INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
(Statement by Dr. Karan Singh, Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, and former Sadar-e-Riyasat, read out to the participants of the National Integration Convention at Jammu on October 27, 2001, the 54th anniversary of the Accession (VOM News Service, Jammu, October 29, 2001)
I had read the statement by the son of former Mahraj of Kashmir Late. H.E Gulab Singh. In his statement he accused Pakistan of invading the Kashmir soon after the independence from the British Raj. This accusation seems unfounded, because at the time of independence Pakistan in no way in a position to invade any country. Pakistan had very limited military power. All Pakistan's military equipment was out of date and insufficient to start an invasion on a territory which not only had its on military as the prince himself stated but assisted by the Indian army. Pakistan had just Torey Dar rifles which is and was produce in the tribal areas of Pakistan till the day.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir was sold by the British Raj to Maharajah for Rs. 50,00000 or so including more than 10 million Kashmirs.it was a great humiliation of the people of Kashmir who were overwhelmingly Muslims, it was therefore they been considered as valueless as slugs or ants.
According to the document of independence and partition all princely states had the right to join either Pakistan/India or to remain autonomous regions.
As I said Kashmir had and still has an overwhelmingly Muslim population and thus wants eagerly to join Pakistan, took up arms against the suppression of Dogharas. Maharajah had great sympathy with India and invited them to tackle the turmoil in Kashmir and after some days, announced the accession of Kashmir to India which had no natural geographical boundary with Kashmir only India had little access from the District Ghurdaspure. The district Ghurdaspure originally had to be a part of Pakistan, because of its large Muslim population. But unfortunately boundary commission Red Culf at the last days of transferring of control to newly independent nation, changed the map and confer Gurdaspure to India with this aim to provide India access to the region and if it hadn't had happen Kashmir would not had been an Atoot Ang of India.
After Indian forces enter in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmirs intensified their struggle to join Pakistan and some tribes of northern areas extended their help to Kashmir is who were their natural allies. The Kashmiris and tribes fought fearlessly with Indians and Doghras and Sri nagar was about to fall when India ran to the U-security council and achieved a ceasefire on this condition that a plebiscite will be held in Kashmir to know the will of the Kashmirs which is still pending, because of Indian rant, Kashmir is its atoot Ang.
Now the matter of facts, it is Indian Government which has the key to solve the dispute. And the rule is already accepted by the Indian state to hold plebiscite in Kashmir