Kashmir: Militants lost their war. We shouldn’t let them change tactics
Losing the peace in KashmirBy Gagandeep Bakshi
Posted online: August 28, 2008
“Azadi” for the people of the Valley. A well-known television news channel cited an opinion poll to say that 70 per cent of its respondents were of the view that India should let the Kashmiris go. Another national daily conducted a more nuanced survey. Though its findings indicated that over 70 per cent of those polled in the nine metropolises opposed the idea, it nevertheless discussed at length that 30 per cent were not. The battle in J&K is primarily ideological. There are a 150 million Muslims in India, whose parents and grandparents voted with their feet to stay in the secular republic of India rather than in a theocratic Pakistan. If today the Indian state permits 5 million Muslims of the Valley to secede on the basis of religion it could unravel the very ideological basis of our secular republic.
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