Over 5000 years
of recorded history indicates that Kashmir has been an integral part of
India.
Maharajah Ranjit
Singh, freed Kashmir from brutal central Asian invaders who occupied it
since 13th century.
Present Jammu
and Kashmir State became a British protectorate in 1846.
Kashmir was attacked
and looted by the Pakistani army in October 1947, several thousand innocent
Kashmiris died in that aggression. In spite of several U.N. resolutions,
today 2/5 of Kashmir remains Pakistani Occupied Territory.
On October 26,
1947, the ruler of Kashmir and the people of Kashmir, REQUESTED Kashmir's
accession to India. Just like 560 other principalities this accession to
India was full, final, unconditional and irrevocable.
According to U.N.
resolutions of 1948, the precondition for plebiscite in Kashmir was immediate
withdrawal of invading Pakistani troops from Jammu and Kashmir, a condition,
Pakistan has yet to fulfill. In addition, Pakistan has now dramatically
altered the demographic composition of the State.
A DEMOCRATICALLY
elected Constituent Assembly, unanimously reaffirmed the accession of Kashmir
to India in 1954.
Since 1947, Pakistan
has initiated three wars against India and decisively lost all of them.
Recently, after
its biggest military exercise, code named, Strike of the True Believer,
Pakistan's army Chief Gen. Beg said that Pakistan's defence policy has
now been transformed from defensive to offensive defense.
India is a secular
democracy. The terrorists claim in Kashmir, for accession to Pakistan is
based on religious fundamentalism alone.
While in the U.S.,
Amanullah Khan, the leader of terrorists organization JKLF advocated kidnapping,
murder, and rape of the hostages. After two press conferences he was expelled
by the State Department.
More than 300,000
Kashmiri Hindus/Sikhs have been rendered homeless because of the terrorism.
They now live in refugee camps in Jammu and New Delhi.
Over 2400 people
of all religious persuasion have been brutally murdered since the present
surge of religious terrorism started. Terrorists alone are responsible
for this carnage.
