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Article: Opening a window in Kashmir.(Reconsiderations)
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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We here recall a forgotten incident
in the history of India-Pakistan relations,
the visit of Sheikh Abdullah to
Rawalpindi and Muzaffarabad in 1964.
The story is of interest to the historian,
and to the policymaker as well. Forty
years on, the contours of the Kashmir
dispute have scarcely changed. Now, as
then, its solution must satisfy the conditions
laid down in 1964 by Sheikh
Abdullah: namely, that it must not lead
to a sense of victory for either India or
Pakistan; that it must make the minorities
more secure in both countries; and
that it must satisfy the aspirations of
the people of Kashmir themselves.
--The ...