Pete Rose
Senior ODI Player
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Numbers don't matter. Could be 10, 12, 100 or a million. There are people in India who criticise the atrocities in Kashmir just like there are people in Pakistan who criticise our atrocities in East Pakistan.
If you want distinction between facts and feelings, well, it is a fact that the UN Resolution cannot be implemented unless Pakistan takes the initiative and respects the first point of the resolution, i.e. Pakistan has to withdraw its troops from the LoC. I of course don't need to tell you what will happen if our PM tells the COAS to withdraw troops from the LoC.
Unless and until Pakistan takes step 1, we cannot proceed to step 2 and step 3, i.e. India will have to minimise the presence of troops and a fair plebiscite will have to be held to decide the future of Kashmir.
Now if we talk about feelings, the notion that we can wrestle Kashmir out of India's control by continuing what we have done since 47 (even though it has not worked at all) is what we can call a feeling, which unfortunately is nowhere close to reality.
That’s all nice and well, but let’s not play fast and loose with generalizations about estimations of sections of ours vs their population lament on east Pakistan/Bangladesh and Kashmir respectively.