On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:00 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> legal standpoint. The plebiscite agreement is now defunct for many reasons >> and can be discarded as a data point in history. Nothing will bring it back. > In other words, the official Indian stance is that the wishes of the > Kashmiri people are irrelevant?
Does the Kashmiri peoples include people living in Azad Kashmir? Ladhak? Jammu? I suspect that both India and Pakistan do not want a plebiscite because they fear that they may not get the result they want. In the 60 years since the promise of the plebiscite much has changed. Kashmir no longer has the realistic option of independence. And because of the de facto partition of Kashmir and movement of populations out of the region, a plebiscite might not truly reflect the murky greyness of the wishes of the "kashmiris". S. -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
