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Dear Members ,
That question has plagued many of us for a long time .
The background ( if I have my facts correct ) is that , for the second time paramilitary forces
from the Pakistan side had over-run basically the whole of Kashmir and India allowed it to happen, short of the Maharajah of Kashmir inviting India to intervene
When he finally signed the instrument of accession thereby legally allowing India the right and indeed requirement to intervene ( as by signing the instrument he declared the whole of J&K plus GB to be Indian territory )
So following that , India sent the army in and they re-took most of the territory back but they were asked by Mr Nehru to stop the advance at the present LOC even though the Army Generals informed the then PM that they were only 4 days away fro capturing all of GB as well
Why ?
I only know the following :-
(A) Edwina Mountbatten advised MR Nehru not to go further and Mr Nehru for whatever reasons decided to take her advice
(B) Contrary to what the Army claimed, the truth in fact was, that the further advance into very high mountainous territory was not going to be easy and they stopped for a breather which now has became a decades long "pause" especially due to the impasse at the United Nations when Mr Nehru asked for their resolution of the matter .
(C) although the Army could possibly have re-taken the whole of GB in a few days or so , nevertheless it would have been a very difficult and costly to try to hold on to it dues to the mountainous terrain due to which all sorts of Taliban and mujaheddin could easily infiltrate and India would be trapped in the quagmire of a decades long guerrilla warfare .- costly in terms of man and money
(D) Mr Nehru wanted to appease Pakistan and help them be content with a portion of the entire state of Kashmir, so he decided to give them the difficult to live in mountainous regions as a face -saver
(E) India did not have what it took to contain and administer GB , being mountainous and thus porous to entry of jihadi-type elements and so deided to be content with administering only the valley given that the valley itself was enough of a territory to handle .
But i also ask myself , couldn't India merely control the low lying areas leading to the mountains i.e. the peripheral low areas and thereby contain and control access to the mountainous territory and thereby prevent any mujaheddin or others from entering in the first instance ? And those already in , prevent them getting out and they would freeze to ..... or capture them as they tried to exit ? I know it is easier said than done that's why i am asking at this forum
Most Grateful for your comments and replies
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That question has plagued many of us for a long time .
The background ( if I have my facts correct ) is that , for the second time paramilitary forces
from the Pakistan side had over-run basically the whole of Kashmir and India allowed it to happen, short of the Maharajah of Kashmir inviting India to intervene
When he finally signed the instrument of accession thereby legally allowing India the right and indeed requirement to intervene ( as by signing the instrument he declared the whole of J&K plus GB to be Indian territory )
So following that , India sent the army in and they re-took most of the territory back but they were asked by Mr Nehru to stop the advance at the present LOC even though the Army Generals informed the then PM that they were only 4 days away fro capturing all of GB as well
Why ?
I only know the following :-
(A) Edwina Mountbatten advised MR Nehru not to go further and Mr Nehru for whatever reasons decided to take her advice
(B) Contrary to what the Army claimed, the truth in fact was, that the further advance into very high mountainous territory was not going to be easy and they stopped for a breather which now has became a decades long "pause" especially due to the impasse at the United Nations when Mr Nehru asked for their resolution of the matter .
(C) although the Army could possibly have re-taken the whole of GB in a few days or so , nevertheless it would have been a very difficult and costly to try to hold on to it dues to the mountainous terrain due to which all sorts of Taliban and mujaheddin could easily infiltrate and India would be trapped in the quagmire of a decades long guerrilla warfare .- costly in terms of man and money
(D) Mr Nehru wanted to appease Pakistan and help them be content with a portion of the entire state of Kashmir, so he decided to give them the difficult to live in mountainous regions as a face -saver
(E) India did not have what it took to contain and administer GB , being mountainous and thus porous to entry of jihadi-type elements and so deided to be content with administering only the valley given that the valley itself was enough of a territory to handle .
But i also ask myself , couldn't India merely control the low lying areas leading to the mountains i.e. the peripheral low areas and thereby contain and control access to the mountainous territory and thereby prevent any mujaheddin or others from entering in the first instance ? And those already in , prevent them getting out and they would freeze to ..... or capture them as they tried to exit ? I know it is easier said than done that's why i am asking at this forum
Most Grateful for your comments and replies
@Krusty@lcafanboy
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@Ramdasrathsuryavanshi@Imaxxx@Eastman @raheel besharam@Bullet@raja696@LordOfTheUnderworlds
@Amr
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