******TODAY 7th OCT, IN KASHMIR HISTORY****** 1948: Sher-e-Kashmir Writes to Patel The killing of Muslims in the Jammu province had started by October. Arms meant for the government were distributed among RSS men. Nehru wrote to Vallabhbhai Patel, asking him how it had happened. The Maharaja, however, enjoyed full support from the latter. Sheikh Muhamamd Abdullah also wrote to Patel on October 7, 1948, describing how the Maharaja had presided over “the killing of Muslims all over the province” of Jammu. By writing this letter, the Sher-e-Kashmir tried to exonerate himself from the massacre of Muslims in Jammu. The first weeks of November, 1947 were very hard for Jammu Muslims, and at that time the Sher-e-Kashmir was the emergency administrator of the state. He could have prevented the massacre but he simply did not act. 1997: Farooq Refuses to Attend K- Conference Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah declined to attend a conference on Kashmir sponsored by a British MP. Lord Avebury, a Labour Party MP, had personally asked Abdullah to attend the conference scheduled to be held in Britain on October 27. The chief minister, however, promised to send his emissary. Lord Avebury had spoken to the Chief Minister over the telephone and said that the meeting was meant to hammer out a possible solution to the Kashmir issue at a conference of Kashmiri leaders from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), too, were invited. The 30- party coalition of separatist groups had, till then, not taken a decision on attending the meeting. A known India-baiter, Lord Avebury took a series of Kashmir initiatives to embarrass the Indian government by highlighting human rights violations in Kashmir. The leaders from Pakistan-administered- Kashmir responded positively to the invitation of the British MP. 2001: US Attacks Afghanistan On October 7, 2001 the US launched its `war on terror’ by attacking Afghanistan. President Musharraf became a US ally and allowed Pakistan to become a base of operations for the United States. The `war on terror’ evoked severe reactions in Kashmir. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, while condemning the September 11 attacks, also condemned the American brutality in Afghanistan.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:15:19 +0000
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