RAWALPINDI: ‘It is a travesty of facts to say that the Indian Army went to Kashmir at the invitation of the people of Kashmir,’ said Mr Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, in an exclusive interview with [a news agency] here today [Sept19].’TheIndianArmywenttoKashmir, added the Minister of Kashmir Affairs, ‘as a result of a conspiracy between Maharaja Hari Singh and the Indian authorities in order to crush the people’s movement in Kashmir and to reimpose Dogra tyranny over an unwilling people who had successfully overthrown the Maharaja’s oppressive rule.
Mr Gurmani was commenting on the remarl(s of Pandit Nehru at a public meeting at Lucknow in which the Bharati Prime Minister was reported to have said that the Bharati army had gone to Kashmir to help the people at their invitation and would stay there as long as the people of Kashmir wanted them to stay.
‘The Indian Prime Minister has often tried to confuse the issue by taking shelter behind the Abdullah facade but he forgets that even that facade did not exist at the time when the Indian Army landed in Srinagar,’ he said. News agencies