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Time to rethink for our struggle
for Kashmir
The current punishment for Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai bei an
American Court in Fair Fox repeated again the history
and remind us again that we should refrain to accept the
material support of India, Pakistan and China. There is
no doubt that these three countries occupied a part of
Kashmir. There are groups from different school of
thoughts in divided state of J&K and they have sympthies
with India and Pakistan. In the past history, the
conviction of Maqbool Butt, Hashim and Ashraf Qureshi
led to the result that each country has her own interest
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Tribal invasion, sovereignty of
Kashmir and problems of South Asia
Dr Shabir Choudhry
Tribal Invasion is among the biggest event in the
contemporary history of Jammu and Kashmir. Other events
also had positive or negative impact on people of Jammu
and Kashmir; but this event alone has seriously affected
lives of millions of people of Jammu and Kashmir since
it happened. Furthermore, this event resulted in the
forced division of our territory and separation of tens
of thousands of families since 1947.
Apart from what happened to the people of Jammu and
Kashmir as a direct result of this tragic event, or more
appropriately by unprovoked aggression against the
people of this unfortunate State and its sovereignty; it
also seriously affected lives of millions of people of
India and Pakistan, as both countries wanted to make
Jammu and Kashmir part of their country and have had
more than one wars and spent billions of pounds on this.
The government of Pakistan expected the Maharajah of
Jammu and Kashmir to accede to Pakistan; and that is why
Mohammed Ali Jinnah was complacent to him and supported
the Maharajah government when Sheikh Abdullah started
the ‘Quit Kashmir Movement’. Apart from the pressure
from Pakistan to accede to Pakistan; the Maharajah of
Kashmir also had a lot of pressure from the Indian
leaders to join India. He resisted all kinds of
pressures as he wanted to maintain his independence.
Also he withstood pressure of Mountbatten when he
visited Kashmir as a Governor General of undivided India
to seek accession of Kashmir either to India or
Pakistan.
After failure of Mountbatten’s mission, other senior
Congress leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi visited
Kashmir to pressurise the Maharaja to accede to India.
The Maharajah stood his ground and refused to accede to
India; and the British Raj in India ended, and with that
he became a sovereign Ruler of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Maharajah of Kashmir concluded a Standstill
Agreement with Pakistan that Pakistani government would
continue to provide all services to the State of Jammu
and Kashmir which the Indian government of the British
Raj provided. He also offered a Standstill Agreement to
India. The government of India did not refuse the offer
of Standstill Agreement, but expressed its desire to
discuss this matter further.
Pakistani attempts to get Kashmir
When the Government of Pakistan realised that the
Maharaja of Kashmir was not interested in accession to
Pakistan they resorted to other methods to get Kashmir.
Not only they encouraged and actively supported a
military rebellion in some parts of the State,
especially in Poonch where there was a strong resentment
against the government; they violated the Standstill
Agreement and stopped the supply of the vital items,
including food to Jammu and Kashmir.
Apart from that, the Government of Pakistan sent a
junior army officer ASB Shah to seek accession of the
State to Pakistan.
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