Scotland vote stirs Kashmiri demands for vote

[vikramgemini]

Scotland’s referendum stirs Kashmiri demands for vote on future

(Reuters) - Kashmiri separatist leaders have seized on Scotland's referendum on independence to demand that India follow through on a promise to grant a similar vote in the disputed Himalayan region.

Scotland was voting on Thursday on whether to split away from the United Kingdom in a ballot moderate Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said was an example of how Kashmiris' demands for a say on their future could be solved peacefully.

"We hope India will also change its approach and realize the fact that people's rights can't be trampled upon," Farooq, the head Muslim priest on the Indian side of Kashmir, where a violent insurgency against New Delhi's rule raged through the 1990s and resentment still runs high, said on Wednesday.

[pervez]

Plebiscite in Kashmir is not allowed on this issue, one of the reason why India does not allow the Kashmir issue to be taken up in UN.

[DiehardNTRfan]

Its not possible to hold a plebiscite in kashmir..large number of kashmiri pundiths and sikhs were driven away from the state after the begining of insurgency in 1989 and ethnic cleansing took place..present conditions doesnt support their come back into the valley..so that option is clearly ruled out in the case of kashmir

[krishna_Bidda]

Its not possible to hold a plebiscite in kashmir..large number of kashmiri pundiths and sikhs were driven away from the state after the begining of insurgency in 1989 and ethnic cleansing took place..present conditions doesnt support their come back into the valley..so that option is clearly ruled out in the case of kashmir

i agree

[sskmaestro]

hmm..... mana kavitakkai and harish bava eddaru ee vishayanni gamaninchi untaru....