Chapter 1: Preface
Many books have been written on Kashmir, about its
people, the so-called rights and wrongs. Lately Pakistan has mounted a vigorous
propaganda campaign, more virulent than its past efforts, to win support for its
nefarious designs on the State. It is trying to achieve through a malicious
propaganda campaign in various international fora, what it could not secure on
the battlefield through three successive wars. Now it talks of UN resolutions on
Kashmir. It conveniently wants to hide from the world that it was the one which
ignored that part of the UN resolution which wanted Pakistani troops to withdraw
from the territory of Jammu and Kashmir it has illegally and by force occupied.
It describes Jammu and Kashmir as Indian-occupied territory, trying to equate
the aggressor and the aggrieved. India's presence in Jammu and Kashmir was under
legitimate auspices because the then ruler of Kashmir decided to accede to
India. Pakistan says that the ruler merged the State with India against the
wishes of the people. Here again history tells us that Pakistan tried to force
the Maharaja's hand by first sending tribals and later its own troops into
Kashmir. Both let loose terror in the occupied areas, which united the people of
the State against Pakistan and in favor of India. Pakistan would like to draw a
curtain on this and other parts of history.
The truth is that the secular- minded people of Kashmir
of their own free will shared the same faith in the principles of secularism and
democracy that India had to offer as against the fundamentalist two-nation
(Hindu and Muslim) principle on which Pakistan was founded. Pakistan talks of
self-determination in the State ... in that part of the State that has been with
India for more than 46 years legitimately, unlike the illegitimate occupation of
so-called "Azad Kashmir" by Pakistan. Pakistan is shedding crocodile
tears about the absence of human rights in Kashmir whereas the truth is it has
denied human rights all these years to the people of Pak-occupied Kashmir. The
truth must be told, the facts must be brought to light, relevant history must be
recalled and Pak perfidy exposed. This is not a whitewash job. The book will
attempt to project facts and facts alone and also underline the grievances of
the Kashmiri people. Yes, they do have grievances and it is the business of the
Government of India to redress them. So one believes, it is not the business of
Pakistan or any other country to say "do it or else?". India can look
after its territory and its people. Otherwise democracy here could not have
survived all these years unlike in Pakistan.
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