Does a Ring Tone Indicate Sentiment?

If mobile phone ring tones are any indication of sentiment, revolt-weary Kashmiris have plumped for Pakistan over India, reports Reuters.

A growing number of people in Indian Kashmir are choosing Pakistan's national anthem as the ring tone on their newly allowed mobile phones, the Times of India said on Tuesday.

"Students in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where India is struggling to quell a 15-year revolt, told the newspaper they had received the anthem from friends in Pakistan and had passed it on to others.

This does not mean Kashmiris want to be part of Pakistan, people just feel closer to it," the Times quoted Ali Mohammad, a taxi driver in the summer capital Srinagar, as saying. "

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