The Kashmir conflict is one of the most staggering conflicts in the international politics, and its persistence involving two nuclear powers is well known. Though the parties involved in the conflict have their own perspectives regarding the cause and course of the conflict, almost all agree (at least in declarations and statements) that the region is in dire need of peace as well as substantial economic development. Indeed, three decades of violence are on verge of ending without any positive achievement for the people. Due to the ongoing peace process, however, the atmosphere appears conducive for the launch of sustainable development initiatives in the conflict-ridden state. Kashmir, once known for its mesmerizing beauty, peace and tolerance in the world, has now been seen as a bloody conflict zone, since 1989.
Over the years, numbers of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were taken by India and Pakistan, but all the initiatives fail to bring long-term peace in the region. Conflicts whether for a smaller or a bigger cause, whether it aims to serve economic or political interest, before they could achieve their goal, they disrupt the normal way of life. And in Kashmir this long term dispute results in the economic deprivation, loss of better education system and negligible pace of developments and many more undesirable consequences.
According to official data, about 47 thousand people have died during the conflict from last two decades in Kashmir; however Human Rights groups put the number more than one hundred thousand. At the same time, around ten thousand people went missing, thousands of women have been raped and tortured, yet the conflict is still there; unresolved taking lives of innocent people. Over the years, numbers of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were taken by India and Pakistan, but all the initiatives fail to bring long-term peace in the region. In the meantime, Kashmiri movement went again back to its Non-violent mode since august 2008, which created the opportunity for India and Pakistan to solve this conflict, once for all.
India has been always trying to use management strategy to solve the conflict in Kashmir. Whether, it is using military power to crush the people of Kashmir, or applying the colonial masters (Britains) strategy of divide and rule.
Kashmir is a political problem that needs to be tackled in a political way. A unified message of peace, based on indigenous interests, can shun violence, and in Kashmir paradise lost can be regained.
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