How can the secession of Kashmir doom secularism in India? Is India's secularism in India so unstable that if .81% of people choose to seceed from India, then the whole country falls apart? India still has a Muslim majority territory in Lakshadweep, not to mention the other 140 million Muslims who live in India. So honestly, why will kashmir doom India? Can India not weather .81% of its population being severred from her? Pakistan survived in 1971 when a full 50% of its population left her, is India so much weaker?
( Posted: Friday , October 26, 2007 at 14:54 )
Koshur
It seems that many Indians on this forum finally understand that a full 90% of Kashmiris do not want anything to do with India (87% + 3% for Pak). To those who continue to disbelieve the truth, you seem to question only the statistic from Srinagar, but you dont seem to question the validity of the 95% pro-india statistic from Jammu. Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
And to those who say such a poll cannot be accurate, even if for the sake of argument this poll was off by 30%, still 60% of Kashmiris want out of India. A common statistics formula gives the margine of error, 1 divided by the square root of people polled * 100. So for this poll, the margin of error in Kashmir is ONLY SIX PERCENT. And so 81-93% of kashmiris want Azadi. This poll was conducted by a reputable agency, so don't think that they somehow found the only 220 seperatists in Srinagar and polled on them.
( Posted: Friday , October 26, 2007 at 14:52 )
Anil
Kashmiris unfortunately have lost a generation of economic prosperity.While the world transforms and prospers,Kashmiris have lost out.Time they realised that a landlocked,resourceless state has no future,and aligning with a economic powerhouse will lead them to being a vibrant,well off society within the framework of Indias diversity.The Kasmiri is closer in every respect to a north indian than a keralite or a south indian is to a north indian.And if our northeastern states,or eastern states can co exist happily with their southern /western states,the kasmiris can do so too .Sadly,they dont see the benefits of breing part of a a powerful globalised vibrant nation.Too bad.India can do without them,and unfortunately feel sad that they will go the bangladesi way.
( Posted: Thursday , August 16, 2007 at 11:42 )
ishfaq hussaina
pakistans poll or indias poll have nothing to do, wat matters is the poll of kashmiris and clearly seek independence
( Posted: Thursday , August 16, 2007 at 11:18 )
ishfaq hussaina
kashmiri peoples choice is clearly freedom, it means they are not ready to continue to be the forced indians
( Posted: Thursday , August 16, 2007 at 11:16 )
ishfaq hussain
well, 87% wants freedom, than wat is the issue, give us that.
( Posted: Thursday , August 16, 2007 at 11:14 )
seniorcitizen
India has 160 million Muslims and Kashmir has 4 million Muslims and they want freedom. No country can allow a small part of it to succede on the basis of religion. This is a sure way to sound deathnell to Secularism. Surveys have to be cautious.
( Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 16:36 )
GS
For all those who see this clip, note that CNN-IBN live does yet another absurd "crowd-pulling stunt/show". What kind of credibility does this statistic of interviewing 2000 of 1+ billion people in India and 1000 of 300 million people of Pakistan mean to you? Is CNN-IBN taking its readers for a ride? They interviewed 2000 people from 20 cities in India - ie. at a pathetic average of 100 citizens per city and come to this startling conclusion (no wonder Omar rightly refuted CNN-IBN's claims and the reporter seems to be twisting, diverting and defending it). What sort of survey is this? CNN-IBN seems to get away with this mock statistics - CNN-IBN: can you call atleast one Statistics professor in the world over and have your survey considered representative and valid?
( Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 08:53 )
Ramachandra
With all the respects to the people involved in this exercise, me a common man has one question. What do these people mean by independence? Every state in both the countries want independence i.e. a good governance without corruption, exploitation, and violence. We want a good law and order, an inclusive growth providing appropriate opportunities to all and a good future for out children. If the managers of the poll want to interpret the independence in any other way they are welcome.
( Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 07:41 )
Hassan
It seems as though a simple psychological concept can explain the disbelief expressed by so many about the outcome of this poll.
Confirmational Bias states that people only take into consideration the facts which support the cause they already believe in, and disregard facts which go against what they believe. This is why I think so many people find the results of this simple random poll, conducted by a well-respected Indian pollster group according to the video, to be so flawed. In their view, this poll is not only innacurate, but totally flawed.
This highlights the interesting fact that several people who post on this forum question only the results from Srinagar that go against what they believe, but no one has questioned the results from Jammu which are more palatable to their beliefs.
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