Let peace
prevail
Sir,
I have been
reading the various statements of APHC on the
issue of accession of J&K to India in 1947.
I want to ask the
APHC leaders that why most of them fought and won
elections under Indian constitution, swore
allegiance to the Indian constitution, became
MLAs and Ministers, reaped the benefits and are
still taking pension for being the MLAs when they
did not believe that the accession was valid and
elections held were fair. Why at the fag end of
their life is this sudden awakening? Why for 40
years there was no militancy or insurgency or
proxy war in J&K. Why the situation started
in 1988 and not prior to this? Is it because that
these leaders in the prime of their youth had no
courage, physical or moral? Is it because that
they wanted to reap the benefits till the going
was good? Is it because there was no money
flowing from Pakistan earlier? Lastly, why have
these leaders’ children not joined the
militancy even after their awakening. As everyone
knows there children are still swearing
allegiance to the Indian Constitution, getting,
paid by the Government and cheek of all being,
that they are being promoted in the hierarchy.
Coming to the
accession of J&K firstly there was no such
thing as provisional accession in the Instrument
of Accession agreed to by Jinnah, Nehru and the
Chambers of the Princely States including
J&K. So once the King of the Princely State
signed the accession (under whatever State) it
was taken as legal and binding. Jinnah
manipulated and got NWFP accession despite it
being ruled by the Congress Government and
wanting to accede to India (Read
Mountbatten’s Memoirs). So why misrepresent
the issue and instigate the people except for
self gains which these people want to achieve. As
per Mountbatten, the whole J&K problem
started when Maharaja Hari Singh refused Jinnah
to spend his holidays in Srinagar in September
1947, which annoyed him and the cycle of
accession and war started, The accession of
J&K was accepted by Indian Government on
Sheikh Abdullah’s (leader of the masses of
J&K) insistence. Regarding Pakistan raising
the issue, it is very well known that Nehru went
to UN to secure the balance of J&K (POK and
Northern Areas) as per the legal aspects of
Instrument of Accession. For first five years
after the 1947-48 conflict, Pakistan avoided
plebiscite as it felt it will lose due to the
brutal and ruthless means it had used to secure
J&K.
Today the
situation in J&K created by Pakistan Army and
ISI is not because of any love for Kashmiris but
in words of Javed Nasir, former ISI Chief,
"It offers Pakistan Army the opportunity of
the century to redeem its honour and take revenge
of Dhaka. Kargil , Kashmir, Punjab are all about
paying India back for Pakistan’s 1971
defeat". See Kashmir is a battleground for
Pakistan Army and ISI with Indian Army, hence the
aspect of all is fair in love and war".
Now it is for the
Kashmiris to understand the nefarious designs of
Pakistan and one hopes its leaders instead of
instigating people on superfluous aspects as
accession, work for upliftment of the poor and
improving the conditions of the people of
J&K. Time is running out, if J&K does not
get industry or foreign investment now it will be
too late and too little thereafter. For this
immediate requirement is for the people to fight
and send these Pakistanis and Afghans back from
where they came from as they have no place in
Kashmir and let peace and prosperity prevail.
Yours etc...
Sonal Dhar
H No 254 Ramgarh Road
Vijaypur, Jammu
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