Kashmir Quotes

• Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

  Jan Morris

  Mind, Quality, Asia

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.279, Faber & Faber

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• India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

  Imran Khan

  Cancer, Heart, Mind

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• There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Together Again, May, Back Together

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Military, Reality, Issues

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• I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Pakistan, Inches, Behinds

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• Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, India, Tests

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

  Li Peng

  Issues, Historical, Legacy

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• It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Responsibility, Winning

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• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beautiful, People, Mountain

  "Salman Rushdie, The Art of Fiction No. 186". Interviewed with Jack Livings, The Paris Review, Issue 174, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2005.

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• In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

  Chiranjeevi

  India, Favourite

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• In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

  Salman Rushdie

  India And Pakistan, Borders, Guarantees

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• How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.

  Arundhati Roy

  Ancient Civilizations, Blood, World

  Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. November 8, 2002.

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• In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the fundamental covenants and enforceable by courts of law, have been gravely violated.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Rights, Expression, Law

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

  Albert Brooks

  Weekend, Sweaters, Lasts

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• For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Islamic, Needs, Pakistan

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

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• Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, India And Pakistan, Atrocities

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Democracy, India, Genuine

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  India, Credibility, Secular

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, One Day, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Example, World

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• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

  James Buchan

  Iraq, Southern, World

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• At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Moving, Taken

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• The Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of the electoral process. But time and again, provisions of the Constitution of India have been flagrantly violated in Kashmir, and the ideals that it enshrines have been forgotten.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Integrity, Law, Independence

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• (`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Nice, Heaven

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