The bifurcation of J&K has completely cut the legs out from regional parties that have no means of survival but to make common cause with the Hurriyat.
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None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
The current dispensation at the center is doing nothing much different to what Govts in the past especially the congress in the past did to the politics of the state.
BJP is doing in a calamitous manner and in a virulent environment.
BJP is equally responsible for the terrible situation state finds itself in and have failed in handling the Kashmir problem.
Their exit from the PDP collation was pure political opportunism in the rest of the Indian. In addition, the muscular and open majoritarianism on display in the rest of the India is only benefiting the Jamat by them further perpetuating among the masses the feeling of alienation and hate against the state of India.
I am a KP, lived in the valley pre-89, and know what I am taking and it would not be erroneous to say that darker days may be ahead.
We should be hopeful but it would be cynical to believe that “all is well”
The Print has been a rather balanced newspaper. It would be better for it to stay so and not let hate mongering, vitriol spewing jingoists from BJP funded media outlets take up space here. Anyways, the outspoken, confident, determined and educated Muslim youth from the valley have always been an eyesore for the like of Aditya who would like them to be enslaved as was the case during the Dogra rule of Kashmir.
I am not someone who feels happy demonising the mainstream politicians, with various people and families at successively higher levels of the food chain. They have fought, won, lost elections. If some were rigged, that was done in Delhi, not Srinagar. Carrying India’s brief in the Valley was not always a pleasant or safe task. Why should it also have been thankless. Let us which exotic orchids replace the Abdullahs and the Muftis.
Kashmiri Muslim politicians will have to cover the trust deficit first. Then comes justice to ethnic cleansed Kashmiri Pundits. Till then none in India who voted in Modi will have any sympathy or feel oneness with them.
The current dispensation at the center is doing nothing much different to what Govts in the past especially the congress in the past did to the politics of the state.
BJP is doing in a calamitous manner and in a virulent environment.
BJP is equally responsible for the terrible situation state finds itself in and have failed in handling the Kashmir problem.
Their exit from the PDP collation was pure political opportunism in the rest of the Indian. In addition, the muscular and open majoritarianism on display in the rest of the India is only benefiting the Jamat by them further perpetuating among the masses the feeling of alienation and hate against the state of India.
I am a KP, lived in the valley pre-89, and know what I am taking and it would not be erroneous to say that darker days may be ahead.
We should be hopeful but it would be cynical to believe that “all is well”
The Print has been a rather balanced newspaper. It would be better for it to stay so and not let hate mongering, vitriol spewing jingoists from BJP funded media outlets take up space here. Anyways, the outspoken, confident, determined and educated Muslim youth from the valley have always been an eyesore for the like of Aditya who would like them to be enslaved as was the case during the Dogra rule of Kashmir.
I am not someone who feels happy demonising the mainstream politicians, with various people and families at successively higher levels of the food chain. They have fought, won, lost elections. If some were rigged, that was done in Delhi, not Srinagar. Carrying India’s brief in the Valley was not always a pleasant or safe task. Why should it also have been thankless. Let us which exotic orchids replace the Abdullahs and the Muftis.
Let us see …
Kashmiri Muslim politicians will have to cover the trust deficit first. Then comes justice to ethnic cleansed Kashmiri Pundits. Till then none in India who voted in Modi will have any sympathy or feel oneness with them.