Peace Process: Hidden Agenda
by Mohan Krishen Teng on 23 Apr 2011 24 Comments

Now that the Government of India has repeated its Sharm-el-Sheikh performance at Thimpu and offered to resume the composite dialogue with Pakistan, virtually overturning the stand it had taken in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Mumbai, it has much to explain about what it intends to do in Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi’s climb-down on crucial issues in its policy in respect of Jammu and Kashmir reflects a willful surrender. This perhaps emanates from its inability to face political blackmail and pressure brought to bear on Indian leaders in the name of economic development and peace and security of the region.

 

Indian policy reflects a strange sense of helplessness, which pervades the outlook of the political class and acts as an impelling force to drive those in power to invite Pakistan to the conference table again and again after every small and major misdemeanour Pakistan commits. Each time, Pakistan returns to the conference table grumbling and growling at the inability of the Indian Government to make the composite dialogue purposeful and result-oriented. The cause of concern is not the abrasive attitude of Pakistan, but the uneasiness with which the Indian political class reacts to it.

 

New Delhi has, with deliberate intent, tried to play down the way Islamabad has expressed dissatisfaction with the purpose and pace of the peace-process. The Indian leadership has shown reluctance to lay down a baseline of its policy on the Kashmir issue. In fact, the Indian political class has so far evaded the crucial decision of fixing the “irreducible minimum”, beyond which it would not go to reach a settlement with Pakistan on Jammu and Kashmir.

 

Its exhortations to the Indian Government “to walk an extra-mile” from its “stated positions” to reach an “out of the box” solution of the Kashmir problem and its eagerness to nudge New Delhi “to go far enough in its engagement with Pakistan, to reach a settlement on Kashmir”, are expressions used to camouflage its own subterfuge. The Indian political class has never mustered courage to stand up to its neighbours. Nor has it ever shared with the Indian people its vision about defending the borders of India.

 

Muslim outlook

 

The Government of Pakistan, its military establishment, and Pakistan civil society, are all agreed upon the baseline vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan civil society has on no occasion found it necessary to urge the Government of Pakistan “to walk an extra-mile” to reach an “out of the box settlement” on Kashmir. Pakistan has stuck to its stated position that: (a) the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir are a part of the Muslim nation of Pakistan (b) the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir acquired the right to unite the State with the Muslim homeland of Pakistan from the partition of India, (c) the Muslims of the State were denied their right to unite the state with Pakistan in 1947 when Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to India against their wishes, and (d) India, which pledged to implement the United Nations resolutions envisaging a plebiscite to enable the Muslims of the State to determine the final disposition of the State in respect of accession, has not redeemed its promise.

 

From the inception of the peace-process, which was primarily an Indian initiative, Pakistan has unflinchingly averred that its claim to Jammu and Kashmir, based upon the Muslim majority composition of the population, is non-negotiable. Pakistan has stressed time and again that its claim to Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of its Muslim majority population underlines the principle on the basis of which India was divided in 1947 and the Muslim homeland of Pakistan created.

 

Pakistan has repeatedly asserted that the partition of India marked the culmination of a historical process which underlined the Muslim struggle for a separate Muslim homeland in India, comprising the provinces and the regions of British India populated by the majority of Muslims, and Muslim princely states. Pakistan has consistently held that the partition of India recognized the Muslim majority composition of the population of British India and the princely States as the basis on which the territorial jurisdiction of the Muslim homeland was determined. The Kashmir dispute, Pakistan has claimed unequivocally, is a manifestation of the unfinished agenda of the partition.

 

The Muslim League laid claim to the Muslim-ruled princely states as well, on the basis of prescription and conquest, because it could not bring itself to accept their exclusion from the Muslim homeland of Pakistan. Muslim League leaders considered Muslim ruled princely states as citadels of Muslim power in India, which had survived the establishment of British rule in India. Muslim League insistence on the lapse of Paramountcy was to isolate Muslim-ruled states. Except that the lapse of Paramountcy caused the Muslim League some tactical disadvantage in Jammu and Kashmir, its acceptance by the Congress brought India to the verge of disintegration.

 

Were it not for the people of the Muslim-ruled States, who defeated the designs of the League and the Muslim rulers, India would have been divided further. The ideological commitment of the Muslim struggle for a separate Muslim homeland in India, to secure Muslims a separate freedom to realize their Islamic destiny, was fundamentally Muslim in outlook. The territorial claim to a Muslim India, comprising Muslim majority provinces of British India and Muslim ruled States that the Pakistan Resolution envisaged, was also Muslim in outlook. The claim that the unification of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan is the unfinished agenda of partition is also Muslim in outlook.

 

Irreducible Minimum

 

Pakistan has not allowed any ambiguity in its stand on Jammu and Kashmir. It has spelt out the baseline and has refused to deviate from its position that the Muslim majority composition of the population of the State is basic to any settlement on Jammu and Kashmir. It has refused to delink the Muslim majority composition of the state from the right of self-determination, which it has consistently maintained, flowed from the partition of India.

 

Exactly as the Muslim League agreed to divide the Muslim majority provinces of the Punjab and Bengal and the Hindu majority provinces of Assam on the basis of population, Pakistan has offered to accept division of the State on the basis of population, as a basis for a settlement on Jammu and Kashmir. It has proposed separation of the Muslim majority regions of the State - the Muslim province of Kashmir, Muslim majority districts of Jammu province, and Muslim majority district of Kargil in the frontier division of Ladakh - and their unification with the Muslim homeland of Pakistan as the irreducible minimum for a solution of the dispute. Pakistan’s participation in the peace process, in the ultimate analysis, is aimed at persuading the Indian people to accept the application of the principle which underlined the partition as a basis of a settlement on Kashmir.

 

Interestingly, the peace-process between the Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif Governments; the negotiations between the Vajpayee Government and the military regime headed by General Musharraf; the long atrocious talks at the Track Two level, largely a framework of conflict resolution fabricated by American diplomacy; and the Manmohan Singh-Musharraf parleys leading to a so-called “non-territorial settlement” on Kashmir; all reveal a continuity in the Pakistani stand. This underlines separation of the Muslim majority regions of the State on the Indian side of the Line of Control, their eventual disengagement from the Indian Union, and re-integration within a framework of political imperatives evolved by India and Pakistan, with the consent of the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir.

 

The Musharraf Plan exposed the perfidy. It recognized the separation of the Muslim majority regions of the State and their reorganization into a new political entity on the territories of India and governed by Pakistan. The Musharraf Plan envisaged division of the State into seven geographical zones of which five were Muslim majority zones; the transfer of power in the state to Muslim separatist regimes under the garb of self-rule; withdrawal of Indian armed forces from the State in the name of demilitarization; unification of the Muslim majority zones situated on the Indian side of the Line of Control with the occupation territories of Azad Kashmir under the cover of “irrelevant borders;” and the placement of the State under the joint-control of India and Pakistan.

 

Manmohan Singh cried aloud, undoubtedly to attract the attention of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir and perhaps Muslims in India, to the historical task he had accomplished by putting Jammu and Kashmir on a ten year long journey to join Pakistan. The Musharraf Plan provided for revaluation of the arrangements made in accordance with its provisions after ten years, a stipulation the Indian Government tried to underplay.

 

Greatest Betrayal

 

Pakistan appears to have convinced itself that India has finally accepted the principle of the partition of India as the basis of a settlement of Jammu and Kashmir. Evidently the impatience and urgency the Foreign office of Pakistan has exhibited about the progress of the peace process arises out of eagerness to evolve a procedure for separation of Muslim majority regions of the State, their disengagement from the Union of India, and their eventual integration with the Islamic power-structure of Pakistan.

 

The territorial boundaries of Pakistan, laid down by partition in 1947, were confined to the territories of British India. The Indian princely states were not brought within the scope of the partition. The claim Pakistan has laid to Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of Muslim majority composition of its population did not from part of the process of partition and transfer of power in India. The right of self-determination of the colonial peoples was an expression of the historic process of decolonization that the Second World War set in motion. The right of self-determination was never conceived as an instrument of any religious war. India was not divided to ensure the Indian people their right of self-determination.

 

Jammu and Kashmir forms the most crucial part of the northern frontier of India. It continues to be central to the security of the Indian borders in the north. Any prescription for a second partition of India, to disengage the State from the Indian Union, will not usher peace between India and Pakistan. Peace between the two countries will always depend upon the mutual respect they have for each other’s strike capabilities. The Indian political class, whatever the nature of its commitment to Indian unity, cannot ignore the hard fact that Pakistan has a stockpile of nearly two hundred nuclear weapons in its basement. Pakistan is an ideological state – a fact the Indian people can overlook at their own peril.

 

 

Prof MK Teng is Political Adviser, Panun Kashmir, and retired Professor & Head of the Political Science Department, Kashmir University, Srinagar

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Prof.Mohan Krishen Teng needs to be congratulated for bringing to the fore as to what is cooking behind the scenes by the indian state that will ultimately lead to the dismemberment of the Indian nation.There is a national concensus in the Indian poltical class and the Indian state to exclude J&k from the domains of the Indian nationhood on the basis of the two nation theory on which the theocratic state of pakistan was created.it is aimed at remaking of borders,to say palinly it means that Indian political establishment is giving ideological concessions to the enemies and the history is replete with the examples that the nations which give ideological concessions are on the path to give the territorial concessions.It is a move to make the Chenab as the new borders between India and pakistan that is why the non territorial settlment is given crednence and marketed.As the writer has rightly observed that the princely states were never part of the partition plan and the sovereignity lied with ruler,so there arises no question of bartering away J&K on platter to pakistan when Mahahraja Hari Singh acceded to the Indian Union by signing the same standard form of the Instrument of Accession which was signed by the other rulers of the Indian princely states.the bottomline is that the Indian state is using the soveregnity to wreck the sovereignty from within.The Indian nation nation needs to wake up from the self imposed slumber,otherwise the second partition of the Indian nation is round the corner.The ethnic cleansing and genocide of the kashmiri pandits from their Homeland in Kashmir sin 1989-90 was the trnfer of population carried out by the islamic fascists of kashmir,so that in future when the Indian state and pakistan sit on the negotaitaing table by then the 5000 years old imprints of the sanskrit indian civilisation in the form of kashmiri pandits willbe aotomatically erased.When india was partitioned transfer of population took place at the spur of the moment but in case of kashmir only one sided tranfer of population took place in advance in the form of the ethnic cleansing,genocide and holocaust of the kashmiri Pandits to make Kashmir as Muslim sphere of influence in particular and J&K in general.the nation needs to ponder transfer of population of the kashmiri Pandits without their share of kashmir is the greatest human tragedy of the modern world and the post independence India.the solution for the return and rehabilitation of the Kashmiri pandits lies in recognising their right to reclain thioer ancestral land in kashmir on their own terms with the free flow of the sanskrit indian natioonhood free from the islamic fascism and Muslim servitude in kashmir!But is the indian nation paying heed!
kaul@gmail.com
April 23, 2011
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The structure of India's engagement with Pakistan will ensure a continued strife in Jammu and Kashmir even if Pakistan abandons exporting violence to India and stops supporting separatists. The continuation of trouble in Jammu and Kashmir is an ideolgical necessity for Congress as well as the left. With BJP having joined the same race the drift of thep olitical class is complete. We are witnessing a sort of political AIDs where those who have to defend the nation are attacking it from inside.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo
April 23, 2011
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India cannot define a bottom line in Jammu and Kashmir. If they do then crafting a retreat in Jammu and Kashmir will be impossible.We cannot have a well defined threshold of tolerance with Pakistan. If we do then the process of internal capitulation will be interrupted. Indian foreign policy objective is the stabilisation of Pakistan and not of India. Indian secularism means only to keep Muslim identity politics alive and kicking .
Avinash Koul
April 23, 2011
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Pakistan's stand throughout has been based on logic and principles where as Indian have been dilly dalling and twisting and contorting the facts throughout this time and above all Kashmiri people in last few months has clearly shown what they want.......AZADI.Azadi to join Pakistan,and please don't call this a "second partition",it is the "UNFINISHED" bussiness of 1947 that India has been dragging uptill now!Every year on August 14th,Kahmiris hoist Pakistani flags atop their houses and buildings (remember the Lal chowk,Sirinager) and the Black flags on 15 th August.........i wonder why? The people of Kashmir can not be denied their freedom for ever,if their freedom is again denied and delayed,their sacrifices, sufferings and freedom struggle if ignored by India and world,this may turn them more extremist and fatalistic, that is and will be bad for Kashmir, India, Pakistan, and Indo-Kash-Pak -Afgan Subcontinent. More monies will be wasted and spent to keep people of Kashmir under brutal military occupation as well as bribing various people to show the world that every thing is OK in Kashmir. India will again say that the current freedom movement of is sponsored by foreign countries and extremists. (labels easily made). Whole situation is extremely bad for India which claims to be the biggest democracy in the world.Let the common sense prevail and settle this issue once and for all.
observer
April 23, 2011
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There is no left,right and centre in Indian politics.there is only one reality that is the indian state is in conflict with the indian nation and Indian civilisation.sovereignty is being wrecked by sovereignty from within!
MAHESH KAUL
April 24, 2011
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Very apt observation made by Mahesh Kaul in his comment-Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out in a one sided tranfer of population in 1989-90.when India was partioned atleast people had the option of having the homeland either in India or pakistan.but the kashmiri pandits were robbed of their Homeland ,for them it has been paradise lost.and worst part is that the indian state has denied them their Homeland in kashmir by co opting the muslim separatism! the woes of the exiled kashmiri pandits will end only when Union territory is created for them free from muslim communalism and fundamentalism in Kashmir on their own terms! Separate homeland in kashmir for kashmiri pandits is the only solution to reverse the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the kashmiri pandits.indian nation should come forward to support the exiled kashmiri pandits in their struggle for Homeland.In the reversal of genocide of the kashmiri pandits in terms of Homeland lies the defence of India and not in co opting the communal and fundamentalist majoritarian Muslim society of kashmir who have blood of kashmiri pandits on their hands!
Anmol Dhar
April 24, 2011
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political reorganisation of Jammu and kashmir that is the Homeland for the Kashmiri pandits in kashmir,jammu state and union territory for kashmir and the rehabilitation of the 1947 refugees is the only practical solution to end the theocratic and fundamentalist rule of the communal and anti national muslim society of kashmir,who have subjected all the non -muslims to servitude and treat them as second class citizenz in jammu and kashmir!
Radhika Khajuria
April 24, 2011
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The solution of Kashmir is not a second partition of india, it is the unfinished agenda of the first partition. Prof.Teng & the other indians point of view follows the usual pattern of "once a indian always a indian" full of twisted facts & the realities. If india really wants to shine & bring 80% of its people out of $1.50/day it should adhere to the original partition plan & give Kashmir to Pakistan the original owners. In return it would expect the avoidance of 200 + bombs+ missiles + lashkirs + destruction from the "khardimagh Pakistanis". It is not to late.
Khan Sahib
April 24, 2011
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Islamic separatism in Kashmir has the tacit support of the Indian Muslims,what is happening in Kashmir is the proxy for Indian Muslims by the Kashmir Muslims for the second parttion of the Indian nation!
Akanksha Dhar
April 24, 2011
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Hindus whether they are Kashmiri pandits or Dogras of jammu have been subjected to complete servitude of Muslim communal ism in Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian state to appease the Kashmiri Muslims and their Muslim supporters in other parts of the state!
Abhinav Gupta
April 24, 2011
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Hindus in india need to support Hindus in J&k instead of gettting mislead by the false propaganda of kashmiri Muslims!
Preeti Kohli
April 24, 2011
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Kashmiri pandits deserved to be kicked out of Kashmir as they were agents of India.they are misleading the Indian people ! Islam is the religion of Kashmir.Kashmiri pandits are kafirs!India should give independence to J and K and Take Kashmiri pandits and Dogras out of the state and settlle them in pther parts of India!J and K is a Muslim country from the beginning Kashmiri Hindus are from outside ,history of islam started with the coming of Bulbul shah! Kashmiri pandits have been sent to right place that is refugee camps and they desrve to be beggers!
Arshad Makhdhoomi
April 24, 2011
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Arshad Makhdhoomi,by making the above statement you have brought yourself down to the level of "Saffron brigade",this is exactly how they think and operate against Muslims as you must have seen what happened in Gujrat in arly2000's.I wish that both the incidents/trajedies (Kashmiri pandits & Muslim massacre in Gujrat) should have not happened!
observer
April 25, 2011
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It is very comical to find every government in Delhi, trying to placate Pakistan.We can draw parallel to a large and prosperous joint family.When one member of this family turns vagrant, he is seperated out as a malcontent.The joint family head ENSURES that other family members have no contacts with this vagrant.Pakistani establishment is this malcontent.It is time we stop all offical engagements with Pakistan.What will happen if we did that? Nothing! Our government in Delhi will have more time to spend in and around Delhi to attend to the issues of governance and corruption.
Time has come for Hindusthanis to tell the world and Pakistan that division of united India was carried out by the userpers , called British.Congress leaders accepted this division for the reasons best known to them.We Hindusthanis do not accept it any longer.If we can announce this to the world, loud and clear, all these problems will disappear.
Ordinary citizens are feeling scandalised at our Delhi government's terrible desire for talks with people who deserve a proper kick.
Jitendra Desai
April 25, 2011
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Actually i find your (last commentator) commant comical when you accuse Pakistan or the Muslims of turning "vagrant",if you turn back the pages of history to just before partition you will be utterly amazed to find what your Hindu leaders (both congrresy and hard liner saffrons) were doing,they were hell bent to not let Muslims to share power even when goraz were still the masters,no Muslim leader (and i repeat NO) was even thinking of a seperate home land for non Hindus then,but when they were 100% sure of the Hindu leader's intent then there was no turning back,Gandhi begged and rolled on the ground asking Muslim leaders to change there minds but thank God they did not listen to him,otherwise there would have been thousands of "gujrats" already (i mean the massacre of innocent women and children in 2000's).So my friend you can announce to the world that it was NOT British but your own leaders who killed the sacred cow!
observer
April 25, 2011
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Dear observer to my comments,
Thanks for yr response.Congress leaders were forced to accept partition by late Jinnah and his Muslim League, by their acts like Direct Action day.The killings of Hindus that took place during this Direct Action was worse than the riots referred by you.97% of muslims living in undivided India voted for a separate muslim home land.So you can't blame Hindus or Hindu leaders for the partition of our common home land.
But let us forget past!
What are the gains for Pakistan in last 60 years? Nil!
Here are your losses.
[a] Bangladesh became an independent nation
[b] Pakistanis have mortgaged their freedom to Americans and increasingly to Chinese
[c] In the fond hope of grabing Kashmir from India,the country is turned in to a violent Islamic entity
[d] Thanks to corruption and anti India posturing,the State of Pakistan has been spending excessively on Defence, meaning Defence purchases from abroad, with hefty commissions for your Army brass.Pakistan is on the verge of going bankrupt.

All is not lost yet.People of Pakistan should force its myopic leadership for a loose Asian federation comprising of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan & Sri Lanka.All these countries should,
[a] Have unified defence command
[b] Ensure free movements of men, materials, money & minds!
[c] Have an apex,elected council to deliberate and decide on issues of security, macro economy & human resources.
[d] Have a body of muslim intellectuals and ulemas to redefine Islam for 21st century for the entire Islamic world.

Majority of Islamic countries are at war with themselves ro with other Islamic countries.This is not what the Prophet might have envisioned for his followers.Time has come topresent Islam in its new Avatar for the muslims and non muslims of this planet.
Jitendra Desai
April 26, 2011
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Desai sahib,the reason for Muslims to from the league was exactly after the intentions of Hindu leaders became obvious that what they wanted to do with Muslims once British have left,and they keep hindering with a peacefull settlement of the issue,what you are mentioning here happened when Muslim leaders had exhausted all the peacefull means to get the point across ,so you cannot blame it on Muslims for the aftermath.When Pakistan got its independence in 1947 there was only ONE university and an old dilapidated jute mill in the whole country (both east & west),now if you check you will be amazed to know how far they have gone it is simply unbelieveable (which most of the Indians have a delusion off).Pakistan has now numerous universities,medical ,agricultre,engineering,biotech,poly techs colleges that it will take a seperate blog to talk about.Pakistan usually is self sufficient in food and dairy products,now Pakistan have joined a unique club of nations where they are producing their own nuclear fuel and nuclear technologies,in defence sector Pakistani scientists have done wonders,they are producing cruise missles,ballistic missiles of various ranges,fighter aircrafts,submarines,frigate ships ,Battle tanks and the list goes on and on.Pakistan came out stonger after the Bangladesh fiasco,the bengali commited treason (as per their tradition) and now they want to come under the nuclear umbrella of Pakistan,but the question is against who....?All those people who say (wish and hope and pray) that Pakistan is on the verge of collapse (for the last 63 odd ) years are due for a big surprise once again,as soon the backyard of Pakistan is "cleaned off the mess", you people will see a different Pakistan (inshaAllah) .Ayub Khan (president of Pakistan) offered Nehru a joint defence pact, which Nehru shot down by asking him "against who?".So my friend look into your leader's doings first then offer the proposals that you are offering here.My friend Islam is still the same,Quran is still the same,Hadiths of the Prophet are still the same only the Musalman is not the same,they have lost the true meaning of Islam,they need to understand the basics of Islam first and then and only then Allah will help them.It is mentioned in Quran that even Allah will not help those who would not help themselves first,with best regards.
observer
April 26, 2011
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Dear Observer from Pakistan,
Thanks for your comments and best of luck for a happy, prosperous and peaceful Pakistan.
When I said redefining Islam, I did not mean changing holy Quran or Hadiths, but reinterpreting them in the context of changed times.Eg, some muslim friends in India state that Prophet advised his followers to protect cows and not to kill them.Now killing of cows by muslims for eating them is a major issue with Hindus.If aforesaid is true and if muslims stopped killing [ and eating]cows, they would win many friends amongst Hindus.
Muslims also need to come out clearly on how Prophet defined Jihad and how he wanted his followers to pursue this Jihad.This is needed in the light of killigs that is taking place in the name of so called Jihad.
Best wishes
Jitendra Desai
April 28, 2011
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Desai sahib from India (i presume),Thanks for your good wishes but just to let you know that even if somone tries to change Quran it is an impossible task as many before have tried and failed.Allah has said it in Quran that "This Book is Protected till the last Day" .People (hypocrites/fake Muslims) tried to add things in it right after the daeth of the Prophet,but the miracle of Quran is that a 10 years old kid can memorise the whole book (i have personally seen many) so regardless what happens while reciting (a fake Quranic verse or commingled verse) that person will STOP right there no matter how many times he tries,so it is practically impossible to corrupt the Holy Quran.Even British tried this venture and failed miserably before independence.Now comming to your next point, a Muslim Does NOT have to eat meat (Cow or other hallal animals) to practise Islam,if one is 100% vegetarian he could be as good a Muslim as the one who also have meat in his/her diet,there is no where in Quran or Hadiths mentioned that it is a must for a Muslim to eat meat.So yes,i think it would be polite to not to eat Cow's meat if it hurts some one's feelings,this is what Islam teaches and practises.Now comming to your last point Jihad,according to Islamic teachings is classified in two types,Small and big,the BIG jihad is to get "self control" on the desirers and your inner demons whereas SMALL Jihad is to fight for the way of Allah.Even this is highly regulated,a Muslim is strictly advised to use self constraint while waging war,Muslim armies were advised to fight ony those who are fighting against them,not to harm women children and old,not to cut or burn trees,not to run through crops and fields,treat the prisoners with compassion,if the enmy wants to stop fighting then stop and make peace,not to take revenge,but if the enemy tricks or decieves you then give a befitting reply.This is human nature to be violent,there will always be people (in all religions) who would go overboard (Muslims have there share too) in the zeal of their religion,but we are talking here what Islam has to say on this topic,i hope that i have answered your query,with best regards.
observer
April 28, 2011
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Observer,pakistan is on the way to collapse keeping in view the turmoil at all levels there! Its crumbling was written the day it was created as it had no histort and even geography-just artificial creation like artificial pond that is sure to dry once the water has evaporated!
Niharika Kachroo
April 29, 2011
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Dear Observer from Pakistan, Thanks.You appear to be an enlightened muslim.My compliments for being so.May be some day muslims in India and Pakistan will declare that all should desists from killing a cow, let alone eating her.
Let us also hope that the definition you have given for Jihad will be followed by all, especially those who kill innocents.
Also pl do give further thought to the Idea of UNITED STATES OF HINDUSTHAN , like present day USA.If we can fashion such an entity by 2030, it will put an end to most of our present day problems.

Best iwshes
Jitendra Desai
April 29, 2011
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Dear Niharika, Pl refer to M J Akbar's book "Tinder Box" .It appears that Pakistan may not collapse but will continue to exist as a " jelly state" Is it desirable?
Time has come for all young Afghans, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Sri Lankans to seriously work for a UNITED STATES OF HINDUSTHAN.All these independent nations , were once part of Mauryan, Mughal or British empires.SAARC appears to be the begining, but it has not taken off.We should have single army modelled along NATO.That will stop all of us from waging overt or covert wars against each other and help us shave off 50 % of our individual defence budgets.
Any thoughts on this?
Jitendra Desai
April 29, 2011
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Desai sahib,here is some fuel for your thoughts.OK,let us all agree on a United States of Sub-continent (or Hindustan as you proposed),and let us call that State " The Greater Pakistan " and let us have Islambad as its capital,would'nt that too "put an end to most of our present day problems",..........waiting for your input on this suggestion,with best regards.
observer
April 29, 2011
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India is a hindu nation,beating about the bush means to escape from the reality!
Seema Sharma
May 04, 2011
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