Kashmir should be independent:
In a major diplomatic embarrassment to India, the maverick Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has said Kashmir should be an ``independent state'' and argued it should be a ``Ba'athist state'' between India and Pakistan.
Kashmir belongs to its people even as both India and Pakistan have been staking claim over the territory for the last 60 years, said Union minister and National Conference president, Farooq Abdullah here Sunday.