Logical Assumption :
With China, India and Pakistan possessing nuclear arms, it is close to impossible for any of the neighbors to occupy each others' territory in Kashmir without a nuclear war.
Ingredients :
1.Securing the LOC (Army & BSF)
2.Securing the inner regions (RAW & State Police)
3.Zero tolerance to terrorism in the area
Key :
Destroy the name of the state Jammu and Kashmir on the lines of Nizam's Hyderabad and by completely dividing the area into different states depending upon the ethnicity/language and create new states.
Eshtablishing this :
Jammu and Kashmir, as India calls it, has to be stopped being called Jammu and Kashmir. We will have to see the state handed over by Maharaja Hari Singh to India more closely. The state handed over had five major regions :
1. Gilgit-Baltistan or the Northern region : At present occupied by Pakistan
2. Azad Kashmir : At present occupied by Pakistan
3. Kashmir Valley : At present occupied by India
4. Jammu : At present occupied by India
5. Aksai Chin : At present occupied by China
A Similar Story from the Past :
The state "Hyderabad" was forcefully annexed into the Indian territory in 1948. The state of majority of Hindus was ruled by Nizam of Hyderabad, a Muslim. If Hyderabad were to be left as how it was in 1948, the problem of insurgency and independence movements would have continued to occur till this date but it was very tactfully handled by Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Home Minister of India back then. He divided the state of Hyderabad into different regions and merged these with different states based on linguistic lines.
1.Gulbarga and Bidar had Kannada speaking majority, so it was united with Mysore and other regions to create Karnataka.
2.The Marathi speaking areas were merged with Maharastra
3.The Telugu speaking areas were united to create Andhra Pradesh, leaving behind Hyderabad as a small city.
Procedure:
On similar lines if the currently Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is divided into three states:
1.Jammu : With Hindu Majority and most people speaking Hindi & Punjabi
2.Leh-Ladakh : With Buddhist influence and most people speaking Ladakhi, Tibetan.
3.Kashmir Valley : With Muslim Majority.
And removing article 370 and AFSPA from the first two states, then the current problem of Jammu and Kashmir reduces to just the Kashmir Valley. Further, Kashmir Valley can be announced as a special territory just like China gives a special status to HongKong.
Result:
The worst that can happen would be the problem of Kashmir would still prevail but at least, that would just remain in the valley.
The best that can happen is that India will powerfully control the other two areas having vast potentials in tourism and energy sectors. Looking at the development in the neighboring states, Kashmir Valley, over decades, may itself be willing to remove the article 370 and as a gesture of goodwill, AFSPA may be lifted in a few years.
PS :
I don't write political columns or draw political agendas. I am a story-teller and this is my version of one of my stories about the Kashmir problem.
