The Cause of Kashmir

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I often think why the people of Kashmir were denied their right of self determination. Why they were sold away like a commodity. Did they not possess the status of human beings? Were they not a part of the united India like other Muslims of India? When a rule of democracy and self determination was being followed by the people of every part of the country then, how it came to be unavailable for this part of India.

Every one knows that the Muslims of India were not willing to live with biased Hindu majority because of their hypocritical character, pagan ideologies and no belief in the Day of Judgment. Muslims of India had realized this fact. The Two-Nation theory was the result of their feelings. The Muslim League was founded by Muslims of India in 1906. Allama Iqbal promulgated the idea of separate land piece for the Muslims of India in 1930. This idea of independent state was endorsed by the Muslims of all India in March 1940 through the Pakistan Resolution at Lahore. The idea of independent state in the territories where the Muslims were in majority was also accepted and endorsed by the British Government of India in June 1943. All of these facts are on the record and no one can deny it.

If the rule was democracy, if the rule was the aspirations of the majority of the people, as today the people of the world accept and according to which government of India acceded and annexed the two Muslim princely states of Junagadh and Hyderabad to their dominion then, why the people of Kashmir were not allowed to exercise the same. This shows that the Muslims of India were right in their thinking of Hindu hypocrisy, bias and selfishness.

Kashmir was a Muslim majority territory through centuries with 94 per cent Muslim population....

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...f unfair means to prolong its illegal occupation of the held Kashmir such as armed forces with extra ordinary authorities to curb the protest of the people.

Pakistan has been continually supporting the Cause of Kashmir. From the first day to this day, every Popular Pakistani leader has been striving to provide the people of Kashmir the right of self determination. Quaid e Azam, Shaeed Liaquat Ali Khan and Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto declared that the Pakistan will fight for thousand years Shaheed B.B. declared the February 5th as the Kashmir Solidarity Day. Nawaz Sharif is determined to fight on every level for Cause of Kashmir. The Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir has been also established to achieve the same object. Pakistan holds that the status quo cannot be considered as a solution and insists on a plebiscite as enshrined in the United Nations Resolutions.

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