To all bloggers
who disagree with my opinion on this issue,
please voice your opinion, your contradictions on your own blogspage.
Arguing on a comments section simply becomes lost from most readers view.
Any question that you raise, any points you challange, I will answer through future blogs.
In a sequence of my choice and writing convenience. Thank you.

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That is exactly what I intend to do.
Thanks to the internet, lot of evidence is now open to the public.

The propagandists now aims ridicule directly on individuals
who wants to bring out those evidences to the public,
to suit their own agenda.

I will let my readers judge for themselves
the validity, authenticity and neutrality of the evidence.

“For a while, since i joined the world of blogging,
I have been reading various articles on the Kashmir Conflict.
The reports and articles are (conveniently) never entirely true and
seems a deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions about this dispute.
My replies and comments on certain sites are deleted at “moderation”.”

Just to make it clear,
I read about biased claims and propaganda,
and if and when I try to respond, my comments are “moderated”
and so I decided to write my responses on my own site, so that they get to be read.

It is you who are now being presumptive when you say I am making up a story.

I commented on you site, and it clearly said, my comment was being held for moderation.
When I returned it still said that, on my third visit it had disappeared.
If Akismet had removed it goes into the spam box, not into the queue for moderation.
That is when I did my first blog on moderation.

There will always be pingbacks, that is part of blogging.
You are free to delete the pingbacks, but it would confirm your selective deletion policy.
Unlike a comment, the origin of the pingback cannot be erased.

I do not intend to go into personal arguements on the Kashmir issues through comments.
I prefer to express my opinion and present them to my readers with the documentary evidence I base my judgement on.

I let my readers make an INDEPENDANT JUDGEMENT for themselves.

You have had a head start on this issue,
Now I am just drawing level with trackbacks,
just to clear any misconception my readers may have carried.
I do not need to refer to your blogs in future, my own will speak for themselves.

Neutral source? Ofcourse.
Like the Human Rights Watch? Sure will do.
Wasn’t Margaret Bourke-White neutral or unbiased enough for you?
Or is anyone that do not agree with Pakistan or ‘Kashmir’ biased?

Why don’t we LET THE READERS DECIDE
what is true and what is not,
who is biased and who is not,
or what is factually correct or is propaganda.

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If you wish to contradict anything I have said, please do so from your own blogspage.
My comments policy says if anyone refuses to publish my comments, I reserve the right to withold theirs.

Making up a story that I did not publish your comments just to try and get some sympathy from people is really not an amazing way to start blogging about an issue. If you started blogging about the Kashmir issue just because your comments were not ‘allegedly’ published gives a fair idea about how much you know about Kashmir or its history and the emotional reasons as well.

Have a look at the comments on my blog, a majority of them are from people who do NOT agree with me and yet they are ‘surprisingly’ being published and none of them has ever been edited. You did mention my blog’s comment policy in one of your posts (to be honest it is flattering to know that every post of mine is getting a response (however unrealistic) in the form of a post from you!) but again you blindly put up selective parts of the policy and lamented how such blog policies turn you away from commenting. However, the said policy did not turn away those people who continuously oppose my views yet see their comments published. Did you write to one of those people and ask them if their comment has ever been deleted. You did not. But you should have. When my blog is showing trackbacks from your blog (which I could have also deleted) why would I delete your comments only and seeing from the ‘facts’ you are providing on this blog, I am sure, they wouldn’t be revealing the inside stories that I would be scared to publish. Have you heard of spam and the akismet plugin on WordPress? If you did really comment, the only reason they were not published then is because they were marked spam by akismet and while going through the hundreds of spam on my blog, it is possible I would have missed it.  Read about it on the wordpress forum.

And this great factual document, that you have put up, reads:

Source: Government Of India Publication, October 26, 1947

The physical document has never been produced even in the United Nations. I could scan up a piece of paper and claim it to be a letter from the Maharaja ‘falsifying’ the Indian claim. Ministry of Home Affairs claims that Kashmir is an integral part of India, even though the entire world considers it to be a disputed territory. Next time quote a neutral source, not a biased one.

Indian map still shows the areas under Pakistani and Chinese control as its part, are they? They aren’t! And why would not India publish a document that proves its theory of the alleged accession. And as I said on my blog, India was supporting Sheikh Abdullah to throw over the Maharaja, since he was an autocratic ruler and not the peoples representative, why did India get the documents signed by him then? He was not the peoples leader! Oh, but that is India’s hypocrisy.

As far as your propaganda claim goes, of course you will call it so, you are an Indian that believes in blindia (blind Indian media), the Kashmiris talking about themselves has never been allowed and now that they are, it is causing people to worry or then to simply label it propaganda. The Kashmiri Propaganda claim is answered in this post Is hope still alive

And some of the details of the accession are dealt with in this post: How Gandhi stalled Kashmir’s independence
Let me quote something as far as the alleged accession is concerned

‘It is hard to imagine why Mountbatten attached such importance to immediate accession.’
Ziegler, Mountbatten, p 446

‘By exaggerated legalism the Governor-General helped bring about the result he most feared: the protracted occupation of Kashmir by India with no attempt to show that it enjoyed popular support.’
Ziegler, Mountbatten, p 446

It is difficult to know what to believe when the media outlets report so selectively according the their own agenda.

It’s the same with bloggers who delete comments that contradict their own views. I’m totally against this.

The history of Kashmir conflict extends back many many years.
It is difficult for us in India to sometimes find the truth.
Thankfully many documents have been now made public,
and comparing and corelating them helps.

I never had any intentions of writing about such a volatile subject.
But blatant propaganda, while piling unsubstantiated blame
on us Indians, I found unacceptable. Refusing to publish my comments was the final straw.

Even this bit of support means a lot to me.
That you did not ridicule it away.

Thanks earthPal.

All I can say is that the human rights on all sides should and must be given uttermost priority. Alas, as is always the case, ordinary citizens have always paid the price for political agenda’s….and probably always will.

I have been reading one sided allegations of human rights abuse.

While I am not denying that Indian forces may be violating laws and rights, I want to bring a balance in the proceedings, to show the fault is on either side.

The difference is I support my argument with evidence.

I never had any intentions to touch on the kashmir issue.
but have been really frustrated and annoyed whem my comments didn’t get published.

Thanks again, I hope you visit again.
It makes it worth it if I know someone has read my writing.

If you haven’t already,
read MJ Akbar’s India: the Siege Within.
His book made me explore a lot of such myths, and not just Kashmir.
Thanks to the internet there is a wealth of evidence available now that wasn’t in the past.
There is no more excuss for falling for any political propaganda.

And thanks again for stopping by.