Check the historical facts and the sentiments of the Kashmiri people to know how desperately India is struggling to manipulate their feeling at present with the invention of the laughable myth “PoK.”
On July 19, 1947, just weeks before the partition, people of Jammu and Kashmir made a defining political choice. The Muslim Conference party representing the 85% overwhelming Muslim majority of Kashmir adopted a unanimous resolution calling for accession to Pakistan. It was a collective and assertive display of the political will of the Kashmiri people .. a turning point in the region’s political history when Kashmiris clearly voiced their preferred future.
Muslim Conference, the single large political party in Jammu and Kashmir, was foundeded in 1932 was by Ghulam Abbas and Sheikh Abdullah. Sheikh Abdullah turned out to be a troublemaking traitor who split the Muslim Conference, but temporarily. In 1939 he pressured Ghulam Abbas to change the name of Muslim Conference to National Conference to align it with the secular Indian National Congress. But in 1941, Ghulam Abas and many of his conrades broke off from the National Conference and revived the former Muslim Conference with the decision to opt for Pakistan.
In the summer of 1947 when states in South Asia were offered the right to accede to either India or Pakistan, the direction where Kashmir was heading was obvious. In July 1947 at a meeting in Srinagar, the Muslim Conference collectively and emphatically decided to join Pakistan, declaring “This convention of Muslim Conference is of the opinion that the ultimate solution of the Kashmir issue lies in the accession of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan.” It reflected the hopes and wishes of the vast Muslim majority of the state of Kashmir confirming their support of an independent Muslim homeland as envisioned by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This resolution of July 1947 is an unerasable historical record of Jammu and Kashmir’s decision for accession to Pakistan.
In spring 1947 the hindu ruler of Kashmir started imposing punitive taxes on the peasantry that led to an uprising against him in Poonch (currently in central Azad Jammu and Kashmir). The hindu administration resorted to brutal suppression. The area's population, swelled by recently demobilised soldiers following WW2, rebelled against the maharaja's forces and gained control of almost the entire district. Following this victory, the pro-Pakistan chieftains of the western districts of Muzaffarabad, Poonch and Mirpur proclaimed a provisional Azad Jammu and Kashmir government in Rawalpindi on October 3, 1947.
Rebellion against the hindu maharaja continued in other regions of western Kashmir.
On October 21 several hundreds of fighters from Pakistan led by experienced military leaders and equipped with modern arms poured into western Jammu and Kashmir to help with the rebellion against the maharaja's oppressive rule. The maharaja's crumbling forces were unable to withstand the onslaught. The towns of Muzaffarabad and Baramulla (the latter only 20 miles northwest of the state capital Srinagar) were captured by Pakistani forces. Three days later the maharaja requested military assistance from India, which responded that it would help only if he gave up Kashmir’s autonomy and acceded to India. The maharaja immediately signed this document commonly known as Instrument of Accession, the legality of which remains highly controversial until the present. The hindu ruler of Kashmir handed over the control of defence, external affairs, and communications to the Government of India in return for military aid. Indian troops entered Srinagar. Pakistan intervened soon after. War broke out officially and fighting ensued between the Indian and Pakistani armies. Subsequently the two areas of control were established, now known as the "Line of Control." India rushed to the United Nations asking to resolve the dispute, but without any intentions of cooperation. The UN passed a resolution in favour of holding a plebiscite in the region with regard to Kashmir's future despite the decision of the Muslim Conference in July 1947 directly representing the overwhelming choice of the Muslim majority of Kashmir. However, no such plebiscite has ever been held by India; a plebiscite in such a situation being a foregone conclusion and sure defeat for India.
This is the brief recap of the decision of Muslim majority in Kashmir less than a month prior to the creation of Pakistan, and the brief history of the creation of independent western Kashmir—Azad Jammu and Kashmir—on the Pakistani side. A self-governing territory with semi-autonomous status that operates its own parliamentary government, manages local affairs, and features its own flag, president, prime minister and supreme court, but remains heavily dependent on the federal government of Pakistan.
While AJK exercises political independence, the one restriction it faces by law is the prohibition of political policies or advocating policies that contradict Pakistan’s official stance on the Kashmir dispute or any foreign policy concerning India. Thus, any coordination with India via PTI and TTP of the current JAAC would be a gross violation of this law.
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