The whole Truth
Brig (R) M. Shafi Khan
Kashmir Study Centre
94 Cavalry Ground St 3
Lahore Cantt.

The case study reveals that Kashmir problem is a created tragedy, which placed one fifth of humanity on tenterhooks for over fifty years. The insecurity and the most miserable atmosphere imposed on the people due to ever-present military confrontation and arms-race between India and Pakistan have stuck to the people of this region as a vice. The issue is clear: Hindu India occupied the Muslim majority state through a fraud and kept it by force. The correct perspective had received UN recognition followed by UN Resolutions to hold plebiscite but it is being fogged now. The violation of commitment by India is being shielded. The issue embraces problems of human rights, political rights, the rights of self-determination and now the survival of the population itself which is being butchered day and night in a cordoned area: their hearths and homes are being destroyed without any rescuer. The heaven on earth has been turned into a hell by the occupation forces of India. Even Red Cross could not enter to show its presence nor it could provide any relief whatsoever. It smells like a conspiracy at international level.

As claimed by India, she moved her army into the state only when the Maharaja had signed the accession; we proceed from here in search of the truth regarding this claim of India.

The Partition. During the World War II Britain had fallen on rock of poverty. It wished "to seek freedom from its Indian Empire which had turned from a valuable asset to a frightening burden. A plan was evolved for rapid withdrawal under guise of delivering liberty to India." (Patrick French – Liberty or Death). For brevity, only the most vital points will be discussed here. The mutual allergy existing between Hindus and Muslims for centuries caused their permanent separation. Lord Mountbatten a serving Admiral and supreme Commander South East Asia had invited (March 1946) Pandit Nehru to Singapore for a big treatment. This grand gesture to a Congress leader who was the leading personality of Indian Freedom Movement against British Raj was out of tune and decorum of those days. He and his wife became great friends of Nehru. Just a year after the grand reception he had arranged for Nehru at Singapore. Mountbatten took over as Viceroy and Governor General of India in March 1947. He was to serve as a lubricant of imperial withdrawal. He advanced the date of transfer of power from June 1948 to 15 August 1947. He announced the partition plan on 3 June 1947, partitioning provinces of Bengal, Punjab and in the Punjab a corridor from Muslim majority area was given to India to provide her a direct link with Kashmir. The work on a new road to Kashmir was undertaken at top speed – it was a top-secret project. While still a common Governor General he hurried off to Kashmir (20-24 June 1947) to pressurise the Maharaja not to declare accession before 15 August 1947. He tried to get Sheikh Abdullah the voice of the people of Kashmir released for the benefit of India – he succeeded in this venture towards the end of September 1947 before the drama of accession was staged in the fourth week of October 1947.

When the partition plan was announced on 3 June, Pakistan and India had sixty-nine days to be settled in their own dominions; before 15 August. India was already an established state in fully functional form but Pakistan had to start afresh: there were no secretariats, offices neither pins, nor papers nor tables. The abrupt separation of the two communities led to widespread communal killings. Over ten million people migrated, more than 70 million were butchered during cross border exodus. Pakistan was flooded by refugees. It had no kitty whatsoever and India refused, by nasty design, to pay Rs. 550 million the share of assets. The army was not on ground – as part of it was still serving in South East Asia. The nakedness of resources was visible and enormous difficulties were too ominous to be wished away. For friends and foes the survival of Pakistan looked impossible.

The political movement for Pakistan (1940-1947) became too powerful and too popular to be ignored. Ultimately Pakistan had to be conceded. The new born state was thrown into a storm with no chances of survival – this was the best way of destroying for ever the political movement which had sought a separate homeland for Muslims.

Lord Mountbatten the Governor General wished to be the common Governor General of both Pakistan and India. When he was informed by Mr. Jinnah (19 JULY 1947) that he was not acceptable to Pakistan as a common Governor General, he rushed into his room at the Viceregal Lodge. The dialogue is a classic by itself-a rare piece for history and historians:

Mountbatten: Do you realise what it will cost you?

Jinnah: May be few crore rupees in assets.

Mountbatten: No, it may cost you all the assets and Pakistani.

Mountbatten could not keep his intention secret.

His manner of performance had lost grace and dignity of his office. Patel the strongman of Congress judged him thus: "Mountbatten became a "toy" for Jawahar Lal Nehru to play with while we arranged revolution". Following the aim to undo the partition and to destroy Pakistan India choked off the Rivers’ waters on 1 April 1948. The relief was arranged through Indus Water Treaty 1960 – giving three eastern rivers to India and three Western Rivers emanating from Kashmir to Pakistan. Giving away the Rivers to another country was unprecedented and a colossal conspiracy. The replacement work was arranged by the World Bank and supported by friendly countries. India’s capture of Kashmir as planned enabled her to rearrange the flow of the Eastern Rivers to her advantage and also to construct dams and barrages on Rivers Chenab and Jhelum (in Kashmir) to control the flow of the rivers and have power houses in Kashmir for Indian use; Kashmiris still suffering from load-shedding for many hours of the day.

The cabinet mission was the last part of dialogues, but before that Mountbatten had established contact with Nehru (discussed earlier). The Trio – (Mountbatten – Edwina and Nehru) played the most consequential part than the dialogues spread over years…1942 onwards.

Mountbatten pushed Lord Wavell out unceremoniously. He took over on 18 March 1947 with a special mandate. He was vested with almost unlimited authority regarding the transfer of power to Indians. He advanced the date of transfer of power from June 1948 to 15 August 1947: The hostile altitude and future prospects of Pakistan in the eyes of the British and Hindu Indians were clear from their bad intentions:

Mr Atlee the Prime Minister of Britain said: "What we had to agree to, unfortunately, for it was not our wish at all – was the division of India… we had to agree to it".

The concept of the Viceroy (Lord Mountbatten) was: "The partition is sheer madness and no one would ever induce me to agree to it".

Dr. Shayam Parshad Mukar Ji said: "If the British Rule is withdrawn after a forcible division of India who will prevent the free state of Hindustan from re-establishing its authority over the entire Indian Territory"?

Sardar Patel the iron man of Congress pacified the die-hard Hindus by giving them assurance: "Give Jinnah his state it would not survive anyway. In five years, the Muslim League would be knocking at doors begging Indians for reunification".

Dewan Chaman Lal, known to be a liberal, visualised and wished that: "Partition of India is a temporary measure. Thirty crore Hindus, should be ready to lay down their lives for the reunification of India and Pakistan".

Gandhi (26 December 1947) the apostle of non-violence said: "I have always been opposed to wars, but if other methods failed to get justice from Pakistan, India will have no other option but to wage war against Pakistan".

Raja Mehendar Partab’s vision of India’s future: (December 20, 1950). "Our country cannot make any progress unless Pakistan is finished off. I would advise the Government of India to join hands with Afghanistan and finish off Pakistan as soon as possible".

Nirad C Chaudhry in his book (The continent of Circe) records that: "Patel thought of police action against Pakistan or even a walk over and if India were so minded she could sweep upto Peshawar".

All the above quoted venom-loaded challenges and threats were born out of a culture nourished by Chankiya (Kutaliya 200 B.C) the source of devilish wisdom – the pathfinder of Hindus’ psyche and giver of their code of life. He cultivated a mentality which can shake any prudent and decent man in any society in the world. His four pillars of wisdom were:

Never let lust for power and conquest of other country die.

All neighbour states must be treated as enemies.

Seek friendship and co-operation of all other states beyond your neighbours.

Think not of peace even if the whole world wants it… lip service to peace and good neighbourliness should continue as a camouflage.

Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Hindu Mahasabha and some others of the same ilk who are serious believers in supremacy of Hindu Jati have no stomach for non-Hindu classes. They are fundamentalist in raw form; intolerant, rabid, venomous and aggressive against weak though peevish against strong.

Bharatya Janata Party a fundamentalists Hindus’ political party has risen in strength in the national parliaments (Lok Sabha) from two seats in 1985 to 178 in 1998 by coming out boldly for Hindu Raj. They proved their madness by demolishing 500 years old Babri Mosque at Ayudiya where they claimed that their mythical god RAM had taken birth. The madness spread subsequently all over India touching Christians, Dalits and others. They continue to be on rampage aimed at destruction and desecration of Mosques, Gurdwaras, Churches and holy Shrines and as a punitive action burning of Dalits in their dwellings. All non-Hindu human beings are untouchable and polluting - they seriously believe and practise this cult. A technique prescribed by Chanikiya to deal with the enemy:

When you want to kill your enemy befriend him

When you are killing him embrace him,

When you have killed him,

Weep over his dead body.

Mr. Gandhi and Nehru are on record to have said repeatedly that "The converts, may be in large number, cannot be outside the nation nor they can make a nation. In India there is only one nation – the Indian, the Hindu nation". (Supreme Court of India 1996).

Mr Gandhi had advised the British to quit India and leave the problem of unity of Hindus and Muslims to Indians who can kill each other like dogs, but after the chaos there will be peace and Ahimsa". (Non-violence).

With this backdrop and Hindu psyche the creation of Pakistan was a great upset for Hindu India. To undo the partition directly or indirectly, Hindus applied all the methods and conspiracies to rub off the entity of Muslmans and even other minorities. Once Pakistan surfaced on the map, all out efforts were made by India to destroy its ideology and with it the country which became the only roadblock for the Hindus’ sovereignty over the region. Kashmir was phase one of this operation.

The Hoax of Accession

The Maharaja of Kashmir was forced by the Governor General to delay the accession till after India had (as planned) bagged Hyderabad and Junagadh; the former through police action and the latter through a plebiscite. India had addressed a serious protest to UNO against Junagadh a Hindu majority state’s accession to Pakistan. She made sure that no Hindu state should accede to Pakistan though some of the Rajput Princes of Rajastan did not want to go with caste ridden Hindus.

The event according to Indian leaders which precipitated the drama of fraudulent accession: on 27 October 1947: the Defence Committee of cabinet chaired by the Governor General, Lord Mountbatten received the bad news of Pakistan’s tribal Lashkars’ advance to Srinagar. Mr V. P. Menon the secretary to Mountbatten on Affairs of the partition was despatched to Srinagar on morning of 25 October for an on spot study. Having assessed the situation, at Srinagar, he advised Maharaja to vacate his palace and leave for Jammu the winter capital. The Maharaja mustered caravan of all functional transport of over 250 vehicles and left for Jammu on morning 26 October. He reached Jammu (over 220 miles) late evening 26 October 1947. V.P. Menon accompanied by M.C. Mahajan the Prime Minster of Kashmir returned to Delhi on morning of 26 October. The Defence Committee discussed V.P. Menon’s report during morning and afternoon sessions on 26 October. During the afternoon session on 26 October it was decided by the Defence Committee of Cabinet that military aid will be provided to the Maharaja on 27 October 1947. Lord Mountbatten considered it necessary to have the accession finalised before the launching of the Army. The accession was approved and the aid programme announced by the defence Committee of Cabinet of India at Delhi.

Mr V.P. Menon’s version: accompanied by M.C. Mahajan the Prime Minister of Kashmir he carried the instrument of the Accession for signature of the Maharaja then at Jammu on the evening of 26 October. In V.P. Menon’s own words from his book: (the Story of the Integration of Indian States - PP 399-400):

"he, (Maharaja) also signed the instrument of accession- just as I was leaving he told me that before he went to sleep, he had left instructions with his ADC, if I came back from Delhi he was not to be disturbed as it would mean that the Government of India had decided to come to his rescue and he should therefore be allowed to sleep in peace: but if I failed to return, it meant that everything was lost and in that case his ADC was to shoot him in his sleep".

V.P. Menon gave a personal touch by concocting a most intimate dialogue with the Maharaja only to add credibility to his version of his meeting with the Maharaja in Jammu. There is documentary proof that he did not/he could not visit Jammu on that day. A lie remains a lie whosoever tells. But this lie was the biggest one of the twentieth century as proved by M.C. Mahajan who was stated (by V.P. Menon) to have been with him.

According to V.P. Menon the Maharaja signed the instrument of Accession on 26 October and only after that the Indian Army was despatched by air to Srinagar early morning 27 October. The whole sensational drama of accession of Kashmir rests on this fictitious point of time.
Stanley Walpert in his two books (Jinnah of Pakistan P 349 and Nehru P 416) brings out the whole truth: "Mahajan (The Prime Minister of Kashmir) "reports the reverse". India’s claim to Kashmir was in legal terms, based on having secured a legitimate Instrument of Accession, prior to air lifting of troops into the vale. On morning of 27 Oct 1947 M.C. Mahajan while still at Delhi narrates:

"In the early hours of the morning of 27th, I could hear the noise of the planes flying over Sardar Baldev Singh’s house (where Mahajan spent the night) carrying the military personnel to Srinagar. At about 9 AM. I got a message from Srinagar that the troops had landed there and had gone into action. On receipt of this message I flew to Jammu with Mr VP Menon. Mr Menon and myself met Highness (Hari Singh had driven down from Srinagar the previous night to his winter capital) at the palace… after some discussion, formal documents were signed which Mr Menon took back to New Delhi… I stayed at Jammu".

The lie is pinned down at source. The sin had most serious side effects for decades.

Non-suspecting people took for granted the news as correct about the accession of Kashmir to India. The princely states (584 in all) had to accede to one of the two dominions by 15 August 1947, subject to the following conditions:

According to the wishes of the people.

On basis of contiguity of the area.

These conditions were not satisfied as is evident from following studies.

Patrick French (Liberty or Death P 373) observes:

"Like many of the important events of 1947 it will appear that India’s successful capture of Kashmir was in fact as much a matter of luck and swift action as of design".

Alastair Lamb an outstanding scholar and an honest historian in his Research Papers, authenticated by his signature, and his book ‘Birth of a Tragedy’, provides proof which cannot be challenged by any observer or an analyst. According to him, V.P. Menon could not be trusted when he claimed to have been "actually present when the Maharaja signed, are simply not true". He states further that, "M.C. Mahajan who was negotiating with Government of India and the senior Indian official concerned in states matters, VP Menon were still in Delhi where they remained overnight and where their presence was noted by many observers". (British High Commissioner is one of them who had met him at the airport and who was visited the same evening by V.P. Menon saying that he could not take the flight to Jammu during late evening hours). There was no communication of any sort between New Delhi and the travelling Maharaja. Menon and Mahajan set out by air from New Delhi to Jammu at about 10 AM on 27 October. These documents could have been signed after the overt Indian intervention in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. When the Indian troops arrived at Srinagar airfield that state was still independent. Any agreement with Maharaja could have been produced under duress. The validity of any document signed under duress leaves no credit for validity of the document. India while landing the forces in Kashmir was not defending its own but intervening in a foreign state. Had UN understood the true chronology it would have listened with less sympathy to the argument prosecuted by Indian representatives. Given the facts as they are now known, it may well be that an impartial international tribunal would decide that India had no right at all to be in the state of Jammu and Kashmir".

To sum up the hoax of the Accession it is established on evidence of the actual players and scrutiny of the issue by the prestigious scholars of the western world:

Since the two conditions for accession were not satisfied, even if the Maharaja was held by the neck to own the accession, it had no validity.

The Indian invasion occurred even before the fraudulent accession was claimed to have been signed by the Maharaja, if he ever did.

The Maharaja who had the right to accede subject to the conditions (discussed above) was himself left with no initiative to offer the accession. He became the victim of circumstances. He died a sad man in Bombay away from his ancestral home on which Nehru also had the claim. His death no one mourned.

A prestigious Admiral the Viceroy and the Governor General from the Royal family employed a keyman of the Congress to tailor the partition plan and then employed him to implement the fraud in the name of the accession: Maharaja had nothing to do with it nor the people of Kashmir counted anywhere for accession or for a plebiscite…subsequently.

The Instrument of accession has not been placed on record in UNO or even in the Indian Parliament. The press had reported its loss.

V.P. Menon a Hindu who had tailored the partition plan was placed in a most vital and critical appointment by the Viceroy and the Governor General proved to be the biggest liar of the twentieth century. He misled the whole world as FM Rommel had done to a British corps in the Western desert only by changing the direction of the signpost displayed on ground. The mastermind behind this manipulation was Lord Mountbatten himself who chaired the meetings of DCC as a specialist and not as the Head of the State which he could not. He developed and directed the operations in Kashmir. He prevented Mr Jinnah from going to Kashmir. Mountbatten himself (20-24 June) Rajgopal Acharya (July) and Mr Gandhi (1-4 August) made a beeline to Srinagar: it was an exclusive Indian leaders’ race to Kashmir. The Kashmir operation was planned under the guidance of Mountbatten and executed by the British Chiefs of the Services. Pakistan was warned that if Pak Army tried to go into Kashmir, the British officers serving with Pakistan Army would be withdrawn instantly. Mr Jinnah was pursuaded by Field Marshal Auchenlak and General Gracy officiating. C-in-C Pakistan to withdraw his orders for Pakistan Army’s entry into Kashmir otherwise there will be a war between the two dominions and Pakistan would be deprived of the British officers then serving in Pak Army.

Field Marshal Auchenlak made it clear to Mr Jinnah that since the accession of Kashmir to India was valid Pakistan would be wrong to attack Kashmir hence threat of withdrawal of the British officers.

Mountbatten earned a special place in the hearts of Indians. When he departed in June 1948 – Nehru presented to the world the real face of Mountbatten at his farewell:

"Earl Mountbatten has acted in India’s interests as zealously as any Indian could have done. Lord Mountbatten has held India’s honour high. When he left, Indians felt the same regret as when a brother went".

The Original Sin

The poisonous ivy which afflicted the people of the South Asia oozed out of the mind of Mr Nehru who told General Messervy, the Commander in Chief Pakistan in January 1948: "As Calaise was written on Queen Mary’s heart, so Kashmir is written on mine". To confirm Nehru's fancy for Kashmir. Mr Raj Gopal Acharya the first Governor General of India said that, "Kashmir was a block in Nehru’s mind". A fascination in Nehru’s mind pushed the humanity into the hell. India also did not enjoy the excursion in Kashmir. The historians will be well advised to judge how the great and wise men and personalities of the world have been fooled: that they took a white lie for truth.
Would the civilised world of today accept the manner in which one man is stated to have given away fourteen million people and their territory (85000 Sq. miles) to the hostile community of Hindus? Will it not be the repeat of slaves markets of ancient centuries? The guardians of global village must accept that they did not have the moral courage to challenge the evil. With the passage of time, the lie was accepted as truth in favour of the usurper…the sign of moral decay of the civilisation.

India Goes to UNO. Soon after the declaration of the partition plan (3 June 1947) India had made arrangements to carry out ethnic cleansing of Kashmir. Hindu fundamentalists; (RSS, Mahasabha and Akalis etc. and even Maharajas of Patiala and Nabha, who had eliminated their Muslim subjects) were inducted into the state to carry out the plan. The locals rose against the Maharaja’s forces. To save their brethren from Hindu marauders came the tribal people. The Indians staged this mercy mission as the cause of sudden accession of Kashmir to India. India could not conceal the fact that this state was forced to delay the declaration of the accession for two and a half months from date line 15 August 1947. The fight forced India to go under UN umbrella, requesting for the cease-fire and offering to settle the issue through the plebiscite under UN: the petition to UNO was as clear as that. Various UN Commissions failed to arrange the stage for the plebiscite due to India’s ever-changing stance on already accepted points and raising new problems only to kill the issue by wasting time. Finding encouragement from the Western powers and Russia, in sixties India declared Kashmir as an integral part of her country. UNO which had this dispute it on record did not challenge India for the spurious maps showing Kashmir as part of her territory. India being one of the two parties to dispute snatching initiative from UNO adopted various methods to merge the state by erosion of the special status given to Kashmir under Section 370 of Indian Constitution, Sheikh Abdullah the Kashmiri leader who had led Kashmir into the trap was kept in jails for over fifteen years till he succumbed to the treachery at the hands of Nehru family. The Maharaja died a lonely death at Bombay and disposed off quietly. The farcical elections were staged on many occasions as subterfuge, a substitute or evasion of UN supervised plebiscite. The powers of the world saw this drama with sense of accommodation and self-enlightened interest at the cost of thousands of lives of Kashmiris and the peace always at the peril. All the years since 1947 India and Pakistan remained on red alert besides two wars on this issue.
The situation following the boycott of the elections by 98% in 1989, was a verdict of the people as a proof of total alienation with India. Victoria Sheffield in her book, (Kashmir in Cross Fire) said emphatically that "India had fifty years to win over the people of Kashmir, she failed". Now she is facing an indigenous, popular and powerful resistance movement. India is left with no choice but to use her power to crush the people mercilessly: the Red Cross and the Amnesty International remained banned to operate or to provide relief of any kind. If Kashmir was an integral part of India, as India claims, would she kill the people in their hearths and homes and destroy their property as that of enemy? It is clear that India is determined to keep Kashmir by exterminating Kashmiris. The world knows it. Its wisdom has become a barrier to human sympathy

Indian’s U-Turns

India approached UNO with a request to arrange cease-fire, to be followed by the plebiscite under UN arrangements. Having gained time she reneged from her commitment for plebiscite by saying that ‘conditions had changed’. A time came when she declared that Kashmir was an integral part of India and to firm up the grip on Kashmir, she arranged many farcical elections at the point of bayonets of the security forces, eroded the autonomous status of Kashmir, tried Shaikh Abdullah for anti-state activities and finally resorted to reign of terror, barbarities and now a (1999) sweep of genocide and ethnic cleansing. There has not been any interference by UNO, any other nation and even the Red Cross. The reports of Human rights commission were ignored and farcical trials staged to fox the world. All the men of the world now understand well that India specialises in double talk and reserves the right to give her own meanings to words in her own way. Her bogus cards: democracy and secularism have a weightage… an irony!

USA and UK which had supported the UN Resolutions on Kashmir in 1947-48 have said repeatedly that UN Resolutions are "outdated". The fraudulently arranged elections held in Kashmir (1996 and 1998) at the points of bayonets of 700,000 Indian forces were termed as a step towards normalisation of democratic process. India’s illegal occupation in face of UN Resolutions is being legitimised – no wonder UN has become a baby in the lap of: P 5 and G8! It is no longer a trustee of rights of humanity. There are good enough indicators for eyes which can see…that the law of Jungle is allowed operative in the midst of the civilised world.

The Phenomenon of Bilateralism – Unilateralism - Neutralism: The term of bilateralism became current after Simla Agreement (1972) between India and Pakistan. It promised to settle all the outstanding issues including Kashmir. The UN was not in it. The cease-fire-line was replaced by Line of Control (LOC). The UN observers on the Indian side were de-activated by India unilaterally. India did not allow them to take complaints or visit troubled areas.
From the start of the case in UNO and the perception in vogue now, there is a world of difference. UN is now a non-player and non-party. It was hoped that these two neighbours (as envisaged in Simla Agreement) will settle all disputes so as to be rid of the centuries old mutual allergies to bring a dawn for amelioration of poor people of the subcontinent. But after the Simla Agreement India called all the problems between the two countries as ‘bilateral issues’. Since then India treated Kashmir also as a bilateral matter: neither she would discuss it as envisaged in Simla Agreement nor allow third party, including the UNO to take interest in "India’s internal affairs"…as she is saying these days. She does not permit others to "poke their nose in India’s affairs". Pakistan has been requesting - US, UK and UNO and other channels for mediation, they all were agreeable provided India also made similar request. So, the bilateralism drifted to become uni-lateralism –India’s wishes were to prevail: thief becoming or accepted as judge! Strange are the ways of coalitions of nations.
The friendly nations (Western Powers) have been recommending the settlement through ‘meaningful bilateral dialogue or negotiations’. In case of emergencies or wars these powers adopted policy of: neutralism which favoured India on almost all the issues. Pakistan should have read this situation when Russia applied vetoes on Kashmir on three occasions, on call of India. When Khurushchev and Bulganin visited India (1955) they declared Kashmir as part of India. Since then and even now our Allies remained neutral in case of a scuffle between their "friends" – one psychologically and physically dependent the other nearly self-sufficient and also receiving all needs from both the blocs and all the countries. India the charming doll gave cosy touch to both the adversaries without either of them objecting to the nearness of the other. Pakistan should have learnt the meaning of bilateralism and neutralism - virtually a collusion in clinical application.
In 1996, UNO thought of withdrawing UN observers, thinking exactly on Indian lines as a liability though UN observers themselves were also fired upon by Indian troops deployed across the LOC. The Kashmir issue was dropped from the UN’s active agenda but after protests by Pakistan, it was allowed to be staged only if the merit was proved. So the Kashmir issue was defanged by India with the active connivance of the Western Powers and Russia. UNO is no more a sounding board. The border violations and human rights violations were treated as matters of bilateral concern: in practice a unilateral matter – India did not allow even the Red Cross to come into the show! India remained on war path and Pakistan could not invite even a mediator. This bilateralism in fact unilateralism provides proof of disinterest and heartlessness even at UN HQ. Pakistan must be admired for keeping good faith and hopes to request these powers to help solve the dispute. The Human Rights violations which had assumed grave proportions in Kashmir were reported by the agencies; both Indian and Western, without effect. The unending genocide in Kashmir did not matter…the policy of neutralism has proved very helpful to India and very hurting to Pakistan. The book of experiences reads: Pakistan remained targeted all the way… the options are limited and the sands of time running out but the game is not over as yet: Pakistan has to get the cockpit right.

The Deflectors

The following three themes have been persistently exploited by India to present Pakistan in an awkward light and to mislead the world: sadly, there were/are accepted by the Western powers:

That if fifteen million Kashmiri Muslims secede from India, then the security of 150 million Muslims in India will be jeopardised: Kashmiris now serve as hostages otherwise India will not provide security to its own Muslim citizens. What a secular state? The argument is baseless because Kashmir has never been part of India. Kashmir had a status like other 584 princely states which had a choice to join one of the two dominions, discussed earlier. No Hindu state was allowed to join Pakistan but Kashmir was occupied with an aim to destroy Pakistan as its power and irrigation sources emanate from there. Further, The security of Muslims living in India has always been exposed to daily riots supported by the Police, paramilitary forces, even by the Army. Hindus’ promises and claims on being secular are too well known for elaboration. The burning of Babri Mosque (Dec 1992) and many Mosques and holy Shrines in Kashmir speak for the morality of Hindu (secular) state. In early part of this year (Jan, Feb. 1999) nuns were gangraped in hostels in Madyapardesh, the churches were/are burnt and missionaries harassed. Dalits, another major group of a minority community about 170 million are untouchables: their shadow pollutes the high caste Hindus. This community remained on punishment line throughout its life. Every non-Hindu in India is treated as a foreign element and treated with contempt.

The second fear drummed up by India and shared by secular minded West and others is that if Kashmir is allowed to break away, there are other states in India which will take the cue and follow the suit. This fear is misapplied as Kashmir was not part of India, it is a disputed territory on UN record, it never acceded to India hence there is no sense in equating it with other Indian states. However the situation obtaining in India is that out of 25 states many states are restive; struggling for their own identity and status. India is otherwise divided within itself. The chess players of the world consider India too big to be ruled. Her hegemonic tendencies have made life of her small neighbour states miserable and hazardous like Sri Lanka which is suffering from a civil war created by India which ultimately cost Rajiv Gandhi’s life. Sikkim has been absorbed and Nepal is kept on tenterhooks. India dreams of having her sway from Malacca Straits to Madagascar, and from Hindukush to the Indian Ocean – "The Indian Lake". The megalomaniac disease is consuming India, hence her craze to build up the defence forces: the blue water navy having aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines and finest air armada and the Army over one million and one half - this Juggernaut is rated number three in the world. The military power has been developed despite her forty percent population living below poverty line. The power resting on clay feet, is destined to go down. When the ominous TITAN’ makes an eddy it will cause a havoc in the region.

India being a congenital liar employs all means and guile to mislead the opinion of the world about Pakistan. Her popular themes have been to present Pakistan as a theocratic state dominated by fundamentalists, mad for Islam hence mad towards others, hand in gloves with Taliban and terrorists who had provided sanctuary to Osama Bin-laden the enemy of America and anything American. One wonders how ignorant these wise scholars are of the ground realities. Was Pakistan not a key role player in American defence pacts and an anvil in Afghanistan to break the Russian Empire? The foreigners and minorities living in Pakistan have always been sure of their safety even when there were local disturbances of any kind. For fleeting advantages America teased and harmed Pakistan to an extent that it remained in a poor state of defence capability. India stood on Russian side in Hungary (1956) and performed nominally in Korea and supported NAM with an aim opposed to the west. Indian conduct should have been seen in the light of observation of Mr Kennedy who said that (when India attacked Goa in 1960) "the Pope (Nehru) was caught in the brothel". India has been flouting the principles yet she stayed honourable because of hundreds of millions of hungry people which count as a great population and a very large exploitable market. May be India is needed as a plug to advance policies of the masters.

Conclusion

Kashmir the beauty spot of the world now in crossfire presents a picture of destruction of lives and property of locals by the Indian forces. India claims to have the right over the land therefore she has the authority to destroy the people. What a tragedy in the enlightened world of twentieth century! The indigenous Resistance Movement is now in the eleventh year: Kashmiris have paid the price in lives: more than 75,000, have been killed, thousands of women including minor girls and old women have been gangraped – a method employed extensively as a weapon to break the will of the people. Over 30,000 youths were put in jails and transferred to India, over 15,000 youths maimed in torture cells. One wonders how far UN, US, UK and others in the world have fallen to a stage of such an apathy that they would not even try to stop the genocide.
The recent flare up in Kargil Sector was a natural consequence of India’s conduct and treatment of people in Indian occupied Kashmir and also on Pakistan side of LOC: Neelum valley remained under constant shelling for years; over 70,000 people became refugees. Even UN observers were subjected to fire on numerous occasions. There have been threats by India of reclaiming Azad Kashmir…the lives of the people along the borders are kept insecure by Indian forces, all the time…UN being in picture never acted to provide relief to the people.
VP Menon, a congress mole was employed by the Governor General to tailor the partition plan. At implementation stage, two and half months after the transfer of power, a hoax of accession (discussed in earlier pages) was stage managed by V.P. Menon under the guidance of Mountbatten who actually behaved like a Hindu – not even minding Edwinas scandalous relations with Nehru both in India and even after – Nehru nearly abdicated his leadership to be with her in Broadway flats in London.
When UN Resolutions are wilfully negated by one party and the world community shows no concern: it only proves that UN exists as a grand establishment totally impotent to provide relief to the suffering humanity. It is a matter of shame for the civilised world to accept a bogus claim of accession which was a naked lie…the instrument of the accession is nowhere to be seen: the Indian press had reported the loss of it.
The right of self-determination of people of Kashmir has been shelved: despite the fact that India’s own claim before the UN regarding the accession was conditional. The accession was not accepted by UN, hence the settlement through a plebiscite under UN was laid down in UN Resolutions. India did not allow it to happen. The world is seeing the worst kind of colonialism imposed on the people who have been leaning on promise of UNO for a fair settlement under UN arrangements. The unending and wide spread genocide in Kashmir merits war-crimes trial of Indian leaders. India remains guilty of staging and maintaining a fraud to enslave fourteen/fifteen million people of Kashmir. India deserves to be tried for fraud and genocide of people over whom she had no right whatsoever. She must lose her seat in the UNO.
Pakistan faced turmoil and destruction during and after the largest exodus in history. There were insurmountable problems both built-in in the partition plan and many more created during the life of the state. There were wars of waters, wars at political front to denigrate Pakistan, there were wars in the battlefields – 1947 – 48, 1965 and 1971. It had to fight defensive battles against numerous enemies for survival all the way. Pakistan has been fighting and remained involved in the ‘troubles’ created by the enemy but seldom thought of going for the enemy itself; the real source which kept up persistent threat to Pakistan’s security and integrity. The battle of survival in the future will be very hard and demanding but it is the only way to live and to die with honor.