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00:00We continue to remain a very important member, important pillar of the society, contributing
00:05to the nation's progress in all spheres of life.
00:14There are a number of people who also retire after about four decades.
00:17They reach a very ripe age of 58, 59, 60 and then they retire.
00:23And they continue to remain to contribute back to the society.
00:27Now, I have just recently become a veteran and I realize the immense potential, the way
00:33they are contributing to society.
00:36One needs to salute them and thank them for the service.
00:39But the minister today said, on Armed Forces Veteran Day event, that Jammu and Kashmir
00:48is incomplete without POK and POK is nothing more than a foreign territory for Pakistan.
00:53Absolutely.
00:54There is a doubt in it.
00:55After all, Jammu and Kashmir had a territorial entity and due to certain compulsions or geopolitical
01:05reasons, strategic reasons, it got partitioned.
01:08It will be complete only once we get POJK back, including Gilgit-Baltistan, into our
01:14own territory.
01:16It is an imperative.
01:17And I think once the parliament resolutions have been passed on the subject, the government,
01:22the country, governments will come and go, changes will take place, but I am sure this
01:28vision will always remain enduring, that our country per se will go back to its entitled
01:35boundary which it was supposed to be.
01:37The war between India and Pakistan was fought in Akhnoor in 1965 when India succeeded in
01:44thwarting the event.
01:45He fought of the Pakistani army and he also said that our Muslim brothers have sacrificed
01:50their lives fighting yesterday and even today more than 80% of terrorists entering India
01:55are from Pakistan.
01:58He is quite right, but actually I look at terrorist numbers in terms of 80%, 90% as
02:07insignificant way of, as not an appropriate way of looking at Pakistan as its contribution
02:15towards creating disturbance within our country or particularly in Jammu and Kashmir.
02:21I, having served there multiple times, I look at terrorism as an important facet because
02:28the terrorist numbers can be controlled by the people who are perpetuating, the establishments
02:35perpetuating it.
02:36They can lower the numbers from the foreign country or from Pakistan who are coming in
02:42and they may try and encourage local youth by luring through giving money and drugs to
02:48pick up arms or through radicalization.
02:51So these numbers will vary in terms of percentage which is Pakistani terrorist or a terrorist
02:57from our own soil, a local terrorist.
03:01But the enduring nature of terrorism, the infrastructure which continues to breed ground
03:10for people to pick up weapon is more dangerous and that continues to be more than 90%.
03:16That effort comes from across, it is still enduring, it continues to go on.
03:24It is very difficult to control the mind space in which radicalization takes place in form
03:30of either religion or in form of an idea of separatism.
03:34So I think we need to look at that more holistically and ensure that this facet of radicalization
03:40continues to be controlled and if it goes on for a couple of generations then we will
03:46find peace and stability coming in Jammu and Kashmir.
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