It was surprising that the US Presidential candidate is reported to have expressed support for Kashmiri separatists who are in the forefront of terrorism in India.
The Kashmiri terrorists have grabbed the support with both hands.
While the Indian Government is downplaying the issue stating that it is a pre-election rhetoric, it is a matter which the Indian nationalists cannot ignore. If it is an election rhetoric, then it brings out the dishonest nature of Mr Obama.
If not, it brings out an attitutde of trading of terrorism in Afghanisthan with terrorism in India. This is completely unacceptable. It goes against the current tough stand US has been taking against terrorism. The Obama stand appears more like the stand of politicians in India when they play one community against the other or one state’s interest on another just to protect their chair.
This may also indicate the inexperience of Mr Obama in handling sensitive international third world polices since it has already created a doubt in the minds of Indian public if he can be trusted with India’s own national interests.
We hope that Mr Obama will appreciate that India considers Kashmir, the land of Kalidasa as an integral part of India and any tilt of US towards Paksitan’s stand will change the trust equations between US and India.
The Indian Community in US should raise their voice on such political expediency.
We look forward to a suitable clarification from Mr Obama.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackNaavi, give it a rest. Obama talked of resolution not of supporting any party. Please don’t judge him only through reductionist issues. We all should agree that Obama is a unifying and not a divisive one. Why insult our intelligence by undermining a force which absolute positive. World under Obama will essentially be a better place. Let us forget our Lilliputian differences mate.
I hope Kashmiri will get a chance of Self determination under the Obama rule.
I am willing to accept that his intention could have been positive. However the Kashmiri separatists have already started using the remark to their advantage. I don’t see how resolution of Kashmir problem would help in Afghan resolution. In fact it is the Afghan based terrorists who are some times fighting in India and keeping the state boiling. If they succeed it will only strengthen them and give them one more land mass to operate from.Then US army has to move into Indian territory to counter the Afghan surge.
The real “terrorists” in Kashmir are the 700,000 Indian soldiers who occcupy, rape, maime, and slaughter the Kashmiri people without provocation. The separatists in Kashmir are not terrorists, they are leaders for the voice of opposition, which India is SO afraid of, in a country of 1 billion people, they are afraid because they know the voice of separatism, should it be given a platform, would disintegrate the country from within. The resolution to the Kashmir issue is a very simple one; implement the resolution passed by the UN in 1948, and all Kashmiris will accept the result. India turns a blind eye and instead occupies with force because they know what the outcome will be. India needs Kashmir, not the other way around!
P.S. any fighter in Kashmir is not a ‘terrorist’; as declared in the UN, and therefore internationally recognized, Kashmir is and always was a DISPUTED territory, therefore making them “Freedom Fighters.”
keep it up!
I think Mr Obama will make a fatal mistake by meddling in Kashmir dispute and will cause a world war and loss of remnaing prestige the us has left in the world along with its economic strength .This will be twenty times bigger mistake than Iraq conflict.
Mr Obama will be helping terrorist at the cost of Indian friendship and world peace.
This will cause unprecedented strength to China.
I think if Mr.Obama wins the election he should take some wise advise .
People are voting for obama hoping peace, economic prosperity and energy independence.
Mahatma Gandhi has shown how to fight for freedom peacefully. Those who believe in killing thousands of men have to be called terrorists and cannot respected as “freedom fighters”.
You surely MUST be talking about the Indian Soliders who have killed over 100,000 innocent Kashmiris in the past 20 years. I agree completely, they ARE the terrorists! Thank you for the clarification.
And if you weren’t so ignorant, you would see that the fresh movement in Kashmir IS peaceful, and they are being fired upon during their peaceful marches, and curfews imposed when peaceful sit-ins are planned. That’s not democracy. That’s the true face of India rearing its ugly head.
Even your Indian intellectuals are calling for a free and fair plebiscite in Kashmir. It’s high time that Indians try and put aside their egos and realize that Kashmir doesn’t WANT to be a part of their hypocritical and communal country. Again, India needs Kashmir, NOT the other way around!
I don’t know if there is any “Fresh Movement”.
But people are being killed every day in bombings in various cities in India.. in Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Dispur etc etc.
This is what we recognize as “Terrorism”.
If this is called “peaceful”, then I dont know what it means.
And yet again, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge and awareness about the issue! The bombings in your ‘various cities’ are not the work of the Kashmiri people! The recent bout of bombings in your country have been linked to your Indian Mujahideen, who even the Indian government has said has no links to Kashmir! That is your country’s issue between the religious majority and minorities, which has no bearing on the Kashmir issue. Maybe if there weren’t incidences such as the Gujarat riots, then such occurrences wouldn’t ensue. That however, is a problem that your country needs to deal with, and not lump into a big ball with the Kashmir movement.
And what about the recent unrest in the state of Orissa? Are you linking that to Kashmir as well, or did you conveniently leave that out, because there it is Hindus who are the perpetrators? The Hindu/Muslim struggle in India is an age old problem. The Kashmir issue is on an entirely different level.
What Indians have always failed to realize is that the Kashmir movement is not a religious one, it is a political movement of a people who simply want their God given right to govern themselves, without fear of persecution, terror, and subjugation. Is that so wrong?
Now that Senator Obama has been elected, India will be called onto the world platform, and their transgressions in Kashmir will be called into question. Lets see how they explain this one. There is nothing more powerful than the truth.
All pakis are terrorists. Pakistan should be destroyed if terrorism is to be destroyed from world.
kashmir is for kashmiris as America for Americans ,pakistan for pakistanis and India for Indians..Which means people of kashmir have birth right to guide themselves and to govern themselves than any alien power in neighbourhood.So is it that hard for a normal human being to understand..we have been demanding our birth right from last 60 years and instead India has been comming up with excuses and giving a peaceful movement a different colors so that international community doesnot recognise its warcrimes committed in kashmir.Where are 11,000 missing youth picked by Indian troops..Why are 1000 unnamed mass graves discovered recently?There are 124000 kashmiris dead with official figures as 43,000..If this is how kashmiris are treated then we ask the international community to intervene..If a responsible US cannot stop such state terror on innocent kahshmiris then what is the significane of a great power.Kashmir is for kashmiris only other can go home
How come only the Kashmiri muslims are separatists??.. Kashmir is for Kashmiris, not just Muslims. Leaving Kashmir to Pakistan will only mean more breeding grounds for Terrorists.
Anyway is India not the more economically and politically stable country compared to pakistan?
The only reason for separatism I could see here is that some Kashmiri Muslims need a country where it is legal to be a terrorist.
Separatists should be deported to pakistan.
If kashmir is for kashmiris why were kashmiri hindus tortured and thrown away from kashmir. Had it not been Indian Army probably we would be facing another afghanisthan as our neighbour.
Nothing will be achieved by fighting.
Kashmir was there before we were born and will be there long after we are dead.
Innocent people are dying and politician’s are gaining.
Once jammu and kashmir had acceded to India, its the property of whole of indian republic. The UN Resolution in 1948 is outdated since in 1972 shimla conference, the issue has to be discussed bilaterally between India and pakistan.The Kashmiris are ignorant since India is a secular democracy and is a federal country not a unitary state. The pakistan was created with intention of a homeland for south asian muslims. So why you hypocrite muslims dont leave india? The separatists like Geelani and hurriyat leaders are still alive and freely propagate their ideas becaure India is a democracy. But i dont mind kashmir valley’s (except jammu and ladakh) exit , provided the Indian muslims also leave India and go to pakistan or Kashmir. So the kashmiris should accept their muslim brethren from India and leave. Indian are happy to rid of muslims. But remember, the rape and war booty is justified not in indian constitution but in quran, the pedophile prophet’s book
leave our kashmir or we will make the indian terrorists to leave. we and our leaders are not terrorists.
I completely agree. Muslims in India who cannot respect our nation, please leave this place. All this separatist should be fired in public so that our nation can be in peace. There are many muslim people in India who donot support this kind of seperatist activities. They should stay here. Because it is their own nation. I think to any person religion should stand secondary. First I am an Indians. Then I am a Muslim.
I love your view Khalida and I completely agree with you , I pride being a part of india society , this feeling makes us integrated by heart , today I can say “India , means a country of people those just believe in love and humanity , not in religions”
Now about Kashmir , being an Indian I don’t want armed forces in any state all the time , I want to provide well education to children in J&K , I want proper infrastructure there , I want people live there with love and harmony , I want Kashmir like other states of India and I believe most of people wants the same in Kashmir as well because every one wants peace.
So where the problem is , separatist are the problem , they blaim India for armed forces in J&K , But can they give a garranty to live peacefully in J&K itself.
What happenend in 1947 , same separatist demanded Pakistan to live peacefully , are they really doing the same , this small well geographical rich country is starving today and have huge dubt on her head.
Having other country is not a solution , but to live with peace and work for nation and humanity is the solution.
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