Kashmir

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Kashmir – The Indian Tyranny
There can never be peace when nations take unfair advantage of being strong against weak. It is a threat to humanity and peace. There have always been territorial disputes all over the world, but most of them have been solved in a noble way. One of the unsolved, long-time disputes is in South Asia is ‘The Kashmir Conflict’ between Pakistan and India, which has remained tentative for more than half a century. The main question arises here is that should India control Kashmir. And the answer to that is, India should not have any control over Kashmir because Kashmir is a Muslim majority state, it is also essential for Pakistan for its national identity and Kashmiri have the right to choose their own government. India’s unreasonable determination to make Kashmir part of India even though they don’t have any right to control that piece of land which leads to the fact that India is responsible for the Kashmir dispute.
The first reason is that Kashmir is a Muslim majority state and India’s forcible occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 is the main cause of the dispute. India claims to have signed a controversial document, the Instrument of Accession, on 26th October 1947 with the Maharaja of Kashmir, which gives them a fair right to govern Kashmir. However, the people of Kashmir and Pakistan don’t accept the Indian claim. Pakistan claims that Maharaja Hari Singh was traveling to Srinagar on 26th so there is no possibility of him signing the document. The UN also invalidates such claim and there are doubts about the very existence of this Instrument of Accession. Kashmir was always the Muslim majority area and it not only had geographical nearness with Pakistan, but
also had the important economic links with other territories of Pakistan. One of the main causes of this dispute was religion. During the years before the partition of Pakistan and India, a Hindu leader Maharaja Hari S...