US-KASHMIR 3 LST

"I wish all of the experts and the people in the
governments involved, as well as the US would make as their
number one goal resolving the issues that have been prevailing
for a long, long time. And that is resolving the issue of
Kashmir," he argued.
"I think the only way to do that is to get the
Pakistani government and the India government and the people
in Kashmir together and resolve some way for them to solve
that problem in Kashmir that's been existing since 1948. Until
you get that done, you're not going to solve this problem.
India can't attack Pakistan because if they do,
Pakistan's got the ability to retaliate with a nuclear weapon
and vice versa. So the killing's going to go on and the
festering that's created from this impasse is just going to
grow," he said.
Noted Pakistani scholar Shuja Nawaz said, "LeT
represents -- a word that's been used often -- a
Frankenstein's monster created for the purpose of assisting
the Kashmiri freedom movement but that ended up becoming a
powerful Sunni Punjabi movement with an independent agenda
that appears to have taken on a broader regional role."
It was born out of the US-backed Afghan jihad against
the Soviets, and built on the training provided by that war to
Punjabi fighters who could then inculcate Kashmiri fighters in
their ways.
Successive civil and military leaders of Pakistan
supported the movement as a strategic asset to counter a
powerful India to the East and to force it to negotiate for a
settlement of the disputed territory by waging a war of,
quote, "a thousand cuts", he told the lawmakers. PTI