{"id":2793,"date":"2016-09-12T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2016-09-12T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:10:23","slug":"is-kashmir-making-to-un-as-in-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/editors-take\/is-kashmir-making-to-un-as-in-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kashmir Making to UN as it in 1948 and 1965?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

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Kashmir Damocles Sword<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Z.G. Muhammad <\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1947, when India and Pakistan were born as independent dominions, Jammu and Kashmir failed to \u2018redefine itself to the new order of the sub-continent\u2019. Thus it became a dispute between the two dominions. Since that day the Dispute like sword of Damocles hangs over two countries. It has bedeviled their relations and brought about three wars between them and also worked as a catalyst for the dismemberment of Pakistan. \u00a0Turned the two countries into opposing armed camps equipped with nuclear weapons- a threat to peace in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Abdullah\"<\/a>History initially threw up an opportunity, if it had been grabbed timely like all other states of the Subcontinent, there would have been no dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. Seen in right historical perspective, it was the blinkered vision of Jawaharlal Nehru that Kashmir has brought the South Asia to the brink of a nuclear war. His colored vision guided by sentimentalism rather by the realpolitik is manifest in the note that he handed over to the Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten when he visited Kashmir in June 1947 for meeting Maharaja Hari Singh. Sardar Patel\u2019s dislike\u00a0 to seeing Kashmir as part of India had come from a deeper understanding unlike that of Nehru\u2019s sentimentalism. The two came on the same page after Nehru resurrected the British ghost of threat from the North, what Alastair Lamb has called as \u201cBritish geopolitical artefact.\u201d\u00a0 Nehru, who had started working on a plan as early as 1946 for integrating Jammu and Kashmir into India once British had departed. To quote Colonel Webb, he at that time had dreamt of making it \u2018anti-Pakistan zone North of Punjab. Moreover, after the appointment of Mountbatten as the Viceroy, he intensified his activities, for seeing his plan translated into reality and instead of looking towards Hari Singh, Maharaja of the State he saw Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, as a most suited person for the job. He wrote a letter on 27 September 1947, to Home Minister Patel for getting Sheikh Abdullah released from jail. The letter read reads: \u2018Releasing Sheikh Abdullah, enlisting support of his followers would help bring about the accession of Kashmir to the Union of India.\u2019 Two days later Abdullah was released. Twenty-three days after the Afridi took over Muzaffarabad and on 27 October Indian troops landed at Srinagar.\u00a0 There can be no denying that release of Sheikh Abdullah and his followers did help in the smooth landing of troops at Srinagar. Nevertheless, contrary to Nehru\u2019s expectations it did not help in making Jammu and Kashmir as good a state like any other state that merged under the partition plan with India. \u00a0Instead, it became a Dispute between the newborn countries.\"Nehru<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

To nail Pakistan, Nehru believing that the \u201cInstrument of Accession\u201d was as unassailable document and for seeking international recognition for this document, the GOI went to the United Nations Security Council. It also complained against Pakistan. Ostensibly, UN did not cognizance of this \u201cdocument\u201d notwithstanding its condition of it being subservient to ratification by the will of people. Instead, the Security Council passed resolutions for holding a plebiscite to determine the future of the State. These resolutions had alarmed Hari Singh one of two signatories to the \u201cInstrument\u201d made him realize that the document has not been recognized internationally instead a question mark had been put on its sanctity. On 31 January 1948, he wrote a long letter to Indian Home Minister, Sardar Patel informing him that he was interested in withdrawing the accession. He wrote to him, \u201cThere is an alternative possible for me, and that is to withdraw the accession, and that may kill the reference to UNO because the Indian Union will have no right to continue the proceedings before the Council if the accession is withdrawn. The result may be a return to position the State had before the accession.\u201d<\/em> (The state from August 15 to 27 October 1947 was an independent and sovereign country.\u00a0\"Maharaja-Hari-Singh1\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

True, since that date, a lot of water has flown down the Jhelum. \u00a0But the contours and status of the Dispute have not changed.\u00a0 For Settling the Dispute out-of-court, Islamabad and New Delhi got engaged at the bilateral level scores of times. There is a lot of rhetoric about Simla Agreement having changed the status of the Kashmir Dispute from international to bilateral. That conversant with the proceedings of the July 1972 summit between Mrs. Gandhi and \u00a0\u00a0Bhutto fully understand that it has not. That is why, when Mrs. Gandhi did not withdraw Kashmir case from the Security Council after\u00a0 the six-point accord. She\u00a0 had paid no heed to the suggestion. For past forty-four years, after the Simla Agreement, the leaders and officials of the two countries met several times and more than often Kashmir topped the agenda. Notwithstanding, the stance taken by New Delhi that Kashmir was an integral part of India, we are often informed that Kashmir is part of the \u201ccomposite dialogue.\u201d Moreover, now and then we are told that in 2007 an agreement on Kashmir had been reached between New Delhi and Islamabad- by all stretch of imagination, it would not have put a seal on the status quo. Despite being in denial mode, in a note circulated on September to the Members of the APD during meeting New Delhi subtly admitted that there is the demand of plebiscite in the state. The Intifada III, as the present uprising is popularly called in Kashmir has not sparked charged discussions as those in the fifties in Pakistan and India Parliaments but is also going to dominate the debate in the upcoming UN General Assembly session.\u00a0 It seems both India and Pakistan\"bhuttoindra\"<\/a> have girded their lions to outsmart each other during the session. There are indications that Prime Minister is going to raise the issue of Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK and perhaps also claim these areas and equally Nawaz Sharif seems going to raise the demand of holding a plebiscite in the state. If the debate brings Kashmir back to the UN floor needs as it did in 1948 when India complaint to the Security Council needs to be seen. However, whether it assume a serious \u00a0 dimension\u00a0 that invoke another resolution on Kashmir\u00a0 or not but the unbecoming will be important for Kashmir, it will bring in to focus the situation as has been obtaining in Kashmir for past sixty five days.
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Z.G. Muhammad
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\nIn 1947, when India and Pakistan were born as independent dominions, Jammu and Kashmir failed to \u2018redefine itself to the new order of the sub-continent\u2019. Thus it became a dispute between the two dominions. Since that day the Dispute like sword of Damocles hangs over two countries. It has bedeviled their relations and brought about three wars between them and also worked as a catalyst for the dismemberment of Pakistan. \u00a0Turned the two countries into opposing armed camps equipped with nuclear weapons- a threat to peace in Asia.
\nHistory initially threw up an opportunity, if it had been grabbed timely like all other states of the Subcontinent, there would have been no dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. Seen in right historical perspective, it was the blinkered vision of Jawaharlal Nehru that Kashmir has brought the South Asia to the brink of a nuclear war. His colored …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[244,243],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-take","tag-kashmir-acession","tag-nehru-and-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}