Determined to maintain the status quo, India struck back with all the might of half a million troops, which are licensed to kill by the Indian legislators². The brutal suppression that followed, finds no parallel in modern history since the times of Nazi Germany³. The Central Government of India dissolved and usurped the powers of the Jammu & Kashmir (thereafter referred to as J&K) State Assembly, which till now had enjoyed a special status in Indian Constitutional theory⁴. Kashmir is under martial law and there is a horrifying imbalance of one soldier for every six Kashmiris, majority of whom are old men, women and children. In the past SIX years alone more than 60,000 people have been brutally tortured to death. Even though journalists, both foreign and local, are banned from the occupied territory, international Human Rights Organizations have been able to report some of the brutalities which have become a fact of life in Kashmir. 

Indian government has consistently been able to get away with such atrocities on the basis of massive disinformation campaigns. This document intends to deal with some of the fallacies that the Indian government has been able to float around so that an aware and responsive world community is able to play its due role in emancipating the impoverished lot of their brethren in Kashmir. 

I. Kashmir is NOT an Integral Part of India. 

India often makes hollow claims to the tune that Kashmir is an integral part of India. This argument, often put forward by the Indian leaders, is used to tell the world at large that they have no business meddling in India's internal policies. They claim that the so-called "Instrument of Accession" as purportedly signed by the ex-Maharajah of Kashmir, makes Kashmir an integral part of India. But by invading the princely states of Junagadh and Manavadar, whose rulers had acceded to Pakistan, and Hyderabad whose ruler had chosen to remain independent, and ensuring their accession to India by holding general plebiscites by force of arms there, India had itself invalidated the right of the rulers of princely states to decide their subjects' futures. 

It is well accepted nowadays that even the existence of such an "Instrument" as signed by the ruler of Jammu & Kashmir is highly suspect. The fact that Maharajah was overthrown by his own people in a massive uprising, and that he had already fled from his capital, when he supposedly signed the "Instrument" to get the Indian "help", casts further doubts on the validity of the document⁵. As per international law, as is evident from the various UN resolutions, Kashmir is a disputed territory, occupied forcefully by India, and whose fate is pending an impartial plebiscite to be held under UN auspices. The Indian leaders who had initially taken the Kashmir dispute to the UN had publicly and repeatedly accepted the United Nations' positions and had promised to abide by it⁶. 

Hence it is quite obvious that India is illegally occupying the State of Jammu & Kashmir, in defiance to the International Law, and that it is an offender in the current conflict⁷. 

II. Kashmiris are NOT Terrorists. 

Cornered by the extensive reports of abuses of Human Rights by the Indian security personnel, Indian government changed tactics and countered the international pressure by posing itself as an underdog of the crisis. According to their new propaganda, Kashmiris were a part of a mythical grandiose Islamic terrorist movement directed at the rest of the world, and India was one of its targets. 

Many people would avoid the debate over terrorism by simply stating that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. However Kashmiris and their supporters believe that the terrorizing of innocent civilians to achieve a certain motive, whether justified or not, is unacceptable. This is evident from the behavior of the Kashmiri freedom fighters and their supporters. 

Analyzing the situation in Kashmir, it is soon realized that there has not been a SINGLE act of terrorism by the liberation movement directed against innocent civilians, even as alleged by the Indian Government, in the 50-year history of Kashmir's occupation. The movement has strictly been localized with people resisting the occupation forces in their own land. There have been no attacks in the rest of Indian states by the liberation movement, in order to force India off Kashmir. It must be appreciated here that the Kashmiri freedom fighters have had the chance but have restrained themselves from indulging in terrorist ventures in the rest of India in order to force them off their land. In fact, the only acts of terrorism have been those of the Indian Army, against innocent civilians, which are well documented in the reports of Amnesty International, Asia Watch and other international HROs. What we see is the purest form of state-terrorism, whereby a military power is seeking to consolidate its hold on a foreign land through massive suppression of the local population. Such acts of brutality, as is obvious from the reports of  Human Rights Commissions around 

III. India, a Terrorist State. 

Above we have already discussed some of the state-sponsored terrorist activities of the Indian military and intelligence agencies in both Pakistan and Kashmir. However, these adventures on the Indian establishment are not limited to Kashmir and Pakistan alone. The massive repressive tactics of the Indian Security Forces in the State of Punjab have drawn harsh criticism from both inside and outside India. At one stage, the hatred amongst the Sikh community for the Indian Government had reached such a stage that the years old trusted Sikh bodyguards of the then Indian P.M. Indira Gandhi could not restrain themselves and shot her dead in her official residence. 

India has actively organized and funded a proxy civil war in Sri-Lanka to bring the country to its heels. It is now an open secret that Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-Premier if India, took personal interest in the formation and activities of the terrorist outfit LTTE in northern Sri-Lanka. He used LTTE to blackmail Sri-Lanka in order to bring its foreign policy in-line with that of India. The violence that followed has destroyed Sri-Lanka's tourism based economy and caused a lot of bloodshed. Hatred against such activities was obvious when Rajiv Gandhi got beaten with a stick by a Sri-Lankan Guard, when the Indian Premier was taking a Guard of "Honor" while on a "good-will visit" to that country. This happened in front of cameras for the rest of the world to see. The havoc brought forward by terrorism in Sri-Lanka eventually resulted by the death of Rajiv Gandhi in a suicide bomb attack, by the same LTTE he formed and funded but later withdrew support from, once his objectives had changed. These facts clearly portray that both sides in the current Sri-Lankan conflict are aware of and detest the role of India in fomenting trouble in their erstwhile peaceful country. 

Even now, India is actively engaged in terrorist ventures in neighboring Pakistan where there are bombs being exploded every now and then. Also another novelty of RAW's modus operandi is the sniper phenomenon, where RAW agents appear randomly in the streets of Karachi and fire indiscriminately at innocent civilians. No cause can be attributed to such senseless acts, only that in private Indians claim that such acts are a "tit-for-tat" for Pakistan's "involvement" in Kashmir. 

India's dismal record in upholding the human rights of its minorities is not limited to Eastern Punjab and the Occupied Kashmir alone. Its brutal massacres of the members of its Naga minority is yet another example of India's utter disregard for the value of human rights of its minorities. The destruction of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu fanatics, was openly supported by the fundamentalist Hindu Government, which forcibly stopped the local Muslims from going and saving one of their most holy and ancient places of worship. The police openly helped Hindu fanatics tear the historic mosque down. This was followed by bloody riots in Bombay, where the local police watched mobs of hateful Hindu zealouts slay Muslims to their deaths. Even women and children were not spared. An inquiry was forced to be opened as to ascertain the partisan behavior of local administration but was killed by the Hindu extremist government as being 'unnecessary'. Later the fundamentalist government accused local Muslims for the carnage and started expelling them without mercy from their homes in and around Bombay. 

Such is the true face of "secular" India. 

IV. India, a Threat to World Security. 

India's methods for achieving regional hegemony have not been limited to supporting covert terrorist activities in neighboring countries alone. Whenever it got the chance, India unashamedly invaded independent countries in total defiance to the international law. Kashmir is not the only case. The Independent State of Hyderabad, had a population of 14,000,000 and an area of 70,000 sq. miles. It was over-run in 1947 by the Indian military in a "police-action" to "restore law and order" there, just as it did in Kashmir. It was later annexed in the midst of international protests. Then came the States of Junagadh and Manavadar, which had acceded to Pakistan and were formally a part of Pakistan, when they were invaded and annexed despite protests by Pakistan. The Portuguese colony of Goa followed. The independent Kingdom of Sikkim on Indo-Tibetan border suffered a similar fate. In 1971 India organized a major insurgency in the then East Pakistani province of East Bengal, cut off the air-link between West and East Pakistan and then invaded to "restore order". During this period it took full advantage of its cold 

India has gone ahead with a massive program to develop weapons of mass-destruction with missiles as large as ICBMs, and other weapons of similar potential, when the rest of the world is busy dismantling weapons of mass-destruction. Now the most of Asian continent and Indian Ocean is directly under the Indian nuclear umbrella. India has left no stones unturned to acquire and manufacture such global weapon systems as Nuclear Submarines and Aircraft Carriers to further its nefarious aims. Countries as far as Australia felt the heat when they were forced to re-think their defense policies in face of a growing and menacing Indian threat. 

Such a massive weapons program of global consequences, with an amply demonstrated desire for territory is reminiscent of the times when Adolf Hitler embarked on a similarly massive re-armament program en-route to a global war¹⁰. In fact it is ironic, how the dreaded Aryan symbol, Swastika is as prominent in the Indian Flag (albeit in a different form) as it was in the Nazi Flag. The Nazi concept of Super-Man, and the racial superiority of the so-called Aryans was imported directly from India, where the non-Aryan portion of its population is (even today) outcast as being untouchables and sub-humans. 

Adolf Hitler may be dead, but the Nazism and fascism still lives on in the so-called democracy of India. 

V. Pakistan - An ally to the United States and a Source of Stability in the region. 

Pakistan, by the very nature of its independence in 1947, attaches great importance to freedom and equality. It is not surprising that Pakistan and the West turned out to be natural allies in their quest for a free world, from the very beginning of cold war. The relationship blossomed from the very start and Pakistan soon became "the most allied of allies" with the free world. The common perception of the world problems often led the West and Pakistan to such common platforms as CENTO and SEATO. Such an alliance promoted stability in the region. In 1979, things were shaken when the Red Russians rolled into Afghanistan. The historic Afghan resistance and the Pak-American alliances once again ensured that the cause of freedom and dignity was upheld. The defeat of the Soviet Union eventually led to its downfall and the opening of Pandora's box and many other suppressed nations found their way to freedom. Kashmiris seek inspiration from this defeat and expulsion of a superpower from an alien land, when they hope to expel the Indian occupation forces from their own land. 

Pakistan had also furthered the cause of global peace by promoting talks between U.S. and Iran to reduce tensions, a fact reminiscent of the famous visit of Henry Kissinger to China. That mediation by Pakistan led the U.S. and China from being adversaries to becoming healthy trading partners and did a lot to further the cause of peace and stability in the world. In the relatively unstable politics of the post-Soviet era, Pakistan has continued to play its constructive role in the world. In 1990, Pakistan was one of the allies responsible for driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait. Further contributions to world peace were made when Pakistan sent one of the largest peace keeping missions to Somalia and then to Bosnia-Herzegovina, and maintained them there in face of an increasingly hostile atmosphere. 

With democracy firmly rooted and a pro-industry Government in office, Pakistan stands poised to enter the 21st century with all the confidence and drive of a modern nation. Investment is booming and the coming together of Central Asian Republics, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran in the Economic Co-operation Organization as a powerful trade block holds further promise of vast investment opportunities. 

Pakistan's principled moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiris is a result of its time-tested belief in freedom, human rights and equality. Pakistan's efforts to finding peaceful solutions to the Kashmir problem¹¹, Nuclear non-proliferation and other regional problems have continually been frustrated by India's refusal to co-operate. India's Security Forces have terrorized a freedom-loving people and made them hostages in their own land. It is the responsibility of freedom-loving elements of the world to uphold the dignity and value of human life. The free world, like in the past must use its influence to force India to honor the wishes of Kashmiri people, stop abusing their human rights and honor the pledge given to them and rest of the world regarding their right to self-determination. 

Thank You. 

(1) U.S. Congressional Sub-committee on Asia and The Pacific (June 1, 1993)

Excerpts:

"Insurgency in Kashmir is Indigenous"

"No Evidence of Pakistani Meddling"

"Indian Security Forces Engaged in Widespread Human Rights Abuses"

(2) The Armed Forces (J&K) Special Powers Bill, 1990. See Para. 4 (a),(c),(d), Para. 5, Para. 7

(3) Report of the People's Commission of Inquiry on the Bijbehara Massacre.

By, Mufti Bahauddin Farooqi, Ex-Chief Justice, Jammu & Kashmir High Court, Srinagar, December 27, 1993.

Excerpts:

(4) Kashmir Human Rights Updates

South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center, 6/105, Kaushalya Park, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Update 1993, Page 4, Para. 1

(5) Lamb, Alistair, The Myth of Indian Claim to J&K: A Reappraisal

(6) Pledges of India's founding father and first Prime Minister to the people of Kashmir and rest of the world

Jawaharlal Nehru, Statement, New Delhi: Indian Parliament. Feb. 12, 1951 

"We had given our pledge to the people of the Kashmir and subsequently to the United Nations. We stood by it and we stand by it today. Let the people of Kashmir decide." 

Jawaharlal Nehru, P.M. of India, Letter to the UN, September 11, 1951 

"The Government of India not only reaffirms its acceptance of the principle that the question of the continuing accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India shall be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations, but is anxious that the conditions necessary for such a plebiscite should be created as quickly as possible". 

Jawaharlal Nehru, Statement, New Delhi: Indian Parliament, June 16, 1952. 

"If after a proper plebiscite, the people of Kashmir said, we do not want to be with India, we are committed to accept it even though it might pain us. We will not send an army against them." 

(7) Validity of the UN Resolutions on the Kashmir issue. United Nations clarifies

(8) Lamb, Alistair, Kashmir: A Disputed Legacy 1846-1990, Roxford Books, U.K.

"When the 'Ganga' landed at Lahore airport on 30 January, the local Pakistan police were extremely suspicious about the two hijackers...it appeared that the passengers were either Indian service personnel in mufti or their families. Finally it transpired that the aircraft in question was the oldest of its type in the I.A.C. fleet, was in poor state of maintenance and lacked certain items of equipment usually carried on such aircraft. If any I.A.C. airliner were to be expended, this was it." 

"...In January 1971 he became involved in the scheme to hijack an Indian aircraft which was being considered by the Indian Intelligence in Srinagar where it was seen to be a 'disinformation' device of great promise..... 

Final details of the hijacking scheme were worked out on 22 January 1971 at a meeting in Srinagar attended, he said, by a number of senior Indian Intelligence officials as well as representatives of I.A.C. and the management of Srinagar Airport". 

see pp.287-291 for further details. 

(9) .....NO REFERENCE. IF SOMEONE CAN SCAN LIBRARIES FOR ARCHIVES OF NEWS CLIPPINGS REPORTING SOME OF THE BOMB BLASTS BY THE INDIANS IN PAKISTAN. 

(10) Rikhye, Ravi, Militarization of Mother India

PUBLISHER NOT KNOWN. HELP WANTED..PROBABLY PUBLISHED IN THE U.S

(11) Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan

Report to the Security Council, Doc S-1971. Excerpts:

(Para 52 of Doc S-1971) 

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