Muhammad
Faraz
Kashmir is a nuclear flashpoint, one
of the biggest unresolved disputes of the world, major bone of contention
between Pakistan and India, the reason for 3 x full scale wars between the two
nations, not to forget the countless skirmishes on the border and according to some experts, a ticking time bomb
which might result in a nuclear holocaust. Everyone knows about the above
mentioned facts, including the bitter history of the bitter history of partition of the
sub-continent in 1947. The dispute erupted when the princely state of Jammu and
Kashmir was forcefully and unjustly annexed to India. Pakistan retaliated and a
war was started between the newly born states. know
as the “first Kashmir war, Father of the Pakistani Nation Muhammad Ali Jinnah
ordered the combined military chief of Pakistan and India, Gen Douglas Gracey,
to invade Kashmir but he did not carry out Quaid’s orders, resultantly leaving
no option for the tribal people, Kashmir's and some soldiers of Pakistan Army,
who were on leave, to march towards Kashmir for its liberation. This indigenous
movement proved pivotal and resulted in the liberation of some of the Kashmiri
areas now known as AJ & K and Gilgit- Baltistan.
India was baffled by the Pakistan’s
initiative as it was not expecting such a firm and action-oriented response
from the infant state on Kashmir. The interesting fact that many people do not
know is that it was not Pakistan that approached the United Nations for resolving
the Kashmir dispute through a plebiscite. It was infact, India who was
surprised and afraid of losing the control of the valley by calculating /
assessing the progress of the Pakistani tribes men and Kashmir's in a bid to
free Kashmir of her subjugation, so she went running to the UN Security Council
and called for help.
On April 21, 1948 after the first
Kashmir war’s ceasefire, the UN Security Council passed its famous resolution
No. 47 in its 286th meeting under the subject “The India Pakistan Question.”
The result of which was “adopted” under chapter IV of the UN charter. One
cannot ignore the Indian stubbornness, guile and mischief on Kashmir as today they
deny their own demand made in 1948 to
the UN, which was to resolve the Kashmir issue through a UN monitored
plebiscite for the Kashmiri People. After the resolution was passed in 1948 on
Kashmir, over the next few years the UN Security Council passed four new
resolutions, reversing the terms of Resolution 47 to include a synchronous
withdrawal of both Indian and Pakistani troops from the region on
recommendations of Gen Andrew Mc Naughton. To this end the UN arbitrators put
forward 11 different proposals for the demilitarization of the Kashmiri region,
all of which were accepted by Pakistan but rejected by the Indian government. No
matter how hard India tries to show a shinning face to the world the moment Kashmir
issue is raised her reality is exposed.
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