HE fast moving Kashmir drama is reaching its climax. From Pulandari in Poonch comes the thrilling announcement that a Provisional Government of Azad Kashmir has been formed, that its forces have made advances on all sectors, annihilated positions of the opposing enemy and `put the Dogra on the run.

The communiqué issued by the Provisional Government makes the stirring promise that `the liberty of the oppressed is near at hand.

That these claims are not altogether unfounded is evident from the fact that the Number One Dogra of Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh, is not only on the run but has run as far as New Delhi, and fallen prostrate before the British Governor-General Lord Mountbatten.

He has asked for `military aid`, and obligingly Lord Mountbatten has already sent plane-loads of troops to Kashmir to suppress what is clearly a popular movement of liberation.

From the hearts of all lovers of freedom and haters of tyranny will rise prayers to Heaven that He may crown with victory the people of Kashmir who have at last awakened from their lethargy and are making such a heroic bid to liberate their long oppressed country from the clutches of its exploiters and oppressors. Azad Kashmir Zindabad!•