Top 118 Jammu And Kashmir Quotes & Sayings

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

I still vividly remember when I was working in 'Kashmir Ki Kali,' I had no idea about lip-syncing the song 'Diwana Hua Badal' sung by Asha Bhosle and the scene was to be shot in the Dal Lake in Kashmir.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

In 2011, I started a program, India First, and started a yatra from Kolkata to Kashmir, stand with Indian Army and begin process to fight for Kashmir.

Jammu is part of the state but the people of Jammu do not face the same kind of difficulties that we face in Kashmir.

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

I feel proud when a player from Jammu and Kashmir plays for India. This shows cricket has reached all corners of the country.

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

I don't think that the fundamental issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir, OK.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

But I would say my favorite Zeppelin song to play is 'Kashmir.' I have a great time playing that one.

Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.

It is now that the Left in India is urging the federal government to initiate unconditional talks with all stakeholders in Kashmir. Otherwise, up until now, the Left didn't even support the autonomous status of Kashmir, and the Kashmir imbroglio is not a conflict between the forces of Marxism and capitalism.

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

Bharatiya Jan Sangh and its founder Shyama Prasasd Mukherjee, who hailed from West Bengal, quit his job as a minister and fought for the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Ours is a party of fight and fightbacks.

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the state.

My Government is committed to the equitable development of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.

I've grown up in Jammu, but have been to Kashmir earlier and have seen a different side to the Valley.

It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.

I'm from Jammu, and every time I go to there, I make it a point to stop by Delhi and meet up with my friends and, of course, eat the chaat here.

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.

I said that there is considerable alienation among the people of Kashmir which is primarily because of the human rights excesses by the security forces in Kashmir and the impunity from prosecution given to them by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

As colleagues, Shammi ji was my first co-actor and the hero of my debut film 'Junglee' in 1961. I met him for the first time at Kashmir's Shalimar Bagh where we were filming the song 'Kashmir ki kali hoon main.' I was an excited teenager, fresh out of London College, and had pursued films against my mother's wishes.

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

Since I grew up in Jammu, all my school and college friends are from there and the area's language, Dogri, is slightly similar to Punjabi, so I understand a bit of Punjabi.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.

I was never sent to Kashmir on any secret mission. I want to make that position clear.

Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir - which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.

I am from Jammu and Kashmir.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

I am from Jammu, but I studied in Chandigarh in sports quota.

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.

I can claim with total honesty that no home minister has visited Kashmir as many times as I have.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

Being from Jammu, I always saw Delhi as this big city where everyone would want to be.

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.

Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.

For 14 years no PM had gone to Jammu and Kashmir. Atal ji changed that and went to Jammu and Kashmir. He gave 3 Mantas- Insaniyat, Jamhuriat and Kashmiriyat (Humanity, democracy and J&K). We aspire to walk on that path

The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state.

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. When feeling particularly belligerent Pakistan cries itself hoarse declaring the legitimacy of plebiscite held under United Nations auspices in J & K; India responds just as aggressively by demanding the complete withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the territory of pre-partition J & K; or, in a moment of neighborly solicitude, for conversion of the LOC to a permanent International border.

We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.