Kashmir would not allow India and Pakistan smooth progress ?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Both India and Pakistan know that Kashmir had already been divided in between India and Pakistan and it has also been accepted that Pakistan had not vacated the occupied area of Kashmir in spite of U.N.O. resolutions of 1947 and it is also on record that India could not take this area back in spite of their pronouncements to this effect.
In spite of this permanent division of Kashmir, we, the people of India are demanding that Pakistan should vacate that area and on the other hand Pakistan is demanding that the U.N.O. Resolutions be accepted and there should be plebiscite in the whole of Kashmir state and the will of the people be accepted. Pakistan is harping on the term plebiscite only because it knows that the Muslims are in majority in the state and there are possibilities that they may opt for Pakistan and on the other hand India says that plebiscite is not possible because whole of Kashmir has become part of India and under the Constitution of India there is no provision which allows such a plebiscite in a state. So the matters are standing here, but since 1947 both India and Pakistan are not in a position to leave these demands.
It is on record that Pakistan tried through direct wars and since the long past it is following a proxy war against India. The Khalistan movement in the state of Punjab was also a part of this proxy war and when Pakistan came to know that whole of the Sikh Community does not want that Punjab should separate from India and become Khalistan, Pakistan immediately left the Khalistan Movement and shifted to Kashmir where it could find a fertile land for its activities. Pakistan could find out some people who have initiated a movement in Kashmir through which they are demanding that the people of Kashmir should be given a right to exercise their will. This group is giving warm welcome to the terrorists sent by Pakistan and we have noted that the terrorists coming from Pakistan side are getting all types of shelter, protection, arms, ammunition, boarding and lodging, local information and then they are helped to hide themselves after the operation. The terrorists so accommodated in Kashmir could turn Kashmir as their base and now they have started operating in whole of India where they could get the same facilities and help which they could get in Kashmir. We have seen that these terrorists could reach the Red Fort, important temples and even they reached our Parliament.
We are initiating talks on the subject of Kashmir, but we have noted that both the countries are not changing their basic stands. India would never say that the occupied part of Kashmir shall belong to Pakistan nor the Pakistan government shall agree that there should be no plebiscite in Kashmir and the part with India should remain part of India.
Under compelling circumstances we took part in the liberation of East Pakistan which has come up as Bangladesh, Pakistan is not tolerating this division. It is in the mood of taking revenge from India and people of India know that Pakistan is making all these exercises which shall prove futile. But Pakistan knows that its actions are bring loss to India. If we calculate our losses in Khalistan Movement and in Kashmir problem, we shall come to the conclusion that the losses are on the higher side than those losses which Pakistan suffered because of loss of its Eastern part. And if Pakistan conducts an estimate, it too shall come to the conclusion that all its efforts have proved futile exercises.
During this period of six decades, history has played its own role and therefore, Kashmir stands divided into India and Pakistan and both the countries should accept this decision of history. The people who are with Pakistan have become Pakistani and the people who are living with India have become Bhartis. It shall not be in interest of India and Pakistan to unite these two wings and then conduct a transfer because such unities are often dangerous for the country to which such units are given.
Time has come when both India and Pakistan should sit together and they must accept the decision of history, then they should stop all direct and indirect wars against each other and then they should sign a No-War-Pact operative for ever and they both should start living in peace. All these direct and indirect wars had been futile exercises, and they must learn a lesson from these wars. If they live in peace, they shall turn their countries as ‘golden sparrows' once again because both these countries are very rich. Both the countries have got mountains, rivers, fertile lands, minerals, petroleum, coals, irons, jungles and all that what could the basics for planned development. They had been wasting their time, their energy, their resources, their men, their peace on futile exercises and therefore, time has come when they should sit down in peace.
The question put here should be given to the people of both the countries and there are hundred per cent chances that the people of the both the countries shall recommend for this no war pact.
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