Kashmir problem and its solution
If Kashmir secession is unacceptable, then the following suggestions can make a beginning in establishing sincerity. First, continue too use police and paramilitary forces to protect the public, patrol border, detain terrorists, seize arms. But government should ensure as far as possible that they operate within the law. Communicate in words and deeds that those police and paramilitary personnel who do not operate so, will be punished. At the very least, surely this means actually punishing the most outrageous transgressions-fake encounters, brutal searches, prison torture, indiscriminate firing.
Second, we should stop exaggerating the threats to Indian security and secularism. Whatever happens in Kashmir, it is the unlikely that the security of the rest of the country will be greatly affected.
Third, stop exaggerating foreign role in our troubles. Doubtless, there is a Pakistani `hand’ at work in Kashmir. This is shortsighted of Pakistan. Still the roots of the trouble in the Kashmir are Indian and local.
Fourth, stop trying to buy off Kashmir secession. This does not mean that government should neglect employment schemes, industrialization for the valley, and other economic measures, but it should proceed sensibly and due regard t normal economic and other considerations. Fait, the government outhit authorities should admit their mistakes and try rectify them. People understand that human beings and administrative systems also commit mistakes. But they want admission of and efforts to rectify them. Such periodic gestures by politicians and officials will be effective in signaling the sincerity of efforts to meet local demands and assuage local feelings.
The strength of Indian union lays its democratic and secular structure. In the face of social pluralism and local disaffections it has maintained a relatively open political arena and thereby pre-empted, co-opted or accommodated pluralism and disaffection.
The terrorists and secessionists, who want to destroy our country, must be crushed. We should have negotiations only with those persons who are patriotic and believe in Indian constitution.
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