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The very attack of the new dispensation is on the most fragile nerve of the people of Kashmir. Our history. A bill board in srinagar on display criticising the tribal raid of October 22 1947. 1/n

13 July 1953,
یوم شہداء کے موقع پر شیخ عبداللہ نے اپنی تقریر میں کہا تھا کہ قبالیوں کے لوٹ مار اور قتل و غارت کے جتنے بہی واقعات ہم ماقبل کہتۓ رہے ہیں ان کی تحقیقات کرنے پر معلوم ہوا کہ وہ غیر مصدقہ اور مبالغہ أمیز تھے.

رشید تاثیر. تحریک حریت کشمیر. جلد 3 صفحہ 402.
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The raid by Mujahideen on October 22 1947, from Pakistan, happened only once few things were already happening in the kashmirs political circles and we need to understand them in their entirety, before we embark on making any opinion regarding such a significant event. 3/n

Nehru, Ghandi and Mountbatten had all visited the valley to meet the Kashmir ruler and it was very obvious that what they had actually discussed with Maharajah and Maharani.

Any book on history of Kashmir, would detail you the motives of their visits. 4/n

It is a fact that Prime Minister R CKak was dismissed on Nehru Ghandi and Mountbattens advice and he was succeededed by M C Mahajan, An Arya Samajist, who was member of Radcliffe Boundary Commison and who was part of the Indian plan to take gurdaspur away from Pakistan. 5/n

He was very hardcore Indian Nationalist. So anyone could guess what was going to happen. Nobody could expect Pakistan to have remained aloof from all these developments. 6/n

Due to Nehru's personal intervention Sheikh Abdullah was released on September 29, 1947, even when he was booked under sedition. But not the leaders of Muslim Conference, Chowdhary Ghulam Abbas included. Chowdhary was booked under ordinary law, but he still not was released? 7/n

Anyone could imagine what was actually working in the mind of Kashmiri and Indian rulers- Maharajah included. Here making Pakistan to stay silent Is too questionable. 8/n

India had rejected the Stand still agreement. Because India had some bigger plan in mind. (Nehru had written about it to Bakshi and Bakshi had communicated same to Sadiq) 9/n

Nehru's selected works published posthumously make us belive that Nehru wanted to take Kashmir as early as possible before October for the reason that kashmir would have been unreachable till May next year, 10/n

due to harsh winter during which Pakistan had a better edge to take Kashmir into their control. So India was trying to take Kashmir as early as possible and it created pressure on Pakistan. 11/n

Sheikh after his release made it obvious that what he was actually going to do. Munshi Ishaq sahabs book ندایے حق has some good insights regarding that. 12/n

His being silent at the most divisive phase of Kashmir history was not just coincidence. His pulling off the sleeves of Masoodi at Nehru park, when masoodi spoke about d options that lied before d people of Kashmir, after their release tells us clearly what he wanted to do.13/n

Altaf Hussain Para in his recent book ( Making of Modern Kashmir, Routledge 2019) brings to us all those reports that the English officers quoted after their visits to the valley during those days. 14/n

Those reports detail us the Rumours that were making rounds in Kashmir, regarding the fact that Maharajah was going to decide about accession to India in October's second week once he turned to jammu for Darbaar move or later at Bombay. 15/n

With all this already in Kashmir and also clearly known to the intelligentia in Pakistan, expecting Pakistan to have been merely a spectator is questionable.
So whatever happened on October 22 was not actually happening in vacuum. There was a context.
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Arguing that tribal raid sealed the fate of Kashmir is wrong. There was no other way left and if at all a part of Kashmir is free from occupation now was the achievement of those selfless tribals.
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Khair. More important is that sheikh Sahab misused the tribal raid to get kashmir to India. That is obvious. I remember (hve read that recently) his speech that he made in 47 in which he made that "we need to clean our masjids for these were turned into brothels by Tribals". 18/n

However much ironical is his denying the same fact when he spoke on 13 July 1953, at srinagar eid gah, just before his dismissal, and stated that "my all enquiries into tribal raid made me understand that all accusations were false" (see Rashid Taseeer vol 3 p. 402) 19/n