Barackface: Jammu and Kashmir

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Kashmir And Peace (2)

Jawaharlal Nehru 1949 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kashmir And Peace
How To Make Peace With Pakistan
Making Peace With Pakistan
Pathankot Attack: Response To Modi Visit?
Peace In Kashmir
Nehru, Tibet, Aur Britain Ka Pret
पाकिस्तान को ४० बिलियन का ऐड
पाकिस्तान को ४० बिलियन का ऐड (2)
बुश का बघदाद
पहली बार मोदी नवाज Body Language पॉजिटिव है
काश्मीर: एक समस्या
Silicon Boomerang? Silicon Crescent?
पीके और अब बजरंगी भाईजान
भारतका २४० ट्रिलियन डॉलर वाला अर्थतंत्र बनने का फोर्मुला इजराइल के पास है
Owaisi, Like Atal, Is A Great Parliamentarian

Saturday, December 12, 2015

लोग कहते हैं सबसे कठिन मसला है पलेस्टाइन का। गलत कहते हैं। दुनिया में सबसे कठिन मसला है कश्मीर का। कमसेकम पलेस्तिनियों के पास एटम बम तो नहीं।

तो इसको सुलझाया कैसे जा सकता है?

बहुतों ने दिमाग लगाया है। मेरे पास भी एक है। मैं भी कुछ बोल देता हुँ।

The solution is democracy. जब तक पाकिस्तान एक पुर्ण लोकतंत्र ना बन जाए तब तक कश्मीर समस्या ही रहेगा। पाकिस्तानी आर्मी और ISI को पुर्ण रूप से पाकिस्तानी संसद के तहत जब तक नहीं लाया जाएगा तब तक समस्या समाधान नहीं होगा।

इसका मतलब मैं ये नहीं कह रहा कि कश्मीर भारत का है या पाकिस्तान का। मैं कुछ कह ही नहीं रहा। मैं कह रहा वो बात बाद में करेंगे। पहला काम करो पाकिस्तान को एक पुर्ण लोकतंत्र बनाओ।

दो जन निर्वाचित सरकार जिसका पुरे गवर्नमेंट मशीनरी पर कब्जा है वो ये मसला आसानी से हल कर सकेंगे। अंततः कहेंगे जो हुवा सो हुवा इतिहास को भुलो आगे कि सोंचो line of control को बॉर्डर मान जाओ और ट्रेड पर फोकस करो पर्यटन पर फोकस करो people to people contact पर फोकस करो।

अंततः सारे दक्षिण एशिया को एक ही अर्थतंत्र बनना है। उसी में आम आदमी की भलाई है और ये आम आदमी का जमाना है।

तो पाकिस्तानी आर्मी और ISI को पार्लियामेंट के तहत लाएगा कौन? भारत? अमेरिका? नहीं। आम पाकिस्तानी जनता। एक समय आएगी जब जनता उस किस्मका मैंडेट देगी।

प्रश्न है वो समय कब आएगी। Can it be hastened? How?

Friday, July 10, 2015

Peace In Kashmir

The Disputed Territory : Shown in green is Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. The orange-brown region represents Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir while the Aksai Chin is under Chinese occupation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I like this. A lot.

From unsigned notes revealed in 2009, it is known the two governments were contemplating a four point deal: the transformation of the Line of Control into a border; free movement across the LoC; greater federal autonomy for both sides of Jammu and Kashmir; and gradually-phased cutbacks of troops as jihadist violence declined.

Peace in Kashmir is crucial. The Kashmir border should some day become like the Nepal-India border, because it is the same people living on the two sides. A lot of trade and people to people. contact will go a long way.

Pakistan is not a monolith. It has terrorists, but they also target the Pakistani establishment and its people. Its army is not exactly subservient to popularly elected leaders. The ISI is a hydra, half in dark, the other half also in dark. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

Engaging Pakistan is a complex picture. When you engage the moderates, and make progress on trade and peace, you threaten the extremists in the army and the ISI: the hardliners do their best to scuttle peace efforts. Because if there is peace between India and Pakistan, they become irrelevant inside Pakistan. So when they disturb, don't blame it all on the moderates you are engaging with.

Normalized relations with Pakistan will add 1% to India's growth rate.

General Kayani himself, in speech delivered in 2010, endorsed the jihadi project, saying “There is no greater honour than martyrdom nor any aspiration greater than it”. “The army is the nation”, he concluded, “and the nation is the army”.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

India, Nowhere Close To An "Emergency"

English: cropped photograph of L K Advani with Hillary Clinton outside his residence. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Advani's remarks are an unfortunate attempt to become relevant again. Politicians in Nepal similarly refuse to get the work done on federalism and the constitution because, as soon as the work is done, they are going to become irrelevant. Who in their right mind wants to become irrelevant?

People like Laloo and Mulayam rode the Mandal wave. Advani rode the Kamandal wave. Ab to Development Wave chal raha hai. Developent Wave ne Mandal aur Kamandal dono ko nigal liya hai. Modi's background makes him the ultimate Mandal, and his clear majority win makes him the ultimate Kamandal as well.

Adavani "Hindu rate of growth" jamane ke log hain. 2% aur 3% se kam chala lete the us samay mein log. When people like Nitish idolize him at a personal level, that is fine. But when they idolize him politically, main to confuse ho jata hoon.

The BJP is a big tent. Us mein kism kism ke log hain. Kuchh log ultra conservative hain, kuchh Islamophobic log bhi hain, kuchh sexist log hain, actually dher sare sexist log hain, to tarah tarah ke log hain.

Lekin Advani aur Modi mein to Modi jyada liberal dikhte hain. Advani ne Ram Mandir ke naam par desh mein utna uthal puthal machaya tha. Bhul gaye?

Advani senior log hain. Aadar milni chahiye. There is no doubt about that. Shayad usi aadar bhav mein kami kamjori ho gayi hogi, to unhone hostile interview de dala. Ghabrane ki baat nahin hai. India is a democracy. Log to bolenge hi.

Laloo aur Advani dono ek jagah kisi mudde par aa jayenge, ye mujhe nahin maloom. Lekin aa gaye, emergency ke masale par. To wo po purani baat hai.

India mein abhi emergency ki koi sambhavana nahin, koi gunjayas nahin. Waise Advaniji ne news mein aane ke liye kah diya.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Mehbooba Mufti

A Muslim woman as Chief Minister of the state of Kashmir ---- this is what I love about democracy. It throws up pleasant surprises like this. Before today I had never heard of her. I think this is amazing. I think other parties should throw outside support to her and let her do her thing. She is the people's choice.

Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh fare worse than Muslims in India ---- but that is no excuse for the fact that there is not equality for the Muslims in India. Equality is the goal and it has be achieved. That is the only way India can play a central role in the so-called War On Terror. India has to show Muslims can be equal, vibrant members of a dizzyingly diverse democracy. India has to show the way. The only way the War On Terror can conclude is by a total spread of democracy across the Muslim world. America is not in a position to have that central impact. It is too far away. It does not have enough Muslims.