Greater Kashmir

Kashmir heading for Resolution

“Like Ripe Fruit Solution Will Fall in the Basket of History” PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD It is ripe time. So I believe.  It is not believing in the make-believe world- if I say that it is ripe time for finding a solution of the Kashmir dispute. It is mood outside the establishment, in and around New Delhi that makes me say that it is not opposite but apposite  time for resolving the dispute that has caused directly and indirectly three wars and scores of battles in the region.  Billions of dollars that could have changed economic scenario of the sub-continent and made India really shinning were sent down the drain during the war. It has but for the dispute over Kashmir that the two countries have been maintaining largest armies beyond their means.  “The Indian Army has a total troop strength of around 2.5 million (1.3 million active and 1.2 million reserve) and is the third largest standing army in the world.”  And “Pakistan approximately 620,000 personnel are on active duty in the military which is the world’s seventh largest armed force as of 2007. Combined with the 302,000 strong Paramilitary forces and the Coast Guard, the Military of Pakistan has a total size of nearly 1,000,000 personnel.”  Spending on military both in India and Pakistan if  computed dispassionately they would work out to be quite huge, sufficient to change the plight of teeming millions living a sub-human life in the two countries. Read more