ABSTRACT
The uprising in Kashmir can be viewed from three different perspectives. First, Pakistanis are pleased that unlike 1965 this time around it is a purely indigenous upsurge rooted in decades of deprivation, despotism and alienation by the rulers in Delhi. Second, in this age of self-determination, which has recently been manifested in Eastern Europe and even in the Soviet Union, Pakistan feels that its case for a plebiscite in Kashmir, which has the endorsement of the United Nations, is legally and morally strong. Third the ferment in Kashmir needs to be viewed in the context of the general unrest that is evident in the strategic "Islamic crescent of conflict" which begins at Israel and goes through India. The international and Indian media too has tended to equate the brutality of the Indian action in Kashmir with some repression like that of the Israelis against the Intifida of the Palestinians or the Soviets against the people of Azerbaijan.
