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Kashmir --" Roots of Problem, Farce of Elections, and Resolution

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India may chant as much as it wants, "Kashmir is an internal affair of India" or "Kashmir is an integral part of India". But the facts are so well known and so well publicized and their meaning so entirely clear that Indian chant ends up being a self-deluding fiction. U.N. resolutions for the holding of an impartial plebiscite in Kashmir and accepted by India; deployment of U.N. Military Observer Group (UNMOGIP) between the Pakistani part of Kashmir and the Indian occupied territory; Indian Prime Minister Jawahar lal Nehru, and Lord Mountbatten's, the then Governor General of India, solemn declaration that the final status of Jammu and Kashmir would be decided by the people of the state, belie India's claim that Kashmir is its integral part.

As it is not an internal affair of India, the international community has the responsibility to put the pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir conflict that has become the worst human rights problem in the world. It is not a clichà © but a hard truth, there will never be any peace in the region unless a credible political solution that meets the aspirations of the people of Kashmir is implemented.

Considering that the tussle is between the two contending nuclearized nations India and Pakistan - it would not be an exaggeration to say that the conflict also constitutes a potential threat to world peace.

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