Kashmir mess

Mr.Chidambaram has announced that he welcomes the return of all "Indian" Kashmiris who crossed over to PoK in 1989.

I am wondering, how come all of the people living in PoK are Indians for Congress Party, but Congress Party very nicely "gifted" PoK land to Pakistan. So we should keep surrendering land to Pakistan while welcoming population to cross over, how interesting.

First of all, the Indian Govt & army has already made a soup of the Kashmir that is under Indian control. The army is accused of human rights violations/abuse against civilians. The army is feared & hated there, it is not revered & respected. Indians don't even feel safe going to the Indian administered part of Kashmir. Kashmiri pandits, buddhists, sikhs from that region are refugees living all over India, they can't even step into Indian administered Kashmir. Ordinary pro-Govt Kashmiri muslims are systematically threatened & eliminated by the militants. Kashmir today is not what it was even a decade ago. The voice of the moderate Kashmiris is silenced, only fundamentalists can live there in peace. Ordinary citizens are meanwhile harassed by the army. So can Mr.Chidambaram tell us what the Govt plans to do about this kind of mess, before welcoming more people in to join the mess?

Look at China, look at Pakistan, they repopulate areas which they capture. China has systematically introduced Chinese culture into Tibet and taken over its economy with Chinese settlements. That is what Pakistan has also done in PoK, systematic Pakistani settlements in Kashmiri areas.

Whereas on the Indian side, the Government is soft with the actual militants, harasses civilians (women don't feel safe with army men around), the Government offers no protection for the Pandits, Sikhs & moderates who had to flee as refugees. If it is Indian territory, why can't an ordinary Indian citizen go settle down in Indian administered Kashmir? Kashmiri non-muslims are threatened by militants, so they flee, and they lose their property rights if they marry outside the clan. So effectively, it is a systematic "depopulation" over time. If things go on this way, say 30 years down the line, I really wonder as an Indian citizen, what is our stake in Kashmir, why does Kashmir belong to India, if all non-muslim Kashmiris are thrown out & settle elsewhere, and all muslim Kashmiris are indoctrinated to love Pakistan (1. because of the glorious omnipresence of brainwashing militant factions whom the Govt fails to flush out, 2. army further earns the ire of civilians who are harassed, 3.any moderate muslims are threatened or gunned down by militants).

Congress & all those who are pro-congress, should realize that Islamic militants don't care about Gandhian ways of doing things. Mahatma Gandhi told us to offer another cheek if someone slaps us on one cheek. He was dealing with the British administration which at least had some kind of law & order. Whereas with armed 'jihadist' militants, they don't give you the chance to offer your other cheek, they'll go straight for your throat. And when Indian Government holds talks with Pakistan's Government, God only knows how fruitful such talks can be, since the civilian government in Pakistan is so threatened by its own nightmares. How do you talk to someone when they are not in control of their own land?

Does that make peace impossible? No, hope is what makes a human being live, and I believe in hoping for peace. Also, changing times bring a change in peoples, change in opinions, change in ground facts. Now that the fundamentalists have started fomenting trouble within Pakistan, Pakistani citizens will definitely wake up to do something about them, that in itself will solve the militancy problems faced by the subcontinent, at least I hope. For if militancy ends (whatever be the reason or force behind its demise), all the problems in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Kashmir will end.

Nowadays I am wondering, if the whole of the civilized educated literate world believes in peace and wants to combat terrorism, where are these militants buying weapons from? A powerful bomb blast every other day, who sells them these weapons & ammunition? Obviously they are not empowered enough to have manufacturing facilities (beyond some crude country-made devices), wither comes this unending supply? Once upon a time, the Pakistan Army/ISI funded them. But what is their current source now that Pakistan has turned its back on them?