Indian-Pakistani journalists exchnage their point of view on Kashmir.
Khalid Hassan is a Kashmiri, a well known journalist originally from Pakistan now settled in the USA.
Crossed signals?
Sir: With reference to Khalid Hasans report on my presentation at the United States Institute of Peace (Pakistan responsible for waging war on India since 1947, Daily Times, Monday, June 6, 2005) I should like to make the following points.
Mr Hasan claims my research relies on the wide range of Kashmir-related Indian intelligence documentation at the archives of the University of Indiana. In fact, I said I had deposited some of the old documents on which my work relies at the Universitys archives for restoration and preservation.
Mr Hasan claims I held Pakistan responsible for keeping the pot boiling in Kashmir, starting with the 1947 tribal invasion, followed by Operation Gibraltar in 1965, the armed uprising in 1989 and the 1999 Kargil conflict. In fact, my work is on Pakistan-backed covert activity in Kashmir in between these conflicts, leading up to the events of 1989.
I am uncertain of what Mr Hasan means by an Indian point of view. There are several Indian points of view on the Kashmir conflict as there are several points of view in Pakistan, and within Jammu and Kashmir ranging from the Hindu fundamentalist, the nationalist, the communist and the Islamist. My point of view is mine alone.
Mr Hasans misdirected patriotism evidently led him to believe that I had held Pakistan responsible for everything that has gone wrong in Kashmir. In my talk, however, I had extensively described the several disastrous policy errors of both the Indian and Pakistani leadership in engendering the violence we now witness.
PRAVEEN SWAMI
DEPUTY EDITOR AND CHIEF OF BUREAU
FRONTLINE MAGAZINE
New Delhi
Khalid Hasan responds: I admire Mr Swami for reading Daily Times with such care. But he can split as many hair as he finds in my report or on my head. But what I reported is an accurate reflection of what he said. His view of the Kashmir conflict and the uprising that began in 1989 was one-sided and all the wrongs that he saw were Pakistans. While I am prepared to admit that there may be more than one Indian point of view on Kashmir, I have come across few of his countrymen who are able to take a just and fair position on Kashmir, Mr Swami was no exception
Sir: With reference to Khalid Hasans report on my presentation at the United States Institute of Peace (Pakistan responsible for waging war on India since 1947, Daily Times, Monday, June 6, 2005) I should like to make the following points.
Mr Hasan claims my research relies on the wide range of Kashmir-related Indian intelligence documentation at the archives of the University of Indiana. In fact, I said I had deposited some of the old documents on which my work relies at the Universitys archives for restoration and preservation.
Mr Hasan claims I held Pakistan responsible for keeping the pot boiling in Kashmir, starting with the 1947 tribal invasion, followed by Operation Gibraltar in 1965, the armed uprising in 1989 and the 1999 Kargil conflict. In fact, my work is on Pakistan-backed covert activity in Kashmir in between these conflicts, leading up to the events of 1989.
I am uncertain of what Mr Hasan means by an Indian point of view. There are several Indian points of view on the Kashmir conflict as there are several points of view in Pakistan, and within Jammu and Kashmir ranging from the Hindu fundamentalist, the nationalist, the communist and the Islamist. My point of view is mine alone.
Mr Hasans misdirected patriotism evidently led him to believe that I had held Pakistan responsible for everything that has gone wrong in Kashmir. In my talk, however, I had extensively described the several disastrous policy errors of both the Indian and Pakistani leadership in engendering the violence we now witness.
PRAVEEN SWAMI
DEPUTY EDITOR AND CHIEF OF BUREAU
FRONTLINE MAGAZINE
New Delhi
Khalid Hasan responds: I admire Mr Swami for reading Daily Times with such care. But he can split as many hair as he finds in my report or on my head. But what I reported is an accurate reflection of what he said. His view of the Kashmir conflict and the uprising that began in 1989 was one-sided and all the wrongs that he saw were Pakistans. While I am prepared to admit that there may be more than one Indian point of view on Kashmir, I have come across few of his countrymen who are able to take a just and fair position on Kashmir, Mr Swami was no exception
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