| i "think" i am safe. Recently a prominent lawyer was assassinated in broad daylight, that has gotten me scared. other than that this place is actually safer for non combatants than rest of the subcontinent and i can say that with authority. the governments otoh are not safe for people. from what i have observed and from facts, at least on the indian occupied side, india spend like millions to convince entire generations about a local hero who happened to be pro india. https://zeenews.india.com/india/at-2-3-per-cent-turnout-srin... this was a couple years ago. yeah so its not like people are not protesting, we just don't see a point in the conventional protests. kashmir has been fighting foreign invaders for over 500 years so its kinda in the system, to oppose. as a kashmiri, i see no alternative other than complete independence. there is no other way forward, will that take 20 years or 500. Doesn't matter personally i think all three of these nations have to let go of kashmir, not because of some altruistic reason but because of CPEC. india and pakistan "need" to pass through kashmir to access it. china cannot afford jeopardizing their project because of indo-pak squabbles. for them business is king and the sooner things settle down, the easier. for us kashmiris, we could practically live off of port fees for all the goods passing through our borders so yeah, i am hopeful |
I would be more afraid, that those big powers next to you don't want to let you go exactly for that reason. They want to use your land.
But yeah, I hope that they can settle for that. Leave you in the middle. A buffer between them.