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Sequence of Events
22nd Oct - Pak Raiders invaded J&K
26th Oct - Maharaja Hari Singh signed IoA
27th Oct - Indian Army airlifted to J&K
Pakistan observes 27th Oct as #KashmirBlackDay blaming India for all the wrongs in Kashmir.
Time to bust their propaganda.
Read on 👇
22nd Oct - Pak Raiders invaded J&K
26th Oct - Maharaja Hari Singh signed IoA
27th Oct - Indian Army airlifted to J&K
Pakistan observes 27th Oct as #KashmirBlackDay blaming India for all the wrongs in Kashmir.
Time to bust their propaganda.
Read on 👇
Accusation: India started with invasion
Reality: On 22nd October, tribals backed by Pak army invaded J&K. Indian army intervened only after instrument of accession was signed by legal head of state, Maharaja Hari Singh.
Reality: On 22nd October, tribals backed by Pak army invaded J&K. Indian army intervened only after instrument of accession was signed by legal head of state, Maharaja Hari Singh.
Accusation: Demographic engineering in Kashmir
Reality:
Indian Kashmir -
Census, 1941 - Muslim (95.97 %)
Census, 2011 - Muslim (97%)
PoK -
Gilgit, Baltistan and PoK were historically Shia dominated regions.
Today they are dominated by Urdu and Punjabi speaking Sunni Muslims.
Reality:
Indian Kashmir -
Census, 1941 - Muslim (95.97 %)
Census, 2011 - Muslim (97%)
PoK -
Gilgit, Baltistan and PoK were historically Shia dominated regions.
Today they are dominated by Urdu and Punjabi speaking Sunni Muslims.
THE GILGIT REBELLION - 1947
(Excerpts from the book by Maj William A Brown)
Dedicated to the brave & gallant people of GB
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In Peshawar, enroute for Chitral, Maj Brown was told by Lt Col Roger Bacon, then Political Agent in Gilgit, that the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten...
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(Excerpts from the book by Maj William A Brown)
Dedicated to the brave & gallant people of GB
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In Peshawar, enroute for Chitral, Maj Brown was told by Lt Col Roger Bacon, then Political Agent in Gilgit, that the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten...
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... had decided (for reasons which were not clear to Bacon and which are still not clear) that the 1935 British lease of the Gilgit Agency from the Maharaja of J & K (a lease which still had 49 yrs to run) was going to be terminated and that the Agency, with a 99% Muslim ...
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... population was going to be returned to the Hindu rule of the Dogra Maharaja, Sir Hari Singh.
On 1 Aug 1947, charge of the Gilgit Agency was handed over to the Kashmir State.
It soon became apparent that the whole country, from the Rulers of the small States of Hunza...
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On 1 Aug 1947, charge of the Gilgit Agency was handed over to the Kashmir State.
It soon became apparent that the whole country, from the Rulers of the small States of Hunza...
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