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Kashmir: © Prakash J. Mascarenhas, June 2002. We, the people of India protest that ethnicity has no direct connection with religion. We absolutely protest that religion is not the defining criteria or determinant of ethnicity. We protest that Pakistan is an artificial nation, created by the excession of Indian territories and people without any just cause whatsoever and without the consent, implicit or explicit, of the Indian people. We protest that the various and ethnically disparate peoples of the former princely State of Jammu & Kashmir under the Dogra Kings did not and do not constitute a single nation or ethnic group by virtue of being natives of that state. We protest that the nation of Kashmir is an historic part of the Indian civilisational family of nations, just as any other of the other Indian nations. We protest that the Pakistanian puppet state of "Azad" or "Free Kashmir" is neither Free nor Kashmir; it is the homeland of the ethnic Hindko-speaking people. We protest against the claim that Muslim Indians, because they are Muslims, are not Indians, but members of an invented, mythical nation of Pakistan. We protest against the Campaign by the Muslims of Kashmir to secede or to claim the right of self-determination, as an extension of this vicious, fatuous and misanthropic doctrine. We protest that the Accession of the former King of the territory of Jammu and Kashmir to the Indian Union is final and irrevocable. We protest that the promise made by the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union, Mr. Nehru, to hold a plebiscite to determine the will of the people of the territory was a courtesy statement as it was not ratified by the Indian Parliament or people, and as the conditions upon which it was predicated, the withdrawal of Pakistan's terrorists and troops, has not only not been met, but Pakistan has actually incorporated into itself, illegally, parts of the zone it has seized, and also illegally gifted to Communist China yet other parts, morevoer, Pakistan has committed to maintaining the status quo by the treaty called the Shimla Pact, therefore the promise of a plebiscite is now impossible to be met, has been so since at least 1950-1955, and ceased to be, if it ever legally were, an obligation upon the Indian Union and its people. Ref.: Pro Secession Kashmir Study Group & Naoise O'Boyle Con Kashmir: The Indian Viewpoint See Continuation... Proposal For Peace In Kashmir |