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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SAVE JAMMU & KASHMIR
I want to express my concern regarding the plight of J&K.

The recent proposal of starting a bus service to PoK (Muzaffarabad) is aimed at just to push the state one more step away from India given that the basic requirement of Passport and Visa has been done away with. The question of  so called “divided families across LoC” is no more than an eyewash for the Indian People because the state consists of seven distinct geographic, lingual, cultural and ethnic parts i.e. Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh (still with India), Muzaffarabad, Baltistan and Gilgit (illegally occupied by Pakistan) and Aksaichin (illegally handed over to China by Pakistan). Hence, there are practically “zero” so called divided families in Muzaffarabad and the Valley.  Sir, it is well known that the government of India has already accepted the proposal of accepting the LoC as a soft border between Pakistan and India thereby offending the act passed by the parliament of India affirming that the whole of J&K, including PoK, is an inseperable part of India - hence cheating the citizens of India.

Another such dubious attempt to insult the India people was the attempt to enforce "J&K women's property rights bill" in the state thereby preventing the Kashmiri women to marry another Indian and encouraging more and more Pakistanis to marry Kashmiri women and settle in the state.

Unfortunately, sir, if this trend continues, we shall find the entire state slipping away in the hands of Pakistan. The proposed bus service will achieve nothing except helping Pakistan’s propaganda of “Freedom Struggle in Kashmir” and providing a safe route for the cross border terrorists. Hence, it becomes the primary duty of every nationalist Indian to expose this unholy nexus between the Terrorists and Politicians and prevent the country from getting “divided” further.

Regards
Atri Joshi
New Delhi, India.


WHAT A SECULAR BUS-RIDE?
The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus journey was a cent percent Muslim affair despite the loud talk in India about secularism, plurality, minority welfare etc. Muslims from one side of the LoC met their relative Muslims on the other side after crossing the Aman Setu. Human Rights activists should think why no Hindu was seen in the bus journey for which the Indian government has spent crores of rupees. Is it a fact that no Hindus are left on either side of the LoC now? Before the partition there were many. What happened to them now? Are they all killed or are they subdued and so were afraid to enter the much hyped bus? In fact, in the region of the bus route, Hindus are in minority. So why did they not receive the benefits which we give to minority Muslims in the other parts of the country? Hindus, boasting of the success of the bus incident and reunion of Muslims on either side after 58 years, may note that unless they unite and assert themselves, like the Muslims, the situation in the whole country, after the next 58 years, will be the same, as it exists now in the area of the bus route. Hindus must ask, if secularism is a very noble principle, why should it be there only in Hindu majority areas?

Yours faithfully,
K.G.Acharya
Andheri, Mumbai, India

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