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UK snubs Pak, says will not prescribe J&K solution Independence Act & wishes of people 11/25/2016 11:06:47 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 25: Britain snubbed Pakistan in Pakistan itself and asked both India and Pakistan to find a "lasting" solution to the Jammu & Kashmir issue. At the same time, it made clear that it was not for Britain to "prescribe a solution or act as a mediator". Britain Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who was on his first visit to Islamabad, said: "we call for an end to the violence". "The longstanding position of the UK is that it is for India and Pakistan to find a lasting solution to the situation in Kashmir taking into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people," Johnson told reporters at a joint press conference with Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz. And then immediately added that "it is not for Britain to 'prescribe a solution or act as a mediator' over the 'disputed' region. While all in India would welcome his unambiguous statement that it was not for Britain to "prescribe a solution or act as a mediator", no student of constitutional history and the Indian Independence Act of 1947 would endorse his statements that India and Pakistan to find a lasting solution to the situation in Kashmir "taking into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people," and that Jammu & Kashmir was a "disputed" region. The Indian Independence Act under which the state acceded to India nowhere says that it shall be the will of the people that shall decide the issue. It only says that the rulers of the princely states alone shall decide the political fate of their respective states taking into account the contiguity factor. The fact of the matter is that Nehru and Congress wanted the people of the princely states to decide their future and join one of the two Dominions - Indian or Pakistan - but Jinnah rejected the suggestion outright. This is a fact of history and it cannot be contested. Similarly, the Britain's suggestion that Jammu & Kashmir was a disputed region has no basis. The UN resolutions made it clear that Pakistan was an aggressor and that it had to vacate the aggression, which it hasn't till date. Hence, the only area whose future is yet to be decided is PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan. And even with regard to these areas, things are crystal clear. These are Indian as they formed part of Jammu & Kashmir as it existed on August 15, 1947.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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