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| Can UN resolutions solve JK problem? | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Aug 12: The UNO seems sick of having Kashmir on its agenda. It was dropped twice by the world body-first in December 1996 and recently in November last year. The 1996 shock was severe. Pakistan managed to have Kashmir back on agenda but the fragility of the mechanism came to fore. Kashmiris came to know that UN resolutions conferring self determination on them could not be implemented. Nehru knew it in 1948.
Nehru took the issue to UN on January 1, 1948. The world body passed 18 resolutions seeking enforcement of the right to self determination of the people of Jammu Kashmir. Surprisingly India's trusted ally, erstwhile Soviet Union abstained from meetings every time. In a way Soviet Union facilitated the resolutions by remaining absent. Nehru did not mind Soviet role. He knew what others knew not. Nothing has moved since then because the resolutions only acknowledge the right to self determination. The resolutions to the dismay of the people of Kashmir cannot be implemented contrary to the belief of the leadership.
Why has UNO failed in solving the long pending dispute? By the end of December Indian army had pushed back the Tribals and the indigenous state subjects of Jammu Kashmir to a position where the armies of India and Pakistan stand now. In fact, the government of India did not want to push them deep into the territory which now constitutes Azad Kashmir. This stands proved by Lt General LP Sen's book Slender was the thread.
He suspected movement of Pakistan regulars near Chakoti in January 1948. However, he leaves them alone and concentrates on other fronts especially the Pir Panchal Front.
This was the most opportune time to involve the world community. When Nehru decided to move to the United Nations, his home minister, Sardar Patel vehemently opposed him. But Nehru did not listen. Nehru knew the UN could not do anything if a complaint was lodged under chapter VI of UN Charter. Today a good number of Kashmiris believe that the UN resolutions have delayed resolution of the Jammu Kashmir conflict. And that is exactly what Nehru wanted.
Nehru killed two birds with one stone by this move. He presented Pakistan as an aggressor before the world community and continued fighting for one more year. After exactly one year of lodging a complaint in the United Nations, the cease-fire was enforced. By that time Indian was well placed except in the Pir Panchal Region where Pakistani army recaptured a few pickets and some area. It is widely believed that Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah persuaded Nehru to accept the cease-fire at that particular moment of the war because `Sher-e-Kashmir wanted to keep peace loving Kashmiris away from war mongers of Azad Kashmir'. |
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