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A remarkably one sided perspective on the Kashmir issue that leaves out the silent majority and significantly understates the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri pundits. Also left out is any mention of the unfortunately few unbiased polls of Kashmiris on the issue. For instance, a 2002 poll by MORI, a British opinion poll firm, found that out of 850 Kashmiris interviewed, 65% believed that foreign militants are damaging the Kashmir cause but more importantly, nine Kashmiris in ten oppose the state of Jammu and Kashmir being divided on the basis of religion. Further, the poll also found that a majority of Kashmiris prefer the option of democratic elections to resolve the conflict.

"I’m convinced that if you were to look at Karachi from a great height, say a plane thirty thousand feet in the air, or even a satellite, you would see miles and miles of darkness, and then suddenly a well-lit city, black in some places." As an Indian living in New York that's, in fact, the only view of Karachi I have whenever I fly to India; the plane almost always overflies Karachi. Nice article