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| Amanullah Khan uses Jawaharlal Nehru's promise to take on India | | Political status of J&K | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 1: The founder of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and its patron-in-chief and People's Conference Sajad Lone's father-in-law Amanullah Khan on September 30 accused New Delhi of "backtracking from its promise of holding plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir" and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that "he as a representative of a conscious and self respecting country whether the declaration made on January 15, 1948 from the rostrum of the highest international forum that India accepted and recognized Kashmiri peoples' right to withdraw from their accession to India, accede to Pakistan or become a member of United Nations after normal life is restored to them, can be retracted from?"
"The present Prime Minister of India needs to answer whether civilized nation can retract from the promise made by its previous Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on November 2, 1947 from All India Radio that India will not retract from its promises made to Kashmiri people nor India can do so," he was reported as saying. " I want to ask Dr Singh when did Kashmir became an integral part of India when there were half a dozen UN Security Council resolutions and UNCIP resolutions (accepted by India and Pakistan) announcing that the future of Jammu and Kashmir State was yet to be decided," he also reportedly said.
The JKLF leader, who, along with the present National Conference president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, founded the anti-India outfit decades ago, was right when he said that Jawaharlal Nehru held out a commitment that plebiscite would be organized in Jammu and Kashmir after peace was fully restored, but he was absolutely wrong when he said that New Delhi went back on its promise. The people of Jammu and Kashmir exercised their right to self-determination in 1951 when they elected constituent-cum-legislative Assembly, which ratified the Mahjaraja Hari Singh's historic decision on his State's accession to India. Besides, Khan also made selective use of the UN resolutions. He only mentioned the UN resolution of January 15, 1948 but conveniently forgot the August 13, 1948 UN resolution which implicitly recognized the Indian sovereignty in the entire State as it existed on August 15, 1947, directed Pakistan to withdraw its troops, regular and irregular from POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, and required the Government of India to station its troops in POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan to maintain law and order there. But all the separatists in Kashmir take the line that Khan took on Monday to mislead the people and hoodwink the international community. Nobody will ever buy their spurious and untenable argument.
Khan asked: When did Jammu and Kashmir accede to India? He is a fool. Doesn't he know that the Jammu and Kashmir, which was part of Indian civilization and culture and politically integral to India since times immemorial, constitutionally and legally acceded to India on October 26, 1947? Even a naive is aware of this historical event that was hailed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir, barring a few agents of theocratic and barbarous Pakistan. Again, does this fool not know that Jammu and Kashmir was one of the 560-odd princely states which were not part of partition plan? He is so blissfully ignorant about the Indian Independence Act of 1947 under which Pakistan also came into being. It's a pity that he doesn't know that to question the well settled issue of Jammu and Kashmir would be to question the very formation of Pakistan.
However, it is also true that it was Jawaharlal Nehru and ilk who did created complications by subverting the Indian Independence Act and hobnobbing with Sheikh Abdullah and other separatists to pander to communal and separatist forces in the Kashmir valley. Nobody had given Nehru the mandate to say what he said to harm the national interests and pamper Kashmiri separatists. Any way, the issue stands settled for all the times to come and no power on earth can undo the accession. At the same time, it is time to call the Kashmiri bluff and put Pakistan on a mat. Things are dramatically changing and it can be said that the situation will improve in 2014, when the nation is likely to make the Congress and the UPA bite dust and bring to the centre-stage a Government that will of the Indians, by the Indians and for the Indians and the Indian State. |
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