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To: JPR who wrote (12150)	6/5/2002 8:14:19 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

The Pride of Islam The initiative (fingerprinting) is designed for "individuals from countries who pose the highest risk to our security including most visa holders from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and many other muslim nations, US officials said. US is looking for 5000 middle eastern men for interviews after 9/11 attacks. Congress wants a system in place by 2003 for the INS to monitor the entry and departure of all immigrants.

To: JPR who wrote (12150)	6/5/2002 10:01:17 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

JPR, we are not going to agree about China's current intentions and needs so let us agree to disagree on that question. Suffice to say that there are too many differing factors between it and Tibet,IMHO, to make China a threat to Kashmir. I do agree about what you said about most Indian's perception of Kashmir, and that is part of the problem. Until you change that perception there is no chance for a peaceful resolution. Pakistan's perception is flawed also. The only viable solution, IMHO, is an independent Kashmir. The question is, as Chimnoy Roy asks, is "How" (and I am still thinking about that. Bill

To: JPR who wrote (12150)	6/5/2002 8:41:41 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Independent Kashmir is not good for India's secular credentials and territorial integrity. What "secular credentials"? Thousands of religious minorities got killed in New Delhi in 1984; several hundred again in Bombay in 1992 and over a thousand again in Gujarat in 2002. In the former two cases, nobody was ever brought to book and you can be pretty sure that the criminals of the recent carnage will go scot-free too. If India had any secular credentials, they went out the window many years ago. If there was any doubt whether it went out the window, even those doubts went out the window in recent years. Indians don't seem too enthused to give up even an inch of land in Kashmir ... For the vast majority of the Indians, that cannot be a high-priority issue; they are more concerned about getting their daily meal. It is the elite that can afford such luxuries as talking about Kashmir, not giving up even an inch of the land there etc. They can afford it because they are not the ones paying the price anyway. Unfortunately, whether it is the Kashmiri who gets caught in the crossfire or the Indian soldier that gets ambushed by guerrillas, it is the poor in India that have to bear the brunt, and not the elite.