Pak role in Kashmir violence, terror and killings since 1947 to be highlighted on Oct 22

India will highlight Pakistan’s position in instigating violence and terror in Kashmir and the destruction of its tradition on October 22, a day when Jammu and Kashmir was attacked in 1947 after which an enormous a part of the erstwhile princely state was occupied by Pakistan and hundreds of Hindus and Sikhs needed to migrate to the Indian aspect, in response to officers conversant in the event.

According to senior officers, the day can be noticed to protest in opposition to Pakistan, who used the tribal militia and military to wreak rape and mayhem in Kashmir in 1947, with protests within the Valley and in Delhi. After the nullification of Article 370 and formation of Jammu and Kashmir as Union territory on August 5, 2019, the day will see demonstrations in Jammu and Srinagar because the UT can be beneath safety dragnet.

Every 12 months, October 22 can be noticed as Black Day by Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) refugees in India. It was on at the present time that Pakistan had launched Operation Gulmarg to assault Jammu and Kashmir and which left hundreds of individuals lifeless. Operation Gulmarg was conceived beneath the command of Major General Akbar Khan, who has spoken about this in a e book and admits to Pakistan’s position within the conflicts within the Kashmir Valley.

“On October 26 (1947), the Pakistani forces captured Baramula where only 3,000 survived out of 14,000. The troops were now only 35 miles from Srinagar when the Maharaja (Hari Singh) sent his papers of accession to Delhi asking for help,” Khan has written within the recently-re-published e book, Raiders in Kashmir.

Khan has stated in his e book, as he offers out minute particulars of Pakistan’s aggression in Kashmir, that the plan was hatched and formulated in Lahore and Rawalpindi. He has stated he was requested by Mian Iftikharuddin, then a frontrunner within the ruling Muslim League, originally of September 1947 to organize a plan to take over Kashmir. “Ultimately, I wrote a plan under the title of “Armed Revolt inside Kashmir”. As open interference or aggression by Pakistan was clearly undesirable, it was proposed that our efforts ought to be concentrated upon strengthening the Kashmiris themselves internally — and on the similar time taking steps to forestall the arrival of armed civilians or army help from India into Kashmir,” Khan stated.

“On October 22, the operation began with Pakistani forces crossing the border and attacking Muzaffarabad and Domel on October 24 from where the Dogra troops had to withdraw. The next day these troops moved forward on the Srinagar road and again took on the Dogras at Uri… On October 27, India intervened and sent troops to Kashmir,” he has written.

Khan additionally writes in Raiders in Kashmir how the Pakistani military had labored with the tribal forces in numerous incursions in Kashmir. He had “rushed back to Pindi to ensure that the tribesmen received their ammunition in time” after being appointed because the army adviser to the prime minister on October 28, 1947.

About 11,000 residents of Baramulla have been killed on October 26, 1947, alone, and the Mohra energy station that equipped electrical energy to Srinagar was destroyed within the assault. “The raiders came to our land, massacred thousands of people — mostly Hindus and Sikhs, but Muslims, too — abducted thousands of girls, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims alike, looted our property and almost reached the gates of our summer capital, Srinagar,” Sheikh Abdullah, the primary prime minister of J-Ok, described the invasion on the UN in 1948.

Maharaja Hari Singh appealed to India for assist in a letter dated October 26, 1947. “With the conditions obtaining at present in my state and to the great emergency of the situation as it exists, I have no option but to ask for help from the Indian Dominion. Naturally, they cannot send the help asked for without my state acceding to the Domination of India. I have accordingly decided to do so and I attach the Instrument of Accession for acceptance by your government,” he wrote.

European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), a think-tank, has stated the intervening evening of October 21-22, 1947, was the darkest day within the historical past of Jammu and Kashmir when Operation Gulmarg was launched and that Pakistan’s template has remained the identical until date.

“Pakistan has perpetuated the myth that the tribal raiders were liberators and came to Kashmir to fulfil their religious obligation of jihad because Muslims were being killed in Jammu in communal riots. However, the reality was that it was not as if Muslims had been spared (by them),” it has stated.