P. Chidambaram, the Home Minister fighting with one hand tied was right in saying that “Priority is to win JK hearts and minds.” And BuBu the PM has once again parroted his slogan ‘ready for talks with all terrorists’. Though he covered himself by saying ‘within the (Indian) framework’ – which of course is not what the separatists want.
So the dutiful speech given, both can go back to what they do best – one to struggle to bungle and another to bungle the struggle.
Why can’t the bungler categorically state ‘Put your guns and stones down or we will put you down’? There will be an upsurge of violence at first, but my suspicion is that within 6 months, all these separatist dogs will come with their tails between legs.
Definitely the undeclared militants like Mehbooba Muftis and her ilk will straighten up.
That the Kashmiris are getting fat on funding from Indian State and foreign fund inflows is well known to the government, as I’ve blogger earlier. Further independent blurting of the truth is in this first person account of a visit to Kashmir last week by an Indian academic in US.
To read it once would move you. But read it twice more and you would realise that the visitor also inadvertently blurted out the truth – that Kashmiris have become freeloaders on the Indian state.
He writes ‘An astonishing number of Kashmiri men (and some women, of course) are on government payrolls, and here I do not include the many (some estimate up to 100,000) who receive regular stipends from various intelligence agencies and secret services.’
What that means is that virtually all Kashmiris receive dole. Because he goes on to add ‘If 70,000 Kashmiris have been killed (regardless of by whom) in the last two decades, then there is virtually no family exempt from the eddying effects of such loss.’
If 70,000 people killed means that every family in Kashmir is affected, then the vast number in the muster roll above (not to mention 100,000 stipend benefiters) proves its own point.
Since they’ve become used to these handouts, they perhaps do not want this problem to be sorted out. Unless we break this system, we can never stop this violence and there is no use talking about ending the cycle of violence.
As Napoleon said, an army marches on its stomach and what we are doing is keeping that rag tag army’s stomach filled. Once their stomach is filled, the usual tendency for human is not to think with their hearts or minds, but with something else.
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So the dutiful speech given, both can go back to what they do best – one to struggle to bungle and another to bungle the struggle.
Why can’t the bungler categorically state ‘Put your guns and stones down or we will put you down’? There will be an upsurge of violence at first, but my suspicion is that within 6 months, all these separatist dogs will come with their tails between legs.
Definitely the undeclared militants like Mehbooba Muftis and her ilk will straighten up.
That the Kashmiris are getting fat on funding from Indian State and foreign fund inflows is well known to the government, as I’ve blogger earlier. Further independent blurting of the truth is in this first person account of a visit to Kashmir last week by an Indian academic in US.
To read it once would move you. But read it twice more and you would realise that the visitor also inadvertently blurted out the truth – that Kashmiris have become freeloaders on the Indian state.
He writes ‘An astonishing number of Kashmiri men (and some women, of course) are on government payrolls, and here I do not include the many (some estimate up to 100,000) who receive regular stipends from various intelligence agencies and secret services.’
What that means is that virtually all Kashmiris receive dole. Because he goes on to add ‘If 70,000 Kashmiris have been killed (regardless of by whom) in the last two decades, then there is virtually no family exempt from the eddying effects of such loss.’
If 70,000 people killed means that every family in Kashmir is affected, then the vast number in the muster roll above (not to mention 100,000 stipend benefiters) proves its own point.
Since they’ve become used to these handouts, they perhaps do not want this problem to be sorted out. Unless we break this system, we can never stop this violence and there is no use talking about ending the cycle of violence.
As Napoleon said, an army marches on its stomach and what we are doing is keeping that rag tag army’s stomach filled. Once their stomach is filled, the usual tendency for human is not to think with their hearts or minds, but with something else.
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