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Dr Aman Hingorani, Senior Advocate, speaks with Col Anil Bhat (retd.) on his book Unravelling the Kashmir knot: Past, Present and Future | SAM Conversation
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7/22/2024
Dr Aman Hingorani, Senior Advocate, speaks with Col Anil Bhat (retd.) on his book Unravelling the Kashmir knot: Past, Present and Future | SAM Conversation
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Welcome to SAM Conversation, an online program of South Asia Monitor. Today, we are going
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to discuss a very important and a very interesting and a book which is, you know, Unraveling
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the Kashmir Knot, Past, Present and Future. This is the second version which has been
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penned by Mr. Aman Hingorani, a fourth generation lawyer. The first, which was Unraveling the
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Kashmir Knot was published in 2016 and I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing this
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book. Both these books are eye-openers and trailblazers because this, the first book
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of Mr. Hingorani was based on British archives, which were declassified and I think we owe
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a debt to Mr. Hingorani for the kind of research he went and did there because everything about
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the partitioning of India, undivided India, was all there, is all there. The status of
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Jammu and Kashmir, the status of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, it's all there. And the important
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fact that emerges, the facts that emerge from the first book are, why the British wanted
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to partition India, you know, and create Pakistan. This was part of the great game.
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They wanted an extension of the Islamic, you know, continuation from Turkey till the
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Chinese border to prevent the Russians from, you know, coming and poaching here, so to
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speak. And I think it was not enough for them to plunder and loot India, literally,
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but it was very important for them to, as per their principle of divide and rule, to
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divide India and to partition it so that as an undivided India, it would not be as
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powerful as it would have been. What also emerges from this is that we have been managing
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the Kashmir, Jammu-Kashmir problem with Pakistan, with even the state, before the abrogation,
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we were managing it with elements there who did not altogether have the welfare of that
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state in mind. As it turns out now, in a movie called Kashmir Files, there's a lot about that
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post-independence, those decades, which did not emerge in the media. Mr. Hingorani makes a very
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strong point, makes a very strong argument. He says that there are about over 50% of India
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is being, you know, snatched by two nations, China and Pakistan. And one way to get it back,
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there exists an organization called the International Court of Justice, which we,
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I think, the only time that one recalls India going to it was in trying to get Commander Jadhav
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of the Indian Navy retired, who Pakistan was trying to impose a death sentence on. Aman,
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please start unravelling towards the note. Good evening to everyone and lovely to see you,
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Colonel Bhatt. Well, let me put it this way, I'll try to make it as simple as possible. India is a
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very ancient civilization. But modern day India and Pakistan are creations of the Partition
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Agreement, which was reflected in the British statutes. That was the Indian Independence Act
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of 1947, the amended Government of India Act of 1935. And that was the constitutional law which
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governed both India and Pakistan. Now, my reading of that law, which is there in the book,
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makes it clear, for the reasons I've given in the book, that Jammu and Kashmir,
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the principal state of Jammu and Kashmir, which acceded to India under this very law,
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became an integral part of India. So the very law that created in modern day India,
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the very law that created Pakistan, makes J&K a part of India.
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So, if we start from that, if we see the constitutional law, because Kashmir is a
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political issue, but the best way of depoliticizing an issue is to subject it to a legal analysis to
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see what the law says on that point. And as for the reading of the law, the entire territory of
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J&K, as it stood on 15th August 1947, upon accession on 26th October, became a part of India.
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However, there's a political stalemate between India, Pakistan and China.
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About 50% of that territory, more than 50%, is in the hands of Pakistan and China,
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about 35% with Pakistan, about 20% with China. So, you actually have a situation in 2024,
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that more than 50, about 35% of the territory of J&K is still under foreign rule.
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Indian citizens are under foreign rule.
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So, you have Indian territory, which is being held by India, Pakistan and China.
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There's a political stalemate. How do you break the political stalemate?
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We don't have a diplomatic solution. Pakistan and China couldn't care less about diplomatic
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requests from India. We don't have a military solution. We don't have an economic solution.
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How do we get back our territory? How do we get back our citizens?
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It is here that where I suggest that perhaps we can use international law or law, that is
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constitutional law, that govern India and Pakistan, as a means to break the political stalemate.
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So, and then generate some political momentum to resolve this issue. Law can't resolve anything,
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least of all international relations. But law has a potential of altering the political discourse
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holding public opinion, which can then lead to a political movement.
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So, that's where the book talks about that if in law, India is entitled to the entire territory of
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J&K, it is lies in India's interest to use law to break the political stalemate and reclaim our
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territory and our people. Now, if you go back into the history of this particular problem,
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the reason why I had to get into declassified British archives and examine why the British
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scripted the partition of India, as is evident from their own documents, their own archives,
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which is not much in public discourse in India. But the partition was scripted,
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or it became a foregone conclusion, the minute the British realized India is not going to support the
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British in the Second World War efforts. The maps, the maps of the partition of India,
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were drawn up much earlier than 1947. And the book contains all that.
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I'm sorry, if you could just dwell on that again, because the British got 2.5 million Indian
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soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War, who were the winning factor for the Allies.
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But you see, the minute the political force on the Indian subcontinent at that time was the
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Indian National Congress. And the Indian National Congress had simply said that,
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if Britain and Germany are going to war, and why should we be at war? Why should the British
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declare India to be at war? And in protest, that even resigned from all the seats that won in the
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elections, which let the Muslim League fill in that vacuum. But the point is,
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when India did not say that we will not support your Second World War effort, and coupled with
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the 1942 Quit India movement, the British realized that the Indian National Congress cannot be a
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reliable force, or a political party or political force, once they hand over power. So they had to
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create a state which is friendly to them. Which if you see the Chief of Staff's memorandum, etc,
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eventually became what is now Pakistan. Northwest frontier province is what they wanted,
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was completed the Islamic percent you were talking about from Turkey to China.
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Northwest frontier province is a hilly area, not viable as a state. And so, Punjab had to
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be partitioned, so that the fertile plains of West Punjab go to Northwest frontier province.
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The Congress thought that British will never partition Punjab, it was being run by ruled by
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the Unionist Party, a secular party, they would never partition Punjab. So they actually tried
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to make partition less attractive, or try to preempt it by saying, if you partition Punjab,
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you got to partition Bengal. The British said very well, we'll partition Bengal also.
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Two-nation theory was used as a pretext for partitioning. But if you talk, you see the
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archives, you see the exchange of telegrams between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State,
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Viceroy on the subcontinent, Secretary of State in London. They talk about Zafrullah Khan making a
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map of the dominions way back in 1940. And the blueprint of partition was sent by the Viceroy
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in the end of 1945, to London. This was 1945, which is virtually identical to the Radcliffe
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Award. So partition had been, was a foregone conclusion, it had been scripted. But I have
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placed the Kashmir issue in context of the partition, because apart from Northwest frontier
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province, the other region which completed that Islamic descent was Gilgit-Baltistan.
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The British wanted that territory to be free from Indian control. And hence, they assumed
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J&K would accede to Pakistan being Muslim majority. But when it did not, it was the British
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which carved out Gilgit-Baltistan five days after the accession of J&K, after it become Indian
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territory. 26 October, the accession happened. 31st October, the British Gilgit scouts carved out
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the Gilgit region, which was Indian territory, hoisted Pakistani flag and told Peshawar,
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you take it over. And at that point of, yes. No, I would like you to also, you know,
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touch upon a bit of deception that was carried out by, between Mountbatten and Radcliffe,
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of disclosing exactly what was to after 15th August.
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You see, the thing was, there were many reasons. One was Sikh hiccup, because Sikhs said we want
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Khalistan and they were misled into saying, well, Radcliffe would look into it, knowing
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jolly well Radcliffe had no mandate. Then there was this whole issue of the Chittagong tribes,
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their tribal area, and they were supposed to, they were being given to Pakistan.
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So the entire mechanism was that Radcliffe would delay the war till
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Mountbatten leaves for Karachi, and then it will reach later. So we actually had the
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partition coming into effect from 15th August 1947, without the boundaries even being declared,
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which actually led, contributed to the bloodshed, two million people being massacred,
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which Mountbatten has gone on to say, well, so what, that's only a small percentage
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of the Indian population. But that is apart from that, as I was saying, the British had
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earmarked Gilgit-Baltistan region to be carefree from Indian control. At that time,
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we were still dominance of the British. Pakistan was dominant till 1956, we were till 1950.
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The king was, the king of England was, or the UK was still the formal ruler.
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The Indian army, Pakistan army was headed by British chief of staff. They are the ones who
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decided to draw the buffer zone, what is the so-called Azad Kashmir, because the idea was
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that if India goes to Pakistan, goes to war against Pakistan, to recover Gilgit-Baltistan,
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India will liquidate Pakistan, defeating the very rationale of partition.
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And so we must have a buffer area. And that strip of territory was actually demarcated by the Indian
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Pakistan chief of staffs who were British. So that this area is carefree from Indian control.
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These areas were earmarked to be carefree from Indian control. And I've talked in the book how
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the matter eventually was taken at the instigation of Mountbatten to the United Nations,
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so that the United Nations Security Council was subverted to ensure ceasefire without requiring
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Pakistan to vacate that territory, and hence keep that territory for the British for their great
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game against Soviet Russia. So this was an entire trap. I've documented in the book from Drishak
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Avakai, from the United Nations Security Council reports, the trap laid on by India and how we fell
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for it. Thank you very much. And then two more points which I'd like you to throw light on.
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The idea of, you know, partitioning India was, or no, the propping up of the Muslim League
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was done sometime in 18, after 1857. And eventually it was, they found an ideal,
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ideal person in Mr. Muhammad Ali Chinna to, to, to head it and to steer it into,
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into the partition, even if he was to live only one year after that. And that and, and secondly,
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you know, we'd like you to throw light on what has transpired after abrogation of
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Article 370, please.
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See, as far as the first part is concerned, I've documented how after the First War of Independence
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of 1857, the role of the East India Company came to an end, the British Front took it over in 1858,
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with the first Government of India Act, which talked about a centralised body. But from the
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political front, Hindus and Muslims were putting up a united front to throw the British. And if you
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even if you see the speeches, or say, the Madkhan, etc, people who eventually founded the
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Pakistan, they were all talking about Hindustan being a territorial unit, regardless of religion,
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who all who resided in Hindustan were Hindus, even if they were practised Islam or Hinduism
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or Sikhism or Christianity. So that was one aspect of it. And I document, documented how
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after the visit of the Prince of Wales, later, the King of England, they said Congress is becoming
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a power, Congress had been set up at that time, a secular party. And so we need a Muslim Congress
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to checkmate that. And that's the way the Muslim League came into force, came into being,
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and on talked about separate electorates, etc. So that all that is in the in the book.
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Later on, once the British realised that they needed to, you know, to, you know,
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that they needed to get the actually they replicated the policies they did with the
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disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, which created Turkey in 1920s. You can, I've drawn
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out the parallels of the politics in the Middle East and on India, identical politics,
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the way they are Sharif Hussain, the reward, they identified Jinnah, who was till then,
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supposedly, actually described by Suraj Naidu to be an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity,
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and who had told the British that he prefers his own views than carving up the city,
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he had disowned at Cambridge, the idea of Pakistan at the roundtable conference.
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So and he had even disowned the two nation theory in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan,
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I've documented all that. He was a politically ambitious ambassador having no following.
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But he used the, he led the British, he collaborated with the British to use a
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two nation theory to legitimise the carving out of what is now Pakistan. And he was promised that
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land, he was said, I don't care what we get, even if I get the same desert, but I want my own state.
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So for him, Pakistan was a political mission. So that all has been documented by many commentators.
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I've just summed up and taken these facts from different sources to show how the leaders of
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undivided India would not rise to the challenge, put up by the British, who got away with
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partitioning the subcontinent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the same people, who Gandhi has said,
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there's a fusion of it is like a Hindu-Muslims have learned to coexist. They live side by side
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throughout, by partitioning, you're cutting a living organism into pieces. So the British has
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taken the entire subcontinent for a ride and till date, we're not able to get back our territory,
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which is with Pakistan and China. But that's one part of it. If that is the crux of Kashmir issue,
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370, actually, we have equated 370 erroneously, in my view, with the Kashmir issue.
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The basis of on which J&K became a part of India's instrument of accession,
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370 is a provision of the instant constitution simply to give effect to the terms of accession.
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370 is not the Kashmir issue. The genesis of the Kashmir issue does not lie in three Article 370.
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The solution does not lie in Article 370. Whether you keep it or you abrogate it,
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Pakistan and China are not going to abrogate. So even by abrogating 370, you haven't got back
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55% of the territory of the princely state, now UTs, J&K has become a UTA, but the former
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princely state, 55% of that territory is still with Pakistan and China. By abrogating 370,
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we haven't got our people back to India. Even those people who reside in POK or China-occupied
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Kashmir, they've lost their consciousness of being Indian citizens. It's important to emphasize
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the princely state was never part of Pakistan. The princely state was never part of China.
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As per the Pakistan constitution, these citizens are not Pakistani citizens.
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And if I may please just interrupt. We are saying part of China, part of Tibet, please.
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It is the India-China border which we refer to as the India-Tibet border. All of which China
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has swallowed up. They have gobbled up Tibet. Absolutely. That is yet another
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area which needs to be examined. But on the ground that this boundary is not demarcated,
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the Johnson line, etc. There is a dispute between India and China on this point.
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But when we talk of the Kashmir issue, we blank out China. We say it's a bilateral issue.
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How is it a bilateral issue when China has captured about 20% of Indian territory?
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So you have Pakistan in part of the territory, you have China in part of the territory.
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is the vital part of the BRI, the Belt and Road
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Initiative, starts from Gilgit-Baltistan, which is Indian territory. So you have a ridiculous
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situation where China is investing billions of dollars on Indian territory to build this
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economic corridor with Pakistan, which will give it strategic depth into Central Asia,
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into the Middle East. Because it goes into the Gwadar post. So all this is Indian territory.
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How are you going to get it back? So if you can't get it back diplomatically or politically,
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through an economic solution, the idea is that if you go to the ICJ, and we tell the ICJ that
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under the very law that created modern day India and Pakistan, J&K is a part of India,
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the very presence of Pakistan in China, there is aggression. Tomorrow, nobody can then say
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there's a jihad going on out there. No country can take advantage of the presence of Pakistan
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and China in J&K. What we have done is, the mistakes we have, we need to undo our mistakes.
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The mistakes we have done is that as per the law, J&K became part of India, still, we said,
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we accept the accession provisionally. So we created doubt on our own title. Then we
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internationalized it by going to the United Nations. In the United Nations, we committed
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to plebiscite. Having done that, we gave standing on every country in the world to comment on J&K.
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We enabled the international community to say this is disputed territory when it is Indian territory.
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After we have agreed to a ceasefire without requiring Pakistan to first vacate.
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So we are focused on territorial status quo. We talk about Shimla Agreement, Lahore Declaration,
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without realizing that after Kishore Nanda Bharti's case, earlier you had Bedobari Union's
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case which said India can cede national territory by legislative action, by amending the constitution.
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Subsequent you have Kishore Nanda Bharti's case which says territorial integrity and unity of
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the country's basic structure of the constitution. That means parliament cannot cede national
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territory. Or can we even talk about LOC into the international border unofficially also?
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Officially we say we need to get it back. That's a parliament resolution.
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But Shimla Agreement talks about inviolability of the ceasefire line. We can't cede national
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territory. Parliament has no power. Our policies are against our own constitution.
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We have made mistake after mistake. Now after having internationalized the Kashmir issue,
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after having let the international community call it disputed territory, now we say it's a
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bilateral issue between India and Pakistan. We blank out China and we don't do anything to get
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back a territory. So if we go to the ICJ and say that's an Indian territory and if the ICJ rules in
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our favor, it changes the political discourse. No country tomorrow can say that Pakistan can
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give even moral support to what's happening in J&K. We all know what the kind of export
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cross-border terrorism that comes in. The international community, we have decisions
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from Namibia, Nicaragua. The ICJ decisions are talked in the book. There are plenty of precedents.
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What are the consequences of an ICJ decision? The very presence of Pakistan-China will be
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declared to be aggression. The international community will have to tell them to vacate.
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It hardly makes sense. I mean, of course, they are skeptical. They say China will never vacate.
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Pakistan will never vacate. Very well, we'll negotiate with them as to what is to be done
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under Indian sovereignty, but at least a change of the political discourse.
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What is the strategy the Indian establishment has had from 1947 till 2024? What is the strategy
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they've had to get back 55% of the territory of the princely state? They've just thrown in the
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towel. They've given it up. Apart from making parliament resolutions and formal protests,
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what is the concrete policy? We keep focusing on 45% of J&K, which is with India.
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What about the remaining 55%? So, what I'm saying is what you're doing,
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what you want to do, for me, Article 370 is irrelevant. I'm more interested in seeing
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how will you get back POK or China-occupied Kashmir, and one way of doing that is to use
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international law, to get a finding in law that the entire territory is Indian,
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so as to change the political discourse. And what can the ICJ say? I've already given the
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whole jurisprudence of ICJ by which they would have to rule it as Indian territory,
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otherwise there is no Pakistan, if they take a different view. And if they say,
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wishes of the people are relevant, very well. We have a certain wishes of the people through the
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Electorate State Constituent Assembly, who have said J&K, be the people of J&K, want to be an
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integral part of India. That's also been a certain. So, we don't stand to lose anything by going to
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the ICJ. But if we win, we have changed the entire national and international political
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discourse on J&K. Today, we are defensive. So, it is our territory, our people, we always become
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defensive on the international circles. We always try to reduce it to bilateral issue,
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the way the international community condemned Pakistan for Kargil invasion, and Pakistan had
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to withdraw. We need to build international opinion to say entire territory of J&K is Indian
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territory, and condemn Pakistan and China for committing aggression. And incidentally, the 1963
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Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement itself says that the territory of J&K, which Pakistan gifted to
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China, is subject to the outcome of the resolution of the issue between India and Pakistan. So,
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China has never claimed sovereignty. They are saying that this is between India and Pakistan,
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whoever once has resolved, we'll deal with that party. So, we'll deal with China about CPEC.
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We can negotiate later on. We don't need to dismantle CPEC. That can be under Indian
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sovereignty. The possibilities are huge. But first, we need to get out of our fear of global politics.
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India of 2024 is different from India of 1947. We need, we cannot have a situation where a part,
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even an inch of Indian territory is under foreign rule, or Indian citizens are under foreign rule.
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I think there is so much more, but I think we are a little strapped for time.
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I must thank you for whatever very, very important points that you've come out with.
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And I feel that there's much more attention needs to be paid to this aspect of both as far as
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China and Pakistan are concerned. There is no end to our fighting, managing
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these relationships with a lot of lies that is peddled by both China and Pakistan.
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Lies in documents, lies on the table, and lies on the ground in identifying territory.
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Thank you very much. I look forward, in fact, to one more discussion in the future.
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Thank you very much, Aman. Thank you.
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