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Noted Kashmir expert, commentator and author, AG Noorani’s utterance that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah rejected Lord Mountbatten’s proposal on November 01, 1947 and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah wasn’t in favour of accession to India in his brief speech at Greater Kashmir’s silver jubilee event last week triggered a controversy. It led to sharp statements, adverse commentaries and even cancellation of some meetings. Historian Ashiq Hussain Bhat revisits the issue.
(L to R) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and Mohammad Ali Jinnah
In his latest two volume book The Kashmir Dispute: 1947-2012, Kashmir expert AG Noorani has published 28 documents in addition to his writings on Kashmir since 1964. The book is a significant contribution to the history of Kashmir.
Noorani has explained in his book what he stated in his brief speech at the Silver Jubilee event of the Greater Kashmir. “Jinnah wrecked his best option – an overall settlement proposed to him in writing in Lahore by Mountbatten on November 1, 1947,” Noorani writes (pages 7-8). “By then, the Indian troops had occupied Junagadh and were beating back the raiders who had entered Kashmir on October 22 with Jinnah’s full knowledge and approval – a fact which few Pakistanis care or dare to acknowledge.”
The proposal that Noorani talks and writes about is on page 174. Sourced from Sardar Patel’s Correspondence 1945-1950 by… read the rest @ kashmirlife.net