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As questions of territorial sovereignty return to the centrestage in Sino-Indian relations, Beijing has added a new twist to the long-running boundary dispute between the two countries by knocking off nearly 1,600 km from its definition of China’s border with India.
A Xinhua report from Beijing earlier this week on the eve of premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India described the Sino-Indian border as nearly 2,000-km long. The Indian count of the operational border is a lot longer at nearly 3,500 km (not taking into account the line separating Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and China). The discrepancy is too large to be treated as an inadvertent error in Beijing.
So, where did the hundreds of kilometers disappear? China apparently no longer treats the line of nearly 1,600 km separating Jammu and Kashmir on the one hand and Xinjiang and Tibet on the other as a border with India.
China’s recasting of the length of the border with India appears to be part of the Kashmir puzzle that Beijing has unveiled in recent years. The other pieces include the recent policy of issuing stapled visas to Indian citizens from J&K, the reluctance to host a visit by the Northern Commander of the Indian Army Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal, the dramatic expansion of the Chinese activity in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir that includes the modernisation of the Karakoram Highway and the plans to construct a new rail line and oil pipeline between Kashgar in Xinjiang and the Gwadar port on Pakistan’s Makran coast.
Xinhua’s reference to 2,000 km of Sino-Indian border was based on an official briefing by the Assistant Foreign Minister of China, Hu Zhengyue to the Beijing press corps on Monday.
Minister Hu’s shortening of the border with India does not appear to be a one-off comment. The figure 2,000 km appears to have become the new normal in the official Chinese characterisation of the border with India.
A day before Wen arrived in India, The Global Times—an English language newspaper published by the People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party—contradicted the Indian figure of 3,500 km for the operational border between the two nations.
In an interview with the Indian Ambassador to China, S. Jaishankar, the Global Times asked about the reported tensions on the border. In response, Jaishankar said, “The reality contradicts any alarmist depiction of the situation on the border, whether in India or in China. We have a long common border of 3,488 km.”
In publishing the interview in its Tuesday’s editions, the editors of the Global Times chose to add in parenthesis the following: “There is no settled length of the common border. The Chinese government often refers to the border length as being ‘about 2,000 km.”
Given Beijing’s new emphasis on a shorter border with India, Delhi can’t ignore the issue any longer. After all, the Chinese are quite careful and very definitive in articulating their boundary claims.
Beijing’s official figure for the Indian border at about 2,000 km makes sense only if the boundary between J&K and China is disregarded. From the Indian count, the western sector that covers the frontier of Jammu & Kashmir is 1,597 km (nearly 1,000 miles).
For decades now, Delhi and Beijing have discussed, as a mater of routine, the western sector of J&K as part of their boundary talks. The first signs of trouble on the western sector came nearly a decade ago during NDA tenure, when Delhi tried to exchange maps of the border with Beijing as part of an effort to clarify the Line of Actual Control on their vast frontiers.
The maps for the central sector were quickly exchanged; but Beijing was reluctant to do the same in the western sector. Part of the problem was said to be Chinese concern about Pakistan’s sensitivity to the delineation of the Sino-Indian border in J&K.
The new Chinese approach to the western sector reveals that India’s problem could be much larger than the question of stapled visas. It might be about a fundamental ambivalence in Beijing about India’s sovereignty over J&K.
Just as the Chinese decision to call Arunachal Pradesh as ‘South Tibet’ has begun to gain international traction, the repeated references to the length of Sino-Indian border as 2,000 km is bound to have an impact on the global discourse about J&K.
Beijing’s new position underlines China’s centrality in J&K. While the Indian debate on Kashmir is usually focussed on Pakistan, China’s presence in the state might be emerging as a decisive new factor.
India claims that China is in occupation of nearly 38,000 sq km of Indian territory in the Ladakh region of J&K. China is also in control of nearly 5,000 sq km of Shaksgam valley in PoK ceded by Islamabad to Beijing in March 1963.
Until now India has sought to negotiate its territorial disputes in Kashmir separately with Pakistan and China. India might now have to come to terms with the changing geopolitics of J&K, where India’s two fronts with Pakistan and China come together.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Kashmir Issue Myths and Reality
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Kashmir issue is a widely contested issue between India and Pakistan. Ever since the country was partitioned on a narrow sectarian out look of Two-nation theory in 1947 and emergence of two independent sovereign states the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir has become a bone of contention among claims and counter claims by different groups and political shades. In the process the worst hit has been the facts. Every one is interpreting and reproducing basic facts according to their convenience. Continued abuse of facts has resulted in creation of certain myths that are now being circulated as facts. It is to clear the dust and reproduce these facts as they are that we are undertaking this exercise.
Myth Number one : Kashmir is Jammu and Kashmir
One of the very basic distortions about the issue of J&K is that Kashmir means Jammu & Kashmir. This is a deliberate attempt to mislead public opinion.
The Fact is that the state of Jammu and Kashmir comprises of several regions and Kashmir is just one and the smallest division as for as area is concerned. Jammu and Kashmir princely state (including Jammu, Kashmir, Northern Areas, Ladakh, Trans-Karakoram Tract and Aksai Chin) Other major regions of the state as per present administrative control are as :
Jammu
Kashmir
Laddakh
Gilgat Baltistan
Chinese Ocuupied Kashmir
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The total area of Jammu Kashmir as it existed on and before 15th August 1947 is 2,22,336 Sq.Km. Pakistan Occupied an area of 83,294 sq. Kms. ( 37.4%) in 1947. out of which it gifted 5180 Sq. Kms to China in 1963.
Area occupied by China in 1962 is 37555 Sq. Kms (16.8% ). Therefore essentially total Area under illegal occupation of China and Pakistan is 1,20,849 Sq. Kms. That is 54.37%
Kashmir province is just 15.63% of the part of the state that is under administrative control of India. Out of the total area of 1,01,387 Sq. Kms. (45.62%) Ladakh Division comprises of 59241 Sq.Kms. ( 26.65% of original state & 58.43% of state remaining with India) ;Jammu Division is 26293 Sq. Kms. (11.83% of actual state & 25.93% of Indian administered parts); while Kashmir Province is only 15853 Sq. Kms. That is 7.13% of original state and 15.63% of the state at present with India.
Therefore the Kashmir is just a small province of Jammu and Kashmir.
Myth No 2 : Jammu and Kashmir Acceded to India but did not merge with it, thus making the accession conditional.
Nothing can be farther from the truth than this atrocious statement. Fact is that the state of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to the dominion of India in pretty much the same manner as did any other Princely state. Ruler of the state, the only legally authorized person to sign the Instrument of Accession signed absolutely the same instrument deed as was signed by about 600 other rulers of native states. This was done according to the legal requirements necessitated under Indian Independence Act 1947 of the British Parliament. Signature on the deed of Accession and subsequent acceptance of the same by Governor General was the only way to make these states as an integral part of the country.
As far as merger issue is concerned, it is a deliberate attempt to confuse people. No other Princely state, repeat none merged with Indian dominion after Acceding. There was no instrument of merger on the pattern of Instrument of Accession. Yes certain tiny native states merged together to form a viable administrative unit in the independent India. But this merger amongst them had no affect on the overall integrity of the country. J&K was the largest state and hence administratively viable so there was no need to merge it with others or vice versa.
Myth No 3: Under partition plan and two-nation theory Muslim majority J&K should have gone to Pakistan.
This is absolute non sense. Two nation theory was applicable to British India only. Native states were not to be divided. The rulers of these states were authorized to join either of the two dominions.
Myth No 4: Kashmir has never been a Part of India.
Again a willful distortion. Jammu and Kashmir behaved exactly in the same manner as did any other part of the nation. India as we understand it today was not always under one political regime. One or the other part of the country was under separate political rulers. But it continued to be a sigle nation.Jammu akshmir was no different.
Myth No 5: India promised right of self determination to people of Kashmir.
India did not promise any plebiscite under the instrument of accession. There was neither any need nor the scope for such a promise. Neither cabinet meeting nor any other government of India decision making body decided to give a promise of any such kind to any native state.
Myth No 6 : People of J&K are up against India.
Fact is that people of J&K are as much Indian as are the people from any other state. It is only a small section of population provoked by Pakistan and pampered by New Delhi that is creating the impression.
Myth No 7:Separatist movement in Kashmir is indigenous in character
The fact that Pakistan is sponsoring separatist tendency in Kashmir valley using religion as a toll and in fact militarizing the discontent is a well known fact, established by even the official documents of the government of Pakistan and its rulers.
Myth No 8: India is Holding Kashmir by mere force.
That simply is not possible. No country can retain any territory by force. It is the common past and a common future that binds the people of this country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Kashmir is a proud symbol of ancient civilization and modern nationhood of India.
Courtesy: Amit Arya And Indians Are Great
Kashmir issue is a widely contested issue between India and Pakistan. Ever since the country was partitioned on a narrow sectarian out look of Two-nation theory in 1947 and emergence of two independent sovereign states the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir has become a bone of contention among claims and counter claims by different groups and political shades. In the process the worst hit has been the facts. Every one is interpreting and reproducing basic facts according to their convenience. Continued abuse of facts has resulted in creation of certain myths that are now being circulated as facts. It is to clear the dust and reproduce these facts as they are that we are undertaking this exercise.
Myth Number one : Kashmir is Jammu and Kashmir
One of the very basic distortions about the issue of J&K is that Kashmir means Jammu & Kashmir. This is a deliberate attempt to mislead public opinion.
The Fact is that the state of Jammu and Kashmir comprises of several regions and Kashmir is just one and the smallest division as for as area is concerned. Jammu and Kashmir princely state (including Jammu, Kashmir, Northern Areas, Ladakh, Trans-Karakoram Tract and Aksai Chin) Other major regions of the state as per present administrative control are as :
Jammu
Kashmir
Laddakh
Gilgat Baltistan
Chinese Ocuupied Kashmir
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The total area of Jammu Kashmir as it existed on and before 15th August 1947 is 2,22,336 Sq.Km. Pakistan Occupied an area of 83,294 sq. Kms. ( 37.4%) in 1947. out of which it gifted 5180 Sq. Kms to China in 1963.
Area occupied by China in 1962 is 37555 Sq. Kms (16.8% ). Therefore essentially total Area under illegal occupation of China and Pakistan is 1,20,849 Sq. Kms. That is 54.37%
Kashmir province is just 15.63% of the part of the state that is under administrative control of India. Out of the total area of 1,01,387 Sq. Kms. (45.62%) Ladakh Division comprises of 59241 Sq.Kms. ( 26.65% of original state & 58.43% of state remaining with India) ;Jammu Division is 26293 Sq. Kms. (11.83% of actual state & 25.93% of Indian administered parts); while Kashmir Province is only 15853 Sq. Kms. That is 7.13% of original state and 15.63% of the state at present with India.
Therefore the Kashmir is just a small province of Jammu and Kashmir.
Myth No 2 : Jammu and Kashmir Acceded to India but did not merge with it, thus making the accession conditional.
Nothing can be farther from the truth than this atrocious statement. Fact is that the state of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to the dominion of India in pretty much the same manner as did any other Princely state. Ruler of the state, the only legally authorized person to sign the Instrument of Accession signed absolutely the same instrument deed as was signed by about 600 other rulers of native states. This was done according to the legal requirements necessitated under Indian Independence Act 1947 of the British Parliament. Signature on the deed of Accession and subsequent acceptance of the same by Governor General was the only way to make these states as an integral part of the country.
As far as merger issue is concerned, it is a deliberate attempt to confuse people. No other Princely state, repeat none merged with Indian dominion after Acceding. There was no instrument of merger on the pattern of Instrument of Accession. Yes certain tiny native states merged together to form a viable administrative unit in the independent India. But this merger amongst them had no affect on the overall integrity of the country. J&K was the largest state and hence administratively viable so there was no need to merge it with others or vice versa.
Myth No 3: Under partition plan and two-nation theory Muslim majority J&K should have gone to Pakistan.
This is absolute non sense. Two nation theory was applicable to British India only. Native states were not to be divided. The rulers of these states were authorized to join either of the two dominions.
Myth No 4: Kashmir has never been a Part of India.
Again a willful distortion. Jammu and Kashmir behaved exactly in the same manner as did any other part of the nation. India as we understand it today was not always under one political regime. One or the other part of the country was under separate political rulers. But it continued to be a sigle nation.Jammu akshmir was no different.
Myth No 5: India promised right of self determination to people of Kashmir.
India did not promise any plebiscite under the instrument of accession. There was neither any need nor the scope for such a promise. Neither cabinet meeting nor any other government of India decision making body decided to give a promise of any such kind to any native state.
Myth No 6 : People of J&K are up against India.
Fact is that people of J&K are as much Indian as are the people from any other state. It is only a small section of population provoked by Pakistan and pampered by New Delhi that is creating the impression.
Myth No 7:Separatist movement in Kashmir is indigenous in character
The fact that Pakistan is sponsoring separatist tendency in Kashmir valley using religion as a toll and in fact militarizing the discontent is a well known fact, established by even the official documents of the government of Pakistan and its rulers.
Myth No 8: India is Holding Kashmir by mere force.
That simply is not possible. No country can retain any territory by force. It is the common past and a common future that binds the people of this country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Kashmir is a proud symbol of ancient civilization and modern nationhood of India.
Courtesy: Amit Arya And Indians Are Great
Mirpur massacre of 1947: The forgotten people
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Mirpur massacre of 1947
By Dr. Ram Chander Sharma
Courtesy : Kashmir Study Group
After the Timur massacre of Delhi in 1358, the massacre of Mirpur a bustling trade centre and historic walled city of Jammu and Kashmir now in Pak Occupied Kashmir on 25th of Nov. 1947 was the worst massacre of Indian history. As the offer of accession by Maharaja was accepted by Govt of India on 26th of Oct. 1947 after India and Pakistan gained independence, the ill fated Hindu and Sikh minorities living Muslim majority western areas of Jammu region and in Kashmir valley were waiting their Dooms day. The decision of accession of J&K with India and its completed merger with India as its integral part was celebrated like "Diwali" in Mirpur with lighting of candles and bursting of crackers. But, the recently declassified British Government documents reveal that the United Kingdom had decided that the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir or part of it must go to Pakistan for strategic reasons of importance, of Jhelum bridge, irrigation/hydroelectric potentials of Mangla dam in Mirpur for the economic needs of Pakistan and the need of an air base in western J&K close to Russia and China. The creation of Pakistan was itself for the strategic reasons to counter the growing military influence of Soviet Union after World War II. Due to its proximity with China and Russia, presence of warm water sea port of Karachi and the interests of western oil companies in central Asia made Pakistan important.
Soon after the independence, Pakistan conceived a military plan to attack Jammu and Kashmir. Code named "Gulmarg" it was placed under the close guidance of British military officers. Pashtun tribes Lashkers from Dir and Waziristan areas were roped in under the direct command of Col. Akbar Lone of Pak army code named Gen. Tariq and soon armed attacks and looting started in early Sept. in Poonch and Kotli area, about 400 looters entered Owen on 2nd and 3rd Sept, followed by Pak regular army and ex army men. The town of Bhimber fell at the same time when Indian troops were air lifted of Srinagar on 27th of Oct. 1947. The population of the town swelled from 3000 to 5000 with Hindu migrants from the adjoining areas. All assembled in a small tehsil building - women and children were taken hostage while the males were put to sword. Soon, other areas fell one after another and the focus of attention and sending the Indian reinforcement was valley centric as Pt. Nehru completely gave the command of troops movement to Sheikh Mohd Abdulla side lining Sardar Patel.
The population of Mirpur swelled from 10000 to 25000 with Hindus and Sikhs migrating form nearby areas and Jhelum. A garrison of Maharaja Forces were stationed in the town. People made the fortified defenses on the roof tops and on the ground by digging trenches and groups of youths were assigned the job of vigilance round the clock with primitive weapons. Many advances of the enemy were repulsed till the town fell on 25th Nov 1947. Pakistan army started using modern weapons and artillery to break the walls of town. There were no supply as the town was already cut off by the fall of Bhimber in October itself; the only hope was the air dropping of supplies of food and ammunition by air till the reinforcements of Indian army reach to push away the enemy. Frantic massages were sent to Jammu over the wireless by Maharaja Forces to Jammu but in vain. Many of the forceful attacks of the enemy were repulsed. A major attack was carried out by the enemy on 23rd of Nov 1947 from the main eastern gate and was repulsed by the death squads of Mirpuri youths in hand to hand fight. In a bad luck the only wireless equipment with the state forces broke down and the fresh stronger attack by the enemy forces on 24th morning frightened the state forces who left the battle scene with the information to the civil population to move to safer places. The ensuing fierce fighting through out the next night put the enemy at bay till morning when they broke the western gate of the city next morning by using heavy artillery. The blood thirsty Pak army and tribal marauder entered the city around 8 a.m. in the morning. Under chaos and confusion people ran around terrified and the city was set on fire by the invaders. Soon poison was distributed to the women to end their lives and not to fall into the hands of enemy. Many who didn't get the poison were done to deaths with swords by their fathers and bothers. The dance of death continued till afternoon and at the end of day 18000 people were slaughtered in most barbaric way of the human history by Pak army and tribls. Five thousand people most of them women and children were taken hostages and taken to Alibeg Gurudawara Sahib which was converted to a concentration camp. Only 2000 people could reach Janger on foot and then escorted by Indian army to Jammu refugee camp. The hapless women and young girls abducted went thorough worst sex orgies of rape and violence. The whole of Mirpur was latter dugout to loot the wealth worth billions of Rupees beside gold and silver
The other towns of Jammu province as Rajouri fell on 10th of Nov. where the population swell from 6000 to 11000 with the influx of refugees from the adjoining villages. Most of population was done to death and less than 100 could escape the jaw of death.
PoK Refugees the heroic Pohwari tribe who fought the foreign invaders from the ancient times are now living in abject poverty in camps and are told to be repatriated as soon as India takes back PoK areas which are the integral part of India through a resolution of Indian Parliament of 1994. Unlike the refuges of Indian Punjab and Bengal whose cases of compensation and land allotment were settled amicably by India and Pakistan, the PoK Refugees still are labelled as DPs of J&K and are not given the benefits of UN Refugee Status of 1951 or other benefits extended to Tibetan Refugees or migrants form Kashmir valley after 1989. The sacrifices of PoK Refugees of Muzaffarabad kept the enemy engaged for four days till the Indian army was air dropped in Srinagar e sacrifices of people of Mirpur delayed the enemy for a month till the besieged Poonch was freed and a vital link of Poonch to Jammu and western Punjab was saved from falling into the hands of Pakistan.
On this day Mirpur Balidan Divas is observed by the PoK Refugees in Delhi Jammu, Sunderbani, Poonch, Udhampur and other parts of India where the community is settled. It is still not too late for India to tell the world the other side story of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India and forward the case of genocide to UN to punish the perpetrators, settle all the demands and build a war memorial for the Martyrs of Mirpur.
Mirpur massacre of 1947
By Dr. Ram Chander Sharma
Courtesy : Kashmir Study Group
After the Timur massacre of Delhi in 1358, the massacre of Mirpur a bustling trade centre and historic walled city of Jammu and Kashmir now in Pak Occupied Kashmir on 25th of Nov. 1947 was the worst massacre of Indian history. As the offer of accession by Maharaja was accepted by Govt of India on 26th of Oct. 1947 after India and Pakistan gained independence, the ill fated Hindu and Sikh minorities living Muslim majority western areas of Jammu region and in Kashmir valley were waiting their Dooms day. The decision of accession of J&K with India and its completed merger with India as its integral part was celebrated like "Diwali" in Mirpur with lighting of candles and bursting of crackers. But, the recently declassified British Government documents reveal that the United Kingdom had decided that the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir or part of it must go to Pakistan for strategic reasons of importance, of Jhelum bridge, irrigation/hydroelectric potentials of Mangla dam in Mirpur for the economic needs of Pakistan and the need of an air base in western J&K close to Russia and China. The creation of Pakistan was itself for the strategic reasons to counter the growing military influence of Soviet Union after World War II. Due to its proximity with China and Russia, presence of warm water sea port of Karachi and the interests of western oil companies in central Asia made Pakistan important.
Soon after the independence, Pakistan conceived a military plan to attack Jammu and Kashmir. Code named "Gulmarg" it was placed under the close guidance of British military officers. Pashtun tribes Lashkers from Dir and Waziristan areas were roped in under the direct command of Col. Akbar Lone of Pak army code named Gen. Tariq and soon armed attacks and looting started in early Sept. in Poonch and Kotli area, about 400 looters entered Owen on 2nd and 3rd Sept, followed by Pak regular army and ex army men. The town of Bhimber fell at the same time when Indian troops were air lifted of Srinagar on 27th of Oct. 1947. The population of the town swelled from 3000 to 5000 with Hindu migrants from the adjoining areas. All assembled in a small tehsil building - women and children were taken hostage while the males were put to sword. Soon, other areas fell one after another and the focus of attention and sending the Indian reinforcement was valley centric as Pt. Nehru completely gave the command of troops movement to Sheikh Mohd Abdulla side lining Sardar Patel.
The population of Mirpur swelled from 10000 to 25000 with Hindus and Sikhs migrating form nearby areas and Jhelum. A garrison of Maharaja Forces were stationed in the town. People made the fortified defenses on the roof tops and on the ground by digging trenches and groups of youths were assigned the job of vigilance round the clock with primitive weapons. Many advances of the enemy were repulsed till the town fell on 25th Nov 1947. Pakistan army started using modern weapons and artillery to break the walls of town. There were no supply as the town was already cut off by the fall of Bhimber in October itself; the only hope was the air dropping of supplies of food and ammunition by air till the reinforcements of Indian army reach to push away the enemy. Frantic massages were sent to Jammu over the wireless by Maharaja Forces to Jammu but in vain. Many of the forceful attacks of the enemy were repulsed. A major attack was carried out by the enemy on 23rd of Nov 1947 from the main eastern gate and was repulsed by the death squads of Mirpuri youths in hand to hand fight. In a bad luck the only wireless equipment with the state forces broke down and the fresh stronger attack by the enemy forces on 24th morning frightened the state forces who left the battle scene with the information to the civil population to move to safer places. The ensuing fierce fighting through out the next night put the enemy at bay till morning when they broke the western gate of the city next morning by using heavy artillery. The blood thirsty Pak army and tribal marauder entered the city around 8 a.m. in the morning. Under chaos and confusion people ran around terrified and the city was set on fire by the invaders. Soon poison was distributed to the women to end their lives and not to fall into the hands of enemy. Many who didn't get the poison were done to deaths with swords by their fathers and bothers. The dance of death continued till afternoon and at the end of day 18000 people were slaughtered in most barbaric way of the human history by Pak army and tribls. Five thousand people most of them women and children were taken hostages and taken to Alibeg Gurudawara Sahib which was converted to a concentration camp. Only 2000 people could reach Janger on foot and then escorted by Indian army to Jammu refugee camp. The hapless women and young girls abducted went thorough worst sex orgies of rape and violence. The whole of Mirpur was latter dugout to loot the wealth worth billions of Rupees beside gold and silver
The other towns of Jammu province as Rajouri fell on 10th of Nov. where the population swell from 6000 to 11000 with the influx of refugees from the adjoining villages. Most of population was done to death and less than 100 could escape the jaw of death.
PoK Refugees the heroic Pohwari tribe who fought the foreign invaders from the ancient times are now living in abject poverty in camps and are told to be repatriated as soon as India takes back PoK areas which are the integral part of India through a resolution of Indian Parliament of 1994. Unlike the refuges of Indian Punjab and Bengal whose cases of compensation and land allotment were settled amicably by India and Pakistan, the PoK Refugees still are labelled as DPs of J&K and are not given the benefits of UN Refugee Status of 1951 or other benefits extended to Tibetan Refugees or migrants form Kashmir valley after 1989. The sacrifices of PoK Refugees of Muzaffarabad kept the enemy engaged for four days till the Indian army was air dropped in Srinagar e sacrifices of people of Mirpur delayed the enemy for a month till the besieged Poonch was freed and a vital link of Poonch to Jammu and western Punjab was saved from falling into the hands of Pakistan.
On this day Mirpur Balidan Divas is observed by the PoK Refugees in Delhi Jammu, Sunderbani, Poonch, Udhampur and other parts of India where the community is settled. It is still not too late for India to tell the world the other side story of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India and forward the case of genocide to UN to punish the perpetrators, settle all the demands and build a war memorial for the Martyrs of Mirpur.
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