When, after the transfer of power, the Maharaja of Kashmir refrained from accession to either Dominion, his progress towards a viable independence was closely watched (and possibly encouraged) by these same Sikh rulers. When he began to experience increasing difficulty in resisting the Azad Kashmir movement among his subjects, the Maharaja of Patiala lent him units of his own State Army. The evidence is strong that these Patiala troops entered the State of Kashmir some days before the combined Azad Kashmiri-Pathan operation along the Jhelum Valley of 21-22 October 1947 which marks the formal beginning of the great Kashmir crises.

These ´trigger happy´armed men in uniform numbering one million, who do not understand the language, culture, religion, ethos and behaviour, pounce on local population with vengeance and a mindset to eliminate the populace to occupy this rich paradise belonging to the poor inhabitants. It is amazing to find the "GOOD PEOPLE" of the world turning a blind eye to these atrocities committed with impunity. UN can see what happens in Syria but when it comes to Kashmir they look the other way and one wonders why?

"Locked in a death struggle for survival and the right of self-determination, this historic Valley of Beauty has become a Valley of Death! A country of thirteen million people, primarily Muslim inhabitants, face on a basis, the bullets and brutality of an occupation army of Indian Hindu soldiers. One is hard pressed to discover any comparable contemporary conflict capable of possessing an equal amount of naked brutality, inhumanity and intolerance as that experienced by the Kashmiri people over the past forty-seven (sixty five years now) years under occupation."

 

 

India says Pakistan is an aggressor, and in October 1947 pushed Pathan tribal of North-West Frontier Province into Kashmir led by a Kashmiri Major Khurshid Anwar, resident of Azad kashmir, of erstwhile British Indian Army, to occupy Kashmir by force.
India and Pakistan fought three full scale wars [India fought fourth war with China in 1962].  In October, 1947, due to Pathan invasion managed to occupy 40% of Kashmir State.
Fierce battles were fought in September 1965 at Chamb, Jurian, Akhnoor with no positive results for either side.  Thereafter, in December, 1971, Pakistan lost the Eastern Wing [East-Pakistan] and the independent nation of Bangladesh was created.
India maintains that it received a call from the people of 'East-Pakistan' to help them from Pakistan army who they said were committing atrocities on the local population.  India, thus, waged a war on Pakistan and liberated 'East-Pakistan' to become an independent nation of Bangladesh.  After 9/11 Pakistan on the back foot is busy trying to save the country from internal and external intrigues, especially dealing with terrorism.
In a nutshell, Pakistan has been a loser all along and like India in an identical fashion treated Kashmiris politically in the area held by it ruling that part through their agents and puppet Governments installed from Islamabad.  There has been no political or armed resistance against Islamabad and therefore no violence or uprising against Pakistan is on record.

Out of the hundreds of recorded situations, Hindu fundamentalist extremist Organizations like Sang Parivar, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Mahasabha, Jana Sangh of Jammu notoriety and out of many more the notable Shiv Sena of Bombay, busy with ethnic cleansing and finishing the Muslim community economically, like in Jammu, Ajmeer, Aligarah, Jabalpur, Salempur, Meerut, Thana-Bhiwindi in Bombay, Jaipur, Moradabad, Calcutta, Madras, Kerala and a special mention of butcher Narendra Modi of Gujarat cannot be ignored, and finally the Babri Mosque, a tip of the ice-berg.
India must take a cue from Pakistan to crush these above mentioned Hindu fundamentalist terrorist organisations to allow peace and harmony to prevail, so that all people, irrespective of colour, creed or religious background, live in an atmosphere of live and let live brotherly conditions. After all India claims to be the largest democratic secular country of the world and to maintain the image is vitally important.  The saner elements in India do realise that it is practically not possible to wipe out the entire population of over three hundred million Muslims, Christians in the North-East or elsewhere in India or Sikhs to carve out a Hindu State.
Days before Pathan tribal invasion, India had already managed to station 'Maharaja Patiala's elite force' at Srinagar Airport to guard it from any aggression. The air-lifted Indian 1 Sikh on 26th October, 1947 was surprised to see the job already done, a very pleasant welcome situation. The purport 'Instrument of Accession' did not exist anywhere before above mentioned Pathan aggression.
Kashmiris have been fighting Indian Army right from the day when Sheikh Abdullah on 9th of August 1953 was removed as Prime Minister of Kashmir, charged with sedition and treason, imprisoned for eleven years in Kud jail near Jammu and later externed to South Indian city of Kodaikanal, finally shifted to Kotla lane in Delhi.  It started off with stones and brickes filling their own graveyards and in 1989 the armed uprising became altogether a different story.
Maharaja Sir Hari Singh supported by his Prime Minister Ram Chand Kak with all determined intent to maintain the status quo of sovereign independent status of Kashmir.  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a master politician, managed to put Lord Mountbatten on his side; first by befriending Lady Edwina Mountbatten and then successfully roping in Sheikh Abdullah to convince Lord Mountbatten that Sheikh was on their side and was against Muslim Pakistan.  Sheikh, just released from Maharajas prison, was lodged at Nehrus Delhi residence at 17 York road and finding himself in the company of Lord Mountbatten, Sardar Baldev Singh, V.P.Menon, Dwarkanath Kachru, Mehr Chand Mahajan, the current Prime Minister of Sir Hari Singh (a trusted man of Pandit Nehru and one of the members of Boundary Commission headed by Radclliffe to decide the fate of Gurdaspur) got overwhelmed and could not understand that the rug was being pulled from under his feet. He did realize it soon when he was removed from office and jailed but it was too late because by then V.P.Menon and Mehr Chand Mahajan had stage managed the drama to get the purport accession document signed from Maharaja.

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