The Indian media is ridiculously Incompetent. It can't think that handling Kashmir is million times tougher than handling Iraq. Hence when in 2003-04 US asked for Indian Peace Keeping Force, a stupid furore was created.
But there were some exceptions though.
https://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jul/15guest1.htm
https://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jul/21guest.htm
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