The public sentiment strongly condemns corruption in Jammu and Kashmir, with widespread frustration directed at corrupt officials like Tehsildar Ghulam Rasool Bhat. There is a call for stricter measures against corruption and support for those combating it.

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I would prefer it coz 

1) Political differences between the two have been sharp across the decades, suggesting the people have different enough that self-governance would mean separation. I want the same for the Mysuru region of Karnataka (where JD(S) has a strong presence). Having split assemblies, and horse trading thereafter, results in horrendous governance.

2) For propaganda reasons, best to have foreign media refer to Jammu region rather than J&amp;K (which inevitably is simplified to just "Kashmir"). Helps remind folks about the complexities of the region. Eventually, the question of Kashmir on the Indian side of LOC would be reduced to the region of Kashmir state, Jammu being out of the equation.

thauyxs

I will again say that the best thing is to have more and more migrants from the rest of India move there. If we had done that a few decades back then the state wouldn't be Majority muslim today. A portion of people from UP and Bihar can change the entire demographics of the state. Make societies for migrants on government owned land and rent it out to immigrants and give them those houses if they stay there for let's say 15 years. India should learn from China , No nation in the world considers Tibet or Xianjiang disputed today. 

Who will care about it if the majority of people in the state are Hindus or Muslims that support India ? People may criticise policy today but decades into the future when entire generations are born there no will care.

CrimsonFirestorm

Kashmiris will not accept further breaking of the region. Religious lines are always vague, there are communities of opposite religions in both regions. Kashmir have seen enough riots and massacres. Region now wants peace and dividing people on religious lines is not a way of achieving it. Instead we should focus more on peaceful integration of both communities.

Moreover Kashmir is source of conflict in the subcontinent. Anything happening in Kashmir affect whole subcontinent.

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Makes total sense. Only the Kashmir valley is the point of problem. There are hardly any terror related issues in Jammu. Separating out Jammu will help focusing the containment efforts only where it is needed, and people of Jammu can breathe easy. Will also make sense to ask the under threat Kashmiri pandit families relocate to Jammu.

TheDoeTheJohn

Also there's another misconception that tourism (mostly tourists from India) is the reason behind Kashmir's well being. That's such a white lie. Tourism contributes less than 15% to J&amp;K's GDP. It's agriculture and horticulture that contributes more than 2/3rd. We have barely gotten a good enough tourism season since 1990. If we were largely depending on tourism, we would been begging on roads by now.

Adding to above points, Kashmir gets only 12% (or perhaps 15%) as royalty on power generated on it's waters. While rest of the states a 50% royalty. NHPC was rightly termed Kashmir's EIC by a former legislator.

Ok let's for a moment assume that India does send in loads of money for well being of Kashmiris - But who the f--k asked? Did we ever rally at Lal Chowk and chant 'Hum kya chaahte - Bharat sarkar ka paisa' ? Just spare us and go spend on your poor and hungry.

Horticulture, handicrafts and hydropower sectors are enough to sustain an independent Kashmir. Add to that income from a booming tourism sector that would follow with the end of militarization , and our per capita income may be at par with the European nations.

Honestly, isn't 10% of GDP a lot? Whoever has claimed such figures to you has a lot to answer. Can you source these claims please because I am pretty sure no one can spare like 10% of GDP/ year for a high corruption state such as J&amp;K?

Just curious, don't the paramilitary forces have their own separate defence budget? And can they spend from the funds alloted to the state? Because as far as I know that J&amp;K spends like 10% on police, and even from the rest, the distribution is quite straightforward, with 37% of total allocated for infra projects. Can the state authorise the transfer of these infra funds towards the construction of these bunkers etc and do you know or any provision that would enable them to do so? 

Also, doesn't Kashmir have CUK, Jammu's got CUJ, couple of AIIMS, an IIT and an IIM. This obviously apart from the SKUAST, SKIIMS, Islamic University, NIT, NIFT and what not. The infra might be shabby which I have no doubt, but, centre has been splurging quite much in both Jammu and Kashmir.

PS: Haha, snide remarks at your fellow KPs. Land reforms were brought in 1976 and looks like you have done quite well for you since then like throwing them out and plundering their property enmasse.

Few-Ostrich5819

Muslims should educate themselves about what happening in Kashmir their story of oppression is really sad

Bruce_wayne____

She was on “The Brown History Podcast”

It was a good and insightful episode

[link](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OefgyBueQ8kvomN4oW9ZV?si=gm2zCaelQ92oeu6uI34JVA)

Disastrous_Aardvark3

Baron-5050

India has a lot to learn from Pakistan. In PR fabrication and narrative establishment, Pakistan is unbeatable. This book on Kashmir is an excellent example of that.

The word 'kashmir' originated from reshi 'kashyap' which was a hindu saint. Kashmir has temple older than even Islam religion itself. Before kashmiri hindu massacre the combined hindu population of jammu and kashmir was equal to the population of Hindus. 

Ganesh0825

Muslims are not native to hindustan, they should move back to Arabia.

SuggestionEven2029

Kashmir never belonged to the Islamic faith as their first right on the land..

They were not born here but converted here and invaded here generations ago....there was no Muslim  footprint 5-6 centuries ago there ...

It's just a propaganda drive by Islamic extremists.

How can a land that belonged to an ancient culture for thousands of years can just belong to someone who just landed a few hundred years ago and that too by violence.

EndNice33

InflationNo3252

Indian "Occupation". Lmao, how can India occupy a part of India? Even most of Pakistan had always been a part of India over millenia.  The only land thieves here have been foreign invaders like the initial Muslim invaders, the mongols, the British....

Suspicious-Beat9295

Colonizing kashmir???wtff,  it is part of Hinduism culture for atleast 4000 -6000 years , have some shame .

DistinctDiscount6800

For someone who is used to privilege, equality can seem like oppression.

Confident-Zucchini

Who colonized who ?! Is Islam native to that land? Was it violently imposed on that and many areas of subcontinent?! The answer doesn’t need to be spelled out.

Then_Marionberry1842

Don't even need to read this propaganda. I am a Kashmiri pandit, true blooded Kashmiri and we have survived many barbaric islamic conquest. This disease did cut us down but Kashmir belongs to us

cloud-n-above

Anxious-Brilliant-46

India and Pakistan occupy an outsized role in Kashmiri reality. China is not a major actor except through general geopolitics and they have done a good job of not leaning too much in this conflict.

Kashmiris broadly don't like Indian rule. And are divided, not cleanly, into pro-pakistan and pro-independence camps. But it's a very amorphous sentiment where there's a lot of shared overlap between the two. I think if push comes to shove, pro-independence camp is larger especially among younger people.

I personally don't like Pakistan as a state, in terms of how it pursued its policies re Kashmir. Most Kashmiris have a soft spot for them though. 

I think Kashmiris in practice have sort of realized that we are stuck with no way out. It'll take some major global upheaval for India to stray off its policy to rapidly gobble Kashmir in all aspects.

The Indian state is quite murderous and totalitarian about shutting any outlet of protest, violent or non violent. So the freedom struggle is now thinned out to this stoic practice of not identifying as Indians in your heart.

bluntforce_trauma

First you need to understand that Kashmir and Kashmir valley are two different things. Kashmir valley is ... well a valley so it is the only plain oasis in an otherwise challenging mountain terrain of the region so naturally it became the population, economic and cultural centre. When Dogras from Jammu bought Kashmir valley from the British, they had to call it Jammu and Kashmir and not just Jammu. Kashmir is the Jupiter of the region how India being the hub causes it to be called the Indian subcontinent 

The opinion of Kashmiris is majorly towards independence followed by a significant second place in favour of merger with Pakistan 

Now about China, naturally as Muslims we find their treatment of Uighur muslims abhorrent however the Chineese claims to the "Kashmir Territory" are limited to Aksai Chin and a few other places in the east in what is called Ladakh and not Kashmir valley so we don't have any major concerns

We consider Jammu to be a separate region. The association is purely political and administrative. In the past Jammu was also a Muslim majority but the Dogra monarch massacred almost all muslims there

This sub is separatist and we don't want to do anything with India and Indian politics except to realise our right to self determination. We consider Indian political consciousness to be a lost cause

Mysterious-Bath-7182

The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Ghulam Rasool Bhat, a Tehsildar in Kupwara, for demanding a bribe of ₹1 lakh in exchange for permissions to cut walnut trees. The complainant, a poor resident, paid ₹50,000 upfront but the Tehsildar continued to demand the remaining amount.

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