The Case For India To Quit Kashmir

By Sikander Hayat

Indian government has banned all Kashmir based TV channels from airing their programmes.

This step has been taken to stop them from airing the successful pro independence rallies and Indian Army’s atrocities on the general public.

A march towards Pakistan by 50000 Kashmiris to tell the world where there heart lies and then a congregation of 500000 in Eidgah, Srinagar has made the Indian government insane out of all proportions and no amount of protest by bodies like United Nation is going to stop them from doing what they do best which is killing and raping their way through to the hearts and minds of Kashmiri people.


After 62 years of calling Kashmir an integral part of India, Indian government has convinced itself and its people that Kashmir is Indian and nothing can happen to take it away from India. A lot of very intelligent people in India talk about death of secularism, snowball effect and if Kashmir given independence other states following suit theory but there are so many fundamental factors which make Kashmir not just another Indian state.

1. There is no other Indian state for which Indian government has promised a plebiscite.
2. There is no other Indian state where there is a United Nations observer mission for last 60 odd years ( still stationed in Srinagar)
3. There is no other Indian state where by Indian government’s own admission, 35000 people have died at the hands of Indian security forces ( although independent sources put the death toll at 70000 plus)
4. There is no other Indian state over which India & Pakistan have fought three wars
5. There is no other Indian state where article 360 of the Indian constitution applies
6. There is no other Indian state which does not allow other Indians to become its citizens ( No Indian national is deemed a national of Kashmir but Kashmiris can call themselves nationals of India)
7. There is no other Indian State where other Indian citizens cannot buy property
8. There is not other Indian state where participation in last many elections have been less than 20%





There are so many distinctions in additions to ones mentioned above that there is no point in detailing them all here. My point is this; Kashmir was never a part of India and it was a gross dishonesty on part of successive Indian governments to build the grand building of secularism on Kashmir’s shoulders. India is a great nation with multiple identities and trying to say that if Kashmir goes everything else will go as well is in itself a notion which demeans India.


It is high time that India thinks about the consequences of keeping Kashmir part of India with the help of occupation troops whose estimates range from 500000 to 800000 otherwise India might have to face what it is trying to evade namely the death of secularism, repeat of carnage of Muslims in Gujrat and Mumbai and other communal violence which might tear India apart.