Autonomy is the best solution

I feel that autonomy is the best solution to the Kashmir issue for the following reasons:

1. We already have a ready market for our handicrafts and fruits in India. If Kashmir were to gain independence, India might impose steep tariffs which would make our goods very expensive for ordinary indians to afford.

2. We have the Indian knowhow in building our infrastructure such as roads and bridges which we would have to build ourselves should we gain independence.

3. If we stay as a completely autonomous state of India, all the IAS officers would have to leave Kashmir, leaving us to manage our internal affairs without any interference from the central governmentt. If this happens, then we dont have to worry about defence as we would have to spend a lot of our budget on defence should we become independent.

4. Autonomy means that we only surrender defence, foreign affairs and communications. the rest we handle ourselves.

I think this is a workable solution as we will be in a win-win situation because India protects our borders, and cannot interfere internally, and we manage our local affairs ourselves.

Vote for National Conference in the coming elections as they will make this happen; and Omar Abdullah is promising this will happen so let's give him a chance.

y do u worry about the indian market..u should remember that our historical markets are not in india but across pakistan..our main market used to be rawalpindi via jehlum valley road which is accessible 12 months a year...we were never dependent on india or indian markets but they have made us through there policies...and u tell me what else is there except defence,communication and finance..these are vital for any country to stand up, for there economy..do u have any idea how important communication is...and we should not worry about our military budget..kashmir has the potential to beat even singapore through its mamoth potential in hydro electricity, leave apart tourism,handicraft and agriculture..but we need to enhance them...and its not only for these things that people are fighting here for...people need basic human rights,civil rights,right to live with honour and dignity...and these things are not possible with mere autonomy and history is witness to it...

Is this a Joke???!!!

The moment Indian Army or Indian Security Forces step out of Kashmir, you all will be killed or slaved by Pakistan!!!!

Have you Mullah's forgotten your History... Son kills Father to become king. [obscene language deleted by admin]. Be realistic & wake up.

Go get a life you loosers....

Ackles has been banned for ignoring repeated warnings about the use of obscene language. There is no place for profanity in a meaningful dialogue. If you want your account restored write me a PM stating why I should restore your account.

thankyou very much for the right step to ban ackles

ather wrote:

thankyou very much for the right step to ban ackles

Ather, brother, I feel very bad when we have to ban a member. But we have to obey the rules. There is only one rule on this forum and that is that no obscene language will be tolerated. There are young kids in kashmir, India and around the world who will be reading this forum while learning about Kashmir. We have to think of them.

We definitely do not censor any names that people call us; however, using obscene language is a different story because we want this forrum to be representative of the diffferent views about kashmir, and not a place where intolerant people can show off their vocabulary of profanities.

Thankyou ather for your very informative posts. I hope you will continue enlightening all readers with your excellent posts.

Though i do not approve abusive langauge but you got to be a little tolrent. hey about the solution yes may be kahmir can be peaceful and bettr only if you get autonomy.

then why didnt it when kashmir had autonomy..????
....autonomy was just a tool to integrate kashmir with india and nothing else and as years went by autonomy became immaterial because india had strengthened its grip on kashmir...

@ ather
Well i dont think you me or any one on this forum was born then. But ask any one they will tell you that , it was a time when Land to tiller act was introduced, it was a time when tourist visited this place in hundred of thousands not (Jhadal tourist). The Film indistry was to start hub here in a big way, Look here friend my emphais is on how people use to benifit by all these activites, a revolution succeeds by what you put in and not by mere slogans where Hurryat leaders fight for their existance, each leader claiming to be the real one , Azadi cannot be achived, so you drop on the next possibilty and thats Autonomy.

Srinagar wrote:

@ ather
Well i dont think you me or any one on this forum was born then. But ask any one they will tell you that , it was a time when Land to tiller act was introduced, it was a time when tourist visited this place in hundred of thousands not (Jhadal tourist). The Film indistry was to start hub here in a big way, Look here friend my emphais is on how people use to benifit by all these activites, a revolution succeeds by what you put in and not by mere slogans where Hurryat leaders fight for their existance, each leader claiming to be the real one , Azadi cannot be achived, so you drop on the next possibilty and thats Autonomy.

Agricultural like any other business need to be run like a business they just transferred the land to the tillers hence the sorry state of our Agriculture industry from a self reliant sate to depend on Punjab and rest of India .
Not only that we see all of this agricultural land got sold for setting unauthorized housing colonies which is going to be a big problem in near future .

Khan wrote:

I feel that autonomy is the best solution to the Kashmir issue for the following reasons:

1. We already have a ready market for our handicrafts and fruits in India. If Kashmir were to gain independence, India might impose steep tariffs which would make our goods very expensive for ordinary indians to afford.

2. We have the Indian knowhow in building our infrastructure such as roads and bridges which we would have to build ourselves should we gain independence.

3. If we stay as a completely autonomous state of India, all the IAS officers would have to leave Kashmir, leaving us to manage our internal affairs without any interference from the central governmentt. If this happens, then we dont have to worry about defence as we would have to spend a lot of our budget on defence should we become independent.

4. Autonomy means that we only surrender defence, foreign affairs and communications. the rest we handle ourselves.

I think this is a workable solution as we will be in a win-win situation because India protects our borders, and cannot interfere internally, and we manage our local affairs ourselves.

Vote for National Conference in the coming elections as they will make this happen; and Omar Abdullah is promising this will happen so let's give him a chance.

Now for people who think Autonomy as a solution Lets not forget that NC came to power in 1996 with the promise of restoring autonomy it was a gimmick to get back in power why should anybody trust them again

kashmir had autonomy when late sheikh was arrested for 11 years. paeple of kashmir dont want that autonomy where prime minister is arrested on fabricated charges to strengthen its grip ont the disputed land

Well No other State in India has the privileges of Article 370, which entitles virtual autonomy to J&K.

India has not abolished article 370 in 60 years.

Kashmir is already free in that terms.

And I trust that India might have done more if the fear and hate instigated by external agents would not have caused this mistrust and animosity.

Every Indian is Free, Every Kashmiri is Free....

Every Kashmiri is Free...