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Re:India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire by writepub on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:39PM (#19276549)
What a convenient non-argument. Would you term Pakistan's willful hiding of Osama Bin Laden [1] as state policy, or attribute it to non-state actors? Now, imagine if Pakistan neighbored the US, and not only hid, but provided financial, logistical and strategic support to a million Osamas, who constantly kill Americans. And on top of that, imagine Pakistan bestowing a "freedom-fighter" label on Osama. Would you consider that an act of the state, in aggregate?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_support_system_...

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Re:India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire by devoply on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:40PM (#19276555)
India is not blameless in its treatment of Kishmir either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Jammu_a...
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Re:India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire by writepub on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:45PM (#19276588)
I don't understand the response. India deserves terrorism now?

You swing from "but they inaccurately blame the state" to "they deserve it because ...".

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Re:India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire by devoply on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:49PM (#19276626)
I never said any such thing. You are obviously extolling the virtues that all terrorism is evil. State violence is as evil as terrorism and two sides of the same coin. So you wish to paint a picture where evil Pakistan is the perpetrator where the truth is that Indian government and Indian army has done a lot to provoke militancy in Kashmir and should simply withdraw and all of Kashmir should be an independent state without evils of India or Pakistan affecting the region.
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Re:India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire by fellellor on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:52PM (#19277315)
But Pakistan has radicalised the population of Kashmir to such an extent that they now want the establishment of an Islamic state under Sharia rule, not simply Independence.
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