120 Whither Kashmir? (Part II) - Islamabad Policy Research Institute

42 IPRI Factfile
Princely states, over five hundred joined India, but none was accorded
this special status.
Through this status and a number of commitments, India kept
luring in Kashmiri masses to become its part. Upon failure of winning
their commiserations, India forced its way, through a fake assembly
resolution in mid 1950s and thereafter started calling the state as its
integral part. United Nations, however, through its resolution, No.2017
of 30 March 1951 and S.3779 of January 24, 1957, made it absolutely clear
that; any action which Kashmir Constituent Assembly may have taken or
might attempt to take to determine the future shape of state or any of its
part would not constitute the disposition of the state and that election of
State’s Constituent Assembly cannot be a substitute for plebiscite. Thus,
this act of India was a blatant violation of the UNSC resolutions that
India had accepted too.
Inaccuracy of Indian claim of accession can be judged from the
top-secret letter addressed to British Government by Mr Alexander
Symon, UK High Commissioner to India. In this letter, he briefly
described the events until 4.00 P.M on [27] October 1947, as; ten Indian
aircrafts loaded with arms and troops were dispatched to Kashmir from
New Delhi on the morning of 27 October 1947. Until 4 P.M of 27
October 1947, Mr V.P. Menon has not reported from Jammu, which
mean accession documents were either not signed or signed by Hari Singh
on 27 October 1947, and there were only rumours of Kashmir accession
to Indian Union without any confirmation.
Indian antagonistic approach can be imagined from the fact that
Kashmiri Administration had requested for a Standstill Agreement with
both India and Pakistan. Pakistan, however, accepted this offer but India
owing to its pre-planned evil designs did not accept it. Instead of
accepting it, India started interference in state’s affair through leaders like
Sheikh Abdullah. Finally, they paved the way for illegal interference in
the state’s affair through military invasion by her forces in October 1947.
From July to October 1947, with the connivance of Indian leaders
like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Patel, and V.P Menon, three Kashmiri
Prime Ministers were changed one after the other. Pandit Kak, the State’s
Prime Minister, was indeed favouring state’s accession to Pakistan or to
keep it independent. He was a strong opponent of states accession to
India, in spite of being a Hindu Pandit. Mahajan, who replaced Pandit
Kak as new Prime Minister was a non-Kashmiri. He was a Judge of East
Punjab High Court and has been the member of Radcliff Award, and