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Originally Posted by Muhammad T S Awan
I) A Plebiscite is usually having two questions, Yes or No in this case, India or Pakistan.. At that time, it was naturally for two options, either join Pakistan or join India, there was no option of independence ( i feel  )
II) Why not balkanization of India  . As per a report, last year, maximum number of bomb blasts were not in Pakistan, Iraq or even in Afghanistan . They were in India esp its North Eastern part but media makes the stories  .
Note: You may like to have a look at following documents to see wthere there was an option of independence or not, they had to choose between Pakistan or India
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/sasia.htm
http://www.kashmirlibrary.org/kashmi...ebiscite.shtml
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Its a long debate ..Thanks for your opinion .Just one thing we can not force people to accede but we should encourage independence .They are slave since British rule.I must encourage what Kashmir`s leader says :
Mirwaiz said, “When the world community can play an active role in solving Kosovo, Sudan and East Timor like issue, why not the same with Kashmir? The international community should initiate serious steps to solve the dispute for once and all”.
“Being a lucrative market for the world business, India was emerging as an important destination for many countries who have their economic interests attached to the nation. Despite this reality, it should not be ignored that Kashmir issue was the main source of tension between the two nuclear armed countries, India and Pakistan from Past many decades,” he said.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/mirwaiz...n-for-kashmir/
& go for it
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49862
The movement for independence of the entire state is mainly supported by Kashmiris who inhabit the more populous Kashmir Valley and who would like both India and Pakistan to vacate the areas they are occupying. They base their claim on the fact that the state was formerly an independent princely state, is geographically larger than at least 68 countries of the United Nations, and more populous than 90
The movement for independence in the Kashmir Valley gained momentum in the late 1980s when Kashmiris protested against their continuing allegiance to the Indian Union. In the present day, if a regional plebiscite offered independence as an option, it is possible that the majority of Kashmiris would vote in favour of independence.
With an approximate land mass of 1,800 square miles (80 miles long, 20 to 25 miles wide) it is much larger than Monaco and Liechtenstein – but only one-tenth of the size of Bhutan. Whether or not the rest of the state retained its current political affiliations, many Kashmiris therefore believe that the valley could be viable in its own right.
In terms of livelihood, the valley could sustain itself through tourism, handicrafts and agriculture.
But an independent Kashmir Valley would also need to retain good relations with its neighbours in order to survive economically. Not only is the region landlocked, but it is snowbound during winter.
An independent Kashmir Valley would have the advantage of giving neither Pakistan nor India a victory out of their longstanding dispute. But although Pakistan might favour the creation of an independent Kashmir Valley, India would be unlikely to agree to the loss of territory involved.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/6.stm