The US Congress-funded think tank, US Institute of Peace (USIP), has recommended that the US policymakers tell India, privately and publicly, of the potential consequences and complications their (Indians\u2019) political and security strategies in Kashmir create. Moreover, Americans\u2019 interests in India \u2013 be that geopolitical, strategic or economic \u2013 could be affected in the face of India\u2019s Kashmir policy because New Delhi has alienated vast chunks of the population in the Kashmir Valley. The report, which is not binding to the US policymakers, points to the growing frustration in the US think tanks because of the growing violation of human rights in India-held Kashmir, and Indians\u2019 conduct to destabilize the peace of the whole region. The days are over when India would insist that Kashmir is its domestic issue as the think tank\u2019s report calls India\u2019s stand \u201ca fiction maintained only by a large security presence\u201d. The report dissects New Delhi\u2019s August 5 actions under which it abrogated India-held Kashmir\u2019s autonomy and later on enforced lockdown on physical movements of the people and blackout of the Internet. Both restrictions have not been lifted despite Indian top court instructions. The report warns: \u201cNew Delhi will increasingly find it hard to manage its narrative about constitutional and political changes ushering in peace to Kashmir. Most indicators of violence in Kashmir have been on the rise since the August 2019 decision\u201d.
\nThe best solution to the Kashmir issue is the implementation of the US\u2019s resolution under which Kashmiris are given a right to self-determination. As India does not want to go along the UN resolutions, and the international forum is also either helpless or reluctant to implement its own resolutions, the world should push India to come to the negotiation table. Also, the think tank suggests some out-of-box solutions. One such was once negotiated between Pervez Musharraf and Manmohan Singh in 2004, the solutions could be the self-government and the demilitarisation of Kashmir without changing the de-facto borders. The world should know that Modi\u2019s August 5 step has affected the free movement of people and trade between India, Pakistan, and Kashmiris. The bus service, which has been running since 2005, has been closed. The report states India committed illegal annexation and now \u201cany future talks based on that formula will be harder to begin\u201d. The US Congress should take up the report and start talking about rights violations in India-held Kashmir forcing the Modi regime to free Kashmiris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US Congress-funded think tank, US Institute of Peace (USIP), has recommended that the US policymakers tell India, privately and publicly, of the potential consequences and complications their (Indians\u2019) political and security strategies in Kashmir create. Moreover, Americans\u2019 interests in India \u2013 be that geopolitical, strategic or economic \u2013 could be affected in the face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"yoast_head":"\n