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| Indians want Kashmiris to decide own fate: poll |
| 2008-07-18 |
| An opinion poll conducted by reputed international agencies has revealed that a majority of people in India want a resolution to the Kashmir issue as per the Kashmiris' aspirations. The poll found that people in both India and Pakistan have expressed a readiness to have the Kashmiri people decide their own fate, adding that if the Kashmiris chose independence, a majority of Indians and Pakistanis would find it tolerable. In India, the opinion poll was conducted by reputed agency C-Voter, while in Pakistan, AC Nielson gathered views on behalf of the WorldPublicOpinion.org polling site. The poll revealed that more than half of the population of India and Pakistan were open to a range of possible outcomes for Kashmir. It found no strong majority opposition on either side to Kashmir becoming an independent country or to dividing the state between Pakistan and India. "Given the deep roots of the conflict over Kashmir, it is surprising that the conflict has not polarised majority of the Pakistani and Indian people, as they do not fall in line with their governments' positions," said Clay Ramsay, the research director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, a project run by the University of Maryland, United States. In the survey, Indians and Pakistanis were asked to consider a range of possible outcomes for Jammu and Kashmir and to say whether they found them desirable, acceptable, tolerable, or unacceptable. The idea that received the lowest level of opposition was for Jammu and Kashmir to become independent. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Meanwhile.... Pakistani demonstrators burn tires in condemnation of a huge decline of stock market in front of the Islamabad Stock Exchange in Islamabad |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-18 20:08 |
| #9 J+K state also includes mainly Buddhist Ladakh as well as mainly Hindu Jammu. It is the relatively small Kashmir valley with its Muslim majority population that is vulnerable to the calls to jihad. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-18 16:47 |
| #8 Hindus have legitimate interests in maintaining sovereignty in Kashmir. Currently over half million Hindus are exiled from same. In a free vote, the Muslim majority would vote against Indian sovereignty. Since Partition, Pakistan has reduced native Hindus from 20 to 1%. They would do the same to Kashmir and Jammu. |
| Posted by: Snerelet Untervehr4255 2008-07-18 16:42 |
| #7 :) Muh day. It is now made. But I'm nothing, there is only J08! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-18 14:29 |
| #6 wow... (at .5MT) Finally someone I can understand even less than Joseph Mendiola. |
| Posted by: sludge 2008-07-18 14:18 |
| #5 Noooooooooooo. Wait a second. Hinjooooos are prescribed from wearing Polka Dot shirts unless they are King-of-the-Mountain. Therefore the answer is 1796 and Reeboks. Since the Hinjoos invented tennis shoes this should be a cinch. Matter of fact 12 out of the 14 largest sneaker factories in the Solar (from Sol the sun) System are in India. They employ thou........................ |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-18 12:21 |
| #4 Damn this is easy. A well thought out poll in China would require 1742 individual interviews. The interviewer should were a poka dot shirt and clam diggers. This you should know from BS 101. The new line of heliostats will make it remarkablly easy to airlift thousands and thousands of polltakers to insure a non-biased outcome. Now in the future the Chineese government will find it easy to to communicate with their citizens once this first (initial) poll is over. The hydrogen motorcycles will make it very easy to folllow up. The infrastructure is already being built, the hydrogen/oil wells in Shifcan Province (a traditionally Tan area) are in particular ready to um.... go. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-18 12:17 |
| #3 Wonder what sample size you use to poll 1.3 billion people Assuming a geographical diserpershun, not all that many. 32 to 50 in each discreate secktor. These would have to be face to face, which naturally carries it's own bias risk, still, it's the only way. So rought estimater.... 640. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-18 12:09 |
| #2 980 Pakistanis & 20 Indians? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-07-18 08:19 |
| #1 The poll revealed that more than half of the population of India and Pakistan Wonder what sample size you use to poll 1.3 billion people, the majority in rural areas? |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-18 07:31 |
