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Seventy-five years ago No valid claim

2023-05-31
NEW YORK: The New York Post today [May 29] carried this report from its foreign correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick from Lahore: `After two months in India and Pakistan, and visiting both sides fighting in Kashmir, I am convinced that anyimpartialCommission would unanimously reject India`s claim for Kashmir.

`India`s only valid claim,` she said, `was the legal one of Sir Hari Singh`s document of accession, but this violated the principles on which India claimed Junagadh and Hyderabad. Geographically too, it belongs to Pakistan. No prospect exists for a bilateral solution. Unless one is impose d by the United Nations, with the full moral support of all its members, this war will either extend disastrously, eventually involving the whole of South-East Asia, or Pakistan may go under if India throws her full weight into the struggle.` News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported from Baghdad,] Iraqi Jews, headed by their Chief Rabbi Dr Sassen Khedori, have sent to the Iraqi Premier a note asserting that they are `ashamed of Zionism`. They told Mohammad al-Sadr that `Iraqi Jews oppose the criminal Zionist movement... .` News agencies