Can’t Kashmir be Quebec of India?
The path breaking decision of Canadian government related to Quebec province is an ideal example for nations witnessing separatists’ movements. ON November 27, 2006, the Canada Parliament, House of Common passed a motion declaring “Quebecois a nation within a United Canada." The Canadian Parliaments vote acknowledges respect for diversity, triumph of Canadian nationalism and the values on which it is based. Solution of long pending Quebec problem provides an example for Indian leadership to resolve Kashmir dispute in the same manner. Kashmir faces the same problem that the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province of Quebec faced. Quebec is a distinct society within Canada " which "includes its French-speaking majority, unique culture and civil law tradition. Similar is the case with India ’s northern sate of Jammu and Kashmir which has Muslim dominated population with unique culture . Quebec had its own civil code based on the Code Napoleon, diff...