SAVE JAMMU & KASHMIR
I want to express my concern regarding the plight of J&K.

The recent proposal of starting a bus service to PoK (Muzaffarabad) is aimed at just to push the state one more step away from India given that the basic requirement of Passport and Visa has been done away with. The question of  so called “divided families across LoC” is no more than an eyewash for the Indian People because the state consists of seven distinct geographic, lingual, cultural and ethnic parts i.e. Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh (still with India), Muzaffarabad, Baltistan and Gilgit (illegally occupied by Pakistan) and Aksaichin (illegally handed over to China by Pakistan). Hence, there are practically “zero” so called divided families in Muzaffarabad and the Valley.  Sir, it is well known that the government of India has already accepted the proposal of accepting the LoC as a soft border between Pakistan and India thereby offending the act passed by the parliament of India affirming that the whole of J&K, including PoK, is an inseperable part of India - hence cheating the citizens of India.

Another such dubious attempt to insult the India people was the attempt to enforce "J&K women's property rights bill" in the state thereby preventing the Kashmiri women to marry another Indian and encouraging more and more Pakistanis to marry Kashmiri women and settle in the state.

Unfortunately, sir, if this trend continues, we shall find the entire state slipping away in the hands of Pakistan. The proposed bus service will achieve nothing except helping Pakistan’s propaganda of “Freedom Struggle in Kashmir” and providing a safe route for the cross border terrorists. Hence, it becomes the primary duty of every nationalist Indian to expose this unholy nexus between the Terrorists and Politicians and prevent the country from getting “divided” further.

Regards
Atri Joshi
New Delhi, India.