their eagerness to appease the Msulim voting block.

    I will say riots happen in India; but they are isolated , and all get killed ; and not a discriminate select killing of certain sects. Orissa happened, as a result of mass conversions…some people obviously took law in their hands.. These things happen locally based on local triggers, be it conversion in Orissa, or the train killings in Godhra. there are no organized groups who go and kill Muslims when they are in a mosque, or in a church, or in a gurudwar, or in a temple. While I am not a fan of Mrs Indira Gandhi, I salute her for guts and determination to eradicate terrorists, and she went after them when theyw ere hiding in the Golden temple. Golden temple, while a sikh place of worship, is a proud possession of all Indians. All were sad that it had to happen that way. Mrs Gandhi herself paid the ultimate price for that action when she was shot down by her own body guards.
    I do not know whether Dalits (or for that non-Dalit Hindus) are happy; but I will bet crores of rupees taht they do not want to migrate to Pakistan or Bengla Desh!

    Babri Masjid destruction, while deplotrable, is the only mosque destruction in 60 years of post independence. The courts will decide the outcome next week. You should take a statistic on how many mosques have been constructed in India (and how many Churches too) post independence. I will bet that the new temples to new mosques ratio will be
    1: 1000, and new temple to new cxhurch ratio will be 1: 300. So, while secularists love to talk about one destruction (which all condemn), nobody talks about the numerous mosques or churches that are being built. I can bet that no new temple or church has been built in Pakistan aftyer independence (or if at all , the number can be counted in 10 fingers).

    Listen, we do not want to compare with Pakistan. Our trajectory, fortunately, is on the right path and right direction. Your leaders wanted to wipe off your 6000 years of glorious heritage. That was the fundamental mistake you did centarlizing on religion as the glue. Look where it has taken you!

    Sal Reply:

    @Raju

    Please dont make fun of you. Yesterday, tens of thousands of Kashmris protested against indian occupation and many of you including your high profile politicians acknowledge that Pak or ISI has nothing to do with the recent voilence in Kashmir. How can ISI bring thousands of Kashmiris on streets of a valley. Does it make sense.

    Kashmir has been under curfew from last 3 months and you know in your heart, what brings Kashmiris on the streets of valley despite the curfew. It is none other than Independence. The whole World’s newspapers are full of yesterday carnage in Kashmir.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    @Sal

    I did not deny we have problem in Kashmir. What I told you was the insurgency was started and triggered by Mrs Benazir Bhutto and Hamid Gul’s unsavory activities in 1986. It is because of the stupidity of Indian political leaders that the problem festered.

    And I am not denying there were no problems yesterday and day before yesterday and last montha nd month bfore that. But I will not put it as a carnage. The number of peopel killed in the last six months is less than one shot at ur Ahmadiyya or Shia mosques.

    And I am also saying that world papers can put anything on their front page (they have been putting tobet for a long time); that either thru brute force or through negotiation we will keep Kashmir. It is nota simple decision on majority opinion. India has done stupid things from the ebginning, because of the stupidity and “world love” of Jawaharlal Nehru, himselfa Kashmiri, who through his policies left Kashmir out of Indian development, cross-state migration, entrepreneurship etc. Had Mrs Gandhi lived for some more years, she would have taken care of Kashmir issue.

    So,, yes, we have problems in Kashmir. We will take care of it. We are not sorry for that. It is unfortunate Kashmiri Muslims fall in the same trap as Muslims all over, a place defined by religion. We will deal with that. It is not going to be separated, plaiin and simple. simple. .

    Vinay Reply:

    OK Sal, You propose a solution to Kashmir. According to a pole, majority of Kashmir Valley wants independence and in Jammu/Ladakh people want integration with India. In this background, how should Indian government act which would please everyone in Jammu and Kashmir?

    1> Give independence to Kashmir Valley and keep Jammu and Ladakh with India:
    Then, what will happen to the Kashmiri Hindus who have been thrown out by fundamentalist muslims from their home and living in tents? Will they be welcomed in the new formed independent Kashmir? If yes, why were they thrown out at first place? What has happened to 15% Hindu population, who used to live in Pakistan before partition? Is their any guarantee Kashmiri Pandits will not meet the same fate?

    2> If that is the case, let Sunni muslims vacate from their homes/space in Jammu/Ladakh to Kashmir leaving space for homeless Hindus from Kashmir. Will
    the muslims living in Jammu be pleased to leave their home and move?

    3> If Kashmiri Pandits can’t go back to Kashmir and muslims in Jammu/Ladakh
    can’t vacate their place for them:
    Then it becomes Partition Part II. On one side of the border, muslims got full
    ownership of the land (What is the percentage of minorities in Pakistan? Call it
    uprooting or migration or whatever). On the other side, Hindus had to get contempt by shared ownership of the land with Muslims. During partition time, Hindus were following Gandhi, who was advising them to be tolerant. Now they
    are leaning towards Hindu fundamentalist ideology. Do you think this time,
    majority Hindus will agree with this sharing and they will let it happen again?

    Kashmir movement would have sounded credible, if it had involved all religions
    in Kashmir fighting for the region’s independence. But throwing one community
    from the region, which had as much right on the land as the other community it
    has reduced its credibility to one religion asking for independent state. It is difficult for a secular country to part with a region, with religion being the
    sole reason. Now, if Kashmir chooses independence because the people in the
    state are muslims, it would give further voice to the Hindu fundamentalists. They would say, “These muslims can never become part of India”. What if one
    day, the majority Hindus want to get rid of Muslims and want a separate country
    for themselves, like what Kashmiri Muslims have done? Can a secular Indian
    government afford these kind of things? If it can’t, how it should oblige the
    aspiration of Muslims in Kashmir?

    I agree with you. Sentiments of the Kashmiri people are not taken into consideration. But what other options does an Indian government have?

    Sal Reply:

    @Vinay

    The best solution is now to give independence to Kashmir Valley. Muslims are more than 80% of Valley and the overwhelming majority of valley wants independene. The Hindus who are minority in valley can live in valley after indepdence or migrate to India But majority (Read Muslims) cannot suffer beacuse of Minority (Read Hinuds).

    Sal Reply:

    @Raju Karein

    You have a very big problem in Kashmir. A very big problem where a overwhelming majority of population dont want to live with India. They are giving their lives every day but still comes on street despite the curfew imposed on valley every day. This is a a very big problem and cannot be compared to anyother problem like killing of Shias or Ahmedia by sucide bombing etc in Pak. This is a terrorism and everyone is against it but it doesnt involve significant % of population of Shias and Ahmedis in Pak but in Kashmir almost every1 wants independence. So magnitude of the problem of Kashmir for India is too big.

    Sal Reply:

    @Vinay

    But I must apperciate you that you are the only person whom I met here who has talked the truth about Kashmir.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    @Sal

    That is ok..No big deal. If we have to killl 100,000, we will kill. Tomorrow, the Muslim majority district of Malappuram in my home state will want a separate nation (they wanted a separate district many many many years ago, and the communits state goiovernment provided that Muslims will vote for communists — little that MArxists knew!).

    It is unfortunately a Muslim issue in Kashmir; and not a Kashmir issue. If we let Kashmir go, Malappuram people can ask for a nation carve out, certain districts in W bengal, UP, and Bihar can ask for a carve out.

    So, ya, it is abig problem; and big problems have to be resolved by big countries.

    Do you think the people of Tibet wants to be with China?

    Do you think Israel will leave the occupied areas with all the problems they have?

    Do you thin k Russia will cede that terrotorry (some f—d up name) they took from Georgia?

    Yes, there are big problems, yes many in Kashmir do not want to be with India;; sometimes bad marriage stay married for children sake.

    So, chill down

    Sal Reply:

    @Raju Kerin

    OK..Then ISI will keep continue its activities/operations in India and particular in Kashmir because it is the price you pay for your illegal occupation of Kashmir and while paying that price, I expect you not to cry.

    And Pak is not palestine, whom you can do this and then expect nothing in return. And one more thing to remind you, whenever I talk about Kashmir, I mean just 2/5 of Kashmir which is under Indian occupation.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    @Sal

    ya your ISI and your Let And your o manu non-pronouncible terrorist M<uslim organitaions will focus on "1000 cuts " on India. We will survive and thrive. You will run out of money, just like what happened to the former soviet union.

    You guys should just focus on your people's welfare and not poke ur nose into Kashmir. You can do it; at your own peril, when Balochistan and other areas will secede away from under ur nose; just like Bengla Desh did.

    BTW, what is your opinion about some of the changes Bengla Desh implemented –like banning Maudid's books (he is your chief religious brain), banning burqua in schools and colleges, compulsory girls education etc… Any plans to emulate them?

    Anmol Reply:

    @ Sal,

    Do U agree tat Religion is seperate from the State … ? and

    State is responsible to welfare of all and therefore cannot be termed as Hindu or Muslim or Christian ?

  • Rajesh

    Pakistan’s tragedy is that its civilian leaders are either mediocre or corrupt people who somehow find themselves at the helm of power. There is no statesman amongst them. Their society is today totally splintered and so is their political process. God help the country and especially its nukes.

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  • NANDI

    The author misses the point about Pakistan, that, it agress to any process with India only for the sake of showing its patrons that it is serious about talking to and normalising its relations with India. But, In reality it is pooling wool over the eyes of its patrons.

    It is only gulible members of the Indian Media like the author who are taken for a ride by Pakistan.

    That is the reality of any agreement signed by the Pakis. They also don’t want any reduction in hostility with the big bad hindu India. As that will remove the reason why the Pakistani state exists today.

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  • http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2010/09/13/pakistan-wouldn%E2%80%99t-let-india-be-a-friend-in-need/comment-page-1/#comment-14015 rajk

    When will we understand the Pakis !!!

    These are guys who will (mis)use , twist and distort any concession/gesture made by India into a propaganda tool.

    In 1965, Haji Pir pass captured by the Indian Army was (foolishly) returned as a goodwill gesture under the Tashkent Accord.
    In 1971 India released unconditionally 90,000 **** POWs as a good gesture.

    We Indians go all hunky-dory as to what goody -goody guys we are. And do you guys know how this is portrayed in Pakistan, as a gesture of weakness.

    That India took these steps under ****’s or USSR or US pressure.That no matter what Pakis are too brave and clever for their Indians.Has any goodwill gesture made to Pakistan resulted in a lasting peace?

    The flood aid from India is portrayed as a selfish gesture by the Indians;taken not to help Pakistan,but to promote India’s own self image!

    .PLS PLS understand Pakistan as a nation has its definition, rational and existence on an ideology that stresses as being a separate race/nation from India and Indians.

    If Pakis started acknowledging a common past, that there are almost as many Muslims in India as in Pak and India has a much richer Islamic heritage than them,then what is Pakistan!

    Hence the constant attempts by Pakis to delineate their history from south Asia,trace **** origins to middle east etc etc.

    The greatest ‘gali’ for a pak is ,to hear statements describing India-Pak as lost or estranged brothers,nations with a shared culture and past, as some peaceniks proclaim.Such a statement is blashphemy for them,striking at the very basis of the two nation theory.
    Are you aware that Pakis history portrays that Pakis (muslims) were never really subject to British rule and thta is was the Indians(HIndus and others) who wee actaully colonised.The Pakis(muslims) belonged to the ruling class that has always lorded over the Indians(hindus and or).
    Pls note that i am using the term Hindu and Muslim in brackets only to illustrate the **** point of view.

    For me an Indian is an Indian first,and then anything else.

    Thus, by the very definition of their nation,Pakistanis are compelled to maintain an anti -India stance.Without it there is NO RATIONALE FOR A PAKISTAN!

    At best we can be indifferent neighbors.

    But NEVER,till the time Pakistan has its core ideology based on the ‘two nations theory’ expect genuine and lasting peace.

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  • Rajiv

    —————————————————————————————————
    Indian water purifier for Pak army unit okay, but not okay for flood victims!
    —————————————————————————————————

    http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/

    Forgetting their daily bitterness at both Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB), Indo-Pak troops and border guards exchanged sweets, fruits and greetings on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, which was celebrated in both countries today.

    Gates at Chakan-Da-Bagh zero line dividing India and Pakistan in Poonch sector were opened this morning and senior Army officers of India and Pakistan exchanged sweets, dry fruits and greetings.

    As a major gesture, Indian troops also handed over a large water purifier to their Pakistani counterparts to enable them to drink clean water in their camps in the forward areas. Pakistan Army was lacking such a facility in their posts on the LoC.

    Col Amit Natyal of Poonch Brigade accompanied by other Army officials handed over sweets and a water purifier to Col Imran and Major Dilsher of 35 Balouch Regiment, who turned up at Chakan-Da-Bagh this morning with dry fruits and sweets on the occasion of Eid festival.

    Col Imran thanked Col Natyal for Eid greetings especially the water purifier.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………..

    ( The above story appeared in dailyexcelsior , 2-3 days ago. )

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  • Kushagra

    @Vigilante – Zabardasti kisi se dosti nahin ho sakti, . aap apne padosi ko bina pasand kiye bhi zindagi guzaar sakte hain. agar dosti nahin ho sakti to matlab yeh nahin hai ki dushman ban jao. Zabardasti dosti ki koshish Indian Pakistan mein aur dushmani karwa rahi hai, Bajaye dosti ke natak ke masle suljhane ki koshish kari jaye.

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    Kushagra Reply:

    PS – Kayar sulah na karne wala nahin hota, kayar woh hota hai joLaathiyon ke darr sey sulah kare

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  • Rajiv

    Indo-Pak relations are like a messy affair, an affair you regret for rest of your lives.

    I wish there was a divorce court for Nations where countries with a shared part, could go and get a clean divorce and never interact again.

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  • Rajiv

    correction , it should read, ‘countries with a shared past’. ( not part )

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  • Azhar Hussain

    It truely is amazing reading these posts, you guys expect each and every Pakistani tostand up ans say thak you for the aid.

    Can any one of you show how you guys appreciated our help during the earthquack several years back? Were Pakistanis also shouting in every forum for a thank you letter from India?

    What a moron of country and people you people have become.

    Where as my question about Haris being a Indian and not a Pakistan, that was just to check all you guys will come to his defense b ecause you guys were hearing what you also dream about.

    On the flip side when Arun Krishnamurty, one of your fellow countrymen was doing the same about India, quite a few of you were so sure that he was a Pakistani posing as Indian.

    Like I had written on this blog earlier, lets start posting positive attributes about each others country, you will see how the tone and firection of the discussion changes.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    We know that Arun Khris = Azhar Mian

    :)

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    Kushagra Reply:

    We don’t expact Thanks from Pakistan, Pakistan is behaving exactly the way it is expected to be against an enemy nation. Had India been on the receiving end we would have done the same, its better to die then take Pakistan’s help. The point is don’t make empty noises of friendship – both Indians and Pakistanies.

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  • vijay kumar

    I wish the government should tell the Kashmiris that Shias are being cut up like goats, chicken and fish in Pakistan. And Kashmiris being largely Shias would understand that secular India is their best bet.

    And on the ground level, the tri-furcation of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir should happen.

    Unfortunately, the Mirwiaz who was a moderate has lost his head ever since a young Omar became a CM. The Mirwiaz had thought that one day he would become the CM. But he sees a young Omar, being a threat to these ambitions, throughout his life.

    Similarly the Mufti family is willing to drag all the population of Jammu and Ladakh to his political machinations. When he became the Home Minister in 89 in the VP Singh’s disastorous government, one of his daughters hid herself at a friends house and pretended that a kidnapping had happened, leading to the release of terrorists.

    Tri-Furcation is the solution!!

    Cmon fellow bloggers, get to the job!! :) :)

    mail !! Email Mail!! & Email :) :) :)

    Jai HInd !!

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Vijay,
    It is time India start asserting iteself on Northern Areas of kashmir (Balwaristan, Gilgit/Baltistan) because these people are shia and closely related to people of Kargil. They are being suppressed in most ruthless manner by Pakistani army, Chinese Army and Punjabi migrants.

    Whenever Geelani talks about kashmir, we should ask him what he is doing for liberation of Balwaristan and Aksai Chin. Why question only Indian kashmir? This stooge and Meervaiz are on payroll of pakistanis and chinese so it is absolutely important to counter them with Balwaristan issue.

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  • Saleem

    As a Pakistani i would than those people of whatever nationality including Indins for the help given for the flood affectees and would request all to continue , directly , through UN or any relief agency

    bets regards

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  • ramesh

    pak is perpetually at war with india by the islamic principle,it took the aid offered reluctantly when embarrassed by the world.the good will gesture will be lost on them.

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  • Rajiv

    @Azhar,

    In previous blogs I have given statistical documantation of how 85% of of Muslims stayed in India , while 85 % of Hindus and Sikhs of West Pakistan were kicked out in just 4 years of partition.
    Since then the criminal Islamic Republic , which has criminal laws against minorities , like a Kafir cannot be president or PM etc, has reduced Hindus and Sikhs to total insignificance.

    Because of those facts, Pakistan is a criminal entity with a murderous legacy against its own citizens.
    Well, when the Pak State sponsored criminals did not spare Muslims of East Pakistan, murduring them in millions, it would be foolish to expect those criminals to spare Hindus and Sikhs.

    So , never again compare India and Pakistan, irrespective of what your crippled mirror tells your even more cripled mind.

    On a seperate note, from Dawn

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    Mullah Omar is in Pakistan and everyone knows it.
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    http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/mullah+omar+is+in+pakistan+and+everyone+knows+it+france

    Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar is based in Pakistan and everyone knows it, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday, calling on Islamabad to do more to help end the conflict.

    “It’s not a secret for anyone, everyone knows that Mullah Omar is in Quetta, if he’s not now in Karachi,” Kouchner told French lawmakers, referring to two major Pakistani cities known to harbour militant cells.
    ……………….

    I think the French are mistaken, Mullah Omar is involved in flood relief inside Pakistan !

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Yes other Rajiv where is the proof? One more time show be the documented proof? Not figures coming out of your pathological liars mouth.

    One more time, rebellion in your? Kashmir not in ours. You want me to cut and paste?

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Most of the time these western don’t even know who their real father is and the French men is saying that Mulla Omer is in Pakistan?

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  • Azhar Hussain

    Yet again we have deviated from the topic at hand. No wonder we call you guys cheap buniyas, first you complained that we were not accepting help from you guys, and now the government has and you third class people want each and every Pakistani to say Thank you.

    By now it should have cleared the hazy from your eyes, why we Pakistan will ever accept help from your baniyas.

    We shipped 5 C130 full of food, tents and blankets but we never got any thank you note, but then again we gave it because poor people needed.

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  • http://deleted Sal

    The numbers of hindus who migrated to India from Pak in 47 was alomost same the numbers of muslims who migrated to Pak from India in 47. But there are more muslims in India than Hindus & Sikhs in Pak in 47. So there are so many ways to twist the truth and present them to the audience in your favour.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    You have to answer where 25% hindus have dis-appeared after 1950 (3 years after independence).

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    My question is show me documented evidence that they were made to leave Pakistan?

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    Rajeev Reply:

    History of partition is documentation enough..Northwest India was atleast 25% hindu..You can look at the census of those time. You systematically killed 25% hindus and remaining are in living in constant fear.

    You gave us enough proof when you killed 2.5 million hindus in 1971 (Bangladeh liberation).

    Sal Reply:

    @Rajeev

    25% went to India in 47. Your freind Rajiv knows this.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    No that’s a lie. Today 6% of pakistan population is hindu and rest has been either killed or converted.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Azhar,
    Humne pakistani gadhon ko educate karne ka theka le rakha hai…Your country has not done census regularly so you can not be faulted for your ignorance…
    Here is something that will tell your pre-947 hindu population in north-west INDIA.
    http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/142467

    rest you can google..

    Rajiv Reply:

    September 15, 2010 at 12:33 am
    Here is the proof , why when Pakistanis like Azhar start lying, I have to show some facts.

    The numbers are from Wikipedia, Pak census and India census

    As per Wikipedia and other independent historical sources

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

    “The partition was promulgated in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Indian Empire.
    The partition displaced up to 12.5 million people in the former British Indian Empire, with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to a million.”

    “Massive population exchanges occurred between the two newly-formed states in the months immediately following Partition.
    Once the lines were established, about 14.5 million people crossed the borders to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority.
    Based on 1951 Census of displaced persons, 7,226,000 Muslims went to Pakistan from India while 7,249,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan immediately after partition.”

    The population transfer was over whelmingly between West Pakistan and India.

    The population of West Pakistan in 1951 was 33.7 million ( That is Pak govt census )

    http://www.statoids.com/upk.html

    So if , 7.2 million Hindus and sikhs came from mainly West Pakstan, that means about 20% of 33 million people , were uprooted and expelled from there lands.
    That means about 90% of Hindus and Sikhs were expelled from Pakistan since theymade about 20% of the Pak population in 1947 .

    In 1951 India’s population was 360 million.
    http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2002-03/chapt2003/tab97.pdf

    Muslims were 11% of India’s populatiion in 1951 census ( they are 14% of the pupulation currently )

    So out of about 47 million Indian Muslims ( 11% of 360 million + 7 million Muslims who left for Pakistan ) about 15% left or felt compelled to leave for Pakistan.

    So there you go . To summarize, while about 15% of Indian Muslims ( 7 million ) left for Pakistan , 90-95% of Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs of West Pakistan ( 6-7million out of 7.2 million ) were compelled to leave for India.

    15% Vs 90%.

    Good Vs Evel

    Its that same criminal West Pakistan , who performed the genocide on its own citizens in East Pakistan 25 years later,

    Its that same criminal entity , which is the fountain of jihadi criminal extrimism and all kinds of malaise that the world sees in Pakistan.

    So shut up and go back to looking at yourself in your crippled mirror.

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  • Rajiv

    No one expects every Pakistani to say thank you for the aid.
    Just as India , gracefully let Pak plane carry aid to India , without fuss, after Bhuj earthquake, India expected Pak to accept Indian aid in a civilized and graceful way, without weeks of delay and cussing.
    25 Million dollar of aid , is much , much more than 2 plane loads and not a trivial matter.

    But , then we forget that a criminal entity called Pak army/ISI rules Pakistan and is supported by even more crippled minds carrying crippled mirrors, whio find justification for every act of the Pak state.

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  • http://deleted Sal

    Dont give %. More muslims were killed during partition in 47 than Hindus and Sikhs and numbers of muslims who migrated to Pak from India is the same numbers of hindus and Sikhs who migrated to India from Pak. Thats all.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    that’s a lie…You killed 2.5 million hindus in 1971.

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  • Rajiv

    @Sal,
    only someone trying to blatantly deceive would say that , don’t look at % , but look at absolute number.

    1/2 million Muslims died in 1947 riots. That was 1 % of Indian Muslim population.

    now what would you say, if unfortunately 7% of Muslims of India had died , just like 7% of Hindus and Sikhs of West Pakistan were killed ? That would have meant about 3.5 million Muslims would have died , insted of 0.5 million.

    Every person killed is a grave crime and tragedy, but the fact that a Hindu in West Pakistan was 7 times more likely to be killed as compared to a Muslim in India, is the reason by 85-90% of Hindus and Sikhs fled West Pakistan and why Hindus and Sikhs, who made up 20-22% of the population of West Pakistan in 1947, were virtually wiped out.

    That also explaions why 85% of Indian Muslims chose to stay in India.

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  • http://www.tanzeel.wordpress.com Tanzeel

    I admit we are a nation of fools. We have a weak foreign policy and has no system to cope up with natural calamities.

    I would like my Indian friends to have your say on my write upI have written on Tribune Newspaper (Pakistan)

    http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/1552/echoes-of-revolution/

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Tanzeel, Whilst I am critical of majority of Pakistani masses for their bigoted and conspiracy theories mindset, you suggesting that ‘it is a nation of fools’ isnt something that will help the reconciliation process or having an open and candid dialogue on bilateral issues. You can generate more traffic and posts for your topic by writing well and not by making these generalised negative statements on behalf of the entire nation. This is very poor form.
    Regards
    Haris

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    Tanzeel Reply:

    Haris I agree with you but unfortunately the country we are living ALWAYS disappoint me. Be it its foreign policy, or handling the flood affectees. Vindod has highlighted only Pakistan’s childish attitude towards India (when it came to receiving aid) but at majority of Indians don’t know that the man we call our President is doing much more damage internally.

    Although I am much optimistic about Pakistan however I don’t have much to write with positivity at this point of time.

    ———————
    http://tanzeel.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/from-bhuttoism-to-bootoism/

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  • Rajiv

    @Sal,
    Indian Pak relations will find it hard to move forward until there is some common understanding of history. You can differ on smaller details , but there can’t be the wide gap thats there today.

    The death rate among Hindus and Sikhs of West Pakistan was 700% more than death rate of Muslims in India, in 1947 riots. And that was just the beginning, before the religion took over the Pak state.
    That was the reason that while Muslims continued to stay in India ( 85% of them ) and increased from 11% of the population in 1947 ( about 40 million ) to 14% of the population today ( about 160-170 million ) . The ultimate fate of Hindus and Sikhs in West Pakistan was worse than that of Jews in Hitlers Germany , dwindling from 20-22% of the population to insignificance today.

    Germany had to accept its Nazi history, before it could move forward and become again one of the greatest countries.
    South Africa too, had a truth commission to lay bare open the facts, so that re-conciliation could happen between blacks and whites.

    India and Pakistan need to agree on basic facts of there history and if over whelming majority of Pak population continues to reject history ( like Azhar does ) and fill it with 1/2 truths and lies, there will never be real re-conciliation.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Rajiv

    Yes..Your thoughts are really very good but who will decdie which version of history is correct and which version of history is incorrect. And % of Hindus or muslims doesnt tell anything because muslims were 25% of India and Hindus were more than 60% of India in 47. So best thing to tell is the numbers of muslims who migrated to Pak from India is almost same the numbers of Hindus and Sikhs who migrated to India from Pak.

    And as far as my information is concerned, more muslims were killed in 47 than Hindus and Sikhs. But If you dont want to accept this, dont accept this. Its OK. I will not argue with you over that.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Even Pro-muslim Sharmaji will also agree that more hindus-sikhs were slaughtered by muslims in 1947 and then in 1965 and then in 1971 and then 1992..the genocide of hindus go on in ****-land.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    You ignored the facts.
    We agree about 7 million Muslims migrated and that was about 15% of India Muslim population.
    We agree about 7 million Hindus and Sikhs migrated that was however 85% of West Pakistan Hindu/Sikh population.

    Also, most Indo-Pak sites give about 1/2 million Hindu/Sikhs and Muslims killed each.
    So thats again 1 % of Indian Muslim population and 7% of West Pak Hindu-Sikh population.

    So a Hindu/Sikh in W Pakistan was 700% more likely to be killed than a Muslim in India, during 1947 riots.

    All numbers and % I have quoted can be found in Wikipedia, India Census and Pak census.
    My entry with those links is awaiting moderation.

    You cannot push under the carpet these facts nor ignore them.
    You may differ with me on few % points and thats okay.

    But the fact that Hindu-Sikh population of West Pakistan changed from 20-22% to almost nothing today ( as compared to 1947 Indian Muslim population of 11% of India in 1947 to 14% today ) has to be accepted .

    Its not fictional ,
    but supported by census of India in 1951,
    census of West Pakistan in 1950-51
    and the number of refugees as given by government of Pakistan and India.
    You have to just add/subtract the number of refugees that left/came to country with the census of 1950-51 to arrive roughly at the population in 1947.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Vinod ji,
    You see!, again this blog has been hijacked by ignorants and brutes. i know, you are just a catalyst for exchange of views and hope some intelligent people will participate in this exchange but some bigots and blind people will join again and again, hijacking the whole forum. Sal and azhar try to be reasonable but can not.. all the time, their prejudices and ignorance come in their way. some guy, vigilante, says that many Lathis are being raised, still he thinks that might is right. definition of might has changed, it is knowledge and information, that is might.
    @ Sal,So Sal, having more number of muslims in Kashmir, should give you a right to claim kashmir? Raju has given an answer to that. You say, ISI will continue to bother Indians, so be it. My only thought is that Indian leaders should leave their high platform and do *** for tat. When on every parameter, you people(pakistanis) are inferior to indians, how you dream of snatching kashmir from India? By prostituting to China, giving part of kashmir to china and playing as a side kick to them vis a vis India?Forget it. nothing of that kind is going to happen.
    I have my emotional attachment to the part of land, now known as pakistan and I am ready to accept the present dispension, but not the tendency to browbeat us. Those days are gone. Face reality. any shahadat ka jajba is wrongly placed. we have more than equal people, who will be ready for shahadat for kashmir.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Your Chacha Nehro went UN in 1949 and he was the one who gave a proposal of holding a plebescite in Kashmir in UN and in SriNagar. This promise was made to Kashmiris by Nehro. Then later in 1950’s, India made Kashmir as part of India officialy without holding a plebescite and India didnt keep his promise. On the other hand, Kashmiris has never agreed to live with India, not even after 63 years.

    Perhaps, it is you who should be reasonable first and if you do this, many things will be clear for you.

    Pankaj Reply:

    Sal,
    you mention chacha nehru and forget about baba e pakistan and his teachings. You first attacked kashmir in the guise of kabaylis, changed the demography of kashmir by settling your Ex-soldiers there and ask about plebescite? you are not fair to your own society and champion the cause of Kashmiris, how come. This independence mirage for kashmir is not going to befool any one. In the hypothetical situation of Kahsmir being independent, will not survive a week. Pakistan will gobble it without even a burp. At least world understands this.

    Paritosh Reply:

    one simple thing i would like to point out is , making friendship with Pakistan is a completely wrong idea.

    Pakistan has committed so many crimes against Hindus and Sikhs and has perpetrated terror attacks against India that has led to the deaths of thousands of innocent Indians. in short Pakistan has committed unacceptable and unforgivable crimes.

    Pakistan has repeatedly supported separatist factions within India and fueled extremism

    besides, befriending Pakistan is a very dangerous as its not in India’s best interest. Pakistan doesnt deserve to be India’s friend because its basis of foundation is anti Indianism

    its will be better if we massacre these vermins before they create any further problems

    Rajiv Reply:

    @Paritosh,
    The last line you wrote is not defensible.
    Nations may choose to be not friends , thats okay. India has the right to guard its security in every possible way, thats okay too.

    But wishing violence on others, does India no good.

    seema Reply:

    rajiv u r

    another senti soft moralizing hindu…cant u understand
    paritosh does not enjoy violenece….but is being foorced into this
    in an act of defence just like jawans in kashmir…

    and usa in afghanistan…

    muslims are cold and carless about hindus being killed because of their beliefs…

    no one wishes violence on others….paritosh is known for insightful commnets..
    and he is clearly rational…why would he wish violence on others???

    but muslims r different…they kill in the name of religion…

    they belive in the book that advocates force…convert or die..
    just kashmir is a recent eg…eg pandits..

    100000 dead in terror form this religion just in last few years..

    now go and clap when a ahero beats up 20 ruffians in agarage demanding
    this and that like in kashmir…

    or for that famous line tum do maronge ,hum 4 marenge..

    why the applause because the villlain can be taught only by defence and retaliation..

    islam spread globally with this goal and has 1.6 billion in its army…

    while hindus like u moralize..

    all ur comments show ur wishywashiness
    u itch at lecturing paritosh…

    instead think how india is slowly becoming islamic..

    kashmir ha sgone…next kerala and bengal…

    40 % land given in 1947…and muslims killed
    almost amillion…and gandhi was like u who stopped and moralized only to hindus…

    shame on u..lecture the muslims first..and think why paritosh is not saying this about parsis or christians or buddhists…

    u rthe enemy within all such moralizers ar…go and preach the jawans in akshmir..

    not to dfend themselves…they ralso violenet..

    vinod sharma Reply:

    One can only laugh at this interjection by Ms Seema. What comraderie this in defence of violence and abuse. Pits….

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Paritosh

    “its will be better if we massacre these vermins before they create any further problems”

    I must you spoke the truth from your heart, where as rest of your vermins are denying on this forum.

    I told you Paritosh look in the mirror, your face is uglier than you pretend to be.

    CASE CLOSED

    Ankit Reply:

    It was quite amusing to see Rajeev Chandrashekhar make fun of Vinod Sharma and others as “sophisticated political commentator” on timesnow the other day. The contempt that Mr. Chandrashekhar, an educated and accomplished person in his own right, showed for the media people is shared by most educated Indians. Very nice to see!

    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Pak didnt occupy its part of a Kashmir becasue majority of Kashmir was muslims and they wanted to go with Pak. Whatever Pak did in 47, the thing is Nehro went UN in 49 and gave a proposal of holding a plebescite in UN. Then Nehro again made a promise in SriNagar with a right of self determination for the people of Kashmir. But India didnt keep its promise becasue India know very well what would be the result of the plebescite and what answers Kashmiris will give in a plebescite.

    Now after 63 years, Kashmris still dont want to live with India. They are even ready to give their lives on a streets of valley under the curfew imposed on them from last 3 consecutive months but they dont want to live under Indian ocuupation.

  • http://- Rajeev

    Now these punjabi pakistanis are killing Balochis and balwaris in big number. I think India should do a bangaldesh once more on pakistan. The time has come for balochistan and balwaristan to become free nation under the nuclear umbrella of India-US-Israel.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @Sal
    I appreciate your moderate language, otherwise, by this time,a real fundoo would have started foaming at mouth. so, still there is a chance for you.
    Let me read your first line” Pak did not OCCUPY ITS(?) PART OF a Kashmir because majority of Kashmir was muslim and they wanted to go with Pak. Ask any one, whether this statement is making a sense? Ground realities are against this statement. Kabaylis looted , raped, arsoned and butchered their way to Srinagar. India and Indian kashmiris should thank their stars for this proclivity of kabaylis, other wise Srinagar would have fallen to Pakistan in those initial days itself. So what ever part of kashmir you have, is the direct result of that plundering and murders of innocent kashmiris. India had no design on Kashmir and would not have interfered in the affairs of Kashmir and would have left Hindu Raja alone, as he had not signed the instrument of accession. In this situation, kabaylis intruded, because maharaj’s forces, which had a big number of muslims, deserted the post. In retrospect, if pakistan would not have invaded kashmir at that time, there were fair chances that maharaja would not have signed the instrument of accession and in few decades, kashmir would have become independent or would have merged with pakistan, as monarchy is an aberration in present times.
    As luck would have it, pakistani invasion, forced maharaja’s hand and he signed the instrument of accession. By this act, whole of J& K became part of India and naturally, india will defend its territory. India sent its forces and kabaylis had to retreat, from the periphery of Srinagar. Even a few hours delay, would haveSrinagar airport fallen to kabaylis(Pakistanis regulars). Now, from a position of strength, Indian forces were repulsing kabaylis, why Nehru agreed for ceasefire and made a promise of plebescite, is a big mystery of modern times. It is akin to china agreeing to take Tibet issue to UN because of pangs of conscience. This speaks about the kind of person Nehruji was and his love for democracy and all that. He was a Statesman and not a practical leader. You have no idea about personalities of this caliber, because you have seen only venal and corrupt leaders. Anyway, Nehruji’s fad has proved very costly to India, otherwise, indian forces would have defeated those kabaylis to their own territory. So do not harp on Plebescite as those original conditions can not be brought back.If ruler had agreed for accession, that was the end of issue. period. At least maharaja did not sign the accession paper with a pistol to his head, which was done for Khan of Kalat.
    OK, about the street protests. it is so easy to provoke plebians with rumors and it comes natural to rabble rousers from Pakistan. You have example of Lal masjid from Islamabad and that student brigade of males and females, jamia hafsa and jamia faridia, with their weired demands. Now, hope you understand. Pakistan is not ready to comply with Talibs demand, what ever destruction and mayhem they are bringing on Pakistan, and even if, thousand of them have died fighting pakistani security forces. So how India can compromise with the street urchins in kashmir

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    This is what you are and this is what your reasonability is…You have said..Nehro’s promise of holding a plebescite in Kashmir is a mystery..What a lie…What a big lie…There are not only one but numbers of UN resolutions on Kashmir asking for a plebescite in Kashmir which are given by and supported by Nehro (Read India).

    If people of Kashmir didnt want to join Pak then you have always a golden opportunity to have a plebescite in Kashmir. The whole Kashmir according to you wanted to go with India, then you could have the whole of Kashmir insetad 2/5 by conducting a plebecite in Kashmir and the Kashmris would have given vote in favour of India.

    But you know, Kashmiris didnt want to live with India and Kashmir will never vote in favour of India. This is the reason India didnt held a plebescite in a valley. This is a reason.

    And as far as Maharja Hari Sing’s s accession of Kashmir is concerned, it was understood that the King of any state will decide the future of its state according to the will and wishes of its people according to 3 June 1947 India Partition Plan. That didnt happen.

    But leave it what happened in 47. Nehro went UN and he himself has given a proposal of holding a plebescite in UN and in SriNagar. You talk abt mystery. I have watched the video in which Nehro was making a promise of holding a plebescite.

    You have bought other issues too as usual you Indians do. But I will not respond you over them. Just stick to Kashmir.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @Sal
    You did not understand. I agree that Nehru agreed for plebescite. My question is why he agreed, is a mystery. Winning Indian army should have been given opportunity to finish the task. You pull out all the statistics from 1947 and now you are saying leave what happened in 1947. what happened in 1947 is crux of the problem. You have not answered about Taliban antics in present day Islamabead. It is so easy to provoke unemployable/ unemployed youths with those Friday sermons as seen in Pakisatan and what you are seeing in Kashmir. Neither pakistan government is going to give up to Talibans nor Indian govenment is going to give up to irresponsible people in Kashmir.

  • Kushagra

    The only thought which emerges from forums involving India and Pakistan is can be anything but friends.

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Kushagra
    I have a little suspicion about the true extent of this rivalry, being an optimist that I am.

    The ability of the posters to ’speak’ their mind from behind a computer screen whilst being totally anonymous allows them to provide their candid thoughts (mostly inflammatory) to score points. I think it panders to everyones preference to be validated.

    The forums therefore in my opinion are a very bad reflection of how these people will behave in reality. I can bet my bottom dollar that if I rocked up to say your house or Rajeev’s, Vinay or Pritosh’ place that you will not tell me that I am a fool, an idiot or a ****-gadha or a terrorist or a pest because I am a mulsim or Pakistani.

    I believe that if you could not invite me to your house, you will at-least be nice to me and perhaps shake my hand. The lack of that actual interaction has effectively been the main reason for the dehumanisation (whatever that means) at both ends.

    I can also bet my bottom dollar again that if Pritosh, Vinay or Rajiv ended up at Azhar Hussain or Sal’s place that they will be busy showering their hospitality on you without remotely be the person you might have perceived them to be on this forum. I have been to both countries many times and I understand how people react differently in person when they meet you.

    It is akin to all those hate blogs in US where americans tell muslims how much they hate them and why they think majority of the muslims are terrorists but a muslim could roam 99% of america as a tourist or immigrant but might not encounter any discrimination at all. Judging by how people act in the isolation of a net-forum is very different to their true ‘human’ self.

    I am also 100% sure that had each muslim got to know US and India the way Americans and Indians know their own country, that we would bring down the paranoia , hate and bigotry to a minimum.

    It wont resolve our issues but it will bring down the animosity and rhetoric to a large degree hence I am the biggest believer on people to people contact between our two nations.

    best
    Haris

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    Vigilante Reply:

    Chaudhry Sahib,

    Bahut bahut shukriya, masle ki jadh per pahunchne ke liye.

    Pointing out problems is fashionable, but solving them seems to be somebody else’s problem

    Hamaare jasbaadi blogger bhai is baat per gehri sochh daalein

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    SKChadha Reply:

    Aapse Pyar Hua Jata Hai, Khel Dushwar Hua Jata Hai,

    Tumne Kyon Pyar Se Dekha Mujhko, Dard Bedar Hua Jata Hai.

    Is Tamanna Main Ke Tum Do Ge Sazaa, Dil Gunahgar Hua Jata Hai.

    Dil Jo Har Kaid Se Ghabrata Tha, Khud Giraftar Hua Jata Hai.

    Long live the relationship. Ha Ha Ha …….

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  • Pakistani

    HMMM **** hate india?? there have been 137 comments so far about 80 percent have hate in them towards pakistan. remeber the 1947 division Pakistan didnt have nothing not even a single bank started everything from scratch. i just think that we should stop the hate. if the pakistani people are taught to hate india. why do so manny educated people on this site leave hate comments. something to think about? remember some1 once said a eye for a eye will make the whole world blind. i would sa his name buh this is indian news website where alot of educated indians come to read the news and leave comments so they would know whos quote i just used.

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  • vijay Kumar

    Haris,

    Fantastic posting man !!

    I am sure, you have some talent for writing and should start a new life as a blog writer !! :)

    The reason why most Indians are sore is that we are the aggrieved party; it is us who get the terror attacks and the bombs from Pakistan. And in the eyes of most Indians, we have not given an appropriate reply to a pest of a country which is trying to destroy our secular foundations as well as sow seeds of suspician in the minds of Indian Muslims.

    I further wish to ask you

    a) Is there a military coup around the corner. Altaf Haussain has asked for it; CNN reports that the British government has alerted its crack commandoes to evacuate British Nationals in case the Taliban and hardliners takeover.

    And from the postings of bloggers like Tanzeel it seems that Pakistanis want a military coup as badly as most Indians want a date with Mallika Sherawat :) :)
    .
    So is Kayani coming to power? Or a combo of Mulla Omar and his Pakistani clones????

    b) Do you think that there is a “civil society” in Pakistan which can actually dream of a secular, liberal Pakistan which does not have an agenda of killing, converting (non muslims) and spreading terror???
    Anyway I am aski

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Thanks Vijay.

    You wrote:
    “The reason why most Indians are sore is that we are the aggrieved party; it is us who get the terror attacks and the bombs from Pakistan…”

    My opinion is that the animosity of 60 years has taken a life of its own and both countries look at each other through the prism of suspicion and believe that they are the real victims.

    Think about those bickering brothers or once best friends or ex partners. There are plenty of those in each family. They would always believe that the other person is/was at fault and will fail to acknowledge their own contribution in the bad blood that exists between them.
    It will take a very brave and objective person to put themselves in the other persons shoes and understand their point of view in all sincerity. Either that or there must be open communication and interaction between the grieving parties.

    Pakistanis and Indians in their own hearts of heart consider themselves blameless and the victim of the aggression of other party. They see the offender through the eyes of their own media and their own skewed belief system.

    My opinion however remains that the proof is in the ‘pudding’ which follows:

    India has proven itself in the eyes of the wider (objective) world to offer a more mature, secular, prosperous and open society whereas Pakistan today is a shadow of what it was 30 years ago. Broken, corrupt with damaged reputation and people that believe in anything and everything without having the moral courage to stand up and say that ..”It is us and not India, US, Israel, Iran and Bhutan which is to blame for this mess that we have created”.

    Anyway, that was a long rant for a rather simple statement of yours but I hear you loud and clear.

    You wrote:

    “a) Is there a military coup around the corner. Altaf Haussain has asked for it; CNN reports that the British government has alerted its crack commandoes to evacuate British Nationals in case the Taliban and hardliners takeover.”

    Altaf Hussain did actually ‘invite’ generals in one of the speeches he made from London but later backtracked however there is quite a bit of “whispering” happening and enough to make Gilani make ‘democracy is here to stay’ statements every 2 hours …for the past few days.

    Rest assured that even if and when there is a military coup, takeover from taliban isnt remotely on the horizon. Military has been purged at the top of the taliban sympathisers. Musharraf did that after 9/11 and Kayani completed the job with the remaining corp commanders and shunted them to training / ordinance duties. There is absolutely no love within the top echelons of military for taliban but when you talk about Jaish and Lashkar, then it gets a bit grey.

    The thinking exists still (and is being questioned very openly in pak) within the generals on retaining some “assets” for when the power game shifts in Afghanistan with the departure of US forces. Jaish and Lashkar are close to taliban but devoid of the infrastructure that taliban has access to. They do not pose a direct threat to any institution other than to use their suicide brigade to keep law enforcement on their toes.

    Pakistan’s agencies want’ Haqqani’ to a large degree and “Jaish et al” to a smaller degree “accessible” in the case of any sudden shift in power game either with the deterioration within Indian Kashmir for India-specific policies or in Afghanistan where taliban keep on gaining more traction- both for the geography and the damage to NATO forces.

    In short, taliban wont take over Pakistan. Not in the next few years.

    You wrote
    “Do you think that there is a “civil society” in Pakistan which can actually dream of a secular, liberal Pakistan which does not have an agenda of killing, converting (non muslims) and spreading terror???”

    You might be very surprised to hear but majority of the civil society actually is more secular in their outlook than what Indians and the world believes them to be. Pakistanis are not the monster that the world believes them to be. Just scratch the surface and you would realise that a very tiny and loud minority dictates the larger agenda for the whole country.

    Why else on earth would all of a dozen odd religious parties gain a total of less than 7% vote in the Pak elections (last 25 years) whilst secular and semi secular parties got the other 93% average vote… If we were the religious mad mob that the world thinks we are then surely we would have voted in the mad clergy that pander to those sentiments.

    The problem is the paranoia. Pakistanis in general have seen their fortunes take a dive over the last 20 odd years in almost every department and they have become a paranoid nation as a result. We have become hypocrites. The religiousity that Zia started is now very embedded within every facet of Pakistani life and whilst as people (our conduct and our values) have gone backwards, we have become increasingly pious on the outside. This dichotomy of experiencing declining fortunes and branded as perhaps the worst reputable country globally makes it difficult for us to grasp the notion of self-introspection and we find solace in blaming imaginary enemies.

    Then you get 20 odd 24/7 news channels , majority with right wing and ill-educated , ill-informed presenters and you get that “blame game” across to the entire masses of people who have no visibility or access to any objective source of information. Those theories take a life of their own and when repeated dozens of times are presented as ‘facts’. Youtube and facebook assist the cause of the likes of Zaid Hamid and Gul, because they pander to the belief that “We were once great and ruled the planet and the greatness is ours to have, once we are true-er muslims and the cycle continues on..” more piety on the outside and less tolerance, more corruption and less understanding. Vicious cycle really..

    Sit down with any Pakistani and discuss these issues calmly as I have done and I have yet to come across anyone (except some zealots) that wouldnt understand and agree with the notion of peace making with India. The civil society is aware of taliban threat. They are also aware that a life under a “hardcore hindu ruler” will be 10 times better than a softcore “taliban’s sharia” so we would rather be taken over by India or US than taliban. The more this realisation takes effect, the quicker this menace should disappear.

    Algeria had once worse problems from similar fanatic mob in 90s . That country came back from the brink.

    I am gravely concerned but hopeful of the turnaround. You guys should frequent blogs in Dawn, Tribune and read Pak papers like Daily Times and Frontier Post. You will find a very large cross section of the society (posters) actually accepting our faults and refusing to believe in conspiracy theories and sick and tired of blaming Indians for our misfortunes.

    Role of army and intelligence agencies is also questioned very openly. It is the start. Not sure where this all ends up but the civil-society in Pakistan is more tame and accepting than what majority of Indians might believe.

    Regards
    Haris

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    nandu Reply:

    dear pakistani bhai u seem to be a verry matured guy i agree and many indians and pakistanis will agree to what u said but i have always failed to understand that why dont u people say this loud for the world to hear we offered flood relief money for the people of pakistan and not to the government of pakistan but then they decide and u keep quite thats the problem my freind

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  • http://www.indiaandbharat.blogspot.com Shah Alam Khan

    Dear Vinod ji,
    Your point in the article is well taken. You have correctly analysed that this malaise lies in misplaced national pride that in Pakistan is driven by the baggage of history. And unfortunately this baggage of history is also a baggage of hate. Pakistan cannot simply accept aid from us as this is a matter of pride and self esteem. Besides, it gives marks to an incumbent civilian government which has otherwise very little to show in terms of progress to its expectant masses. I am happy that sane voices in Pakistan (like those of Usman sahib and Haris sahib) are finding echo in your blog. But unfortunately the rhetoric of hate continues unabated…..the baggage is being carried with great sanctity! The killing number game between Rajeev and Sal is appalling. Is there any point in arguing how many Muslims/Hindus/Sikhs were killed in 1947? Why don’t these guys understand that there was a massive loss of human life which cannot and should not be counted in numbers or identities…….it was a line of blood which was drawn across the subcontinent. The brutalities of partition (on both sides) cannot and should not be the impediment to hope for future. Pakistan’s stability is the stipulation for peace in the region. Walter Anderson had once said “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy”. This can’t be truer than in our relationship with Pakistan.
    Truly,
    Dr. Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi
    Blog: http://www.indiaandbharat.blogspot.com

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Obviously when someone talks about hindus being killed, you find such mention appalling. Pl. stop this hypocrisy. We Indians have habit of ducking difficult questions and live in make beleive harmonious words. We are not respected because we are not a practical nation but an emotional one.

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Dr Shah Alam
    Let us continue our good work and not be perturbed by the abuses of “internet” Hindus and Muslims. They are trained to hurl invectives and are incapable of anything creative.

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  • (Dr.) B.N.Anand

    Dear Vinod Sharma ji

    Indeed, the topic of this blog is in resonance with the general disappointment in the country about the response of Pakistan govt. to the humanitarian aid offer in this hour of natural calamity. The Pakistan govt. first vacillated and then reluctantly agreed to accept 25 million US dollars of aid from India and that too through UN. Pakistan had been blaming and complaining the International community for playing politics for the slow pouring of outside help but inadvertently it followed the same policy for having first rejected and then accepted the offer of aid from our country. It was just for political reasons. It is just an irony that while Pakistan is appealing ( or rather begging) the international community for more help, it treated the offer from India with ridicule. But, surely, we had done our job of showing solidarity with the govt. and people of Pakistan but it is another matter that the sentiments were snubbed by the other party.
    I had commented before also on your blog on another topic that it is forces in power in that country which would ultimately decide the direction and profile of Indo-Pak relationship and not the peaceniks that had carried out the noble campaign of carrying forward the concept of people to people contacts so as to strengthen the relationship. But the relationship will be strengthened only if the ruling class between the two countries decides to do it. It is a futile exercise for the peaceniks to try to achieve this. The Pakistan response to the offer of aid from our country is a true snub to these peaceniks. I doubt the peaceniks can do hardly anything more but to just curse and accuse the Pakistan govt. for having missed this opportunity of taking the first step in the confidence building exercise.
    Our country has many other issues and we should rather focus on them rather be chasing this mirage of building friendship with an unwilling neighbour..
    Lastly, this debate on the Indo-Pak relations on this blog is turning more and more abusive and shows the hostility between the educated class of people on both sides of the border. No one wants to introspect in a cool way. Surely one still remains a patriot if one can ponder over one’s weaknesses and is able to reflect on them…
    Regards
    BNA

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @BNA
    Pl stop the people who engage in abuses Dr Anand. Most of the time I find you agreeing with them.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    @ Vinod Sharma ji

    No sir, I do not agree with their abusive language. But do not differ much with the factual sentiments. But I shall never use that sort of language and would express my opinion in a more dignified way so as not to hurt any one but in the process convey my views as well. I believe that is what you would also like that standard of healthy discussion to be maintained at your blog site.
    Regards
    BNA

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  • Azhar Hussain

    @ Dr. BNA

    Twice on this blog I have stated that we are pointing negatives of each other, why can’t we start by writing positives about each other. Maybe then we can stick to the topic at hand, instead of me trying to waste my time doing the ‘cut and paste’ to prove the Rajiv, Rajeev wrong.

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    Paritosh Reply:

    the problem is , Pakistan has no positives , but India has

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Azhar,
    Here is an american politicians talking about % of hindus in pak in 1947.
    http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/sep/15/hindus-most-discriminated-in-pak-bangladesh.htm

    You want to live in denial..You are most welcome.

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    No Rajeev I never said Hindus did not leave, I said just millions of Muslims were affected so were Hindus on our side. You stated in Pakistan after 1947 there was mass murder of Hindus and thats why they left Pakistan. Which is not true, you cannot show me evidence of murder of hindus the way you people have done and still doing to the Muslims.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Most of the hindus were given a choice to convert to Islam or die or migrate. Many chose to convert, some died resisting conversion and remaining chose to migrate.

    You killed 2.5 million hindus in 1971 which can give you an idea how many hindus you must have killed during partition.

    There is a book by SGPC (Sikh body) that has documented atrocity on hindus by muslim almost village by village.

    Vinay Reply:

    @Sal,

    Pak has given a part of its Kashmir to China with a condition that whenever solution of Kashmir will be decided, this part will also be included.

    My question was how could Pak give something, to which it is not the owner? If Azad Kashmir was really Azad, then people in Azad Kashmir should have decided whether that part should go to China or remain with them. Not Pak. Say, if India had bartered away part of Kashmir with Nepal or whatever, what would you have called?

    “Huriyat cannot contest elections according to Indian constitution which says Kashmir is integral part of India.”

    This is the excuse, they have been giving for decades. Hamas still does not recognize the existence of Israel. But it did not wait to contest the election till Israel was wiped out of the map. As BNA said, Hurriyat leaders visit foreign countries on Indian Visa.
    ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Ali_Shah_Geelani ) They educate their children in other parts of India ( http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kashmiris-send-their-children-away-from-valley/130751-3.html ). They purchase properties worth crores in other parts of India ( http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/insights/insight9704.html ) (by the way, only Indians or Indians residing abroad can buy Indian properties). When they could do all these, they could have made one technical compromise (contesting with Independent Kashmir as the moto, under Indian constitution which says Kashmir is its integral part). It was much better than pledging so many young lives in riots.

    “The KAshmir is burning from last 3 months because of its frustration and this
    fustration has reached to its maximum level among its new generation including
    youths, teenagers, people in 20’s, women, students etc. They dont know anything
    but Indepdence and for that independence, they are ready to sacrifice everything
    inlcuding their future even thie lives. They cannot do more than stones pelting.
    They come everyday on streets despite the curfew and ask for independence…”:

    Think with calm mind, without any prejudice. If a person who has no connection with India or Pakistan reads the above statement, what does he presume? As a rational reasoning or an emotional plea? Can political problems be solved by emotions alone?

    “People in their 20’s … who are ready to sacrifice everything including their
    future including their lives” :
    Sal, having a person in late 70s at home I can understand the psyche of Syed Ali Shah Gilani or Bal Takre better. They are as stubborn as a 5 year old kid, but you can’t teach them anything, as they “know it all”. Unfortunately, the people above have provoking words as their armer and impatient crowd as their listeners. We don’t need any more catalyst for a fire than these. Whether it is “anti-india movement” in Kashmir, “anti-muslim” in rest of India, “anti-marati” in Maharashtra, all boils down to same. Young blood, rebelling nature, provoking leaders and weapon (from stone to bomb) at hand with different “ism” labels.

    These elderly people have nothing to loose in their life. They have enjoyed everything; in their evening phase standing in queue to reach Bhagvan or Khuda anytime. But people on the street have lot more things to do and enjoy in their life, than sacrificing life, future etc. Today, their death will be glorified as martyrs. Tomorrow, they are mere numbers in a statistical game similar to the one you and Rajiv keep playing about partition.

    There are many more people in the world who feel they don’t belong to their country. A Scottish, Welsh will never call themselves British. They do have their own parliament. But they take care that they don’t miss their life, their children don’t miss their future. They appear together, they are not together. This, they didn’t achieve through bloodshed.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Vinay

    “My question was how could Pak give something, to which it is not the owner? If Azad Kashmir was really Azad, then people in Azad Kashmir should have decided whether that part should go to China or remain with them”

    Your argument is valid. But let me tell you the people of Azad Kashmir has no problem in living with Pak. People of Pak Kashmir should had been taken in consideration at the time of giving some part of its Kashmir to China. But that land has not been given to China permanently. And it is still under Pak Army’s custody.

    Kashmir is different from Scottish, Weslh of UK. There are UN resolutions on Kashmir asking for the right of self determination for the people of Kashmir which are given by and accepted by India. There are no UN resolutions on Scottish and Welsh asking for the right of self determination to people of Scotland and Wales. And there is not a massive uprising in Scotland and Wales as compared to In Indian held Kashmir.

    The only example that can match to Kashmir is definitely Palestine. Both Kashmir and Palestine has UN resoltuiions. Both India and Israel has abondoned UN resultions after accpeting them. Both issues has been unresolved since 1940’s. And more over, the way, Kashmiris and Palestians protest with stones, they resembles each other. The recent protest in Valley resembles “Intefada” of Palestine.

    One has to accept that Kashmiris has never agreed to live with India and If India has occupied Kashmir against the wishes of its people then it is India who should leave Kashmir instead of Kashmiris adjust themselves to live with India.

    The poeple including children, youth, women, men of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, students who are protesting on streets of valley with stones dsepite the curfew imposed on them are not fool. No one is forcing them to come on streets and give their lives. They are asking their right of self determination which was promised with them by UN,India in UN and Nehro in SriNagar. They are asking their right of indepndence from the first day and Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris.

    The more I am arguing with you, the more you are giving your case of Kashmir as as Indian, not as a neutral. And If you want to argue as an Indian, then is it not better to leave this arguments here because there is no end. And there are many of your fellow countrymen here who are already doing the same thing on your behalf.

    But one thing I must assure you, levae me, you cannot convince Kashmirs by your line of thoughts. They will never agree with you.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    sal

    tibetans dont agree to be a part of china.. world does not run based on likes and dislikes..kashmir will remain a part of india… may be some kashmiris may migrate to pakistan because of the freedoms and opportunities and prosperity there..

    Rajeev Reply:

    Talk to any pakistani about Tibet, they will immediately go in tangent.
    If kashmiris have right to self-detrmination then both tibetan and balochis have same right.

    Sal Reply:

    @Raju Kerin

    Kashmir will definitely get Independence as sacrifices of the lives of youth, children, women, elderly people will not go waste. And I am just talking about 2/5 of the Kashmir. Just 2/5, whole of the Kashmir.

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    I have already posted the idea of tri-furcating Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir on this forum.

    This is the only plausible solution given that separatists are willing to get innocents killed in their pursit for political gains.

    Fellow bloggers!!

    Spread the message to one and all !! :) :)

    Pankaj Reply:

    would like to do it. You are seasoned blogger. How one can spread it apart from sending to contacts. I mean, how media can be involved in it, because that is one way, to spread it instantly throughout India..

    Rajeev Reply:

    Vijay,
    I support you idea of tri-furcating J&K but we also have to look at extenal factors. The Chinese have got a foothold in Gilgit-Baltistan to create a corridor passing thru balochistan so that they can dictate terms in Persian gulf. We have to keep china out of scene and it is absolutely important we help Balochis in their fight against Pak-China thus denying these rogue states access to Gwadar port. If that happens, china will be forced to pull out of Gilgit-Baltistan. This is required if we want to tri-furcate J&K and avoid any extenal pressure from outside. We have to balance our internal and exteral strategy to achieve our goal. The separation of Balochistan from pakistan will help J&K integrate with India and keep china off balance.

    I also think India should re-think its Tibet policy keeping Russia, Mongolia and US in loop.

    shaikh salim Reply:

    @rajeev,

    again i must appreciate the wickedness of your political leads who day in and out are working on the known agenda and through media are educating your masses that india is all saint with an ugly face behind the mask.

    the beauty of wickedness further shines with being a victim of terrorism and attributes to its innocent neighbour. one should learn from you guys! two thumbs up!

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Rajeev
    Please allow me to intervene here.
    I think it will be hard for our country to revise the Tibet policy vis-a-vis China. If you recall when PM Vajpayee had visited Beijing, the issue of Tibet as a part of China was settled in exchange for Chinese accepting our sovereignty in Sikkim. I do not think we can do much in this regard except to keep the independence of Tibet a burning issue while His Holiness Dalai Lama stays as a guest of our country for as long as he likes. That is only our trump card
    Thanks
    BNA

    Rajeev Reply:

    Sorry, China has shifted its stand on Kashmir so we can also change our stand on Tibet. The stand is always evolving never static.

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal;
    All the time you are asking about Azadi for Kashmiris. What Azadi you have in mind? Azadi to do loot khasot, like in Pakistan? Azadi to have a gun culture and carrying kalashnikovs? Azadi to have Army, lording it over politicians and civilian rulers though maintaining facade of democracy?Open plundering of national resources by ruling trioka of Army, Bureaucracy and corrupt Politicians?? Azadi to have dole outs without putting in required efforts to live an honourable life? Why I am giving these examples is because, for sure, Azadi will surely take Kashmir to the fold of Pakistan and all the ills of that society will have full play in your beloved valley. Now compare Indian Kashmir to occupied kashmir. You have elected representative in command, they may not be blame free but scale of corruption between two sets of politicians is not comparable. Ideally, there should be no corruption. About progress – In your heart of hearts, can you compare MUZZAFARABAD TO SRINAGAR? So many colleges, University, avenues of open Indian opportunities.Muzzafarabad is ruled by a representative of Pakistan military. So called prime Minister there can say only five time prayers in running of Muzaffarabad. Recently, a very common back ground, kashmiri, was first in selection for IAS, that is India. Now do not say that was a political gimmick. So, the whole show is being run to give pakistani plunderers more avenue for plundering. why you can not understand this. Indian Kashmiris have all the azadi in present set up. Azadi of upliftment of their life. Azadi of Employment, azadi of ruling themselves through their politicians. What azadi you are talking about, you stop your mischieves, and forces will come back to barracks. At least Indian forces are not using Gunships, long range Cannons against mischief mongers as your pakistani military is so fond of using against their own people.

    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    No curfew in Pak Kashmir, not for a single day from last 3 months. Not a single protest on a street of Pak Kashmir.

    Try to convince thousands of Kashmiris from your part of a Kashmir with the the rubbish you have given to me. You dont have any need to go each and every house of a Kashmiris on your part of a Kashmir. You will find all of them on the streets of a valley with stones in their hands and slogans coming from their mouth i..e Quit India Quit

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal;
    Yes, silence of POK is silence of cemetry and Indian Kashmir noises are sound of democracy. Rang laati hey Hina, pathhar pe ghis jane ke bad. Kashmir will eventually shine after these tribulations. Why you want to lay waste to a beautiful region? Pakistan of pre partition days was a prosperous province, Sindh was prosperous too. lots of jest for life, kite festivals, Basant etc. Fine educational institutions, thriving trade, A center for Adab,All have been laid to waste. Now, pious(?) people with long beard and high shalwar above ankles, forget about good learning centers, Madarsas have replaced them. what kind of country you are striving for? Come salafi order in your country and get ready to face lashes and /or beheading at public squares. What kind of industries you have, Only two Indian brothers can purchase all the listed companies on your karachi stock exchange and still left with many billion dollars to play with. In prepartition days, lahore was center to all the good things, you people have made it a graveyard.
    Why you want to bring the same fate to Kashmir. Improve your self and forget about Kashmiris. By the way, which rubbish you are talking about? they are hard facts, deny them, say nothing of that sort is present in indian Kashmir or facilities are better in Muzzafarabad.

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    @Azhar Hussain
    No sir. Please say where I have misrepresented the facts. One can not ignore these practical difficulties which the peaceniks are facing. While relations at people to people are ok , it does not help if the ruling people in your country decide otherwise. By the way do you not feel the humiliation which our people must have felt at the offer of our relief aid being ridiculed by the rulers of your country. What is our fault for having offered this relief at this time of natural calamity in your country. I only wrote the facts and also the futility of the efforts at the people to people level to sort out issues with your country when the rulers in your country are not willing to appreciate.You can not blame me as I did not use any word to hurt the dignity of the people of Pakistan.
    BNA

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  • Rajiv

    There is a nice article in Pak daily, dailytimes.com.pk . on the reasons why Pak politics is what it is .
    It boils down to the feudal-mullah alliance in Pakistan. Here is the link.

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20109\15\story_15-9-2010_pg3_3

    After 1947, India undertook unprecedented and far reaching land reforms. You may say, India carried it to the extreme. This reduced the power of the landlords and feudal classes from what they had previously. Millions of landless labourers became land owning farmers as a consequence and the land holding of feudal lords kept shrinking. This changed Indian politics in a remarkable way.

    In fact, I can buy as much agricultural land as I desire in USA, but in India, even Amitavh Bachan has trouble buying few acres of Agricultural land.

    Through out history, from Russia to France to Spain, the clergy and the feudal classes have resisted land reforms that reduce there power. In Pakistan, the feudal landlords are at the pinnacle of their social and political power and the clergy as usual is in alliance with them. They are regressive and the current political set-up in Pakistan is in their favour. The status-quo favours them.

    The peace-niks or the masses need to defeat that monster in Pak politics before anything changes significantly. I do not see that happening anytime soon.

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  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    @Rajeev

    “We Indians have habit of ducking difficult questions and live in make beleive harmonious words. We are not respected because we are not a practical nation but an emotional ”

    it totally agree with you

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  • Rajiv

    Bye the way, just wanted to thank for some moderation of views that posters like Dr Anand, Dr Shah Alam, Harris Chaudhry, Vijay etc bring to this blog.

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  • Arun Krishnamurty

    “its will be better if we massacre these vermins before they create any further problems”

    Atleast one SAFFRON TERRORIST has come out of our big closet

    I know we have millions of more of this kind

    Jai Hind

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Arun KHrisnamurty ;) Nice one Azhar Mian

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  • Rajiv

    You can read at
    http://www. balawaristan .net/

    about whats going on in Baltistan part of Pak occupied Kashmir .
    Well the joke is sometimes Paks say Baltistan is part of Kashmir at other times they say its not part of Kashmir , so they have seperated it from rest of PoK !!!

    Here is a piece from the above link

    “Target Killing in Gilgit Baltistan and Involvement of Pakistani Forces

    During a press conference in Skardo on August 31, 2010, Manzoor Parwana, the Chairperson of Gilgit Baltistan United Movement expressed concern over unabated targeted killing of innocent natives of Gilgit-Baltistan. He blamed Pakistani security forces and intelligence agency personnel for their direct involvement in promoting instability in the region, which is part of the former Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir and remains under Pakistan’s occupation since 1947.

    He said, “The death of four innocent residents of Gilgit city in the last week of August and destruction to six houses shows failure of so-called “province-like” administrative body in controlling the mayhem and providing security to the natives.
    ..”

    I am sure, once Pak army kills all those that oppose them, there will not be any more rebellion or riots , just as there are no Hindus and Sikhs in any significance left in Pak to even riot against the oppression thats part of Pak constitution and law.
    Complete Sharia and complete peace as we now see all over Pakistan or Azhar would have us beleive as he walks around with is crookish mirror.

    Anyway, the Muzaffar Nagar area of Pok is the launching Pad of terrorists by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through its army. LeT and JeM training camps, funded and protected by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, operate from there.
    The LeT masterminds of 26/11 too were operating from there and its from there they were so called arrested by Pak and under going a so called trial.

    As I have said, if ****-s , continue to cry for Kashmir, they will continue to loose what ever is left of Pakistan as they continue to spiral down. Thats a guarantee.

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    Sal Reply:

    Then why people of Pak Kasmir didnt come on streets in Pak Kashmir and then why Pak didnt impose a curfew for a single day in its part of a Kashmir.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    Pak kashmir is a joke.
    Only about 5% of kashmir province is in Pak.
    There were 5 provinces that made J&K before partition. 90 % of what Pak has is Gilgit and Baltistan , which makes up a total of 30% of the entire J&K before partition.

    Thats why Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdullah told Nehru to leave those uncivilized tribal areas in Pak.

    In that 5% of Kashmir province, you now have mostly Punjabis and Jihadi terrorist camps run by criminals like LeT, Pak army, JeM etc.

    Anyway, you can impose curfew only on areas you control. Can you impose curfew in Baluchistan, Waziristan ?
    Just Swat , produced more than a million refugees in Pakistan, while in Indian Kashmir , there are no Muslim refugees , only Hindus.
    Irrespective of everything, there is just one truth, the more you cry over Kashmir or Siachen or Kargil – the more you lose.

    So its your choice. We are happy with what we have and if you are not happy , we will keep taking more unless you are satisfied ! That’s the deal.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    I see Chinese hand in Kashmiri unrest. Remember there was an uprising in tibet just before Beijing Olympics, I guess china is instigating unrest in kashmir thru its client state pakistan just before commonwealth games to embarrass India and internationalise Kashmir once again.

    India should take leaf out of chinese book and deal with kashmiris the way china dealt with tibetans. It is time to show some spine and we should even ban our own media from reporting J&K. Enough is Enough.

    Anmol Reply:

    @ Sal,

    It seems u’ve selective memory .. because u chose not to answer difficult ?’s..
    For ex the ? of Vinay reagrding Majority and minority .. U dont any answer to this ? ..

    ‘m sorry to say but ur opinion on Majority and Minority depicts ur communal inclinations ..

    U’ve another habit of jumping from one ? to another withour answering the former ..

    Having Opinions is important .. but giving random ones and not replying back to others show the weakness in the thought process ..

    Glad to see positive discussion .. This no doubt helps in understanding the thinking process …

    @ Vinay , ur opinion cleary demonstrates the secular nature of our country …

  • Azhar Hussain

    “Anyway, the Muzaffar Nagar area of Pok is the launching Pad of terrorists by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through its army. LeT and JeM training camps, funded and protected by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, operate from there.”

    Rajiv and where were the Mukti Banni camps located?

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  • http://deleted Sal

    @Ahar Hussain

    These people will always tell lies. And look at their mental capability, there has been curfew imposed on India Kashmir valley from last 3 months and still people of valley comes on streets to give their lives but not agreed to live under Indian occupation. But they ignore their deadly reality and talk lies about Pak Kashmir.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    There are suicide bombers, ready to give their life, for a very crooked purpose.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    So you are comparing women, children as young as 7 years old, teenage youth, elderly people, all of them are unarmed doing protest on streets of valley with stones for independence despite the curfew imposed on them for 3 month to the Taliban or Suicide bombers. This is what exactly I expect from you.

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    Vinay Reply:

    @Sal,
    Some one had pointed out in a different blog earlier. When security forces shoot on mobs, they are trained to shoot low, below hip. For children, that height could be fatal. Imagine a police with a gun in front of hundreds of people who are stone pelting, you can’t expect him to have the accuracy of Sachin Tendulkar’s batting at that moment. If the leaders are really concerned about children and their lives, let them not put a 7 year old kid in front of stone pelting mobs as human shields. If the bullet hits the kid, they may get a mileage and provoke the masses even more towards freedom. But, it is not humanity. Badonke khel main, bache ko kyoon lana?

    Rajeev Reply:

    What are small children doing on streets when hooligans are pelting stones?

    I think coward kashmiris are using women and children as shield.

    Sal Reply:

    Because even these children dont want to live with India. No one including children, youth, women, elderly people, students dont want to live with India.

    Vinay Reply:

    “Even these children don’t want to live with India”:
    This is what I called, bringing children into political games. They should be left to study or to play. The political situation in Kashmir is too big to digest for the little
    one’s brain. When they grow up, let them choose their path. No need to bring them onto the streets now. Before, LTTE, also used to recruit poor Tamil children as soldiers for their fight with Lanka. It is because of international pressure, it left it. With the same concern, Kashmir leaders should consider not involving children in protest.

    Anmol Reply:

    @ Sal,

    Again U’ve given a random opinion.

    I have personally met many Kashmiris (Mostly Muslims) who are working in different parts of India .. In my case they graduated from various colleges in India .. Took up IT jobs and are enjoying the fruits of Secular Democracy ..

    Please delibrate on 2 points
    1) Demographic profile changes in Kashmir in India and In Pakistan..
    2) The democratic nature of politics in Kashmir and Media activism (again compare between Indian and Pakistan).

    And Kindly post ur thoughts …

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  • Rajiv

    @Azhar,
    If you want to compare Bangladesh with Kashmir, remember, 10 million refugees came to India from East Pakistan where Pakistan let lose a genocide on its own people and murdered over a million.

    Even today , many more are killed by Pak forces in Swat, Waziristan or Baluchistan than anywhere in India , including Kashmir.

    So how many million Kashmiris have fled to Pakistan from Indian Kashmir ?

    The largest group of people that have fled Kashmir valley is Hindu Kashmiris and not Muslims.

    But for an idiot like you, with a crooked green mirror , you see your ugly face every where and think its anathor Pakistan !. Dont you ?

    Every country to you looks like anathor Pakistan ?
    What a persistent joker.

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  • Azhar Hussain

    @Rajiv

    It seems name calling is your culture, when someone speaks the truth. Baita reality is Kashmiri’s hate you people thats why there is a rebellion. My comparison to Bangladesh smart alex was and still if you instigate in other countries which your country did, you will be made to pay the price. The senario may not be the same, but you see for yourself what is happening there.

    Your fellow country Paritosh has come out of the very big closet when are going to do the same.

    Youre SAFFRON TERRORIST brother Paritosh said “its will be better if we massacre these vermins before they create any further problems”

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  • Usman Chaudhry

    Sad and grief. An opportunity left begging by Pakistani authorities to bring relations close. I wish i could turn back time to catch the moment………….

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    Sal Reply:

    @Rajiv

    Aik tu tu itna bera pagal ha keh tujhey kuhd bhi pata…

    Every time, you talk illogical and stupid reasons.. “”"” the %.

    Pak Kashmir = 13,000 sq km (Excluding Gilgit Baltistan)
    Indian Kashmir = 22,000 sq km (Excluding Jammu and Ladagh)

    The truth is Kashmir is going out of India’s map. It is already out of India’s map. You people cant go there. You people cant live there. Kashmiris dont accept your law. Only your security forces can go there. Kashmir will soon get independence.

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    Raju Kurien Reply:

    sal

    There is nothing like “cannot go there”…It is teh stupidity of Indian political leaders; this will be rectified, and Kashmir will be brought to the mother land..

    Unfortunately thousand will die; it is no different from the Tibet situation; do u think Tinbetans like Chinese.. Alas, sometoimes u have to keep a unhappy people in the family.

    The sooner Indian govt underatnd sthat it does not ahve anything to fo with independence,a nd everything to do with separatism, that is in all Muslim majority regions all over the world — Uygher, chechnya etc – , we will be better off. Muslims just cannot live as a part of any other country or culture!

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    Sal Reply:

    @Raju Kaerin

    Tibet is not a dispute between China and anyother country. But Kashmir is a dispute between India and Pak. China has almost all of the tibet but India has almost 2/5 of the Kashmir. There are no UN resolutions on Tibet which are given by and supported by china asking for right of self determination. If thousands will die in Kashmir then thousands will die elswahere in India too.

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    First USman Chaudhry and now Haris Chaudhry pretending to be Pakistanis

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    @ Azhar Hussain Saheb

    But both Usman and Haris are as good patriotic Pakistanis as you are. Reflecting on a situation in its proper prospective is a symbol of maturity. I only hope you do not disagree with me.
    BNA

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    Dear Azhar,

    How can you tag me as ‘pretending to be Pakistanis’? I’m Pakistani by birth and from heart even if im tagged as terrorist or considered worst on the face of earth. I’ll never ever drop my identity. The point is we need to deal things in realistic manner and with a broader prespective. If there are talks of gratitude on call between the political heads then why is there reluctance on real grounds? Something in heart should be on tongue. For very obvious reasons i do not indulge with those who have little substance matter in their talk.

    @Dr Anand
    Thank you for the comment.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Mr. Usman
    Can you enlighten me please, if at all it is possible for you, why Pakistan adopted this attitude of first vacillating and then reluctantly accepting the help and that too under international pressure and through UN only. Is it because of pressure of Army or the any other section of the society? It is just a matter of academic importance as the damage has already been done. May be the political class here becomes wise after this rebuff.

    Regards
    BNA

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    Greetings Dr Anand,

    Quite a tough call, as it is beyond my limited capacity to judge what lies on national issue. Army/right wing parties, may be a factor but i doubt if in such crucial circumstances the aid is being rejected/detoured. But again since this is what happened i cannot equally deny the argument at hand.

    Regards,
    Usman

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  • Vinay

    @Sal,

    I am not trying to be dishonest. I did not say Kashmiris always wanted to be with India. I did not say, Nehru never promised a plebiscite. Yes, he did promise a plebiscite, but Indian government is not able to keep up his promise. I just listed the reasons why.

    You are trying to say: “I don’t want to hear any reason. Just let Kashmir go”.
    It could have been easy, if our country was Hindustan(only Hindus) and not secular India. Then, being a muslim state, Kashmir naturally would have joined Pak. Fortunately or unfortunately, India being a secular country has made this problem more complicated than what is appears to you. (Person of Islamic Republic of Pakistan can view Kashmir, only as land of majority muslims). We want you to listen to our reason, but you are not in a mood to listen anything. (Yes, dad promised his kid a toy, but now he doesn’t have money. In an ideal world he has to keep his promise. But, is there any “ideal world” around?)

    True, it is difficult for an Indian to get over from his nationality and patriotism and stand neutrally to look at the issue. But, I bet it is the same with a Pakistani as well. Yes, an Indian saying Kashmir is our integral part says it out of patriotism and not with a problem solving mind. But a Pakistani, who says, “rest of Kashmir is free” or “it will automatically join as soon as Indian Kashmir gets independence” is also equally a hypocrite. If that is the case, why did Pakistan give part of Kashmir to China? (Kashmir is not supposed to be Pak’s property. It is “independent”). One keeps reminding India of its promise. What promises have China made? Is silence over that is not a hypocrisy?

    I have to agree, if Kashmir decision affects other muslim population in India (who must be more in number than Kashmiri Muslims); it is an Indian government’s headache and it should solve it. But Kashmiri Hindus thrown out from their home; it is not Kashmiri problem? Why there is a silence there? If the Kashmiri leaders can’t take any responsibilities on their shoulders, why should they expect only power without any commitments?

    Kashmiris have put their heart over their brain. Rest of India is reaping the fruits of liberalization. But nobody comes forward to open any industry in Kashmir due to tensions in the state. Yes, Kashmir has been burning in last 3 months, the main bread earning season for this tourist state. In other words, these people have put their stomach as the stake for the “love for their land”. It is unfortunate, people don’t differentiate between “Pyaar” and “Junoon”. One flourishes life, other just burns it. Anyway, if that is the path people choose (good or bad, versions can differ), India can’t prevent it.

    I did not say, Kashmir’s struggle is not legitimate. But I am just saying the tactics used is not right. First, let them make sure Kashmiri pundits are not homeless (As I said earlier, it needs to fight collectively to get the credibility. It can’t be done by throwing out one more community from the land which has as much right as the other). Second, let Hurriyat win the election with Independent Kashmir as its manifesto. Well, Kashmir may have been fighting for 50-60 years. But if they select these people continuously for 2-3 terms, it can give a strong message to India and the whole world. Then nobody can deny Kashmir, its right of plebiscite. Instead, if they choose to torch a school, because somebody decided of tearing pages from the Quran in the US; this would eventually result in violence eruption and death tolls. This will do no good to movement’s image.

    Lastly, Kashmir problem is multi dimensional. It includes India’s stubbornness to acknowledge the existence of problem. It includes, Pakistan’s reckless behavior in addressing the problem by induction of terrorism. It includes irresponsibility of Kashmiri leaders, who want the power without any accountability. It is a collective responsibility. But if you only wanted me to repeat what you said “But it is India who is the wrong in Kashmir.” – then sorry, I will disappoint you.

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  • Raju Kurien

    Kashmir is not a KAahmiri problem, but a Muslim problem. ,It is the perennial Muslim habit of carving out. India started appeasing groups since early 1960, when Marxist govt in Kerala ceded to the Muslim demand for carving out a muslim majority district in Mlappuram.

    Successive governments from Nehru’s onwards have screwed up, essentially not doing the right thing for the fear of upsetting the Muslim vote b;lock in the rest of India. So, in that sense, we are reaping what we saw.

    Brute force, negotiation, carrots all needed now; including the opening up of the state for people from other states. Nehru screwed up India royally in his quest to be recognized as a world statesman.

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  • http://deleted Sal

    @Vinay

    Pak has given a part of its Kashmir to China with a condition that whenever solution of Kashmir will be decided, this part will also be included. Furthermore, this part is still in custody of Pak armed forces as per my knowledge.

    Kashmiris Hindus are thrown away from the Valley which is indeed very wrong. No one support this. But you cannot ignore sentimensts of the majority of valley which is muslims. Valley is not big in area but a populated area. If India leaves valley, this will not be a big loss for India afterall India will keep Jammu and Ladagh if the people of Jammu and Ladagh wants to live with India.

    The KAshmir is burning from last 3 months because of its fustraion and this fustration has reached to its maximum level among its new generation including youths, teenagers, people in 20’s, women, students etc. They dont know anything but Indepdence and for that independence, they are ready to sacrfice everything inlcuding their future even thie lives. They cannot do more than stones pelting. They come everyday on streets despite the curfew and ask for indepdendece.

    On the other hand, Huriyat cannot contest elections according to Indian constitution which says Kashmir is integral part of India. If Huriyat contest election they have to accpet Kashmir is India’s integral part which they cannot. And If India wants to take some concessions from Huriyat then atleast India should take back draconian laws like Indian Special forces Armed Act from the valley. If India will do this, still problem will remain there. But even India is not willing to make a small step of taking back its draconian laws then how could situation improve.

    From last 63 years, India is using time. India hopes that with the passage of time, Kashmiris will forget their desire for indepdence and will start living under indian domain. And at this point, India is still usig time that when protestors will tire out and sit back in their homes but this is not going to happen. This has not happened from last 63 years.

    Anyhow, you talked truth and I will must appericiate because you are the only one who has the guts to speak something truth.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Sal
    But Hurriyat leaders do travel abroad on Indian passports and that is not possible without an oath of Indian constitution.
    BNA

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    Sal Reply:

    When dis Syed Ali Gilani went abroad on Indian Passport recently?

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Mr. Sal

    Please excuse me for this late response. I am glad that you asked the question about Syeed Ali Shah Geelani who is leading the current separatists agitation in Jand K.
    I shall put a counter question that
    Is the real Geelani someone who can be trusted because

    1) This + 80 Mr. Geelani had been a member of Jand K state/ legislative assembly for more than fifteen years. Naturally, at some time he had taken the oath of Indian constitution to become the member.
    2) As an ex. MLA, gets a pension funded by Indian tax payers money
    3) He had given application at one time to be certified as Senior Citizen of India in order to avail himself of travel and other concessions which are due to a senior citizen of the country.
    4) While he exhorts the youth of Jand K to waste their youth in fighting the Indian state for “Azadi” and to forget about their school and college education, his son and daughter-in-law are settled in Rawalpindi and are in medical profession.. His grandson is settled in Delhi and is a crew member of Spice Jet Airway, an Indian Airline company. His daughter and son-in-law are settled in Saudi Arabia as a teacher and Engineer and have been kept far away from this so-called struggle. Anytime, he falls ill, he rushes to AIIMS in Delhi to get the best medical treatment available in India.
    5) Same is true for other separatist leaders. I can write about their history if you like so.

    I hope you know as well that. Salahuddin, the main JKLF leader had fought the elections for Jand K state assembly under the oath of Indian Constitution and was defeated. It was only after he was defeated in the elections, he migrated to Pakistan. In fact these so called l defeated eaders are fighting their personal battles by proxy by misleading the youth and exhorting them to fight these battles for them.. I f these leaders were really fighting sincerely for the cause they pretend to be, they must have brought their all children in the fight to set an example. But when their children were not prepared to listen to them and were not convinced about the cause they had to fight for, it is indeed pity that these leaders are using ordinary and innocent people as shields for their safety and personal agenda .
    .So Mr. Sal , this is a brief story of some defeated and old of the so called Kashmiri leaders who are simply fighting their personal battles. This story is based on facts and not fiction.
    Sorry for this long post.
    BNA

    Pankaj Reply:

    @Sal
    You are saying that China will return the Kashmir gifted to it by pakistan, why you are daydreaming? In Chinese province, when muslim separatist raised their voice, they were brutally massacred and no body from Pakistan raised any hue and cry?? In a democracy, where people have right to protest and be heard, you are trying to take advantage of liberal laws. Can you people live under draconian laws only? have you people not evolved at all?? or you still want to live in 7th century? I am seeing that you are taking advantage of man kind’s progress, like Internet, You tube and satellite phones, only in negative way. want to drag whole world to your utopian world of Khalifas. Still there is time. Do not push your future generations to oblivion, humiliation and a third rate people.

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  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    @ Azhar

    i can very well understand your frustration for having an ugly face. by the way plastic surgery has become very cheap. get a life pakee swine

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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    You can’t hide your true self, SAFFRON TERRORIST

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Saffron-terrorism-involved-in-many-blasts-Chidambaram/articleshow/6430718.cms

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  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    Mr Azhar

    now before you call me a “Saffron Terrorist” , let me tell you Muhammad Rasool , was the first terrorist and Islam is a religion preaching terrorism . ( Peace Be Not Upon Him )

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    Rajiv Reply:

    As per the map of privincesbefore partition.
    According to the Indian constitution Gilgit Baltistan (28000 Sq Miles) and a tiny portion of J&K which is called PoK (4000 Sq Miles).
    So about 1/7th or 15% of so called ‘Gulam Kashmir’ under Pak control, is actually part of Indian Kashmir province.
    ht tp://www.idsa.in/node/5933/1619

    Well, the point is India is happy with what it has.
    Sure, there is a small Jihadi extrimist community in the valley.
    They are no different than numerous Jihadi criminal outfits you find all over Pkaistan – from Swat to Waziristain , from Karachi to Lahore.

    Its Pakistan, which is not happy with what it has and has been crying for Kashmir while whatever it has it keeps losing or degenerating. Its juvenile, infantile behaviour has reduced Pak to what it is today.

    A smart enemy is lot better than a idiot neighbour and enemy.

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    Sal Reply:

    Lie…Lie..One more Lie..

    Indian Kashmir = 22,000 sq km (Excluding Jammu and Laddagh)
    Pak Kashmir = 13,297 km or 5134 sq miles (Excluding gilgit baltistan)

    Pak Kashmir is 37% of total Kashmir valley.

    You people cant go to your occupied Indian Kashmir. You people cant live there. You people cant do business in Kashmir. Every shop, home and street of indian occupied kashmir is written with “Go Back India” and “Quit India”. There has been curfew all over your Kashmir from last 3 months. Hindus who were living in your Kashmir, had to leave their homes in valley for ever and migrated. Indian Kashmir is out of indian territory except for Indein security forces who has to face thousands of Kashmiris on streets of valley daily.

    And here is the overall distribution of whole Jammu and Kashmir.

    Indian Kashmir = 38,000 – 39,127 sq miles
    Pak Kashmir = 33,145 sq mi (excluding area given to China which is still under Pak Army’s custody)
    Chinese Kashmir = 15,000 sq miles

    Good…Good..You dont even have half of the Kashmir and the part of the Kashmir, you have is still useless for you.

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    Sal Reply:

    Here, I got another source.

    “The main Kashmir valley is 100 km (62 mi) wide and 15,520.3 km2 (5,992.4 sq mi) in area. ”

    Indian Kashmir valley area is 5,992.4 sq miles and Pak Kashmir is 5134 sq miles including some part of Jammu. I dont know how much of them is from Jammu.

    Rajiv Reply:

    The reason why Pak is today a blighted, crippled nation is because of Jinnah’s ideology of statehood based on religion.

    The Taleban, when they demans Sharia and supremacy of the ideology from the barren sands of Arabia, are no different from Jinnah who claimed that Muslims cannot live in a non-Muslim majority India.

    No wonder, If Jinnah;s ideology of politics based on religion, is the best Pak can produce, it’s in such a sorry state.

    Taleban are the right ful heirs of Jinnah.

    Paritosh Reply:

    @ Rajiv

    a smart enemy is lot dangerous than a idiot one. its better to annhilate Pakistan.

    @ Azhar
    a link posted by a Pakistani makes no sense.

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Paritosh

    My links have shown you your ugly face, hence the nonsense out of your SAFFRON terrorists mouth.

    Your own leader said it, he also like you finally had to speak it like it is.

    Rajiv Reply:

    @Sal,
    Even an idiot must know, Gilgit and Baltistan is not Kashmir.
    Kashmiris dont condider people of Gilgit and Baltistan as Kashmiris. period.

    Regarding your 4000 sq mile of Pok, you can keep it.

    And what is Chinese Kashmir !!!!
    Is that what Pak history books teach ?

    And yes, Kashmir Valley is in full control of India, much much more than Waziristan or Baluchistan is under Pak control.

    Your lies wont change a thing.

    As is said, there is only one guarantee, the more you froth in the mnouth about Kashmir, the more Pakistan loses.

    Has last 60 years of history not taught you anything ?

    Forget Jammu, Leh, Ladhakh, Kargil and Siachen !!
    Even Kashmir Valley is not going anywhere , irrespective ofwhat some Jihadi criminals may want.

    Sal Reply:

    @Rajiv

    I havent said that gilgit Baltistan is Kashmir.

    Pak Kashmir = 5134 sq miles
    Indian Kashmir = 5992 sq miles

    Indian Kashmir is already out of India. You cant go to your occupied Indian Kashmir. You p cant live there. You people cant do business in Kashmir. Every shop, home and street of indian occupied kashmir is written with “Go Back India” and “Quit India”. There has been curfew all over your Kashmir from last 3 months. Hindus who were living in your Kashmir, had to leave their homes in valley for ever and migrated. Indian Kashmir is out of indian territory except for Indein security forces who has to face thousands of Kashmiris on streets of valley daily.

    Whatever I have mentioned above is absolutely 100% correct and you know that it is correct.

  • Rajiv

    Bye the way, most of Pok was part of Jammu province. You dont have any part of Kashmire valley.

    However, I have no problem if you think and claim you have all of Kashmir and not just 4000 sq miles of Pok ( including ex-jammu areas ) plus tribal northern areas of Gilgit and Baltistan.

    Be happy with what you have or else you will lose that too !!!!

    Remember, India took Kargil in 1971 and Sichen in 1984, because Pak kept crying over Kashmir and would not accept LoC or LaC- this is even after the fact India returned 12,000 sq km of territory after 1971 war !

    Ofcourse, your history books may say that Sichen, Kargil are all under PoK or northern areas and you won in 1971 !!

    If you keep fighting anathor 1971 can happen ! Who knows !

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    Sal Reply:

    @Rajiv

    You dont have any Kashmir. What would be the use of any territory where you cant go, where you cant live, where the people of territory hate you from the core of their heart, where every street, shop and home is written with “GO Back India” and “Quit India”.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    False…We have Jammu-Ladakh and parts of kashmir valley both physically and emotionally with us. Even your northern areas (Balwaristan) would like to join us.

    You have just Ghulam kashmir, karakoram tract-Aksai chin (chinese).

    Kashmir is ours…will remain so…

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    Sal Reply:

    And you are not Rajeev

    Rajeev Reply:

    Sal,
    Awesome logic..I am impressed.. I guess you never made it to UIET.

    Sal Reply:

    Nope..My logic was not as awesome as your’s is.

    Rajeev Reply:

    It can never be..because I never went to mad-rasa.

    Sal Reply:

    And I dont want my logic to be awesome like your is

    Rajeev Reply:

    Yeah..you got that right..pakistanis are not known for logic anyway.

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    i am quite sure , that if we dont realise the reality of Sino-Pak anti-India alliance , and act accordingly , we will be at the receiving end and the loss will be irreversible

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  • Rajiv

    @Sal/@Azhar

    Remember what Pakistan’s so called father said of the Pakistan he got in 1947

    ‘A mutilated and moth eaten Pakistan’.

    Now those are not good words, but spoken by Jinnah himself about Pakistan and that was even before you lost 1/2 of Jinnah’s moth eaten Pakistan.
    I would not use such bad words to describe even today’s Pakistan !

    ( go to google and type in ‘moth eaten ‘ and Pakistan will show up as a choice ! . Then search for moth eaten Pakistan to get numerous links to Jinnah’s comments ).

    So be happy with what you have and take care of it, just as India needs to take care of what it has.
    Crave not for what you don’t have. Consequences can be fatal.

    Once that simple, common-sense logic is understood, peace will prevail, even if you think Pakistanis are descendents of Arabs !

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    Sal Reply:

    Whatever Pak was made, at the end, Pak was made out of India. So your dharti Maa has been divided.

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    Sal Reply:

    And still, Pak holds a very big territory of your integral part of dharti maa.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    A large part of pakistani territory namely NWFP and Balochistan is not under pakistani control. Balochis have made it clear that they don’t want to be part of failed nation.

    Rajiv Reply:

    Aren’t we glad that Jinnah took you with him !!!

    Jinnah’s greatest service was to India he left, taking with him religion based politics to be practiced in his moth eaten Pakistan.

    Given how things were in 1947 and how the politics has played out in Pakistan since then, partition is the best thing that happened to India.

    Regarding why Bangladesh has no militart issues with India, is because neither of us make any territorial demands on the other.
    India just gave 1 billion dollars in aid to Bangladesh.
    India has given similar aid to Sri Lnka.
    India has excellent to good relations with Bangladesh, Sri Lnaka and Nepal.

    Inside Bangladesh too, there is a secular party and a Jihadi-party of the Jinnah-Muslim-league kind.
    Bangladesh will prograss and prosper, inspite of heavy burden of population if it stays secular and democratic.
    Or else it will become a somalia or Afganistan.
    The greatest threat to Bangladesh is the Jihadi ideology that is now entrenched in Pakistan and part of Pak identity and state-hood.

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    Sal Reply:

    Here we will talk again at Rajiv’s lies.

    India gives 1 billion US $ aid to Bangladesh….Lie

    India has given loan of 1 billion US $ to Bangladesh will will be returned in 20 years. Truth.

    Many Bangaladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepalese dont like India and India has disputes with them either major or smaller. India is a country which has disputes with all of its neighbours not only Pak and Chine but with Bangladesh (water dispute), Nepal boundry dispute, SriLanka etc. Even Mayanamar doesnt like India.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Pakistan has dispute with all its neghbours.
    1. Afghanistan – Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan is disputed and on top of that afghanis hate pakistanis for interfering.
    2. Iran – Iran is always suspicious of pakistani sunni terrorists who kill shia at a drop of hat.
    3. India – less said the better

    China has problem with all neighbours starting from Russia to Vietnam to Taiwan to Bhutan to Nepal to India.

  • http://yahoo farid

    In the east—–we were also separated at birth—-like the western part .
    –people of eastern part tried differently too—to keep BENGAL united–but failed.
    Separation in the EAST is physical only——
    A REQUEST TO MR.SHARMA———WRITE ABOUT EAST—-SPECIFYING THE REASONS
    OF LESS ANIMOSITY AND TENSION IN THE EAST.with a comparative study.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    farid,
    I may have lot of differences with you but a bangladeshi is 1000% more secular than the most secular pakistani.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    @Farid,
    Most Bangladeshis , as compard to West Pakistanis, have a secular mind and are not yet poisoned by the Jihadi Islamist identity that has now become part of West Pakistan nationhood.

    You have to guard against the Jamit-e-Islami party.
    Religion mixed with politics is a dangerous concoction guaranteed to destroy.

    In India too we have to guard against it and all democratic states have to always fight to stay secular and keep religion away or else the clergy will grab power.

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    farid Reply:

    —-it is difficult to avoid a person—-who holds tickets for PARADISE—-may be false one—
    Thanks to you.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Farid
    If you remember, Al badar, selectively killed muslim intellectuals. Intellectuals can think, which these terrorist people do not want. they want people, with closed mind, following their dictates. Hats off to brave people of Bangladesh, who resisted them and are on the way of improving their lot.

    farid Reply:

    @Pankaj
    ———–yes brother—-AL-BADAR ,AL-SHAMS etc.——-killed our brilliant peoples.
    A great loss for us———-they were fanatic—-not rational—so, not good human.

    They are still creating problem— for us—they are enemy to the progress,peace and prosperity.They are very powerful with international backing.

    Such people–with different flavor and color –can be found in every society.

    WE ALL SHOULD FIGHT AGAINST SUCH ELEMENTS.

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Farid;
    I am in 100% agreement with you. I still remember being offered Pran Bhog,and Mishti Dohi by my Bangladeshi colleagues.

  • http://- Rajeev

    The balochistan province is 48% of total pakistani landmass…and this should be our aim in next 10 years.

    By the way map of pakistan including PoK looks like ‘SITTING DUCK’..just look at the outline of pakistani map.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    @rajeev

    most welcome spinhead. you seem to be lost in wilderness, how about setting up a new country naxaldesh or khalistan in next ten years.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Till now India has not even started supporting Balochistan MORALLY, you have already started pooping in your pants.
    In 71, we divided pak in half, now we will divide you again in half (balochistan) and then go for another half (Sindh). Finally NWFP will automatically merge with parent country afghanistan.

    Remember you people called Indira Gandhi pinhead…and you got bangladesh.

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    @rajeev

    okay master genious, how is that going to happen? your grass root speaks so true but why dont your filthy heads nod to what you say? you have bloody consulates pretending to develop afghanistan in eleven provinces all along the pak-afghan border and that is very evident all its way. we are aware of your genious. good approach. shall i say what lies ahead when someone blows indian embassy in kabul or blows indian consulate in kandahar or kunnar? that is the next big move. what are you going to do about that master evil-genious?

    guys like rajeev truly are genious and running main stream chunkiya – indian policy.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Did you hear how baloch freedom fighters slaughtered punjabis? This is just the start..aage aage dekhiye kaise aapke dimaag thinkhane lagate hein…

    Balochistan will be free in next ten years..You mark my words.

    vijay kumar Reply:

    I think the first step is to tri-furcate Indian Jammu and Kashmir into Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.

    Once Kashmir is reduced to 2500 sq km and landlocked, the separatists will realise that their drama of Independence is a dead dream. We can also withdraw all subsidies.

    Of course we do not have to break this area from India, but only allow people who believe in independence to migrate from here to other countries :)

    shaikh salim Reply:

    Did you hear how naxals carry out their activities against the statesmen in the red corridor? they blow away the railway tracks in bengal, they hang policemen dead bodies on the trees, they even killed andhra pradesh CM. and God knows how are they going to treat the brahmins :S .. same goes all around india.

    Kashmir will be free in next ten years…
    Khalistan will be free in next ten years
    Naxaldesh will be free in next ten years
    Sikkim will be free, northeast will be free…You mark my words.

    you can stop this from happening. stop interferring —seriously nothing will happen to you. if you are unable to digest.. take some pills and go to sleep.

  • shaikh salim

    Rajiv,

    i applaud at you keen sense of history and a complete lack of knowledge aided with complete lack of prespective when you spit out uglish word and describe this as jinnah’s word.

    it was in 1942 when Cripps offered the principle of self-determination of states. parallel to that Rajaji Formula (called after congressman C.Rajagopalacharia) presented the Congress alternative to Pakistan. the rajaji formula was found unacceptable since it offered a plethora of pre-conditions which made its emergence in any shape remote, if not altogether impossible. so jinnah refused to accept this and then made a remark for not wanting this
    “moth eaten pakistan”.

    engrave this on the wall to read for the rest of your life. dont twist and turn or bend the part of history which you have. after reading you im sure there is lot to discover who has its history or text books twisted to shape its own mean. Pakistan Zindabad!!

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    Pankaj Reply:

    LOL. Another soldier of Pakistan has joined the fracas shouting Pakistan zindabad. Shaikh sahib, this forum is discussing entirely different thing. May be you have joined so late, and do not know, what is the topic, and jumped in shouting Pakistan Zindabad!!!!

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    Rajiv Reply:

    @Sheikh,
    the final Pakistan Jinnah got was even more moth-eaten than the one he had so called rejected ! And that was without even what happened in 1971.

    Go google ‘moth eaten’ and Pakistan will show up as a possible popular choice automatically.

    Maybe Pak state should sue google or ban it !

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    @pankaj
    LOL. from where i see, guess you picked up the last statement of the post rather than earlier threads in response to Rajiv’s. would have loved to see same response when someone shouts your patriotic slogan.

    @rajiv,
    and what was that ‘moth-eaten pakistan’? would you like to share some light through your brilliance? same old mantra .. please google your brain first.

  • ajay kumar

    hello every one,
    i am really surprise to see so many peoples from both side of these two countries are sortting out different issues.but friend the core issue b/w these countries is about their pride and ego.
    i know and i can understand the vittal role of these politicians are playing in minimising the risk of war and maximising the effort of peace and brotherhood. everyboday hate this word ,war, becase it litrely means ”to lose some thing”.before i move further i want to tell u guys that i belong to jammu and kashmir and i know the worse effects of war and terrorism. peace is not a single term process, it needs two hands. and perhaps this time and more often, pakistan is not taking this thing and these words seriously.
    i have seen so many peoples in my state,who dont like pakistan and the mass includes musilms and i hope that my pakistani friends would understand these lines easily.i have so many muslim freinds, we usually gossipe about so many problems from our houses to our country and they every time, apprieciate the way india is commiting herself for global peace and that is the true example of peace and harmoney.
    well, i hope that we peoples have to undewrstand the most important thing in this world that is, life, happyness.personally i dont want to see any boday suffring from bullets injuries, discrimination because i have sufferd a loss of some one special in my life. so, in the last, i would like to say peace is the most beautifull word ever created by human beings.
    thanks
    ajay kumar

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  • Rajiv

    @Sal,
    youir lies never end.

    India has such good relations with Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Srilanka that India does not even have active army on border with Bangladesh or Nepal or Burma.
    Its just border securitry force to keep smugglers, illegal immigrants and Pak terrorists who try to sneak in thru other countries, out.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Rajiv

    You know yourself you are a lier. Leing can be ok for any one but you dont feel ashamed of telling lies. This is the thing.

    What the **** you have said, India has given Aid to Bangladesh when in reality India has given loan to Bangladesh. Do you feel ashamed.

    Chutiya..Many many people of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal hates you. They themselves have told me.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Hmmm!!!
    Meeting so many nationalities? Having a POW VOW with them? Surely you are not Pakistani Foreign Services Officer? Or, your thought process,( Lying can be OK for any one?) your abusive language, may be you are Pkaistani Foreign Services officer after all.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    What an idiot. By your definition, every country in the world would hate Pakistan!
    Even Jinnah called it ‘moth eaten’.

    Anyway, you are descending into abuse.
    Knew it would happen.

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  • Rajiv

    Regarding the 1 billion $ loan/line of credit that India gave to Bangladesh, we can give maybe 2 billion to you too !
    Just become a civilized, democratic, secular state , not for the money, but because it will be good for you.

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    Sal Reply:

    Better take care of 3/4 of a country which lives 2$ in a day daily.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    We are.
    You stay away with your terrorists and try to hold on to what you have instead of crying for something you will never have.

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    Sal Reply:

    Then India keep paying its price for its illegal occupation of Kashmir and this price will increase too in coming days.

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal;
    Should we have plebiscite in Balochistan, NWFP, Sindh? Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan said, you are leaving us to volves!!!.
    What you have to say. deny it.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Did Pak went UN and gave a proposal of holding a plebescite in NWFP and Balochistan.? And then Pak didnt keep his promise.

    Both NWFP and Balochistan became part of Pak bu conducting a Referendum in NWFP and Balochistan.

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal;
    You are saying something about Pakistani integrity?? Man, you are walking on very thin Ice. Be aware!!! It is customary to count fingers on your hand after shaking hand with a Pakistani.Pakistani keeping promises, made verbally or in writing??? from where I start, 1.Kabayali attack on kashmir, that was first and most brutal. 2. 1965 infiltration and war.-when they were reported by Kashmiris. 3. Mass genocide of your brothers in religion that is presently Bangladeshis. 4. solemn pledges of Bhutto at Simla. 5.Kargil infiltration6. giving asylum to known criminals… list goes on.
    Now ethnic cleansing is going on in balochistan and the level of violence is 10 times more as compared to kashmir. It is very well known, world over, who is creating trouble in Kashmir, this is known to UNO also. But you are clinching to the words of a deceased lndian leader and feel happy to repeat them ad nauseam. I repeat, you should try to understand that Nehru was more humane than you can comprehend. He offered Cease fire to defeated pakistanis(Kabaylis were retreating), offered UN meditation. Why he should do it. (He did it, nevertheless) That was not practical then, that is not practical now. So, now even pakistan does not believe that plebiscite is possible. it is few of you, who keep n clinching to it. Try to make all of the Kashmir prosperous by tourism, industries, schooling etc and do not waste your energy and time on territory which belongs to others.

    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Didnt Nehro know that Pak had attacked Kashmir first. He was the one who went UN and he himself gave a proposal of holding a plebescite in a valley. Then he made this promise again in a streets of valley with the people of Kashmir.

    Bur he didnt keep his promise. The reason is obivous. The people of Kashmir dont want to live wiht India and in any plebescite, People of Kashmir will definitely give vote against India. This is is the reason, Nehro and India didnt keep his promise. A Plebescite in a valley is pratcical but because Kashmiris will vote against you in a plebeacite, you dont want to hold a plebescite after making promise in UN and in Srinagar.

    And after 63 years, peafple of valley are still protesting on streets of valley with whatever they have in their hands i.e. stones and every corner, every street, every shop, every house of valley is filled with “Quit India Quit”, “Go Back India” etc. This is the reason, India dont want to hold a plebecite.

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    @ Azhar

    i think you should realise that the Islamic arrogance is at the backdrop of global Islamic terror. and yes , Muhammad sex maniac gay rasool was undoubtedly the very first terrorist.

    get something done for your your ugly face dude. you feel to be really frustrated about that.

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    at least better than impotent Rama who asked his brother to f-u-c-k his wife.

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    You are an idiot Salim. People like you are the reason that Islam and Muslims get maligned. Bigoted, uninformed, judgemental and intolerant. No wonder you will be the first to raise the slogans when hindus in return malign the prophet and accuse them of blasphemy.

    Haris

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    “No wonder you will be the first to raise the slogans when hindus in return malign the prophet and accuse them of blasphemy”

    haris, do i sound like someone who came first? can you open your other eye to judge who is first here? i know my limits and how to control it.

    p.s for hindus: i take my words back.

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    @Shaikh

    This is the problem with your people in Pkitstan.. Rama is a part (you do not have to accept as your God) of your heritage too, a heritage 5000 years old. while accepting the prophet a sthe last prophet, you cannot totally disown your heritage …. and the reason for pakistan’s downfall is this total wiping off the heritage asto waht you are –that you are the followers of an ancient history and culture, and not something that sprang up 1500 years ago; that you are not germinated through arabs, but your forefathers were cousins of many of the forefathers of teh current Indians… Instaed you teach elaborate lies in your schools…

    No people who have thrashed their heritage has prospered.

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    @raju,
    thanks for adding an irrelevant dimension. who is disowning 5000 yrs old history mate? no one. the point is don’t throw stones at others – the result is a reaction. atleast you could have stood up and said something to condemn paritosh – but would you?

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    A request to all fellow bloggers :
    Let us all bring sanity to this blog site. Indeed Mr. Vinod Sharma has allowed generously every one to express his views independently and freedom of expression.. Let us not misuse it and instead come out with some constructive arguments and a healthy discussion to move on further on the topic of the blog.
    Thanks
    BNA

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @shaikh Salim
    YOU HAVE BROUGHT SHAME TO YOURSELF, YOUR Country and those like me who advocate peace between India and Pakistan. You owe an apology and an unqualified one at that to all
    visitors to this blog.

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    mr sharma,
    how could you have made a remark above without reading my earlier comments:

    “p.s for hindus: i take my words back. ” – - – - – still if you do not believe your eyes.. i’ll make an apology.

    ” i, salim shaikh, apologize for my remarks against hindu lord Rama in reply to paritosh’s blasphemous statements against my prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who had first addressed him as a ’sex maniac gay’ and then a terrorist.”

    but what is the moment of grief, when one is brought under the limelight of bringing shame to self and country without condeming a single word against ones own countrymen and too realizing him to make an apology. my heart weeps in tears when there is such a drastic judgemental disorder by those so called mature and stable state of minds.

    i would never ever return to sharma’s blog because he too could have asked paritosh the same.

    Vinay Reply:

    Great,

    Really, greatest contributors to this blog. Please keep on posting such gems.

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    Paritosh & Shaikh,

    Because of your statements the whole blog stinks like a skunk. Is it really necessary for you to indulge in such low. Either of you start your own blog and invite each other to exhibit your true colors.

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @All fellow bloggers
    I personally apologise for the abuses hurled at our Ishwar and Allah.

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  • http://- Rajeev

    Sharmaji,
    The pakistani posters have started showing their true colors so it is time you step in and stop this nonsense.

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    shaikh salim Reply:

    why dont you keep quite and ask you countrymen to stop floating mischieves. we’ll also keep quite. no need to call in sharmaji help yourself to mend ways.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Shaikh Sahib,
    though you do not deserve an answer, could not control myself. Spelling for “Quite” is wrong. It should be quiet. Improve your self. Henceforth, you are boycotted at this forum.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Then Pak is ready to have a plebesicte in Kashmir. What about you? But You dont want to have a plebescite beacsue you know Kashmiris will vote against you in a plebescite.

    Today, 3 more Kashmiris get martyred and Is it not pathetic 700,000 security forces in a area of just 600,00 sq miles where roughly 5 millions people lives. Thus 1 security person for 7 Kashmiris to keep your Kashmir within India. This is a hard fact.

    Sal Reply:

    It is 6000 sq miles

    shaikh salim Reply:

    @pankaj,
    thanks for the correction. concentrate on the message by reading between the lines.

    @sal,
    pyaray-lanat bhaij, we know the results of plebiscite. let them simmer and sink in their own mess.

    Rajeev Reply:

    I feel majority community (sunnis) living in minority area (Kashmir valley and adjoining districts) is trying to usurp the whole state (J&K).

    The kashmir valley dominated by sunnis who also happen to be anti-india, is just 20% of the whole J&K so how can they decide the future of remaining 80% of state. It is time J&K is divided in 5 parts and hold plebicite in all 5 areas SEPARATELY. If for any reason plebicite can not be done for an area due to changed demography, it should be divided between India and pak half and half.

    1. Ghulam Kasmir (so-called azad kashmir) – This area should be de-punjabisised, original habitant (mirpuris) brought back from UK.

    2. Northern areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) – De-punjabisise this area and bring back displaced people.

    3. Ladakh

    4. Kashmir Valley

    5. Jammu

    I am pretty sure India will get Ladakh and Jammu plus half of Ghulam Kashmir and half of Gilgit Baltistan. We are better off without pakistani slaves kashmir valley.

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Rajeev
    We must also stop one particularly abusive Indian on this blog from insulting Prophet Mohammad.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Vinodji;
    Yes, I agree. Paritosh was never encouraged, and I remember he was rebuked in an earlier blog. We people have no right to insult a great personality of human history, you may not agree with his teachings but it does not give any one a right to insult him. I remember a pakistani’s comment that admitted that Islam is best religion of world and Pakistanis are worst followers of that religion. Well said my brother in humanity.
    Our problem is with depraved and deranged Pakistani rulers and not with Islam.
    @ Paritosh
    More abusive language you use, less will be your weight for an enlightened discussion. Give hard facts, which Sal and people of his ilks are not able to reply.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Vinod Sharma Saheb
    Yes, the comments of both Mr.Shaikh Salim and Mr. Paritosh have brought grief to all of us. We should avoid and not touch the religious sensibilities of each other. That would always be like touching thr raw nerve of someone. Yes, Mr. Paritosh should also be asked to mind the language while making any comment on any religion.
    Regards
    BNA

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    Vinay Reply:

    One frustrated Indian feels, it is high time India holds a plebiscite in Kashmir:

    If we have to make Kashmir as our integral part, there are two ways.

    1. By using force : It depends on India’s “strength” in brutality. Saying, we will treat Kashmir like China and Israel is easy. But what China did in Xinjiang, How Israel rolled tanks in Gaza, India can never do in Kashmir even after 100 years. Here, Hinduism and Buddhism learned to co-exist instead of wars. Indus Valley Civilization, though had advanced technologies in town planning and sanitation systems could never build a great wall or a huge pyramid, only because slavery was not practiced in our civilization. (We can always view the glass as half full or half empty). We have no aggressiveness in our history. With this background I wonder, we can occupy Kashmir by force, anytime.

    2. Winning them with love : Past 60 years have shown our effort has been futile. It has only been one way. Kashmir gets the lion share in Indian government grants compared to others and then hate India. This tendency keeps continuing even after 100 years. The more our government licked them, more they have kicked us. (I feel, trifurcation will not solve the entire Kashmir problem. It can only redefine the boundaries of the problem).

    In other words, all the time Kashmir has been one high maintenance girl friend, who would never commit even if we buy her Taj Mahal. If we want, we can invest (waste) more time and money on her. If we are wiser, move on. We can give them highest grant for 5 more decade, can improve their infrastructure even better (already it is better than their counterparts in Pakistan). After that also, they will be the same. It will teach a lesson to discriminatory appeasing policy of Indian government; if you keep giving carrots to a community thinking you will win them, end of the day you will only loose
    carrots. Bring on uniform civil code.

    As far as the solution: It needs an inevitable surgery of Kashmir Valley from India (as Jammu and Ladakh seems to be happy with India according to a pole. Of coure, opinion polls can’t be a plebiscite). But then, there are few technical problems which needs to be addressed.

    1. Kashmiri Pandits:
    This is a mess created by Kashmiri Muslims and it is not Indian government’s responsibility to deal with the refugees they have created (when Kashmir is not India). We already have other refugees and other muslims (living in rest of India) to take care of. So solving this problem has to be a Kashmiri Muslim’s responsibility. As they have already decided that they don’t want to stay with these Hindus, let them vacate from one district of Kashmir Valley and leave it under the control of Indian government for rehabilitation of these refugee Hindus (Could be parts of Anantnag District like Pahalgam (where Amar Nath Yatra is held) and Anantnag Tehsils. It is the Kashmiri
    Muslim who dreams of Independence and it is he who needs to sacrifice. Not a Kashmiri Hindu who never dreamed about independence. (It is not really a sacrifice, as they can occupy the vacated Hindu houses in the valley). I know this suggestion is almost like another partition. But seems like, it is inevitable, as first half of it has already been performed. (Another possibility of Kashmiri Hindus returning to valley looks like a day dream to any practical minded person). India should agree for a plebiscite, only after the above condition is agreed by Kashmiri muslim leaders.

    Let Indian govt not take any responsibility in vacating these homes. Kashmiri leaders, who gave calls for youth to sacrifice their life, future etc let them ask these people to sacrifice their home. Let Indian army not participate in any of the things (it can avoid the blame, in case any deaths happen). Let the Kashmir be given independence only after these areas get emptied.

    2. Kashmiris who are staying(/working) in other parts of India:
    They will be equivalent to any other europian or a mexican working in India. They can work if they can get a work visa. Or let them go back and serve their new motherland, as their service will be more required there. As for Indian requirement goes, yes we would miss their service and hope we can survive without their service. We certainly don’t need any politicians from that state (Abdullah duo), as we have enough skilled labor here. Also, we have seen their efficiency in managing our funds. In all other words: GOOD BYE.

    3. Kashmiris who own properties in other parts of India (which includes Shariyyat leaders as well):
    The same rule should be applied as in the case of a Pakistani national of Indian origin. They can’t own any properties in India. So these people can invest back in their homeland or government of India has the power to take over them. The other route, Indians owing properties in Kashmir: never existed.

    4. Future of Kashmir : What if it becomes another Afghanistan? What if Pakistan takes it over? What if China takes over? :
    None of our business. How does it matter, whether Afghanistan is independent or taken over by Pakistan? In fact, I would differ with India’s involvement in rebuilding Afghanistan as well. Why should our engineers/builders pledge their life in rebuilding a country, knowing their work and our country will never be acknowledged in a positive way? (take for example, donation in the flood case). We have other things to take care of, in our own country. Yes, it is a bit of worry, if China takes it over. But then, Aksai Chin is also not very far from Delhi/Kashmir. If we can live with that discomfort, we can live with this one too. As I said earlier, China has the “efficiency” to handle these ethnic group. We are not capable. Let us acknowledge. End of the day, whatever happens, it is their fate. India should NEVER EVER try to help them again. We have had enough of them for decades. Let us not keep brooding over these broken relationships. We need to move on.

    What do we achieve by all these? We will get rid of a headache. My state can get more funding from government. We have loved them enough. Time for us to ignore them. Let them “have fun”. GOOD LUCK.

    Any takers?

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    @Vinay
    You could have cited the way the Russians handled the problem in Chechnya. The world still kept quiet. The people of valley have been pampered for too long.
    BNA

    Vinay Reply:

    @Anand,

    Getting control of a region from the rioting mob is a different thing than winning a war. It needs the ruthlessness to roll the tank over “civilians”. Yes. Russia, China, Israel have displayed this “strength”, time and over. How much is your bet that India can do it? Forget about the world. It will always be quiet, when the attacker is strong. (Even if India does, Pakistan make a hue for a couple of months and then it will die down). But the problem is internal. The parties here get so opportunistic to condemn a naxallite’s killing of civilian. Can they ever agree on such cold blooded things? Can our government get so bold, ever?

    Also, the job is not like; once you finish, you are through (look at Iraq). You have to keep on using your force, resource to silence them again and again. End of the the day, Kashmir is one “high maintenance state”. Using the force makes it even worse.

    Rajeev Reply:

    Totally agree..It is one thing not to believe in prophet but quite another insulting him.

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  • Mahesh

    Friends (from both sides of border),
    Now that we know so much about each other (what was that again, ahh yes – Naxalistan and ohh yes baltistan and kafirs and ram and jinnah and well, forget it,,,) let us quiz ourself a bit more.
    I have a very basic question for you folks….
    Can you list down top ten impediments from your own country (mind you, speak for your own country) to Indo-Pak Peace ?
    Again, Please let me remind , you are speaking for your own country and try to be honest by **not posting** on behalf of your friends from other side of the border.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.
    P.S. for Sharmaji : Is it possible that you and a credible (in your opinion) guest columnist from Pakistan co-author such a piece ? Not sure about HT’s policies but still sounding out the possibility.

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    @Mahesh,

    Adorable move, but does one have guts to list such traits? Well for once I’ll list one, lets see who has the guts to follow (abiding by the rules):

    1. Pakistan routed Indian offer of help in its need through UN channel. I believe when FMs have met, PMs have met and even talked on moving forward for ‘aman ki asha’ this moment should have been encashed.

    Mahesh: i’m atleast expecting one from you. :)

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    Vinay Reply:

    To Mahesh and Usman,

    I was expecting “Hindutva group” to do more, to preserve the heritage of our country by supporting Indian art and culture. (Like the revival of old temples in villages with their history well acknowledged, similar to the churches in abroad. More support for dying arts like kathakali or yakshagana.) But for this group, preserving heritage only meant building one temple in Ayodya, restoring Indian art meant not allowing any Pakistani artiste (like Ghulam Ali Khan’s concert in Mumbai) to perform in India. They called this hatred as patriotism.

    A Pakistani muslim boy married one Indian muslim girl, both happened to be in sports. Lot of “patriotic” people felt SO TERRIBLE, as if Pakistan snatched Kashmir. If this is the hysteria of patriotic mindset, wonder what they feel even with an idea of plebiscite.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Mr. Usman and Mr. Mahesh
    Will you please allow me to come into this? I list one from this side.
    I believe the statement of Mr. Pillai before the meeting between the two FMs could have been avoided. That statement easily provided Pakistan a convincing logic to complain.. Instead, Mr. Pillai could have made the statement after Mr. Krishna had returned back. That was not a matured diplomacy.

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    Greetings Dr Anand,
    :) point well made.

    Mahesh Reply:

    OK , Here is my point about the impediment from Indian side .
    IMHO, India needs to move away from the mindset of viewing its relationships with Pakistan in militaristic / adversarial terms. For whatever reasons, this is mostly happening today. Our relationships need to be much more broad based. Bilateral Trade and a serious discussion (leading to better long-standing bilateral ,measures) on managing Climate (and hence food / shared natural resources) related un-certainity are very good candidates. However, for this we need to shed our own prejudices and approach with sincerity and honesty.
    My gut feel is Afghanistan (yes, Afghanistan – not Kashmir) could be another flash-point . Not discussing this any further as I don’t yet understand the exact contours of Indo-Pak conflict in Afghanistan.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Mahesh
    Good idea. Shall explore possibilities.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Vinodji,
    You are the villain of the piece. I have so many things to do, and you bring this blog. I do not want to involve myself in these infantile discussions, but , big BUT?, if people do not participate, those fundoos have all the freedom to play. Your blog has taken lot of my precious time, but like an addict, I can get away from it.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Vinodji
    That was a back handed compliment. Do not think otherwise.

    Rajiv Reply:

    ——————————————————————————————
    A must read on the current Kashmiri vandalism/unrest..
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    htt p :/ greatbong.net/2010/08/11/of-azaadi-and-kashmir-and-other-false-words/

    There has been a slew of pro-Azadi, anti-India articles in the Indian mainstream press recently (two examples: Link, Link) with one of these fine specimens of mediahood proudly recounting how he became a stone-thrower for a day pointing out quite pointedly that the only thing that saved him was the “Hindustan” times card with the emphasis being on the sub-string Hindu. Of course of all these marvelous bits of journalism, with their objectivity and integrity misaals in their own right, my favorite piece is the one by one M.F. Hussein, extraordinary connoisseur of Bollywood derrieres (do see Gajagamini if you don’t believe me) , who tells us how he left India for its lack of freedom. Yes and presumably found it in Qatar, an Islamic theocracy where freedom of all religions sans Islam is severely restricted and where apostasy (leaving Islam) is a crime.

    I like that the most because it reminds me of a World War II joke I read once in Reader’s Digest. An American and Russian were having a conversation. The American says “US is the freest country in the world. I can go to the White House, walk upto the table of the president, bang my hand there and tell Harry S Trueman exactly what I think about Harry S Trueman.” To which the Russian says “Hah we are as free. I can go to the Kremlin, walk upto the table of the General Secretary of the Party, bang my hand there and tell Stalin exactly what I think about….Harry S Trueman”. Yes Mr. Hussein you are absolutely free in Qatar to paint Hindu Goddesses in the nude but things will be different should you choose to paint a picture of …well you know who I am talking about. This is not to condone the acts of vandalism of your work, which was done by goons with no respect for the pluralistic traditions our country stands for, but to castigate India for being “not free” while being a voluntary citizen of Qatar is the height of hypocrisy.

    Anyhow, this post isn’t about M F Hussein nor about the way forward in Kashmir nor whether trying to bribe the local population with money will work nor about the draconian AFSPA (which I believe needs to be repealed—the Armed forces have to be made accountable in civilian contexts like everyone else) nor about the recent violence per se.

    It is about the Kashmiri “fighting for independence against the wicked Indian state” thing that we see repeated ad nauseum not just from Pakistan but in Indian mainstream media outlets.

    My first beef is with the word “independence”. Historically independence struggles have been fought against foreign powers, those who have taken control over a piece of territory for the purpose of economic exploitation. It has also been fought between peoples of the same nation, like the Bangladesh independence struggle where a section of the population that has attained power (Punjabi Muslims) treats another ethnic or linguistic community (in this case Bangali Muslims) as second class citizens, systematically annihilating and depriving them of their most basic rights.

    In the case of Kashmir, none of this is true. India does not “economically exploit” Kashmir. On the contrary it spends a massive amount on the state trying to buy the loyalty of the population. (NY Times, which last time I looked wasn’t a right wing newspaper, says: “The dirty little secret of Srinagar, the heart of the movement to secede from India, is that many of its residents live quite well on the Indian government’s money.” [Link])

    At the very least, no one can accuse the Indian government of taking anything out of the state, if for nothing else but because there is not much to take out. It is of course true that a lot of the development money lands up in wrong hands (that happens everywhere in India) but there are far more deprived areas of India that have no “freedom struggles”. As to the rights of Kashmiri citizens, they have privileges over property ownership that very few Indian citizens outside Kashmir have, making them “super citizens” rather than inferior ones.

    So none of the traditional characteristics of freedom struggles hold here. But it is true that Kashmiris are fighting. But not for independence. They are fighting to establish a theocratic Islamic Shariyat state, aligned with or as an intrinsic part of Pakistan, where “independence” is defined somewhat as it is defined in Qatar, with subjugated status for minorities, and where the establishment of “liberty, equality and fraternity” , the ideals of any freedom struggle, is farthest from the minds of the stone-throwers and those that support them.

    But then one can say—”So? So they want to establish an Islamic state. That’s their decision. What right does the Indian government have to interfere?” This brings us to my second bone of contention. The word “Kashmiri”. Like “independence” this too, in this context, is a false word. A better more honest descriptor would be “Kashmiri Sunni Muslims”. There was a time when Kashmiris meant both Hindus and Muslims but then the Kashmiri Hindus were killed and driven out from the state by “Kashmiris”. Since these Hindus are not part of the “freedom struggle” it is not fair to use the word “Kashmiri” to refer to the agitators, who since they use Islam as their reason for wanting “independence” and identify themselves solely by their religious orientation, should also not object to being called what they actually are—Kashmiri Suni Muslims.

    The question should now be framed as: “So what is wrong in letting Kashmiri Sunni Muslims, after they have driven out the large section of the minorities, from establishing an “Islam is the answer” “independent” non-democratic state? Their free will—they shall do as they like.”

    Good. Sounds good. But let me as you these questions.

    If tomorrow the majority in Jat-land start an armed struggle to establish an autonomous Khap-istan where honor killings and dowry and marriages of minors are legal and where inter-caste marriage implies death and retributive rape , would you call that an “independence” struggle and say that India should just let them have their way and not have the Army fight them? If day after tomorrow, India’s most-hated state Gujarat decides that it wants to throw out its Muslim minorities and establish a Hindu-theocratic Dhokla-land will the same Indians who post “Stop illegal military occupation of Kashmir by terrorist-state India” on their Facebook feeds also support the rights of Gujarati Hindus to choose how they wish to be governed because that’s what “Gujarati” majority wants?

    I think I know the answer.

    So please sirs and madams do protest against the Indian state and the Indian Army and sign petitions and protest outside the United Nations while drinking Starbucks and discussing EB2 Green card priority dates. Do whatever you want to do but please, for the sake of truth of labeling, do drop the “independence struggle” from the description and please qualify the word “Kashmiri” with what should come after it.

    Of course if you do so, then the romance and the liberal “feel good” of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with an independence movement is gone and hurling stones at the Indian Army would be seen not as an act of supreme passion and justified frustration but as an act of war against the Indian state, something I believe which there are laws against.

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    Only if Indian leaders , from Manmohan to Socia to Advani etc had that clear understanding of the situation, as the blogger above.

    Mr Sharma, you too should read it.
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    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    STOP calling Arun a Pakistani, we have NO Saffron terrorists left in our country. Hey where is your Haris pretending to be Pakistani?

    Pankaj Reply:

    If Arun is not pakistani for sure, as you know, then come out with his real name. as far as Arun is concerened, vinay you need not to be so polite to this chameleon. He is through and through pakistani, pretending to be an Indian. I have been keeping quiet about him but he has shown his true colors.

    Rajeev Reply:

    he is Arun KHrisnamurt(H)y….

    Pankaj Reply:

    recouped your energies? back on the job?

  • Vinay

    @Sal,

    “The more I am arguing with you, the more you are giving your case of Kashmir as Indian, not as a neutral.”
    Humm.., May be I went overboard while accusing Hurriyat leaders. (But I would stand by with the other statements and sentiments as being neutral). But your comparison of Kashmir to Palestine was not neutral either. There in Palestine, people who have been uprooted from their homes are fighting for their survival. Here, the struggle is not for existence. People here are claiming for their own identity as independent Kashmir. They are not one and the same.

    I always get into arguments with people about why “pro something” has to imply “anti something-else”. Pro-movements which reflect positivity can uplift the society. Anti -movements with their negativity can only destroy. I don’t understand why RSS has to mean “anti-Muslim”. (Vajpayee who declared himself to be RSS swayamsevak was not Islam basher, Varun Gandhi with no RSS background is). Pro-Dalit doesn’t have to be anti-Brahmin. Concern about poor doesn’t have to involve butchering rich. Lastly patriotism need not have to anti-Pak for an Indian and Anti-India for a Pakistani. But
    “anti-ism ideologies” always look glamorous and edgy, as they let one to vent whatever frustration he has over a community.

    As an Indian, I love my country. I don’t need to hate Pakistan, to prove my patriotism. For that, I will just stick to what India can do at this juncture rather than passing bucks.

    1> To reduce heavy military presence in Kashmir. We didn’t train our soldiers for years, just to face a group with stones. Any local police with a stick and tear gas shells would have been equally efficient. (This is what has always been used in our towns. With Ram Mandir verdict going to be announced, we better have more stock
    of these. But every time we don’t want to call army to deal with a situation. So does a Kashmiri). If these people throw stones at a school or shop and there is no army to control them, the locals themselves will take care. Why do we need to waste our army? Also, military person who is only trained with rifle, obviously will be tempted to use it. It will only increase the death toll and hamper Indian image.

    If a 7 year old boy killed by a bullet, I condemn both the parties. A pro-Kashmiri (anti-India) movement leaders who brought the kid on the street and also the patriotism, which justifies this bullet action on a kid. We need to take care, none of the “ism” or “anti-isms” are above humanism.

    2> There is no need for India to assert its presence any more in this state (too much assertion leads to aversion) and also no need for it grant too much to one region (compared to all other states) just because it refuses to be Indian. (I feel, it is an injustice for other states of India who contribute to India’s GDP).

    3> When it gets to normalcy, allow the inevitable plebiscite. Never in the history, India has invaded any country, colonized a state. Let Kashmir not be an exception (without people’s wish). I don’t want my country to take over Kashmir with a gun point because China did, Russia did. We have never treaded on their path, no need to follow them now. (In fact I suppose, there was a chance of plebiscite in Vajpayee’s time. He did say, plebiscite can happen but it has to include Azad Kashmir as well. But Kargil invasion hammered indo pak relations again). Personally, I wish for a plebiscite and Kashmir chooses to be with us. But if they think they want to be an independent country in a
    Taliban stricken region with wahabi movement already set in, it is a sad thing, but then it is their choice. I can wish good luck to Pakistan as well, as they can have one more Afghanistan as their neighbor.

    4>Last and most important thing. India needs to learn emotional detachment from its broken partners. It keeps thinking of it (love you or hate you but can’t ignore you .. sort of) Be it donating during floods to Pak or whatever. It trys to go out of the way, then keep feeling disappointed why Pak doesn’t reciprocate its love. If somebody doesn’t acknowledge, it is fine. We have our life to get on. Pressume plebiscite happened, Kashmir chose to be independent. The venerable situation it is in, and kind of irresponsible leaders they have, there is always a chance of it spiraling downwards.
    But then, India should stop thinking that it is India’s responsibility and should never get involved in other country’s business.

    Sal, I don’t know your mindset is more of pro-Kashmir or anti-India. Both are not one and the same. If it is pro-Kashmir, you can think of resolving problems from Pakistani side.

    Pak asking India to give up its right on Kashmir and India trying to grip it more firmly, is like the story of wind trying to blow the man’s coat out. More the wind blew, the tighter the man held the coat. Whenever Pak asserts more about Kashmir, India feels more unsecured and tries to grip it with more army presence in Kashmir. Till 80s, nobody in India bothered about special status of Kashmir. When Pak supported freedom fighters/militants (versions change), people started asking why a special status for Kashmir.

    Instead of blowing more wind, Pak can show us a sun shine. It can lead India by holding plebiscite in Pak side of Kashmir (as it is confident about Azad Kashmir). This act can demonstrate to the world about Pak’s commitment for resolving Kashmir problem. It can also put a question mark on India’s democracy, which really did not give people any choice. This way, Pakistan can build international pressure on India and India will be forced to hold a plebiscite without any excuse.

    If your mindset is more of anti-India, you can keep pointing fingers to India and continue the blame game. “If we give independence, you will take it away. You do first” etc. As I said earlier, it is always “anti-isms” which look more attractive and that is what we witness in the name of patriotism.

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  • Rajiv

    @Vinay,
    You should be better informed.
    In the valley, in last couple of months , the 90 odd stone throwing, setting fire to public property, vehicles etc persons or vandals who have died have died of wounds from tear gas shells or fire-arms fired by Kashmir police ( Not Indian army ). The Kashmir police in valley is 90 plus percent made of local Kashmiri muslims.

    Now in Pakistan, Pak army/ISI kills that many just in a day in Waziristan or Swat.
    So the last person to shed any crocodile tears should be any Pakistani from that criminal entity called pAKISTAN.

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    Rajiv you wrote: “Pak army/ISI kills that many just in a day in Waziristan or Swat”

    What are the last reports you are recieving regarding the clean up operation. I would like to know keeping in view the internally displaced refugees had to take cover in areas in Punjab.

    The operation was done to wipe out growing militancy and its links originating from Afghanistan.
    Its unlike the way in your part of kashmir. Would still like to know.

    Thanks,
    Usman

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    Rajiv Reply:

    @Usman

    238 extra judicial , cold blooded killing by Pak army in Swat

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10667545

    Every day, you have to look at just Dawn to see reported killings by Pak army , in Swat or Waziristan or cold blooded killing of Baluchs in Baluchistan or by a tribal group supported by Pak army.

    Just yesterday, 101 tribals dies in a sunni-shia tribe clash with the sunni tribe reportedly supported by Pak army.
    In Kashmir, does India use helicopter gunships,shelling of villages and towns, air craft to bomb and kill ? Any such operation, involving helicopter gunships , bombings and shelling will kill many innocents alnog with few insurgents. Thats why , even under gravest provocation, India does not use those measures in Kashmir valley and uses only targetted operation against militants or those that attack, with few exceptions. Thats the reason you don’t see millions of refugees in India as you see millions such refugees from Swat or Mehsuds of Waziristan.

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    Usman Chaudhry Reply:

    The circumstances residing in Kashmir are somewhat similar but not complete. The situation in Waziristan and Swat are bit different. We evacuated 1 million people from the valley and displaced that to take a clean operations, never heard that piece on your side. Besides, previously truce had be broken between the government and some who challange the writ of state. That is why a military operation was called upon. But that is equally true that “gehoo k sath gehoo bhi pista hai”. Good and evil were caught in this. Five such cases are in progress.

    Vinay Reply:

    Rajiv,

    If most of the killings are by Kashmiri Police (consisting of 90% Kashmiri Muslims), then it becomes even more important for Indian government to withdraw the army because, it has to hold an unnecessary bad image.

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    Pankaj Reply:

    Vinay,
    Army is at border. not in the streets. Do not bring Army here. That institution is above reproach.
    This is not pakistani Army.

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  • Rajiv

    Bye the way,the basic premise of this blog is false and mischivious propoganda from Pakistani perspective.
    Pakistani state and its enlightened citizens claim that they are descendents of Arabs, whom incidentally much of th world considers the worst specimen of humanity .

    Any contact with such an entity will at the minimum end in getting defrauded.

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Rajiv
    Pl don’t pass such sweeping judgements.

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  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    @ Vinod Sharma

    “Chutiya..Many many people of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal hates you. They themselves have told me.”

    Mr Sharma , this is one such filthy comment from Sal , that shows the true character of Pakistanis. lets see if you have the balls to scold your Pakee brother

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    Sal Reply:

    Had I said anything about any Hindu God

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    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal
    it is not about Hindu gods. You are behaving in a way, as side kick to Feudals in Pakistan. Read Indian newspapers, where so called backward people are at the helm of affairs. You are still entangled by the Cobweb created by your feudals and do not see writing on the wall. This life and world is much bigger than what you think in your blinkered vision.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Here someone is in the process of becomming another Rajiv. Dont give me any refernece of Indian newspapers. I know what standard they have and what they write.

    My previous post was in reponse to Partitosh.

    Pankaj Reply:

    @ Sal;
    Great. all the roles of Judge, witness and Executionor, rolled into one person. You do not reply to facts, but attach your self to cliches.
    CM of kashmir- Omar Abdullah- Muslim
    CM of Punjab- Prakash Singh Badal- Jat
    CM of Rajasthan- Ashok Gehlot- backward class
    CM of UP- Mayawati- a woman and Scheduled caste
    CM of Bihar- Nitish kumar- Backward Caste.
    CM of M.P. – Shiv Raj Singh Chauhan- backward Caste
    CM of Tamilnadu- Karunanidhi- Backward caste
    CM of karnatak- backward caste
    CM of AP-late , a christian, present one is a backward caste.
    CM of Haryana- Hooda-a jat
    CM of Maharashtra- a Maratha- backward caste
    CM of Gujarat- Narendra Modi- a backward caste.
    PM of India- A Sikh
    I have given you ample examples. india does not work with your world view. You are not ready to accept it. Even, when hard facts are in front of you? what one can do with people like you.

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    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Grow up. That doesnt shows anything. And dont force me to give hard facts about India. My hard facts about India are more harder than your’s.

    Pankaj Reply:

    OK,
    got your point. . Ham kabhi nahin sudharenge.

    Sal Reply:

    @Pankaj

    Dont waste my time. Try to tell all of your Govt’s stand (which you are giving to me and which your media from time to time portrays to the world) to Kashmiris of your part. They are the one who is rejecting with stones and slogans of indepedence under draconian laws of Special Forces Armed Act from last 20 years.

  • Rajiv

    Interesting comment by Karzai
    ——————————————–
    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20109\18\story_18-9-2010_pg7_19

    “The enemy is headquartered in Pakistan and he should be defeated there. For the US, the expendable part of the Taliban is in Afghanistan. Karzai asserts why should I collaborate with NATO to kill the Afghans they consider expendable?” the aide asked. “Moreover, if Pakistan can survive playing a double game, why cant I,” he added.

    ( This is from an interview to anti-India, thug journalist Saeed Naqvi, as reported in Pak paper )

    So here we have Karzai saying he will start playing double game unless USA stops Pakistan from playing double game in Afganistan and defrauding all.

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  • Vijay Kumar

    @Pankaj and Rajeev,

    Pankaj, the first step is to get tri-furcation of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir, as an issue to be discussed in all public forums. So you can

    a) Send mailers to all you know as well as to newspapers and newschannels.

    b) Send it as a reply posting against any article on Jammu and Kashmir,

    At a later stage when the momentum is built up we can go for a website.

    Rajeev,

    I agree with you that India should use the happenigns in Baluchistan is alever against what Pakistan does in Jammu and Kashmir as well as rest of India. I think the first step would be to highlight it at this blogsite as well as ll public forum on topics of Pakistan as well as J&K.

    Let us get to the job !! :)

    PS : I have just posted a reply to Barkha dutt’s article on J&K with our mailer on tri-furcation !!

    MOre power to the blogger and the Net !! :)

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  • Vijay Kumar

    I think we should get beyond insulting each other’s religions!!

    However it does not mean that religion’s don’t need reform. If reforms come through internal mechanisms, great. Otherwise we can always point out certain shortcoming in religious practices to fellow citizens of this world and say, “brother.. don’t you think this is inhuman ?”

    :) :) :)

    Let me also state that whay religions fight is over the basic issue of conversion. Why don’t we give up this issue and think of a world where we dont have to convert but allow people to respect and follow the faith they chose as well as admire the good things in other religions???

    Jerusalam was the home of Christianity, Jews and Islam. And they were battles till Christians reconciled with Jews. However the same has not happened between Muslims and Christians and Muslims and Jews.

    Hope it happens soon…. :)

    In contrast India has been the home and the birth ground of Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and so many other religions, all living peacefully with each other. Christianity came 2000 years back and thrived. And Islam too came in various forms. The violent puritanical form of Auranzewb which believed in conversion and Jaziya was at conflict with other relgions.

    The gentle sufi Islam of Akbar with Deen-e- Elahi was loved by all.

    I think Muslims in India have a special responsiblity to understand the Islam of Akbar. Maybe that can really be the platform where India serves as the model where Muslims are shown to be in understanding with other relgions.

    Let me also state from my personal experience that most Indian Muslims DO NOT want any confrontations with HIndus or Sikhs or Christians. However our media for TRP ratings. and Muslim politicans as well as votebankers, usually wants to pit Muslims against all others. Why?

    Why create divides when shared culture and country are the real uniters….. :) :)

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  • Rajiv

    Meanwhile…

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/We-the-Kashmiri-people/H1-Article1-601933.aspx
    ……

    Many young stone-throwers on the frontlines do not appear like Islamic radicals. They dress well, like music, cellphones and girlfriends are often discussed. Do they do what they do because they believe or does, as the police often allege, money play a part?

    “We earned Rs 200 to Rs 300 as daily wage labourers,” says one of a group of masked young stone throwers. “Now we get between Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500.” Who pays them? “The separatists,” one offers. In a quiet, two-room home with open drains outside, 20-year-old street icon, Owais Ahmed ‘Mandela’, freely admits to receiving money. Where does it come from? He shrugs.

    ……………..

    My comment :
    Its because of India’s poor intelligence agencies these problems become severe.
    In USA, the source of funding for these vandals would be traced, each of the people who have funded this , wittingly or unwittingly, would be prosecuted and
    sentenced to lenghty sentences besides being charged for causing death to the stone throwers for organizing and financing gang activity and violence.

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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Rajiv
    You are right. Our intelligence agencies as well as media have let down the government and the peoplke of the country for hving failed to track this flow of money. After all the stone pelters are not doing a free job, they are reported to be getting 1000-1500 rupees per day. Who is paying and from where the money is coming? Are we so incompetent to be ignoring these facts and be only taken in by the media propaganda of propagating that young and children are being killed in a battle of bullets vs stones. After all, a direct hit from a stone is as lethal as a bullet would be,
    The govt.owes an explanation to the country for this.
    BNA

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  • Arun Krishnamurty

    Bravo, and now the stone pelters are paid….Anything and everything to be believed but they don’t hate us; they love Pakistan; heck we can’t even visit that State; they use for the most part Pakistani Standart time; they watch Pakistan TV GEO; ARY and PTV Drama’s; They dress like Pakistanis; their heart and minds is Pakistani.

    My fellow countrymen they don’t need couple of thousand Rupees to throw stones at what they consider occupying forces. The sooner we get out the better for us.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    Hey Paaaki, you finally corrected the spelling of your last name.
    good job.

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    Arun Krishnamurty Reply:

    Keep assuming…The same assumption for 60 yrs that Pakistan is involved in Kashmir and not local struggle is bitting us in the B u t .

    Whether we like it or not; They hate us Rajiv, when are you going to wake up. Your calling me a Pakistani is not going to change reality, period.

    Now go back to posting your useless posts

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    Vinay Reply:

    Arun,

    We need more people like you to enlighten us when we become inhuman and inconsiderate in nature. Needed to know your knowledgable opinions on some more point.

    Why do think, those poor Kashmiri people have to throw their neighbor hindus out? Just because they were angry with us the dirty Indians? It is we, whom they hate, is it? Why those poor innocent people made their neighbours vacate? Do you think, their neighbors were also equally dirty and nasty like us? (Then certainly, they deserved to be thrown.)

    How is your state treating minorities Arun? You can speak something more about your region, how the people are treated there etc.

  • jai vaidya

    Pakistan cannot gracefully accept aid from India, as it would puncture the fake history and identity it has sold to its masses. Land of the pure accepting aid directly from lowly Indians in the full glare of the media would have brought about a reality check for the common Pakistani.
    Coming to Kashmir, the Islamists are not the majority in the Valley.They only exist in the inner city of urban Kashmir. The Shias, Bakerwals, Gujjars and significantly many women oppose the Islamists.
    Calling for U.N. plebiscite and shouting Azadi is an oxymoron. Because the UN plebiscite resolution does not give the option for independence, the option it gives is India or Pakistan. Also why plecbiscite only for the Valley What about POK and more importantly Gilgit and Baltistan (also known as Balawaristan ) The UN resolution mandates India to also hold plebiscites in these two areas after the Pakistani army leaves along with Pakistani civilians.
    The Islamists in the Valley are not pelting stones at the Indian army. They know the army would not tolerate ithis pelting nonsense. The last time the army was called it restored order within a week and gave the command back to J and K police.
    None of the 102 deaths in the last three months has come from the Indian army. It is the J and K police ( are largely Kashmiri Sunni force.) and when outgunned they request help from C.R.P.F. All the deaths of the past three months have come from the bullets fired by these two forces.This debate about AFSPA and the Indian army are contrived .Its aim is to weaken the Indian army, weakening India’s hold over the Valley, enabling renewed external aggression.
    I’m afraid the pelting business will reach its intended climax during the visit of Obama in New Delhi. The ISI and its proxy JI (Geelani) want the Americans to pressure India to remove its army from Kashmir, this would be the quid pro quo for the U.S. safe exit out of Afghanistan.
    And Vinay you hit the nail on the heaad about Panun Kashmir being located around Anantnag District. This entity should be a Union territory with central forces.
    Who controls Afghanistan and Gilgit Baltistan have huge security implications for India. We simply cannot afford to disengage.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    excellent points.
    Sometimes you have to deal with Taleban-Jihadis, just as USA is doing or Pak does against those Jihadis not on ISI payroll.
    They just drone them, bomb them, shell them or vaporize them.
    That would be against how democratic India operates but once all options are exhausted India may have to deal with those who resort to violence , inspired by jihadi philosophy , the same way USA, Russia, China or Pak deals with those that violently oppose the state , that too inspited by religiopus intolerance.

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    Mahesh Reply:

    Rajiv, I highly appreciate your views. We should not give up our stand on Kashmir. Pakistan will vanish from the map of world like Soviet Union disappeared for its wrong policies. Jai Hind.

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  • maya

    sharma..u contradict ur own testimony that u dont censor comments….just by having moderator button…do u get it genius..and u like the congress goon and fraud u r know that u cann cdensor us and yet lie about it….u have done it to many comments…

    and dont act like a court judge on abuse..we know how ur rules change when sonia and congress call modi mautjke suadagar and dawood and u call him mass murderer…and

    the same is not applied to congress sikh killers by rajiv in 1984 or bhopal..

    even kid can rebut u congress fed sycophant and goon…

    try competing with a7 yr old for a job on merit…

    u dont even know that ur first duty is to report facts not hide them like deganga hindu cleansing…but for a fraud who hides godhra tarin and kashmir cleansing

    u r hoplessly shamelss and disgusting…

    pease let ur daughter marry and migrate to pakistan and save india from ur disgusting genes and blood
    with qualities of treason,fraud,corruption and sycophancy for congress crumbs like nmc chair…

    no wonder u cannot have an open debate on green terror..but u shamelssly lie i am open to a debate…when u scream about saffron terror..

    and imediately forget ur postion that terror has no color or religion

    get abrain transplant from an animal..who atleast dont lie..even a snake will do

    u r far more fork tongued than them…and get ur daughter out of india before she starts being secularly impregnated by muslims hre like ur idol teesta has…

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  • Haris Chaudhry

    What a load of bulldust from bigots at both ends.

    None tolerates the ’sensible’ voices – both going for jugular.

    I am labelled as an Indian because I have an open mind to question all the wrong policies that Pakistan paddles – No wonder Kamran Shafi, Nadeem Paracha, Irfan Hussain and Ayesha Siddiqa get so much hate mail when they write columns criticising all things Pakistan.

    The other side of the border I must admit is equally to blame. Arun is a “Pakee” because he challenges the status quo on all things Kashmir and wants Indians to understand how its own state policies have been a contributing factor to the violence and renewed agitation in the valley

    The truth lies somewhere in the middle however accepting that will be a hard swallow for the fringe mob in Pakistan and India.

    The fringe mob in Pakistan is totally devoid of reality owing to the ‘Pakistan-brand’ being butt of jokes globally and a withering, ailing and failing nation. There is hope but very remote. The situation is so dire now that the education budget has been slashed massively and the Vice Chancellors of all 72 universities have converged in Islamabad and declaring complete shut down of the universities unless funding restored.

    We dont have money to educate our illiterate masses whilst we brow beat India and plan to inflict a thousand cuts and bleed it in Kashmir. What sheer nonsense…

    The fringe mob in India is still in denial of a Pakistan that exists and has the right to exist, whilst cherishing at the thought of its enemy-on-its-knees and rubbing its nose. The Pak haters there must be so thrilled at the sight of what Pakistan is today being a shadow of its formal shelf, however feel the right to lecture Pakistanis as if they are sincere in their advice which if followed by Pakistan will result in a happy, healthy, tolerant and prosperous Pakistan that they will be happy to live with..

    Those saffron-brigade or just simple plain arrogant and bigoted Indians wont stop name calling, insulting muslims and Pakistan en-masse and lecturing about the virtues and lessons of Indian prosperity but not accepting the fact that their ilk had nothing to do with that prosperity.

    The new powerful India is the secular, business friendly and confident India. It celebrates it religious and ethnic diversity and it cherishes its global and emerging role. Those posters that want to take the credit whilst spitting venom against Pakistan and muslims (aka – kill muslim ‘vermens’, porkistan, pakees, and insulting the entire nation), but acutely unaware of the fact that if Indian majority was represented by their ilk, India would still be the global backwater that it was until late 80s.

    The intolerant, medieval, bigoted are not unique to any specific nation. They exist and flourish in both. They are the loud minority and want to dictate their loud and fringe views to the largely silent majority.

    I view India’s progress as testament to its largely secular and tolerant populace and Pakistan’s misfortunes for its inability to blame itself and to take stock of its current situation but the vast majority of the ‘middle’ Pakistan and India have been absent from these debates and hence vultures from both end get firmly in command of this useless and juvenile rhetoric.

    regards

    Haris

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Nice one..but Arun KHrisnamurt(H)y is really a pakistani.

    I think pakistan is more to blame for hatred..here is why-
    1. You violate the standstill agreement with J&K maharaja and invade J&K, taking away 1/3 of kashmir.
    2. Then you go ahead and gift karakoram tracts to our enemy china.
    3. Then you again send terrorists in 1965 (operation gibralter) forcing a war on us.
    4. Then you go on killing bengalis in east-pakistan forcing 10 million bengalis (mostly hindus) into POOR india thus forcing us to intervene. By the way we always wanted to cut you in half..I accept indian devilish design here.
    5. You keep mum for 18 years after getting you a$$ kicked in 1971, then again you are backto your ways. You start anti-india insurgency in J&K supplying terrorists arms and MORAL support.
    6. You then indulge in terror all over India taking advantage of Babri demolitions (forgetting that shia-sunni blow up eachother’s mosques on daily basis).
    7. Communal BJP takes leap forward under Vajpayee and offers friendship and you reply with Kargil.
    8. You attack our paliamenat and macho BJP makes all the noises..finally wasting tons of tax-payer money.
    9. You hijack our aircraft to free your three PEACEFUL terrorists, our nationalist MACHO BJP goes on its knees and free the peaceful terrrorists.
    10. Then we have pussycat UPA govt. going all out to appease pakistan (incidentaly also appeased Indian muslims mistaking them for pakistanis) but you reply with more terror.
    11. Then you go aead and do a 26/11 on us..We blame you..you deny..deny and deny..then deflect it on NON-STATE actors, we give you evidence of STATE actors involvement, you ask for more evidence, we give you more evidence, you ask for more…in the meantime you keep bombing Indians secularly (you even kill poor Indian muslims).
    12. Our cultured not-so-experienced Foreign minister goes all the way crawling to Islamabad, repeating NDAs friendship card, he is snubbed, insulted and sent back packing.
    13. You suffer a flood situtation and try to blame it on HINDU INDIA. We offer you help, you snub us. We offer for more help (25 million) which is far greater than your mother country CHINA, you ask us to come thru UN.

    Now tell us who is fostering hatred..You know Vinod Sharma’s Mahatma Gandhi said once “Muslims are bullies and Hindus are coward”…As per current definition of secular India, the ram bakht Mahatma was bloddy communal.

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    Haris Chaudhry Reply:

    Thanks Rajeev,

    Gandhi said a lot more that that simple statement. I wonder why all the other statements that he made for 40 odd years got lost on the bigoted right from both nations.

    I could answer each one of your queries with my replies (some you will agree, with others you wont) but it is a zero sum game.

    If things could be discussed and agreement sought over blogs, then Bush would have done this with Saddam Hussain and Bin laden then sending the army in. Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif would have discussed these over the blogs and it would have been all hunky dory.

    I dont comment over blogs usually and never resort to name calling and putting in petty worthless content as I understand that regardless of the content, the hawks from both side will hijack the debate, jump on each bit and rip each argument with their own bigoted understanding without considering the merit of such content.

    There are plenty that are doing that already and I dont want to over complicate this when I know that the actual content will get evaporated and replaced by insults and name calling.

    Thats the reason, corporate policies in most companies prohibit the use of email for their employees to settle work ‘disputes’. Getting up from your chair and meeting the person that you have dispute with and discussing the issues brings results and closure.

    It takes a person with “balls”, courage and balanced temperament to break the shackles of religion, nationality and ‘introduced’ indoctrination to seek the pain points of the others and to put in sincere and deliberate attempts to seek solution.

    If those debating here have that temperament, sincerity and courage to first understand the background of the other party (as that party understands itself) and then to seek recourse, then it is an exercise worth doing. Other than that, it is a slanging match. Mine is bigger than yours, I am better than you, my religion and country is superior to yours, your issues are worthless and we are the aggrieved party, you are the aggressor and we are the victims and here are the top 50 reasons that makes us believe that you are the problem.

    It takes 2 to tango and whilst my oft repeated mantra has been that India has more to show for its leadership position and its secular policies, the honest truth is that there is some genuine (although severely exaggerated) misconceptions and grievances within Pakistan.

    Unless there is clear INTENT for problem RESOLUTION at both ends, both countries will remain trapped in this hostile manuvering game whilst hawks at both ends enjoy throwing mud at each other.

    Best
    Haris

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Haris,
    Sorry, you don’t make any sense here.
    The Indian state is very pacifist and docile. This is the reason it is getting screwed from all sides, kashmir, nepal, bangladesh, pakistan, maoists, china etc. It is our softness that invites attacks on us.

    I guess India should be more assertive and carry a big stick.

    Vinay Reply:

    @Haris,

    I never say India is a perfect country, Pak should learn “how to behave” from us. Yes, we can have mistakes and you have your merits. The reason why “Arun” is called Pakee is not because he criticizes India. His identity lacks credibility starting with his name. In India, Arun and Krishnamurthy both are first names. The first part of his name is north Indian in nature, second one is typical south Indian (Krishnamurthy is very rarely used as a surname. Even if it used, it will not join a word like Arun). Then, there is a different way south Indian write their name. (For example “Bharat” becomes “Bharath” in south India). These internal nuisances are clearly understood by locals. Yes, one can have a typo error, but not for a dozen of times. Also, the logic in his post lacks insight into Indian happenings or Indian perception of the problem. Lastly, when the other people try to pull his leg, he never defends himself, his credibility or his nationality. But immediately, there will be reply from Azar as why can’t be. This has been a repeated pattern for dozen times, so we all know it. Most of the time people ignore him, sometimes (when we are
    jobless) we probe him.

    Not that, if an Indian has spoken the same issues, he would have been well respected. But then people call with different titles. “Pro-Pakistani Indian” (which implies pro-Pakistani can’t be an Indian), “traitor”, “gaddar” etc. They will not be called Pakee. Hope, this explanation helps.

    Regarding your comments on “Saffron Brigade” as plain arrogant and bigoted Indians who are into insulting Muslims :

    Saffron Brigade is too many organizations joined under one umbrella of “Hindutva” (ideally means Hindu’s awareness about their heritage).
    One organization (RSS) which is similar to Muslim League (People don’t call Muslim League as communal, though it represents Muslims) claims itself to represent Hindus and it protests against appeasing minorities BUT IN A CIVILIZED WAY.
    Another organization BJP tries to gain political profit by concentrating majority Hindu votes. Sometimes some opportunistic leaders in this party, try to use even communal riots to their advantage. (Even Congress has used this dirty game before). But it is the leader from the same party (BJP) Vajpayee, who was ready to hold a plebiscite IF Pakistan Kashmir is included.
    Lastly there are some violent groups like Bhajrang Dal, Shivsena, Ramsena etc which speak of “Hindutva” but actually means “Anti-Islam” and they prefer violence over democratic or civilized method to implement their agenda.
    All this Khichdi is brought under one roof. All these groups are not detached in literal sense, (one group influences the other) but the way these 3 groups function are different. Violent part of anti-muslim sentiments basically come from the third group and part of the second group of this umbrella.

    There is still a debate in India as what to call these religious bigots. The name “Saffron” was channelized because of the flag colour which is hoisted on RSS meetings. But it is actually the dress colour of Hindu monks (Saffron is a symbol of sacrifice in Hinduism), who have no relation with the above organizations and anti-Islamic sentiments. What is the name given in the western world for “anti-muslim” rheotic sentiments? In India, as it is mainly Hindus participating in these extremist activities, they are called “Hindu Extremist” or “Saffron Terror”. But there is growing discontentment about Muslims among Christians too (because of the chopping of Christian professor’s hand by Islamic fundamentalists). Then, “White” has to mix with “Saffron” colour. What shall we call this colour?

    We can only call this as “Anti-Islamic Terror”, as this hatred attacks innocent muslims. Usage of “Saffron” may not be appropriate.

    One example, before I used to go for the first organization in the umbrella which I mentioned (RSS). Though, I am not going anymore, still I am eligible to come under the “Saffron Group” as I still love that organization’s discipline. But I don’t support the second (BJP) because of lack of good leadership, dislike the third group as they have no pro-agendas, only anti-agendas. In summary, I belong to Saffron group, but I don’t hate muslim and I can oppose Paritosh for hate-islam comments. Where do you bracket me?

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  • vijay kumar

    Let us show the other side of the coin to these Kashmiri separatists. For too long they have been pampered and subsidised. In fact they carry a truckload of fake grievences in their mind.

    Let them fight for a small country of 2500 sq km with Taliban and the Sipahi- e Sabah lusting after their Shia blood.

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  • Rajiv

    There is a simple answer to plesbicite rubbish from the Taleban-jihadis in the valley and else where in Pak.

    Yes , there will be plesbicite,
    1. once all the Hindus of the valley ( they made about 15% of the population before 1989 ) are re-settled back in their houses in the valley, which are now occupied by others. It will be Jihadis responsibility to evict the illegal occupiers of the houses and bring the Kashmiri Hindus back from all over India, where they are now refugees. The jihadis will pay for there re-settlement back in valley.
    The Jihadis will convince the Kashmiri Hindus that they are tolerant, secularists who wont discriminate against any minority or kill them. In fact Jihadis will convince the Hindu refugees that they love Kafirs.

    2. Obviously, as per non-Mandatory UN resolution that criminal Jihadis so love and India considers meaningless, Pak has to fully vacate the PoK, including Gilgit and Baltistan and hand it over to Indian security forces before any poll exercise can be held.

    Now , since India considers entire J &K , historically and legally part of India, it has no interest in any such plesbicite. However once the Pak-Jihadis meet all the necessary criteria and inform India that the above 2 have been fully met and certified, we will hold plesbicite!

    Till then dont cry and make a nuisance of yourself and go back to where ever you came from.

    (Meanwhile the millions of Kashmiri Muslims, who vote for Congress, National conference or PDP, and participate in the democratic process, know that there distinct Kashmiri identity is safe only in India. If the criminal Jihadis ever succeeed, the Kashmiri fate will be same as the fate of Sindhis or Baluchis or other minorities in Pakistan.
    Thats the reason, why the Taleban jihadis in the valley avoid elections and even when they stand in elections, do very poorly. )

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  • Azhar Hussain

    No one in Azad Kashmir fighting for Azadi, Mr. Rajiv. It is in your J&K where there is a serious insurgency. You are afraid to hold referendum becauce you know you are going to lose, that is a fact. In a way you have already lost in Kashmir, haven’t you? You cry Jihadi all you want, but the fact is its not Jihad Kashmiris fighting, it is Azadi from false secular India, and that is fact as well.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Balochis also want Azadi from punjabi pakistani…you give it to them, we will give it to Kashmiris including Gilgit-Baltistan and Ghulam kashmir.

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  • Azhar Hussain

    Once Uncle Sam leaves Afghanistan, your consulates spead across Afghanistan are closed shut, peace will return to Baluchistan. Whereas Gilgit/Baltistan is concerned, you are acting childish by giving reference to the Bawlistan website. It is laughable because no one has heard about it here where I live. I have been to that part of Pakistan two years ago and we can go there any time we want to. I bet you guys can’t do that in Occupied J & K, can you Rajiv.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Ever heard of BLF, BLA, Northern Alliance and MQM. These will be brought under an umbrella org and balochistan will be freed of punjabi pakistan.

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  • allright

    Don’t worry, everyone! There is a simple solution to all our problems.
    Let Hindus and Muslims, Pakistani’s and Indians, Kasmiri’s and army fight! let them fight until they and us are all DEAD and the land is rid of us self-indulging, violent, competitive, propertarians. Let the Earth become again the Earth without human borders. Only then will there be peace and unity :)

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  • Ravi

    Here are some other facts.

    1. For thousands of years in the Hindu Society Education was only available to Brahmins. However, some notable exceptions exist, but by and large this is true.

    2. Aryans are aliens to the Indian sub-continent where they have for 3 millennia or more, marginalised the indigenous tribes and other sections of the population. So much so that the History of Northern India is synonymous with the History of Aryans.

    3. Access to education and other such privileges are still very much governed by one’s caste. Lower the caste more difficult it is for an individual to gain access to education. Significant improvement has taken place over the last 200 years or so mainly due to the policies of the Brits, and none of it due to any change of heart among the conservative Hindu society.

    4. The function of reservations is to address inherent in-equalities that exist in our society. We have reservations for a whole variety of criteria. There are reservations to address in-equalities due to religious disadvantages, regional disadvantages, even for children whose fathers served in the forces, etc etc.

    5. Opposition to reservation is almost always led by middle class, Hindu upper castes because the change in status quo hurts them the most.

    6. To maintain caste based hierarchies of privileges is the main agenda of Hinduatva. It wants to re-establish the rigid caste system and denigrate minorities to a permanent second class citizenship.

    7. Whilst I believe the current reservation system can be improved upon, even over-hauled, it remains necessary to create even tiny semblance of equality in our society.

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    RajX Reply:

    Aryan theory is a theory cooked up by colonialists to rule over India since they can claim that Indians are not indigenous to the land so they don’t have any claims over it and thus justifying their colonization. It’s sad that “liberal Hindu” ravi is parroting theories cooked up by Europeans to justify their colonization of India. The arabized also use the same strategy to attack dharmic religions claiming parity for the Arab religion with dharmic ones in terms of being indegenous.

    Regarding reservation, it should have always been what it was intended to be for. To help people who are materially “backward”. People have injected caste into it for harvesting votes and now they want to inject religion into. That’s intellectually backward, immoral and disgusting!

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    Ravi Reply:

    RajX

    Is that so.

    I accepted this rubbish theory to surface and I thank you to bring it up.

    I am sorry to say that “Hindu Fundo RajX” is completely wrong. The Aryan migration theory is backed by tons of evidence of the kind that professional Historians accept as evidence.

    I could give you name of INDIAN Historians who on their honour would back the Aryan theory, but then I am afraid you will only dismiss them as JNU type.

    You would only be convinced if the RSS backed the Aryan Migration theory,
    but they are not likely to do that, are they.

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    RajX Reply:

    “Hindu liberal” ravi, why push a debunked racist and colonialist theory here in this forum? What’s your agenda “Hindu liberal”? By the way, you are not very different from RSS. Both of you pea brained nitwits believe in the colonialist and racist Aryan theory. So you finally found a soul mate. A weak “Hindu liberal” has found his soulmate in a communal organization. Fantastic. You guys should do a Aryan honeymoon. Nitwit. Repeating the talking points of illiberal Islamist NUTTERS doesn’t make you a liberal. It just makes you a pea brained and brainwashed nitwit.

    Ravi Reply:

    This is little more than a puff of hot air emnating from a guy who seems to have lost total control over himslef.

    RajX Reply:

    Pea brained self proclaimed “Hindu liberal” ravi has no answers. Only ad hominems.. Frothing in the mouth against Indians, Indian culture and tradition is not not going to help your Islamist cause. Sorry little pea brain. Your racist and colonialist theories stink.

    RajX Reply:

    “Hindu liberal” ravi, here is some info for ur pea brain about the debunking the colonialist Aryan theory which a weak and illiberal minded “Hindu liberal” like you are spouting.
    friendsofsouthasia.org/textbook/ComingOfAryans.html

    Ravi Reply:

    RajX

    Equipped with two things:

    1. My Pea Brain

    2. The link you provided.

    This is what I discovered in 5 minutes.

    ______

    1. Isn’t it true that the Aryans Invasion Theory has been disproved? There is no evidence of invasions taking place, and the whole theory is based on flaky linguistic theories.

    The Aryan Invasion Theory has many variants. The Aryan Invasion Theory advocating a purely racial “invasion” proposed by Max Mueller has been questioned by many, including the noted historian, Romila Thapar, in the 1960s. The contemporary theory of Aryan origin corroborates data and evidences from over two dozen different fields of study and demonstrate a pattern of cultural, social and linguistic migration/domination/invasion of people speaking the Indo-European languages from Central Asia into India. This theory about the Aryan origin, which is currently the most authoritative theory among historians, does not state that the Aryans were an indigenous people. For details see: “The Aryan Question Revisited”, by Romila Thapar at http://members.tripod.com/ascjnu/aryan.html .

    The Hindutva groups are misleading the masses by criticizing Max Mueller’s Aryan Invasion Theory (which is already discredited) and cleverly, falsely and deviously claiming that Michael Witzel and others (including Romila Thapar) are supporting Max Mueller’s theory. In fact, under the cover of criticizing Max Mueller, the self -styled Hindutva historians [most of whom are engineers and businessmen] are promoting a theory that Aryans did not migrate from Central Asia but were the original inhabitants of India. This theory has been propped up as a propaganda item on numerous websites and is discussed as a community specific truth within the Hindutva circles. It holds no currency within established historical scholarship.

    YOUR BRAIN IS CLEARLY SMALLER THAN A PEA

    RajX Reply:

    Really? Did you cry when Osama died? My condolences. Osama is now fish food. so why call yourself “liberal Hindu” ravi when you cry over the death of an Islamist? Is deceit allowed in Islam especially when it’s practiced against the kufirs?

    RajX Reply:

    So your pea brain has pea sized memory too? You claimed that RSS did not believe in Aryan theory. They do. Just like you. Two of a kind. A anti Hindu indian nutter and a power hungry nutter both embrace each other. Now you can run around trees, dance and sing a song.

    Anonymous Reply:

    He is no hindu or sikh liberal. He is a fundoo muslim who cried on death of Osama.

    Anonymous Reply:

    Here again terrorist speaks with forked tongue..He claims to be a sikh (Aryan)… AIT has been discredited but terrorists like Ravi still stick to it.

    Warrior and Trader class always got education and also Shudras..this is the reason Ramayana & Mahabharata was written by Shudras..

    This propaganda by terrorists is not going to work anymore. Only muslims are alien to this land as they have refused to assimilate themselves with India unlike others.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    1. There is no such thing as Aryan Invasion/Migration. Indeed, either we are ALL Aryans (muslims included) or none of us are Aryans.
    2. Access to education is actually governed by financial and social considerations, whether a family can afford to send their children school or not is the biggest consideration, which is why schemes like mid day meal are a big success.
    3. Function of reservation is to consolidate votes. If the reservation was intended to address inequities in the society, it would have addressed the financial and social backwardness issues, instead, reservation is only done on the basis of caste.
    4. Reservation does indeed hurt the middle class, because the middle class needs jobs. Reservation, which is anti-merit, takes away jobs just because the person is of the wrong caste. Thus, far from addressing social inequities, reservation actually discriminates against the middle class. Hardly the hallmark of a democracy.

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    Ravi Reply:

    Trapdaar

    You are entitled to your opinions.

    I hope you would accept the simple fact that I disagree with you on the main points.

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    RajX Reply:

    A nutter with manners?? Hahaha…

    Anonymous Reply:

    rajX,
    ravi has on record justified actions of osama..Total terrorist material.

    RajX Reply:

    He is very cunning but still pea brained.

  • anil

    Reservation coupled with Minority Protection Bill is the volatile combination for experimentation on India as merit is relegated to the back seat. It is designed to push it through its transient phase fof tectonic shift.

    After successful implementation of above civilised world can say good buy to India as it will expedite its fall to meet the eventuality, matching Mayan civilisation.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    This is like taking India back to 1930s muslim league politics. The pro-Jinnah element that were dormant till date have started singing same tune. I actually hold Advani responsible to rehabilitating terrorist Jinnah in Indian mind. He was the most disgusting SOB who was directly responsible for genocide of 1 million hindus-sikhs-muslims.

    The fake sikhs never worry about sikh right but jump on every opportunity to defend muslims who divided India because they demanded that british give then rein of power so that Islamic rule can continue.

    I am amazed to see muslim hypocrisy.,.They divided India and now are claiming to be victims. It is time this hypocrisy is cut short.

    If pakistan wants kashmir, it should take 160 million Indian muslims along with fake sikhs. If it can claim muslim majority land, it should also claim muslim people.

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  • Mohammed

    Muslims never ruled 800 yrs, they ruled parts of India, on an average half of this India for about 500 yrs. Do you say whole muslims have to suffer for the misdeeds of one Syed A Khan? Anyway, if India is a secular and democratic nation run under the present constitution, it has to adopt affirmative action. Otherwise, how would you remove the present systematic social oppresion, suppresion or discrimination? Are you happy with the present morally corrupt society? How would India aspire to become superpower keeping 1/5th of population slave? Under Muslim rule, hindus (brahmins) fluorished, but those who were half hindu (lower class) embraced islam for social dignity. But as the power remained with brahmins, these new muslims were kept oppressed till today.

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    RajX Reply:

    The hallmarks of an arabized person is that he parrots the talking points of the people who converted him even though he knows it’s all bullcr*p. He does it because he needs to justify his immoral action of sleeping with Islamist invaders and thus committing treachery on his own society just to curry favors with the invaders turned rulers. It’s intellectual jujitsu but it only fools the arabized themselves and no body else who knowns history. How predictable your ilk is….

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    engrich Reply:

    rajx brhmns came from central india demolished indus valley civilization then stayed on bank of ganga.sanskrit is not indian language.vedas were not written in india.vedas are full of cows and horses whichare not indians.non brhmns shudras and women are not allowed to touch this holy scripture.

    ban on cow slaughter was imposed by budhdhists.brhmns were cow eaters during their time cow almost reached to the point of extinction.

    as per their holy scripture only white is divine people of other colours are jokers like lord krishna.

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    engrich Reply:

    central india

    pls read central asia

    Anonymous Reply:

    It is not the fault of Brahmins that Muslims send their sons to Madrassas instead of schools. How are you going to get ahead in today’s world if only thing you study is the religious books? It is well known that Khans rule the Bollywood, and then we have people like Salman Rushdie, MF Hussain, APJ Kalam etc. It is clear that those muslims who wanted to improve their lives have not been prevented from doing so… The allegations of systematic social oppression are completely false and motivated.

    1/5 of the population is free and always been free. It is their choice if they want to wallow in the slums.

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    engrich Reply:

    traapdar muslims are sending their sons to madarssa because they are cheap.now 40%of students of madarssa are hindus.

    muslims have made more than 1001 innovative inventions.those students came from madarssa.

    europe is against our ancient education system as it is impossible to mentally enslave their student.base of this education system is high moral value.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    OK..Let us accept your opportunistic lie that muslims ruled for 500 years..was this not enough for muslims to prosper?

    The affirmative action as per constitution is only meant for groups victim of caste system. If muslims want reservation they should abandon Islam as it has not fulfilled their aspiration and rejoin hindu faith as SCs and OBCs. No one is stopping you.

    I think muslims are number one in all crimes especially underworld so you should ask yourself that why has Islam created criminals out of normal human beings?

    India can never be superpower till people including muslims and especially muslims breed like rabbits. India is one of the few nations where polio exists because muslims in india consider polio vaccine as conspiracy of kafirs to make muslims impotent.

    Bheek maangne se koi ameer nahi hua mian..Mehnat karo..Bheek maangni hai to muslim countries jaao, jahan tumhare hum-quom ayyashi farma rahein hein.

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    engrich Reply:

    rajeev u punjabis are thieves liars and highly immoral people.
    muslims are hard worker evrycityof northern india is known with muslim handicraft.

    aaj kal pagalpane ka daura zor se pada hai.ya kisi mussalman ne teri ghaand maree hai.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    DO you mean 60% of pakistan is thief?

    The muslims are most immoral people because they can sell their ammies for some money.

    Mohammed Reply:

    500 yrs was not enough. Because 3000 yrs were proved to be still not enough for Brahmins (aryans) in India. Poor muslims are also the victims of traditional caste system, so they deserve affirmative action, not rich muslims. Abolish Hajj subsidy. Sachar report found that affirmative action indeed benifitted SCs, STs. Your criminal statistics are not true, everywhere you will find hindus are the rapist, of course hindus are some sort of sophisticated criminals. Definitely islam has alleviated human sufferings. Many dreaded criminals became honest after embracing islam. Your polio theory is a lie. True, muslim’s fertility rate is higher, but this is a matter of concern among the illiterate poor muslims. That’s why we need to educate them. Remember only 3% muslim children goes to madrassas, because of poor.

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  • RajX

    About eighty percent of this article justifies reservations for the former rulers of Islamic India and about ten percent of it says that the former Islamic rulers of India should not take the reservation. About ten percent of it is about bashing the people of India who did not succumb to arabization. Something tells me that Zia would have turned out to be a better person if he had stuck to his childhood principle that he wouldn’t read the Koran because it did not have any colorful pictures. He says

    “There is, in our Constitution, a clear promise for reservations on the basis of “backwardness”.”

    Backwardness of mind can’t be cured by reservation nor can it be used to extort undeserved special benefits to a particular religious community who were the former rulers of India. If “material backwardness” is the criteria for reservation, then I am all for it. Then we don’t need a religious or caste based reservation. I would have had more respect for Zia if he had made that case since that would cover all materially backward people including Muslims without injecting religious poison into reservation just like Zia is trying to do here but to who’s benefit I wonder….

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  • RajX

    Very good points but I suspect that it would fall on deaf ears or at least on people who are acting deaf.

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  • Anonymous

    2/3rd of sub-continental muslims are enjoying 100% reservation..Is that not enough? I fail to understand shamelessness of Indian muslims? They were given choice between secular India and theocratic pakistan. If they wanted reservation, they should have moved to pakistan.

    The fake sikhs can invent history to suit their interest but it is not going to get thru..If muslims try to push their luck, they are in for huge disaster.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WJFSIJXTVCRASYXSML7HIMYP5E nice guy

    There should be no reservations for anyone… rules should be the same for everyone, the over glorified, yuppie youth of today are too dazed with gizmos and fast cars to form an opinion leave alone cast their vote, there is a urgent need to change the demographics of political parties being, run by a consortium of landgrabbers, criminals, the scum of the universe, all fundamentalist parties based on religion creed or caste need to be banned or else well all have to immigrate to other places..!

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    RajX Reply:

    Nice guy, nice points.

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  • Rakesh katyal

    Zia you are asking for reservation without appearing to be doing so. Any reservation based on communal lines will have disastrous consequences. Infact it is only politics which is keeping reservation for Dalits. We should have got over them by now. Like your community excels in keeping its own people backward smilarly well to do Dalits have grabbed the complete benefits of reservations for themselves and are keeping them alive for own benefits. You have to learn to work hard and get your due by sheer hard work. India gives a fair chance to everyone.

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  • Anonymous
  • Abu Ahmed

    If all Indians really considered each other as co-citizens and the other as precious as oneself, there will be no injustice in society – and one justice is established in the society, all progress and development would follow in due course. Why should a single Indian be discriminated against on any pretext and why is there so much violence and aggressiveness in our society?

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    RajX Reply:

    Brother Abu, since you are against discrimination, I hope that you are also against Caste and religion based reservation which puts meritocracy in the trash bin and discriminates against people who really work hard in favor of people who do not perform as well.

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  • RajX

    Dude, you never stop. Do you? Give it a rest.

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  • RajX

    I think it’s better to reform misguided people than reward them with land for their utter idiocy. Anyways there is not enough land to give off to bigoted religious groups anymore. Anyways I believe that most progressive Muslims are an asset to the country unlike some bad apples like our Zia here.

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  • RajX

    Zia should ask himself this question. He says that he writes about “Muslim affairs” for HT. Fine. So why are very few Muslims coming here in this forum for defending his opinions? Are they ashamed of his opinions and don’t consider it mainstream or respect worthy? Take for instance this gem

    “Well, there are those who have even denied the Holocaust ever took place.”

    Why would any Muslim want to defend this kind of gutter level opinions from Zia which compares the people who think that Muslims are not particularly ill-treated in India with holocaust deniers???
    By the way , holocaust deniers of the twenty first century are mostly Muslims led by dear leader from Iran. This is a result of arabization where Muslims who are not Arabs have absorbed the Arab hatred of Jews through their religious networking.

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    engrich Reply:

    the fraud of holocaust was fabricated to create isreal.if it really happened ,why
    anyone who challeenge its validity is sent to 5 year jail.many german professors are languishing.

    TRUTH SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF INVESTIGATION.

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  • RajX

    The weak minded will always find some one to blame. In India, they blame the Hindus and in the UK they will blame the white man. This is a victimhood industry and it’s very profitable for some people.

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  • Anonymous

    No wonder 65% of all bengalis have converted to Islam..

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  • Anonymous

    You seem to be cross between Camel and Donkey.

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  • Anonymous

    The hallmark of muslim societies all over the world especially in non-muslim country is that they depend on Khairaat and always play victim card.
    The commonality between muslims living in non-muslim countries-
    1. Khairaat dependent.
    2. a sense of vicitimhood
    3. Cry baby
    4. hatred for host country
    5. Immense love for fascist muslim countries.
    6. No repect for non-muslims’
    7. Demand total respect for Islam
    8. use of violence
    9. propaganda against jews
    10. Spread lies like ‘Islam is religion of peace’ (actualy they mean ‘religion of piece’ as they always want to divide host country).
    11. Demand secularism when it suits them and demand Sharia where they are in majority.

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  • Abu Ahmed

    Cricket club managers in Hyderabad complained that talented Muslim boys are being ignored for selection of Under-14 and Under 17 teams. They should know that this is not communal discrimination – there are sports agents these days who, in exchange of a fee, guarantee the inclusion of a talented player in any team. There are hundreds of job placement agencies whose task it is to find placements in exchange of fee or commission. So, finally, its all about money exchanging hands, right from a child being admitted in a school to his/her employment after education. Moneyed people can play the game of life, right from education, health, employment to investing in any business. Those who do not have the money, regardless of community, are left behind. And the Hindu society was never known to be an egalitarian one. Hence there is prevalence of discrimination against the weak, and therefore the need of discrimination for – if our country is a welfare state too, apart from being a practically casteist Hindu state.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    Go around in muslim colleges and see representation of non-muslims in different teams.

    You guys just whine.

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    RajX Reply:

    If you want to experience what real discrimination is like, live as a Hindu in any Islamic society of your choice. Islamic societies operate as cults and have internalized and institutionalized discrimination based on their religious bigotry which they are taught at a very young age. The people who beleive in the dharmic way of life did not. If they had, your name won’t be Abu Ahmed but some ram Singh or Bheem Singh. Arabization speaks through people like you. You have to understand that turning you against your own forefathers culture is a surefire way of keeping you within the imposed and foreign “faith”. You may be unaware of it since you are in the targeted bubble but millions are spent by a certain govt in the middle east in India just for this singular cause. You have to ask yourself what a foreign govt gets in return for funding madrases, mosques and propaganda against the dharmic way?

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    Abu Ahmed Reply:

    Thats a typical casteist way of dealing with issues. Racism, casteism, class differences are all there in the world – even the most primitive tribe in the jungles of Africa would consider itself the best people on earth – thats something inevitable. However, casteism is an article of faith and part of life Hinduism with the help of which since thousands of years people have been oppressed, killed, raped and pillaged in India. Arabs are racist obviously, but not Islam, for thats the first religion in the world to demolish many isms are liberate mankind from the yoke of priest-led worship and control over knowlede. Ideologically it sees no difference between peoples – for God says in the Quran that the best people are those who do good on earth and aware that God is watching them. Its your arrogance and hatred that you still hold on to casteism and other misplaced notions. Indian Muslims are not begging for reservations – it is the Sonias, the Mayawatis, the Phulmatis and the Bhagmatis who are after Muslim votes and are as usual trying to appease and then dump muslims after elections.

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    RajX Reply:

    Islam replaced priests with mullahs who are infinitely worser than any Hindu priest. Hindu priests never go after political power like the mullahs do. Regarding control over knowledge, the Arabs through Islam, invasion and occupation have claimed the inventions and discoveries of other societies as their own and called it”Islamic inventions”. Unfortunately the arabized in non Arab societies have become a tool for this kind of disgusting intellectual theft.

    Talking about article of faith, cultism is an article of faith in Arab Islam. That’s the reason why Islam teaches you to see the world in two. One is a Muslim and the other is a kafir. Your forefathers Hinduism doesn’t teach you think in that bigoted way. You seem to have conveniently forgotten the murders, robbery, rape and slave owning commited by the “messenger of god” and his band of thugs. Arab society had some merit before islam. After mohamad and his islam, its all moral darkness for them. I can understand that you have to justify arabization and the Arab cult because not doing so would negate the whole life you have led so far. In Islam, there is no way out. Once you are in, you are in even if you want to leave. I pity your state.

    Mohammed Reply:

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    I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.

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    RajX Reply:

    Hahaha..wahab..what is this about?

    engrich Reply:

    ur hinduism is money minting bussines.we teach morality.hinduism cannot be called religion.as man is unequal at birth.it is more a system.

    RajX Reply:

    By the way, would you prefer living as a Hindu in a Islamist cesspool like Pakistan? Maybe in your worst nightmare. Unfortunately in most Islamic society, bigotry is a way of life. Islam plays a part in this bigotry since the bigotry is justified by these islamist bigots by quoting from Mohamads Koran. It’s obviously not a very nice book if bigots of all stripes find a lot of stuff in there to justify their actions.

    engrich Reply:

    descrimination is base of hinduism.they descriminate everybody ,except their jaatiwalas,hence dont complain.keep ur hand in pocket,while dealing with them.

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  • engrich

    13%reservation should be given to high.muslims should have 15% as per numbers.70%to backwards and dalits.

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  • Anonymous

    You are spewing typical muslim propaganda…Divide hindus and enjoy at their cost. We can see thru your designs.

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  • engrich

    if u have particular point challenge.read argumentative indians.horses and cows are not indian animal.see ur epics.all kings ang holy people are white evil persons are black brown or blue.

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    RajX Reply:

    Krishna is blue. Was he evil?

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    engrich Reply:

    yes,as per epic had 1603 wives.had intimate relationship with his neighbours wife called radha.killed all his cousins and uncles on battlefield,because they were from lwer castes.
    made castes on the basisw of birth.women and shedule castes were made outcaste.

    because he was blue.not white.only white is divine and worth praising and honour.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    Bush is white so is he more divine than Mohammad and your Allah?

    engrich Reply:

    according to brhmnst yes

    RajX Reply:

    Hahahaha…tejinder, Krishna is not a real person. He is a character in a mythology. I set a trap for you and you fell right into it. By the way, it looks like arabization not only distorts history of real world but it also distorts the mythical world of mythology. Funny man!

  • Mohammed

    Well, Sachar report says affirmative action has benifitted greatly to SCs and STs. So why not to poor muslims? They don’t need Hajj subsidy. Sachar report found that only 3% muslim children goes to madrassas, Only poor muslims send their children, because it is completely free and but serves at least two purposes, a low paid job of priest/imam and the religious knowledge to keep the islamic tradition. Jiziya tax is a normal tax to an able non-muslim like a muslim pays the tax (Zakat). Only the names are different. Tax citizens pay everywhere. So don’t put some absurd arguments. Muslims are striving, but need some govt. support.

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  • RajX

    “I fail to understand why, if reservation is good for Dalits, is it bad for Muslims”

    Who can argue with that? Is that your “winning” argument?

    I also failed to understand why, if reservation is good for Muslims, is it bad for all nonmuslims. After all, a significant section of people from the muslim religious group divided the country on religious lines in 1947 resulting in that Islamist cesspool we now call Pakistan which has become a headache not only for India but for the whole world.

    That’s my winning argument.

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    engrich Reply:

    reservation should be provided to weaker section whether muslim or non muslim.u cannot keep a part of bharat mata paralysed.everthless muslims are also indian.why so much hate.

    in up w are 18.5%.our representation in patwari/lekhpal is only .6%same in other services.if we will be part of system we will have feeling of ownership with system ,which will enhance patriotism.

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  • Anonymous

    Egnrich says “because he was blue.not white.only white is divine and worth praising and honour.”

    Does that mean WHITE Bush is more divine than BROWN Mohammad? Never knew muslims love Bush so much.

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    engrich Reply:

    rajeev very stupid comparison.neverthless brhmnast were supporting britishers
    against indian.bhasmasur is black.while durga is white.

    in islam all colors are same.i talked about vedics.

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    Anonymous Reply:

    How is it stupid? You don’t find Quran stupid which is full of nonsense…Grow some brain..

    Why you keep blaming brahmin and jews for your birth?

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    engrich Reply:

    teri maa ka chhot pagal

    RajX Reply:

    Tejinder, don’t hate Hindus and Jews. They are more civilized than the Arabs.

    engrich Reply:

    jews are our cousins brhmn are like brothers.i hate brhmnsm and zoinism.these are satanic anti-god thought hurting the people.
    they want to built ram mandit in ayodhya.what it actually means.
    it means .to ignite war between shaivite and vaishanvitesayodhya is headquarter of shaivaties.
    historically shaivites killed vaishanvites in his areaa and vica versa.
    these 2 satanic forces follow shaitan not bhagwan.i expose them.
    see how zoinists ruined iraq afghanistan libya
    and india before.

  • engrich

    ravi bahi and shan,a good video,

    Libya War Lies – Worse Than Iraq – Video – Thomas Mountain

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  • engrich

    the above shows ur lack of knowlledge.except pakistan all muslim countries of the world iincluding saudi arabia run on reason,not on religion.

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  • engrich

    Universities like AMU, Jamilia Milia, Hamdard have how many hindu students, and they are good universities

    in good facaulties percentage of hindu student is more than 50%.

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  • engrich

    what is wrong u bhadrlok ,chang ur skin like lizard to fool inians.40 yrs u became marxist to fight islam.did nothing for indians.enjoyed urslf.u are 13%.take 13%share of national wealth.
    u are looting india since arrival of britishers.u were their a$$ licker and bootpolishers.helped them to kill half the population of bengal bihar and orrisa in first 50 years of rule.
    muslims always change.for u people it is the same ,vivekanand,tagore and blood thirsty durga from 150yrs.no election ,no change in surrounding is bringing any social or mental change.
    poors of bangla desh is in far better position than poorsof wb

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UIM2IANIZE2LMGSWZDDN42JFEY overdriven

    reservation must be cancelledd

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  • http://twitter.com/rapidanalysts balakrishnan

    Let all of us really join together to produce real food for eating and then living is meaningful, after all more and more mouths are added day by day whether one like it or not. No point in wasting time on dry issues, for that illogical discussions may cause some Sabarmati express problems but realistic approach will be real Narmada river of life of perennial sustenance.
    Life is in body if there is food to eat. No use of dry talks and irrational philosophizing. Life is to be lived meaningfully. It is no use of talk and growth without real food items on plate please.
    So politicians are warned that they should not play with lives of people of any community/ies for that will backfire very every one of them.

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  • Anonymous

    Excellent :)

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