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portant reason why coun-
tries in the region are so in- KASHMIR
CHINA
PAKISTAN
terested in Kashmir is its
being a Muslim country.
New BHUTAN
It seems that neither Delhi
India, known with its prej- BANGLADESH
INDIA
udiced attitude against
MYANMAR
Islam, nor Russia and
China have any intention
of allowing Kashmir to BAY OF
BENGAL
achieve its objective of be-
coming an independent
Islamic state, or else to
unite with Muslim
Pakistan. The fact that
the Kashmiri people are
Muslim is the fundamen-
tal reason for the economic
embargo, acts of violence,
unjustified detentions and
torture that they are subjected to. In this way, the powers in question
aim to prevent Muslims from gaining power, both economically and
politically. In the same way, they also want embargoes and interna-
tional pressure to prevent the Muslim Pakistan government from sup-
porting the people of Kashmir.

Maneuvering Over Kashmir
The Indian sub-continent remained under British hegemony until
the end of World War II. When the British departed, Indian Muslims
wished to have their own state and so established Pakistan. There was
an exchange of populations between ia and Pakistan. Many Muslims
living in India migrated to Pakistan. Jammu/Kashmir, however, with
its overwhelmingly majority Muslim population, remained under
Indian control, by means of that country's intrigues and support from