I just want to ask everybody including Govt. of India that what measures are going to be implemented for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri pandit......Every one talks about secularism in other state like gujrat,maharashtra....etc but when it comes around pity condition of kashmiri pandits in kashmir suddenly they just ignore the topic......Indian Media too is responsible for all this!!! because when-ever their is some incidence regarding discrimination against muslims and other caste the issue is raised like anything which is good too but when it comes to hindus who are suffering either in kashmir, uttarpradesh or other states the issue is delibrately pushed behind the curtain.....really i don't know the reason why all this happen....there are many other cases in which Govt. of Indian acts as if INDIA is not a secular but an Islamic nation, like they have banned the books written by salman khurshid and tasleema nasreen whereas nothing is done against M.F. hussain for making nude images of holy GODESSES while again and again our Govt. is trying to destroy Ram-Setu withaut considering the faith of Hindu Population attached with it.........could anyone please help me out in understanding this??? ..........is this fare????

Congressi gave Bihar soem paltry sum for flood relief and shamelessly asked the money back once election was over.. let us nto go abotu shamelessness of congress.. Point here is with what face J/K is askign more money they are bloody gettign disproportinately high number in comparison to their population as of today anyway.

How long will we keep starving children of Bihar UP and Orissa in order to insure the merry making of J/K, parituclalry of Kashmir since Jammu being hindu majority gets discriminated inside J/K.

Seriously as of today despite J/K 's popupation being 1/10 th of Bihar J/K gets ten times more aid from centre than Bihar.. In gfact Bihar gets loan not aid J/K gets aid.. If you happen to visit J/K you might be tempted to think that world is not goring thofuh economic crisis at all inflation has not touched that part thanks to uninterrupted money supply to that satet from centre..
Yet socalled analysts keep rreminding us that J/K needs development..

Amitabha Mattoo's prescription for 'conflict resolution' in Kashmir are really subjective & therefore do not mean a thing. All these experts , Kashmir boffins , say the same thing , keeping themselves on right side of power that be.'Dialogues that are vital to rebuild the culture of mutual respect, tolerance, accommodation and faith in peaceful conflict resolution'...'consensus on devolution and decentralisation of power'...
'essential to building peace is demilitarisation' & finally of course is 'J&K's development' These are meaningless platitudes without putting down any concrete prescription.

What is happening in Kashmir is can be seen on micro scale all over India which is lack any degree governance & all pervading corruption in an inverted pyramidal model. The problem in Kashmir being enormously complicated by it's artficial bifurcation by force , ever enthuastic Pakistan stoking the fires of discontent officially or unofficially. If a state embarks on a systematic distabilising excercise on neighbour's territory they will alwyas find recruits -some malcontents, some misguided idealist, some for pure attraction of lucre. And infiltration. In Kasmir's case Pakistan made it a state policy to keep the embers burning . And they got recruits to keep the Kashmir problem alive . They had been so far sucessful to a degree , because Indian state's response had so far been abysmally corrupt governance coupled with mindless force.

Withdraing the army from Kashmir is as of now is not an option, howsoever noises some set of politicians make, they being prodded by outside forces, who has overiding interest in Pakistani State or whatever remains of that.

Kashmir already enjoys considerable autonomy. What is needed is corruption free high qualty governance with extremely judicious & sensitive apllication of force. Kashmir had been coparatively quite whenever there has been a modicum of governace.

Despite its many failings, Kasmiris must be made to see the Indian Democratic state in juxtaposition with disintegrating Pakistani state. And only India has the financial muscle to 'develop' Kasmir alround( development of not only few political families, bureaucrats , high up policemen) , not Pakisatn . This has to be made apparent to Kashmiris on the ground , not by empty platitudes.

There is a new generation in Kashmir that has grown into adulthood since the troubles began in 1989-1990. Perhaps the govt (of India) if it is to reach out to the alienated Kashmiris (by which i mean J&K, as also Ladakh) is to target this section, largelt made of disaffected youth. Political parties of all hues are stuck in old ways of thinking. So more colleges, schools, universities or more interaction with similar institutions elsewhere in the country (this exists only in a minuscule way with children of displaced Kashmiri pundit families).

And if the two govts are daring and imaginative enough, as also the political parties of Kashmir, offer a new history of the region to students still in school in Kashmir. This could foster an entirely new beginning for the state and perhaps hold something towards a different, less conflict ridden future.

we need to spend money and time on the tribals /adivasis in the forests of india whom the state has forgotten at the cost of its obsession with kashmir.Kashmir is undeserving of indian tax payer's dole

On a per capita basis, Kashmir is perhaps the most favoured part of India, as far as government spending is concerned. The people of the Valley cannot be unaware of this fact, even if one discounts the porosity of the pipes through which resources flow into the state.

The real cost to the nation of being frozen into hostility with a neighbour for sixty years is perhaps much greater than the cost of governance.

One places great hope in the Home Minister's statement that something transformational is being thought of.

i guess this is a good lesson for people all across india. if you want a lot of money for your state/people, start shooting/bombing innocent people and govt machinery!

nice trend the cong govt has set by kashmiri appeasement.

the four "principal" challenges does not include the resettlement of the pandits who have been driven out of their traditional homes! some settlement this!

from nehru's time the indian estalishment has always shown reluctance to use the stick in kashmir. no wonder kashmiris do not want to give up militancy with all the moolah the govt is showering on them in appeasement.

Manmohan Singh gave away 24,000 crores to J&K when Gulam Nabi Azad was the chief minister.No Kashmiri ever appreciated that, for a state with less than 2 crores population it was a bonanza.The situation on the ground never improved due to that.But,now when Karnataka is reeling under flood fury,unprecedented in 100 years he gives a paltry 1000 crores,when the losses are more than 16,000 crores.He is playing politics just because Karnataka has a BJP government.