Dr T. H. Chowdary

The Kashmir problem owes its origin to Prime-minister Jawaharlal Nehru who under the (sinister as it turned out) advice of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the first Governor General of independent India (and the spell of Lady Pamela Mountbatten) took the case, much against the warning of Sardar Patel, to the United Nations, complaining that Pakistan committed aggression on India and seeking from the UN, the vacation of that aggression in 1947. When the Indian forces were making the Pakistanis run and were on the verge of total victory, the UN ordered the "cease-fire". (We ceased fire but Pakistan has not ceased- recall the 1965 war and the 1999 Kargil war and the unceasing ingress of Pakistan - injected jihadis and the insurgency of the locals incited by the jihadis since 1991).

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