WI: Kashmir dispute solved in early 2000s

Is this a good plan?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 55.6%
  • No

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • Total voters
    9
According to Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (Musharraf's foreign minister) Musharraf came up with a plan to resolve the Kashmir dispute though it was rejected by India. The plan was:

  1. Both Pakistan and India will withdraw troops from Kashmir and Kashmir becomes demilitarized
  2. Kashmiris in both Pakistan and India will move freely between Line of Control
  3. Indian Kashmir will be given great amounts of autonomy
  4. A joint supervision mechanism between Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri leaders
Musharraf said that Indian government rejected his plan. Alongside that, chief Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani opposed it, calling it vague. But let's say Vajpayee is more willing to listen to Musharraf (or alternatively he isn't PM at all and someone else is) and Geelani is less rigid. What happens next?
 

destiple

Banned
Pakistan army is ideologically opposed to India and it NEEDS the existential threat of a "hindu dominated" india to justify its huge size , expenses and involvement in EVERY possible facet of life from beach front property to talent shows to cornflakes

In short even if kashmir is resolved to EVERYBODY's satisfaction then india and pak will find something else to fight about

Hindu nationalists are not better btw but they are ( or were) not as mainstream as religious fascists in pakistan
 
Just after kargil war its Impossible and around 2000s tension were still high no way in hell NDA would have accepted any deal from Pakistan.
 
Tensions were way too high for any negotiated settlement at that time. A mere year later, the subcontinent came very close to all out nuclear war.

Hindu nationalists are not better btw but they are ( or were) not as mainstream as religious fascists in pakistan

They’re getting there though. The current chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is a Hindutva demagogue who dreams of converting mosques into Hindu temples. His government even excluded the Taj Mahal from the state’s tourism promotion material because it was built by “traitors and invaders.”
 
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