Pakistan-India KASHMIR DISPUTE-A Chronology of Important Events (1947-1990)

C.B. Gibbon, President, Anglo-Indian’s Association of Pakistan, in an interview, said that the reported decision of the Government of India, to raise the Kashmir issue before the Security Council of the UNO, would further aggravate the already strained relations between Pakistan and Bharat. (January 2, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN called a meeting of the Security Council, on the Question of Kashmir. (January 3, 1948) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, Pakistan Kay Tees Saal, Mah January Kay Ainain Main, (Urdu), Lahore, 1978, p. 5).

Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, reached New York to attend the meeting of the Security Council on the Kashmir dispute. (January 14, 1948) (Dawn).

Gopalswami Ayyanga, presented a report of 6,000 words of India Case on the Kashmir issue in the UNO. (January 15, 1948) (Josef Korbel, Danger in Kashmir, Princeton, 1966, p.99).

The Security Council of the UNO met at Lake Sussex (New York) to begin a full-dress debate on the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan. (January 15, 1948) (Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, Emergence of Pakistan, Lahore, 1981, P. 360).

The second round of talks

over Kashmir reopened in the Security Council. Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, presented the Pakistan’s view on the issue. He addressed the Council for about five hours. (January 17, 1948) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, Kashmiri’s Fight- For Freedom 1947-1978, Vol. II, Lahore, 1979, P-1049).

The UN Security Council, passed the Belgium Resolution for appointing a three-member Commission to arbiterate the Kashmir issue. The voting was nine in favour, with Russia and UKrain abstaining. Two members of the Commission be chosen by the two Dominions and the third by the two so chosen. (January 20, 1948) (Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan, The Kashmir Saga, Mirpur, 1965, p. 144).

India and Pakistan delegates to the Security Council, met to resume exploratory talks on the procedure for the selection of a three-member Commission to mediate in the Kashmir dispute, which the Security Council had agreed to set up. (January 21, 1948) (Dawn, Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit, Mash January Kay Anakin Main, P. 27).

When the Security Council met to resume its debate on Kashmir, the Indian delegation indicated that it might be forced to withdraw from the debate if any attempt was made to widen the question, (January 22, 1948) (Dawn).

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and leader of delegation to the UNO, suggested to the Security Council, that the various questions raised by him on the Kashmir issue, could be considered at a stage when the Security Council was unoccupied. (He raised these questions on January 17, 1948). (January 24, 1948) (Dawn).          

India and Pakistan delegates presented draft plans of certain specific issues regarding the Kashmir dispute of Round Table Talks in New York, in the presence of Chairman of Security Council. (January 27, 1948) (Dawn).

President of the Security Council submitted the draft resolution to both parties and urged that the fate of Kashmir should be decided by a plebiscite. (January 28, 1948) (Dawn).

“The plebiscite in Kashmir should be organized, held and supervised under the authority and responsibility of the Security Council of UN, was” said in a Pakistan’s Resolution on Kashmir, submitted to the Security Council, (January 28, 1948) (Dawn).

The Security Council meeting faced a deadlock between India and Pakistan, on the two main issues in the Kashmir dispute, (January 28, 1948) (Dawn).

The Security Council re-assembled for the consideration of the Kashmir question, (February 3, 1948) (Dawn).

In the Security Council, when the Kashmir debate resumed, the President suggested that the simplest solution of the problem would be to have an interim government during the plebiscite. The Government should be the coalition composed of the Chiefs of the National Conference and the Muslim Conference, under the authority of the Security Council. China, suggested Indo-Pakistan Round Table Conference after the general debate, (February 6, 1948) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah February Kay Ainay Main, p. 8).

The delegations of the India and Pakistan to the Security Council, met in the presence of the President of the Security Council. (February, 7, 1948) (Dawn).

India had asked the Security Council to postpone indefinitely its consideration of the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, which had been placed before the Security Council since January 6, 1948. (February 8, 1948) (Josef Korbel, op.cit., p. 109).          

The Security Council took up the second part of the India-Pakistan dispute, while waiting for the Indian delegation to return from Delhi with new instructions on the Kashmir issue. (February 18, 1948) (Dawn).

12-points Compromise Resolution was presented by the Chinese delegate T.F. Tsiang, to the Security Council, on the Kashmir dispute. (March 18, 1948) (Josef Korbel), op. cit. 112).

A comprehensive plan for solving Kashmir problem, by declaring Kashmir a fully self governing state for a period of 10 years was advanced in a letter prominenced in ‘Machester Guardian’ (March 31, 1948) (Dawn).

A joint resolution of six countries about the Kashmir issue was presented to the Security Council by the President of the Security Council for future discussion over the Kashmir issue likely to start on April 19, 1948. (April 18, 1948) (Josef Korbel, op. cit. p. 111).

The discussions over the Kashmir issue began in the Security Council on the six country’s new resolution presented to the Security Council. Zafarullah Khan, foreign Minister of Pakistan, gave some new suggestions. He urged to station the Pakistan Army in Kashmir along with the Indian Forces to look after the plebiscite in the occupied Valley. (April 19, 1948) (Dawn).

The Security Council accepted the six countries’ resolution according to which Commission of the UNO was to visit Kashmir State (April 21, 1948) Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan, op. cit., p. 144).

In a meeting of a Security Council, a Kashmir Mission was raised and advised to leave for Kashmir immediately. (June 4, 1948) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit., Mah January Kay Ainain Main p. 6).

The UN Security Council published the letter in which Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, had appealed for urgent and effective action to avoid “an armed conflict of the most serious magnitude between Pakistan and India over Kashmir” (November 25, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Security Council appealed to India and Pakistan, to stop fighting in Kashmir and to do nothing to aggravate the situation or endanger the (present) negotiation for a settlement. The Council also gave full support to the appeal made by the Kashmir Mission. (November 25, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Security Council praised Pakistan and India, for accepting the proposals of the UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan. (January 13, 1949) (Dawn).

The views of the governments of Pakistan and India (on the list of names of the proposed Kashmir plebiscite administrators) were communicated to the Security-General of the UNO. (February 12, 1949) (Dawn).

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations was appointed by UNO as Plebiscite Administrator for the occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir. (March 22, 1949) (S.M. Burke, Pakistan Foreign Policy, London, 1973, p. 34).

Second meeting of the Central Plebiscite Advisory Committee was held which decided to form four sub-committees to deal all matters pertaining to the forthcoming Kashmir plebiscite. (May 10, 1949) (Dawn).

It was learnt that “the United Nations may name admiral Chester Nimitz, as mediator in the Kashmir dispute and request Pakistan and India, to agree to that function being entrusted to him, in addition to that of plebiscite administration”. (August 22, 1949) (Dawn).  

The United Nations Military and Visa’s Headquarters in Srinagar, was shifted to Rawalpindi, (October 15, 1949) (Dawn).

The UN Central Headquarters in Rawalpindi, announced that the demarcation of the cease-fire line in occupied Jammu and Kashmir State (extending over 800 miles of territory) was completed. (November 3, 1949) (Dawn).

Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Pakistan’s Ambassador at large, left London for New York, to represent Pakistan at the hearing of the Kashmir question before the Security Council by the end of December 1949. (December 10, 1949) (Dawn).

The United Nations Security Council decided that its President General Andrew MeNaughton of Canada, should negotiate informally with India and Pakistan to find a mutual satisfactory way of dealing with the Kashmir problem (December 17, 1949) (Dawn.

General A.G.L. McNaughton, President of the Security Council, submitted to the delegation of India and Pakistan, certain proposals as a basis for dealing with the Kashmir deadlock. (December 24, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum op.cit., Mah December Kay Ainay Main, P. 40).

The UN Secretary General, received from General A.G.L. McNaughton of Canada, an 18-pages report on the task entrusted to him in December, of finding a “middle way” in the Kashmir deadlock (February 7, 1950) (Dawn).

India rejected General A.G.L. McNaughton of Canada’s proposals for a settlement of the two-year old Kashmir dispute when the Security Council resumed consideration of it. (February 7, 1950) (Dawn).

The Security Council reassembled to discuss the Kashmir issue. A resolution regarding termination of the UNCIP and appointing of a United Nations representative to take over UNCIP’s powers and responsibilities in Kashmir was introduced. (February 24, 1950) (Dawn).

The Security Council resumed the debate on the question of Kashmir, (March 8, 1950) (Dawn).

The Security Council decided to appoint a mediator in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. (March 14, 1950) (G.M. Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Relations with India, 1947-66, London, 1968, p. 116).

Leading members of the Security Council were busy on the job of selecting “United Nations representative” to act as mediator in the Kashmir dispute. (March 15, 1950) (Dawn).

India and Pakistan, both accepted Sir Owen Dixon, Australian High Government Justice, as United Nations representative in the Kashmir dispute, (April 13, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah April Kay Ainain Main, p. 22).

Sir Owen Dixon, UN representative for Kashmir dispute, arrived in New Delhi, for conferring with Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indian Government’s officials. (May 27, 1950) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1073).

Sir Owen Dixon, the UN representative for Kashmir dispute arrived in Karachi. (June 1, 1950) (Ibid).

Sir Owen Dixon, started talks with Pakistani leaders in Karachi. (June 3, 1950) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit., Mah June Kay Ainain Main, p.5).

The talks between Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Sir Dixon, prolonged for some more time. (June 4, 1950) (Dawn).

The preliminary Kashmir talks between Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan and Sir Dixon were concluded in Karachi, (June 5, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah June Kay Ainain Main,  p. 8).

Sir Owen Dixon, left Karachi for Srinagar, enroute to Rawalpindi, (June 7, 1950) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1073).

Sir Owen Dixon said in an interview in Srinagar that he saw no reason why there should not be a settlement of Kashmir issue. (June 9, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, arrived at Hagira in the Azad Kashmir territory, from the Indian held Kashmir. (June 14, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit., Mah June Kay Ainain Main, p. 21).

The UN representative for Kashmir dispute, Sir Owen Dixon arrived back in Srinagar after a day’s tour of Azad Kashmir territory (June 16, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, had 160 minutes conference with Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, Supreme Head of Kashmir Movement. (June 20, 1950) Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit. Mah June Kay Ainain Main, p. 32).     

Sir Owen Dixon, came to Karachi from New Delhi. He had his first meeting with the Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan (July 17, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, had second meeting with Premier of Pakistan Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, in Karachi. (July 18, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, returned to New Delhi, having learnt of the tragic disaster near Pathankot, resulting in the death of 22 passengers, including 3 United Nations observers. (July 18, 1950) (Dawn).

Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, arrived in New Delhi to participate in the Tripartite Kashmir Conference. (July 20, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah July Kay Ainain Main, p. 32).

The Tripartite Conference on Kashmir, Began in New Delhi. Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sir Owen Dixon, UN representative in the Kashmir dispute sat around the table. (July 20, 1950) Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1073).

The Tripartite Conference on Kashmir, held in New Delhi, entered its second day successfully, (July 22, 1950) (Ibid).

The Tripartite Conference on Kashmir, entered its third day. The talks were reported to be secret. (July 22, 1950 (Ibid).

The Tripartite Conference on Kashmir, definitely crossed the preliminary state. Talks continued for a long time. (July 23, 1950) (Ibid).

The Five-day old Tripartite Conference on Kashmir, between the Premiers of India and Pakistan, and Sir Owen Dixon concluded. In the Joint Communique, it was announced that the two Premiers proposed to continue their discussion later in Karachi. It was reported that the Tripartite Conference could not reach an agreement. (July 24, 1950) (Ibid).

Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, returned to Karachi from New Delhi after attending the Tripartite Kashmir Conference. (July 25, 1950) (Dawn).

The UN representative in Kashmir dispute, Sir Owen Dixon, continued his efforts for a peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue. He also met with the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (July 26, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, held talks with the Pakistani Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. (August 2, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, held another round of talks with Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. He also called on Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, (August 3, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon UN representative in Kashmir, again met with Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, (August 7, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, met Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Premier, (August 10, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, reached Karachi. He met with the Pakistani Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. (August 12, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op, cit., Mah August Kay Ainain Main. P. 19).

Sir Owen Dixon, held talks with Premier Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan. (August 13, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, arrived in New Delhi from Karachi, after week long talks with the Pakistani leaders, (August 19, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah August Kay Ainain Main p. 29).

Sir Owen Dixon, arrived in Karachi from Delhi, and met the Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. It was believed to be a good-bye meeting. (August 21, 1950) (Dawn).    

The final communiqué was announced by Sir Owen Dixon the UN representative in Kashmir. He said in a press conference in Karachi, that there was no immediate prospect of India and Pakistan, compromising any of their differences over the held State of Jammu and Kashmir. (August 22, 1950) (Dawn).

Sir Owen Dixon, arrived in New York from London, to submit the report to the Security Council. (September 9, 1950) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Mediator, Sir Owen Dixon, reported to the Security Council, that all means of settling the dispute over Kashmir, had been “exhausted” and suggested that India and Pakistan, be left to negotiate a settlement among themselves. (September 19, 1950) (Dawn) Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Main, p.29).

The debate started in the Security Council on the Kashmir Question. US and UK proposed that Kashmir dispute should be settled by free plebiscite. (February 21, 1951) (Josef Korbel, op.cit., p. 177).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, spoke in the Security Council on the Kashmir Question. He called upon the Security Council for “prompt and vigorous action”. (March 6, 1951) (Dawn).

The delegates of Britain and United States, presented their amendment resolution on Kashmir, in the Security Council meeting. (March 21, 1951) (Josef Korbel, op. cit., p. 177).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina was appointed by the Security Council, as the United Nations Representative in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. (April 30, 1951) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1080).

Discussion began on the Kashmir Question in the Security Council. Prof Ahmad Shah Bokhari, chief delegate of Pakistan, accused India of using a “preudo-legalistic subterfuge” to cover her occupation of Kashmir by force. He asked the Security Council to take a resolute action in the matter. (May 29, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, UN representative in the Kashmir dispute, arrived in Karachi. (June 30, 1951) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1080).

Dr. Graham, called on the Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan and the Governor General of Pakistan, Khawaja Nazimuddin. (June 30. 1951) (Ibid).

Dr. Graham arrived in New Delhi from Karachi. (July 2, 1951) (Dawn).

The UN representative Dr. Graham had 50 minutes long talk with Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (July 4, 1951) (Dawn).        

Dr. Graham, concluded his general discussion on Kashmir issue with Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (July 7, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, left Delhi for Srinagar on a tour. (July 8, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, arrived in Rawalpindi from Srinagar, (July 13, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, held short informed talks with Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani. (July 15, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, arrived in Karachi from Rawalpindi, (July 17, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, the UN representative in the Kashmir dispute began formal talks in Karachi. (July 19, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, held meetings with Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, in Karachi. (July 21, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, left Karachi for Delhi along with his party (July 23, 1951) (Dawn).        

Dr. Graham, arrived in Srinagar on “a private visit”. (July 29, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, met Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in Srinagar, (August 4, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham arrived in Karachi from Srinagar, (August 5, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, met Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan and other Pakistan officials in Karachi. (August 8, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, held 60 minutes long talks with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi, (August 22, 1951) (Dawn).    

Dr. Graham, arrived in Karachi from New Delhi, and held discussions with Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan and other officials. (August 27, 1951) (Dawn).       

Dr. Graham, arrived in Karachi from New Delhi. He met the Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. (September 8, 1951) (Dawn).

Pakistan’s Kashmir Affairs Minister, Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, confirmed that the UN Kashmir representative Dr. Frank P. Graham, had submitted certain proposals for demilitarisation of the held State of Jammu and Kashmir. (September 12, 1951) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op.cit., p. 1080).

Dr. Graham, left Karachi for Geneva. (September 12, 1951) (Ibid).

Dr. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir issue, reported to the Security Council, that there was still a chance of securing agreement between India and Pakistan, on the Question of Kashmir (October 16, 1951) (Dawn).

The United Nations Security Council approved an Anglo-American resolution, calling for further negotiations to solve the four year old Kashmir dispute, Graham Mission was extended for another six weeks, (November 10, 1951) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1083).

Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan and UN representative in Kashmir, Dr. Frank P. Graham, met in Paris, to discuss the Kashmir problem. (November 16, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative in the Kashmir issue, and Sir Narsing Rao, India’s permanent representative at the UNO discussed in Kashmir problem. (November 17, 1951) (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative in the Kashmir dispute, met again with Sir Narsing Rao, India’s permanent delegate to the United Nations for a 30-minutes talk on the Kashmir problem (November 30, 1951) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, has a 40-minutes long talk in Paris, with Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for the Kashmir issue. (December 7, 1951) (Dawn).

The informed circles telling about the Report of Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for the Kashmir issue, said the little progress had been made in working out a plan for the demilitarisation of Kashmir, acceptable to both India and Pakistan. Dr. Graham originally submitted to both parties a 12 point programme of demilitarisation, following his conversation with Indian and Pakistani leaders on the sub-continent during the summer. (December 19, 1951), (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir issue, reported to the Security Council that India and Pakistan had failed to reach an agreement on a plan for demilitarisation of Kashmir, prior to holding a United Nations plebiscite to decide the annexed States future. (December 21, 1951) (Dawn; Zhaid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah December Kay Ainain Main, p. 35).

The Security Council met to hear a report by Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir issue. The Soviet representative, Jacob Malik, charged UN and USA with deliberately preventing a solution of the Kashmir dispute with the object of turning the disputed region into a “trust territory” and using it for an “imperialist” was base. (January 17, 1952) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1085).

At the request of the Pakistan delegation to the United Nations, Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir issue, published the tentative plan for the demilarisation of Kashmir, suggested by General Jacob L. Devers, military adviser to Dr. Graham. (January 22, 1952) (Dawn).    

The UN Security Council, resumed consideration of the Kashmir Question. It was suggested by Sir Gladwyn Jebes of Britain-backed by Brazil, Chile, the Netherland and the UN, that United Nations Mediator, Dr. Frank P. Graham, be send back to occupied Kashmir, to seek to widen the area of agreement between the two disputant-India and Pakistan. (January 31, 1952) Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1087).      

In Paris, Dr. Graham, held talks with Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, (February 4, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, arrived in Delhi. (February 29, 1952) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit., Mah February Kay Ainain Main, p. 39).

Dr. Graham arrived in Karachi from Delhi. (March 8, 1952) (Ibid., Mah March Kay Ainain Main, p. 14).

Dr. Graham, had second meeting with the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan. (March 11, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, left Karachi for New Delhi. (March 14, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, reported in a 36-page report that progress had been made in the question of demilitarising Kashmir, but that one issue still remained unresolved between India and Pakistan. (April 22, 1952) (S. M. Burke, op. cit., p. 37).

Dr. Graham, the UN representative for  Kashmir dispute, left Karachi for Geneva, to write the report on his second visit to the South Asian sub-continent, (March 25, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, conferred for half an hour, with the Indian and Pakistani representatives in the Head Office of the United Nations. (July 16, 1952) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1087).

It was learnt that the representatives of India and Pakistan, were meeting in New York, with Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir issue. (July 21, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, announced that India and Pakistan had agreed to renew negotiations on the Kashmir question at Ministerial level. (July 31, 1952) (Dawn).

Secretarial – Ministerial talks, aimed at solving the five-year-old dispute between India and Pakistan, over the future of held State of Kashmir, began in Geneva. (August 26, 1952) Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op.cit., p. 1087).

At Geneva, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, met Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for the Kashmir dispute. (August 29, 1952) (Dawn).

Joint talks resumed between India and Pakistan on the future of Kashmir at a surprise meeting in Geneva. (September 2, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Graham, reported to the Security Council, that he had failed to effect an agreement between India and Pakistan on demilitarisation of Kashmir. Demilitarisation of the area, which had been in a state of truce since 1948, must precede the holding of a plebiscite to determine whether Kashmir would be incorporated in India or Pakistan. (September 19, 1952) (S.M. Burke, op.cit., p. 37).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi, after attending Tripartite talks in Geneva. (September 25, 1952) (Dawn).   

United Nations Security Council, approved the Anglo-American resolution on Kashmir, calling for renewed negotiations between India and Pakistan. (December 23, 1952) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op.cit., p. 1088).

The Pakistan delegation to the UN announced that talks with Bharat on disputes Kashmir, would be resum3ed in Geneva, on February 4, 1953. (January 23, 1953) (Dawn).           Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, arrived in London from New York, on his way to Geneva, to attend a meeting on the Kashmir Question. (January 30, 1953) (Dawn).

Secret talks on Kashmir resumed in Geneva, on the possible demilitarisation of the occupied State and the holding of a plebiscite. (February 4, 1953) Mohammad Yousuf Saraf, op. cit., p. 1089).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, had two-hour private talk with Frank P. Graham, the UN Kashmir representative. (February 6, 1953) (Dawn).

Ralph Bunche, Director of the United Nations Trusteeship Division, told reporters in Tel Aviv, that Kashmir dispute was the most serious potential trouble spot in the world. (February 7, 1953) (Dawn).

The Kashmir talks at Geneva, were suspended for one weekend. (February 9, 1953) (Dawn).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN Kashmir representative, resumed his separate talks with the Pakistan and Bharat delegations in Geneva. (February 9, 1953)(Dawn).

Another private talks on the demilitarisation of Kashmir, were held in Geneva, under the auspices of Frank P. Graham. (February 11, 1953) (Dawn).

The Kashmir talks were suspended to allow Dr. Graham, to consider results of his private conversations with the Pakistani and Bharati delegations. (February 12, 1953) (Dawn).

New proposals concerning the demilitarisation of Kashmir remained under active consideration in Geneva talks, between the Indian and Pakistani delegations. (February 15, 1953) (Dawn, Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah February Kay Ainain Main, p. 21).

The Pakistani and Indian delegations handed over their written replies to the new proposals on the demilitarisation of Kashmir, which Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN Kashmir representative recently sent them. (February 17, 1953) (Dawn).

An official communique issued in Geneva, said that the Pakistan and Indian delegations to the Kashmir talks were going back to their respective capitals to report to their government. (February 19, 1953) (Dawn).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, opening the Kashmir case in the Security Council, asked that as required by the previous resolution of the Security Council and the United nation Commission on India and Pakistan, accepted by both the countries, a plebiscite under the United Nations should be held in the dispute State, after all Indian and Pakistan forces had been withdrawn from it. He proposed that, instead of those forces, a United Nations Force should go into Kashmir, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, also asked the Council to call upon India, to refrain from taking any steps to integrate the occupied State with India. (January 16, 1957) (PH, Karachi, Vol. X. No. 1, March 1957).

The United State, Australia Colombia, Cuba and Britain members of the United Nations Security Council, presented a draft resolution to reaffirm that any decision concerning Kashmir should be made “in accordance with the will of the people expressed through a plebiscite”. (January 24, 1957) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1957).

The Security Council adopted a resolution declaring that any changes made in the status of Kashmir, without a plebiscite, would not be in accordance with previous UN decisions, (January 24, 1957) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1957).

The President of the Security Council, General Carlos P. Romulo, stated that the Kashmir dispute was a threat to the peace not only of Asia but of the World. (January 31, 1957) (PH. X, No. 1, March 1957).

In a press statement, the Pakistan delegation to the United Nations, charged that since the beginning of discussion on the Kashmir dispute in the Security Council, “significant” Indian troop movements had taken place on the Indian side of the border with West Pakistan (February 13, 1957) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1957).

The Soviet Union vetoed the Four-Power resolution on Kashmir, which took note of a Pakistan’s proposal to send a UN Emergency Force to Kashmir to aid in demilitarisation preparatory work for a plebiscite. (February 21, 1957) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1957).

The United Nations representative, Gunnar Jaring, arrived in Karachi, to hold talks on Kashmir, with the Government of Pakistan. (March 14, 1957) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1957).

The United Nation’s representative for Kashmir, Gunnar V. Jarring, reported failure of his Mission to India and Pakistan. However, in his report to the Security Council, he revealed that while Pakistan had accepted but India rejected his suggestions for submitting for arbitration the question whether or not part 1 of UNCIP Resolution of August 13, 1948, had been implemented by the two parties. (April 30, 1957) (PH. X. No. 2, June 1957).

The UN Security Council reopened its debate on Kashmir (October 10, 1957). (PH. X. No. 4, October 1957).

In the UN Security Council debate on Kashmir, the Security amendment to the Five-Power resolution was approved by ten favourable votes, with the USSR abstaining. (December 2, 1957) (PH, X, No. 4. December 1957).

Dr. Frank P. Graham, UN representative for India and Pakistan, arrived in New Delhi, for further talks on the Kashmir issue under the UN Security Council Resolution of December 2, 1957. (January 12, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 1, March 1958).

Dr. Graham, arrived in Karachi, to continue negotiations on the Kashmir issue. (January 17, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 1, March 1958).

Dr. Graham, submitted to the Security Council, his report on the Kashmir dispute. (April 3, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 2, June 1958).

Pakistan’s acting permanent representative to the UN, sent  note to the Security Council President, informing him of the situation in Kashmir, arising from the decision of the Kashmir Liberation Movement to cross the cease-fire line, (July 16, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 3, September 1958).

Pakistan asked the President of the Security Council, to call a meeting of the Council “as early as may be convenient to take the whole question (of Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir) into immediate consideration, for the purpose of speeding up the settlement of the dispute”, as “recent pronouncements by responsible personalities in India have emphasized that the situation is charged with the utmost gravity”. (January 12, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 1, I Quarter 1962).

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, reaffirmed that he was prepared to meet the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, provided that the meeting could bring about a solution of mutual problems. (March 22, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN, Chaudhry Zafarulah Khan, appealed to the UN Security Council, to act in the Kashmir dispute before it was too late. (April 27, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, made a number of suggestions for settling the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, during the speech in the Security Council, (May 1, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

The Security Council adjourned the Kashmir debate. (May 4, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

The Security Council meeting on Kashmir, was postponed until May 28, 1962. (May 16, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

The Kashmir debate in the Security Council, was postponed again. (May 26, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

It was reported that the Security Council had decided to resume the Kashmir debate on May 31, 1962. (May 26, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

Introducing his draft resolution on Kashmir, in the Security Council, the Irish delegate, Boland, said that the discussion had shown that there was a large  measure of agreement in the Council about Kashmir, and that the draft resolution was intended to reflect as accurately and fairly as possible the consensus of the points of view of the majority of the Council as they had been expressed. (June 22, 1962) (PH, XV. No. 3, III Quarter 1962).

The US President, John F. Kennedy’s policy planning adviser, W.W. Rostow, told Pakistan’s President, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan in Dhaka, that the United States would continue to give arms aid to India, irrespective of a settlement of the Kashmir dispute. (April 5, 1963) PH. XVI, No. 2. II Quarter 1963).

The United Nations Security Council met at Pakistan’s request to consider the Kashmir question. (February 3, 1964), (PH. XVII, No. 1, I Quarter 1964).

The Security Council, which was debating the Kashmir question, adjourned with settling a date for another meeting at the request of the Pakistan Foreign Minister, Z.A. Bhutto. (February 17, 1964) (PH, XVIII , No. 1, I Quarter 1964).

Dr. Ralph Bunche, United Nations, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, arrived in Rawalpindi, on a fact-finding mission. He said that the Kashmir situation was a matter of active concern of the United Nations. (April 14, 1964) (PH, XVII, No. 2, II Quarter 1964).

The United Nations Security Council, immobilized by power politics, once again failed to initiate any positive action for solving the Kashmir dispute. The Council, merely expressed a wish for India and Pakistan, to resolve their differences by negotiations. (May 18, 1964) (PH, XVII, No. 2, II Quarter 1964).

Pakistan informed the United Nations Security Council, that the concentration of six Indian Divisions in occupied Kashmir, had created serious situation in the area, (June 21, 1965) (PH, XVIII, No. 3, III Quarter 1965).  

The Security Council, unanimously adopted a six-power resolution calling upon India and Pakistan, to take “steps for an immediate cease-fire”. (September 4, 1965) (PH, XVIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1965).

U. Thant, the UN Secretary General, arrived in Rawalpindi, for talks with Pakistani leaders in an effort to bring a cease-fire between India and Pakistan. (September 9, 1965) (PH, XVIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1965).

The UN Secretary General, U. Thant, asked the Security Council, to order India and Pakistan, to cease hostilities. (September 17, 1965) (PH, XVIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1965).

The UN Security Council, adopted a resolution demanding that a cease-fire should take effect between India and Pakistan, on September 22, 1965, at 07:00 hours G.M.T. The resolution also provided for the settlement of the political problem underlying the conflict. (September 20, 1965)(PH. XVIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1965).

Major General B. Macdonald of Canada who had been appointed Commander of the United Nations India-Pakistan observation Mission, arrived in New Delhi, (September 28, 1965) (PH, XVIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1965).

In a report to the Security Council, the Security General proposed that the United Nations observation groups on the Indo-Pakistan cease-fire line should remain in the area for a further three months after December 22, 1965. (December 16, 1965) (PH XIX, No. 1, I Quarter 1966).

Lt. General R.H. Nimmo, Chief of the United Nations Military Observer’s Group in Kashmir, died in Rawalpindi. (January 4, 1966) PH. XIX, No. I, I Quarter 1966).

In a report, the United Nations Secretary General, U. Thant, stated that there had been a general relaxation of tension along the India-Pakistan cease-fire line. (January 17, 1966) (PH, XIX No. 1, I Quarter 1966).

On a two-day visit to Pakistan, the UN Secretary General. U. Thant, said that the UN Security Council was seized on the Kashmir issue, and it was for that body to take any action it deemed necessary. (April 19, 1967) (PH, XX. No. 2, II Quarter 1967).

In a letter to the UN Security Council, Agha Shahi, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, impressed upon the World Body that the repressive measures adopted by the Indian Government in occupied Kashmir, had compelled the people of that State to resort to desperate acts. (February 6, 1971).

It was reported that in a letter to the Security Council, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN had stated that India had violated two agreements connected with the State of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that for the last several weeks, the Government of India, had not only massed its troops on the borders of Pakistan, but had considerably increased its forces in the occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir, (November 5, 1971) (PH, XXIV, No. 4, IV Quarter 1971).

The UN Secretary-General said that the UN observers on the Kashmir cease-fire line had not been free to check violations. (January 31, 1972) (PH XXV, No. 1, I Quarter 1972).

Pakistan was reported to have instructed its representative at the UN to apprise the World Body, of Islamabad’s position, that the UN observers supervising the Kashmir cease-fire line, continue to have a role to play, (July 23, 1972) (PH, XV, No. 3 III Quarter 1972).

The UN under Secretary-General told the newsmen in New Delhi, that India had made no formal request to the UN so far, for the withdrawal of UN observers, from Indian occupied Kashmir. (October 20, 1972) (PH, XXV, No. 4, IV Quarter 1972).

It was reported that the Pakistani delegate to the General Assembly’s Third Committee, had supported the exercise of the right of self-determination by all people including those of Jammu and Kashmir. (October 14, 1976) (PH, XXIX, No. 4, IV Quarter 1976).

Pakistan urged UN to force India for a plebiscite in the occupied Kashmir State. (February 26, 1990) (The Nation, February 27, 1990).

The United States spokesman said that the UN Resolution on Kashmir, did not die with Simla Agreement. (April 27, 1990) (The Nation, April 28, 1990).

At UN, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Sahabzada yaqub Ali Khan, discussed the Kashmir issue with the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Cuelller. (September 25, 1990) (The Nation, September 26, 1990).

UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan
EFFORTS AND FAILURES

            Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru’s complaint against the authority of the Kashmir Mission was presented in the Security Council but the Council rejected it. (June 19, 1948) (Dawn).

The Kashmir Commission landed in Nicosia from Geneva, on its way to Karachi. (July 6, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations Commission on Kashmir, arrived in Karachi, (July 7, 1948) (Sardar M. Ibraham Khan, The Kashmir Saga, Mirpur, 1965, p.148).

“We must succeed” was the keynote of the joint press conference in Karachi, of the leaders of the UN Security Council’s Commission for Kashmir. (July 8, 1948) (Dawn).

The Untied Nations Kashmir Commission left Karachi for New Delhi. (July 10, 1948) (Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan, op. cit. p. 148).

The members of the UN Security Council’s Kashmir Commission , called on the Indian Premier, Jawahar Lal Nehru. (July 12, 1948) Josef Korbel, Danger in Kashmir, Princeton, 1966, p. 122).

The UN Kashmir Commission held its first formal meeting at the Farid Kot House, India. (July 13, 1948) (Ibid,.p.123).

The UN Commission for Kashmir, met and heard seven officials of the Indian Army, (July 16, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission arrived back in Karachi from New Delhi, for consultations with the Government of Pakistan. (July 17, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations’ Kashmir Commission had a brief session in New Delhi, during which the Pakistan Government Secretary-General, Mohammad Ali, made a statement before the commission, on Pakistan’s point of view. (July 23, 1948) (Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan, op. cit., p. 148).

The Advance Party of the UN Kashmir Mission left Delhi for Kashmir, to study the military situation there. (July 27, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission held a 3-hours meeting in New Delhi, and received India’s replies to the Commission’s questionnaire on the situation in Kashmir. (July 28, 1948) (Dawn).

The Advance Party of the Kashmir Mission arrived in Srinagar and Jammu, after a 3-days tour of study of the Military situation in different front of that area. (July 31, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission arrived in Karachi from New Delhi. (July 31, 1948) (Dawn).

In Karachi, the UN Commission for India and Pakistan, met and discussed the programme of work. (August 2, 1948) (Dawn).

The Advance Party of the UN Kashmir Mission, which made a 5-days study of the military situation in Kashmir valley, left Srinagar for New Delhi, (August 3, 1948) (Dawn).

UN Kashmir Commission met in Karachi, and discussed possible points of discussion with representatives of the Pakistan Government, who appeared before the Commission a few days back. (August 3, 1948) (Dawn).

UN Kashmir Commission met for more than 2 hours and received Pakistan’s view in regard to the Kashmir situation. (August 4, 1948) (Dawn).

According to a United Nations Commission press note, issued from Karachi, it was reported that the United Nations Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, heard its military mission report today on the Mission’s survey on the Indian Army side of the Kashmir Firing Line. (August 6, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, worked again on its tentative draft of a cease-fire proposed which was to be submitted to the Government of India and Pakistan, for their agreement. (August 11, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, adopted a resolution, in which proposals were preserved for a cease-fire and fair plebiscite in the State of Jammu and Kashmir to both the governments. (August 13, 1948) (Josef Korbelo, op. cit., p. 140).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Zafarullah Khan, met with members of the UN Kashmir Commission in Karachi. (August 19, 1948) (Dawn).

The members of the UN Kashmir Commission left Karachi, for New Delhi. (August 19, 1948) (Dawn).

The members of the UN Kashmir Commission left Karachi, for New Delhi, (August 19, 1948) (Dawn).

The Indian Government, conveyed to the United Nations Kashmir Commission about the Indian views on the Commission’s “cease-fire” proposal. (August 20, 1948 (Josef Korbel, op cit., p. 142).

The UN Kashmir Commission met in New Delhi for 3-hours and heard reports of the Advance Party, which visited the occupied Kashmir State. (August 21, 1948 Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission met in New Delhi for 4 hours and discussed the report submitted by the Advance Party. (August 23, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission, asked the Secretary General of UNO to appoint 20 military observers to supervise the cease-fire in Kashmir. (August 23, 1948) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, Pakistan Kay Tees Sall: Mah August Kay Ainain Main, Lahore, 1978, p. 38).

The President of the Azad Kashmir Government, Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, in a press conference said that they would never agree to execute the cease-fire order unless the members of the United Nation Commission for India and Pakistan, did not discuss with the Azad Kashmir Government, the terms of the proposed cease-fire in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (August 27, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission met in New Delhi. (August 27, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission arrived in Karachi, to have further talks with Pakistani leaders on the proposal of cease-fire. (August 28, 1948) (Dawn).

The Mission of the alternative delegates of the UN Commission for India and Pakistan, arrived in Srinagar to study in general, the economy and political background of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (August 31, 1948) (Dawn).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Mohammad Zafarullah Khan, met in Karachi, with members of the UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan for an exchange of view on cease-fire. (August 31, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, called on the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan. (September 2, 1948) (Dawn).

The Mission of alternative delegates of the UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, held prolonged conference with Mirza Afzal, Revenue Minister, and Sham Lal Saran, the Supplies Minister, (September 3, 1948) (Dawn).

At Karachi, the UN Kashmir Commission adopted a letter addressed to Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, in which it gave its final elucidation on a number of points of its resolution submitted to India and Pakistan. (September 3, 1948) (Dawn).

The United Nations Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, discussed the cease-fire proposals with the Presidents of the Azad Kashmir Government, Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, and Supreme Head of the Azad Kashmir Movement, Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas in Karachi. The Commission was reported  to have recognized the Azad Kashmir Government. (September 4, 1948) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Main, p.6).

Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President of the Azad Kashmir Government, said that the meeting with UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan was formal. (September 5, 1948) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission announced its resolutions that immediate cease-fire in Kashmir was not to be envisaged. (September 6, 1948) (Dawn).

The Azad Kashmir leaders, Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, and Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, declined to comment on the UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan proposed of August 13, with regard to Kashmir. (September 6, 1948) (Dawn).

The members of the UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan, left for New Delhi, (September 9, 1948) (Dawn).

The Supreme Head of the Azad Kashmir Liberation Movement, Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, and President of the Azad Kashmir Government, Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, said in a joint statement issued in Karachi, that the proposal of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, were not acceptable to the people of Azad Kashmir. (September 9, 1948) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op. cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Main, p. 16).

The members of the UN Commission for India and Pakistan paid a visit to the Mansar Refugee Camp near Attock. (September 17, 1948) (Dawn).

It was announced that the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, had completed one-third of its 60-page interim report to the Security Council on the Kashmir dispute. (October 9, 1948) (Dawn).

It was reliably learnt in Karachi that the Pakistan Government was bringing to the notice of the UN Security Council, the increasing build-up of the Indian Army strength in Kashmir and the fact that India had mounted a large-scale offensive in violation of the (UNCIP’s) resolution of September 19, 1948, requiring both the governments to refrain from doing any thing which could worsen the situation. (November 17, 1948) (Dawn: Zahid Hussain Anjum., op.cit., Mah November Kay Ainain Main, p. 32).

The difficulties of arranging a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir were stressed in the first part of the UN Kashmir Commission’s report published in Paris. (November 23, 1948) (Dawn; Ibid., p. 42).

The UN Kashmir Commission concluded its current series of discussion with the Government of India. (December 23, 1948) (Dawn).

The members of the UN Commission for India and Pakistan arrived in Karachi from New Delhi, for talks wit Pakistani leader. (December 24,1948) (Dawn).

Dr. Alfered Loxano, a member of the UNCIP, said in Karachi, that their discussions in New Delhi and Karachi, shown signs of hope of an amicable solution of the Kashmir problem. (December 26, 1948) (Dawn).

At Karachi, talks on Kashmir were held between UNCIP and the Pakistan officials. (January 3, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah January Kay Ainain Main, p. 5).

The 3-day visit of UNCIP Military Adviser to the Azad Kashmir front line concluded and he left Rawalpindi for New Delhi. (January 14, 1949) (Dawn).

The Government of Pakistan issued a communique giving details of negotiations between Pakistan and the UNCIP for a settlement of the Kashmir dispute. (January 16, 1949) (Dawn).

A press note issued by Pakistan’s UNCIP Liaison Officer, denied the Indian suggestion that the press communiqué issued by the Pakistan Government on January 16, had omitted any of the relevant points regarding the talks with the UNCIP on Kashmir. (January 18, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP submitted a panel of names of the Government of India and Pakistan out of which, a selection could be made of the proposed plebiscite administrators for the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (January 26, 1949) (Dawn).

Personal representative of the Secretary General of UNO on the UNCIP arrived in Karachi from New Delhi. (February 2, 1949) (Dawn).

The UN Kashmir Commission for India and Pakistan arrived in Karachi. (February 4, 1949) (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, Kashmiri’s Fight-For Freedom; 1947-1948, Vol. II, Lahore, 1979, p. 1066).

The first meeting between the UNCIP and Pakistan representatives (since UNCIP’s return to the sub-continent) was held in Karachi. Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, led the Pakistan delegation. (February 7, 1949) (Josef Korbel, op. cit., p.155).

Pakistani representatives met the UNCIP at the Commission’s office and gave their government’s view on the truce agreement, as envisaged in part II of the Commission’s resolution of August 13, 1948. (February 8, 1949) (Dawn).

In a press conference Agha Shauna Ali, General Secretary of the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, urged UNCIP to restore normal life in the whole of the Jammu and Kashmir State. (February 10, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP arrived in Delhi from Karachi, (February 10, 1949) (Dawn).

In New Delhi, the UNCIP decided to take preliminary steps for the drafting of a truce agreement, between India and Pakistan, on Kashmir. (February 11, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP appointed a sub-committee to go to Azad Territories held by Azad Kashmir Provincial Government, to study local administrative problems. (February 16, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., February Kay Ainain Main, p. 22).

The UNCIP’s truce treaty drafting sub-committee commenced its work. (February 21, 1949) (Dawn).

The military adviser to the UNCIP arrived in Rawalpindi. (February 24, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP held a brief session in New Delhi and discussed certain minor points regarding the interpretation of the truce. (March 1, 1949) (Dawn).

The truce sub-committee of the UNCIP held a joint conference with the representatives of India and Pakistan, when it resumed work on the definition of a permanent truce line, to replace the existing cease-fire line in the held State of Jammu and Kashmir. (March 9, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP held further discussions on the truce agreement (March 11, 1949) (Dawn).

The truce sub-committee met with the UNCIP in New Delhi, to workout the second part of the truce line in held Jammu and Kashmir, which (would) stretch eastwards from Keran. (March 16, 1949) (Dawn).

The members of the truce sub-committee of the UNCIP for Kashmir, visited the Ambore refugee camp, near Muzaffarabad. (March 16, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP scrutinised the proposals submitted by the Pakistan Government, with regard to a permanent truce line. (March 23, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP sub-committee arrived in Rawalpindi from Gilgit. (March 26, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP members left Karachi for New Delhi. (March 29, 1949) (Dawn).

It was learnt that the truce proposals presented to Pakistan and India by UNCIP were considered by the governments of Pakistan and India, and it was stated that the proposals were not accepted. (April 16, 1949) (Dawn).

The two members of UNCIP arrived in Rawalpindi, to discuss the truce proposals with Pakistan’s representatives in the light of India’s reply. (April 19,1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP continued to have their daily routine meetings, discussing and considering the Pakistan and Indian government’s replies to the proposals of April 15, 1949. (April 22, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP for Kashmir presented simultaneously to the government of Pakistan and India, its final terms for implementation of the truce agreement. (April 28, 1949) (Dawn).

Military adviser to the UNCIP for Kashmir, arrived in Srinagar, and met with the Indian-backed Premier, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. (May 3, 1949) (Dawn).

The Indian and Pakistan governments acceded to UNCIP’s request for unreserved acceptance of the truce terms presented by the Commission on April 28, 1949. (June 6, 1949) (Dawn).

Pakistan offered the UNCIP to supply food, “on purely humanitarian grounds” to the people of Indian-occupied Kashmir, free of cost, through the Pakistan Red Cross. (June 20, 1949) (Dawn).

It was learnt that the UNCIP has invited India and Pakistan, to a Military Conference at a place to be fixed, possibly at Karachi. (July 5, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah July Kay Ainain Mai, p.8).

In an effort to solve the Kashmir tangle, Pakistan and India agreed to accept UNCIP’s initiation to hold joint talks. (July 8, 1949) (Dawn).

It was learnt that UNCIP was submitted a detailed report of its activities to the Security Council, in regard to the Kashmir issue. (July 16, 1949) ) (Dawn).

A further step forward in the efforts to solve the Kashmir tangle, was taken when the Tripartite Military Conference began on a cease-fire line in Karachi. (July 18, 1949) (Dawn). (Mohammad Yusuf Saraf, op.cit., p. 1069).

It was reported that slow progress was made during the Kashmir cease-fire line talks that continued in Karachi. (July 19, 1949) (Dawn).   

The talks on Kashmir cease-fire line continued and the Military Conference partly defined a cease-fire line. (July 21, 1949) (Dawn).

In Karachi, the Kashmir cease-fire parleys suspended temporarily as the Indian and Pakistan delegates were to consult their respective governments. It was learnt that the Tithwal-karen line was defined earlier. (July 22, 1949) (Dawn).

In Karachi the cease-fire line talks ended successfully. It was reported that a full agreement was made on the cease-fire line with regard to 800-mile front in Kashmir. (July 27, 1949) (Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan, op.cit., p.156).

Pakistan and India, retified inter-dominion agreement on Kashmir cease-fire line. (July 29, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP stated in Srinagar, that India and Pakistan had confirmed in writing, their acceptances in principle of the invitation for a joint meeting for agreement on the implementation of a truce in Kashmir. (August 13, 1949) (Dawn).

The United Nations circles expressed considerable satisfaction at an announcement from Srinagar, that both Indian and Pakistan, had accepted the UN Commission’s invitation to a joint meeting to reach a truce agreement. (August 14, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP called off the proposed Indo-Pak talks for the implementation of the truce agreement in held Jammu and Kashmir. The talks were scheduled to be held at New Delhi, on August 22, 1949. (August 18, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP on Kashmir, issued a statement from Srinagar, reporting reasons for call off the joint Indo-Pak meeting previously fixed for August 22, 1949, at New Delhi, (August 19, 1949) (Dawn).

A reliable source in Karachi, said that Pakistan had no objection to the appointment of a mediator in her dispute with India over Kashmir, provided that this task was confined to implementation of the exciting resolutions of the UNCIP. (August 23, 1949) (Dawn).

A full meeting of the Kashmir Commission at a two-hour session at Srinagar, reached a tentative decision on is next step in the Kashmir dispute. (August 26, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP’s “New Formula” for a truce in Kashmir was presented to Pakistan. (August 29, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah August Kay Ainain Main, p. 44).

For the second time, the Pakistan cabinet discussed in Karachi, on the UNCIP’s latest proposals for a truce in the state of held Jammu and Kashmir. (September 5, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP held a meeting in Srinagar, lasting for two and a half hours, and was understood to have discussed certain routine and procedural matters. (September 6, 1949) (Dawn).

India was reported to have rejected the suggestions of the UNCIP for arbitration in the Kashmir problem. (September 8, 1949) (Dawn).

Pakistan accepted the suggestions of the UNCIP on the Kashmir issue. (September 8, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Main, p.13).

The UNCIP released all correspondence that passed between the Commission and the governments of India and Pakistan, on the Commission’s Memorandum on arbitration previously submitted to the two governments on August 29 and 30, 1949. (September 23, 1949) (Dawn).

The UNCIP members arrived in Karachi, to say “good-bye” to Pakistan authorities, after about nine months of abortive attempts to bring about Indo-Pak accord on a truce in Kashmir. (September 23, 1949) (Dawn).

The assurances given about the disbandment of Azad Kashmir Forces by Dr. Lozans to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in December 1948, related exclusively to an elaboration of Part III of the August 13, 1949, resolution. The point was emphasized by the UNCIP in a statement issued on 25th September. (September 25, 1949) (Dawn).

Mr. Carlous Leguizaman, Chairman of the United Nations Kashmir Commission, said in a press conference at Geneva, that the Commission’s report to the Security Council would recommend continued United Nations efforts to solve the Kashmir question. (October 13, 1949) (Dawn).

It was announced in Geneva, that the UNCIP on Kashmir, had completed its reports which were to be sent to New York (the following day) to the Secretary General. (December 7, 1949) (Dawn).

It was learnt that the UNCIP was expected to prose to the Security Council that a mediator be appointed in the dispute between India and Pakistan over the held Kashmir. (December 9, 1949) (Dawn).

At Lake Success, the UNCIP recommended that the Security Council should appoint a mediator to bring India and Pakistan together in all unresolved issues over Kashmir. (December 12, 1949) (Dawn).

In a report submitted to the Security Council, the UNCIP disclosed failure over the Kashmir issue over three main issues that had created a deadlock between India and Pakistan. (December 12, 1949) (Dawn).

Dr. Odrich Chyle, the Czechoslovakia member of the UNCIP published his minority report on the Commission’s work, in which he accused the UNCIP of having made several errors in its negotiations. (December 17, 1949) (Dawn).

Version of Pakistan

STATEMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT, LEADERS
AND POLITICAL PARTIES

            A Standstill agreement was reached between Pakistan and the State of Kashmir. Under this agreement, Pakistan became responsible for the defence, foreign affairs and communications of the State. (August 15, 1947) (Chaudhry, Mohammad Ali, The Emergence of Pakistan, Lahore, 1973, p. 288).

The Government of Pakistan, stated in a communique, that in their opinion, the accession of Kashmir to the Indian Dominion, was based on fraud and violence and as such, could be recognized. (October 30, 1947) (Ibid., p. 296).

The press communiqué issued by the Government of Pakistan, described as entirely untrue, the rumours that troops of the Pakistan Army were being employed within the borders of Kashmir state. No Pakistani troops, added the communiqué, had been used in Kashmir (October 31, 1947) (Dawn).

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, in the course of a sick-bed broadcast to the nation from his residence said; “today the people of Kashmir are fighting not only for their freedom but also for their very existence. Their misfortunes have, in recent months, taken on a darker shade; they have been caught in the Meshes of a widespread plan for the extermination of Muslims”. (November 4, 1947) (Dawn).

Khan Abdul Qayum Khan, the Premier of NWFP declared in Lahore, that it was the plan of the Indian Government, to completely encircle Pakistan through Kashmir, but Pakistani Muslims would resist this plan with all the forces at their command. (November 5, 1947) (Dawn).

The Governor of Sindh, in an interview made the following points: “The Indian army is busy at the moment fighting the battle of oppressors in Kashmir”. He added that “the armed might of the Indian Government is attacking Junagadh, a State which has announced its decision to accede to Pakistan”. (November 8, 1947) (Dawn).

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the Premier of Pakistan explained the position of his Government vis-à-vis the State’s deadlock between India and Pakistan. He expressed that “we want peaceful and honourable settlement of all disputes”. (November 16, 1947) (Josef Korbel, Danger in Kashmir, Princeton, 1966, p.90).

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, arrived in Delhi, to attend the joint meeting of Defence Council. (November 26, 1947) (Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, op.cit., p. 299).

The Premier of NWFP, Khan Abdul Qayum Khan, said in Lahore, that a Conference of all Islamic countries should be called in Pakistan, to discuss the Kashmir and Palestine issue. (December 5, 1947) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, while addressing in his first press conference as Pakistan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Relations and States, said that: “Pakistan wanted the people of Kashmir to be assured of their independence and then be able to decide their future for themselves. The Kashmir and Junagadh Questions were still open”. (December 28, 1947) (Dawn).

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addressing a public meeting at Sarai Alamgir, Jhelum, said that: “Pathans were fully justified in accusing Pakistan, of indifferent attitude towards Kashmiris but we actually did not want war and want to settle things by mutual consent”. (January 18, 1948) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, said in London, that he expected that a free plebiscite in Kashmir would result in an overwhelming vote in favour of accession to Pakistan. (March 23, 1948) (Dawn).

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, admitted that the two secret talks held with Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin and Prime Minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, had not brought a solution to the Kashmir problem very nearer. (October 25, 1948) (Dawn).

Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, said in the Radio broadcast to the nation that: “Free Vote only the solution of Kashmir issue”. (November 8, 1948) (Zahid Hussain Anjum Pakistan Kay Tees Saal, Mah November Kay Ainain Main, Lahore, 1978, p. 15).

Khawaja Nazimuddin, the Governor General of Pakistan, said in his address that: “we wanted to remain on the friendliest terms with India but presently there was no other practical solution of the Kashmir problem except a free plebiscite”. (November 19, 1948) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Mohammad Zafarulah Khan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, in an interview in Rawalpindi, refuted press reports containing speculation about the division of Jammu and Kashmir, as a solution of the Kashmir problem. (March 22, 1949) (Dawn).

Pakistan lodged a strong protest with UNCIP against the Indian Government’s action in nominating for “representatives” from Kashmir to the Indian Union Constituent Assembly. (June 30, 1949) (Dawn).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, addressing a huge public meeting at University grounds, Lahore, said that no Pakistani man, woman or child, would tolerate the occupation of Kashmir by force. (August 25, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah August Kay Ainain Main, p.38).     

Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, criticised attempts to get India, to the Security Council, at a time when the Kashmir dispute between the two Dominions might come up before the Council. (September 2, 1949) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, told the press in Lake Success, that while Pakistan was prepared to accept the arbitration of Admiral Chester W. Minitz, on the Kashmir truce, India has turned down the proposal and, thereby, continued the existing deadlock. (September 14, 1949) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, told the UN General Assembly that India’s refusal to arbitrate differences in Kashmir, at that state of the dispute “merely obstructs a process which must go forward speedily and culminate in the organization and holding of a fair and impartial plebiscite at a very early date if peace is to be preserved and maintained”. (September 25, 1949) (Zahid Hussain Anjum op.cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Main p. 38).

Pakistan, charged before UNO that India was seeking to annex Kashmir, without giving inhabitants an opportunity to voice their wishes through a plebiscite. Mr. Nazimuddin of Pakistan, reiterated this charge during a General Assembly debate on the International Law Commission. (December 6, 1949) (Dawn).

Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, addressed a mammoth public meeting at Chat, and assured the people of Pakistan that Pakistan Government would never let India annex Kashmir by force. (December 8, 1949) (Dawn; Zahid Husssain Anjum, op.cit., Mah December Kay Ainain Main, p.15.).

Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, spoke out in the Parliament of Pakistan for 3 hours, on the “future of the Kashmir question”. (January 19, 1950) (Dawn).

Malik Feroz Khan Noon, Begum Shaista Ikramullah, M.H. Gazdar, Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan and Mian Iftikharuddin, debated on the Kashmir issue in the Parliament of Pakistan. (January 19, 1950) (Dawn).

Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, while addressing a public meeting in Abbotabad, said that: “I want to tell every Kashmiri and I hope my words will reach them – that so long as a single Muslim is alive in Pakistan, we will not allow you to become slaves”. (February 4, 1950) (Dawn).

Finance Minister of Pakistan, Ghulam Mohammad, in a press conference in Karachi, warned UN that time for clear and effective action on the Kashmir issue had reached. (February 6, 1950) (Dawn).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, emphasized in the Security Council, that the geographical layout of Kashmir was integrated with Pakistan and not with India. He dealt at length with the economic aspects of the issue and said that a great part of Kashmir’s trade was with Pakistan and passed through Pakistan, especially that of timber. (February 8, 1950) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, opcit., Mah February Kay Ainain Main p.12).

Referring to the question of the northern areas of Kashmir, in the Security Council, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, said that India’s insistence on her side to defend her territory was without any justification or basis. (February 9, 1950) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan said in a press conference, at Lake Success, that his Government was finding it “very difficult to dealt with the delicate situation” in Pakistan, resulting from the Kashmir deadlock and general feeling amongst the people, that no plebiscite would be held for sometime. (February 13, 1950) (Dawn).

Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, in an interview in Karachi, declared that “there can be no arbitration on a final settlement on the Kashmir Question”. (February 21, 1950) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, said in a press conference in Karachi, that there was nothing to prevent Bharat and Pakistan, coming together and settling the Kashmir dispute, which was “the main dispute holding up progress” in setting other outstanding issues. (April 25, 1950) (Dawn).

The Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, said in a press conference in Los Angeles, that it was disappointing that it was taking so long to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir. (May 19, 1950) (Dawn).

Premier of Pakistan, in a press conference held in Karachi, blaimed India, for the failure of Sir Owen Dixon’s mission to resolve the Kashmir deadlock. (August 23, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah August Kay Ainain Main p. 35).

Rediculing the assertion of Bharati Premier, that Pakistan had acted as an aggressor in Kashmir, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, said in a meeting of the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs in Karachi, that it were the Indian troops which had gone to the rescue of Maharaja of Kashmir, to perpetuate of the tyranny of the Dogra Rule, against  the patriots who were fighting for their freedom. (August 26, 1950) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, addressed the UN General Assembly, demanding of the Security Council, not to delay action on the holding of a free and impartial plebiscite in Kashmir. (September 27, 1950) (Dawn).

The Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, addressed the Parliament of Pakistan on the Kashmir problem and Indo-Pak relations. (October 5, 1950) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah October Kay Ainain Main, p. 9).

Khan Liaquat Ali Khan said in an interview that the settlement of the Kashmir dispute was an essential condition for Pakistan and India, for playing a really constructive part in the maintaining of peace in Asia. (December 5, 1950) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit, Mah December Kay Ainain Main, p.9).

Premier of Pakistan, said in London, that the Commonwealth Premiers, at their London Conference, proposed that troops from other Dominions should go into Kashmir, but India rejected this plan. The troops were be sent there before and during a plebiscite on the future of Kashmir. (January 16, 1951) (Dawn).

The Premier of Pakistan, indicated at a press conference in Karachi that “the three proposals made during the recent Commonwealth Prime Minister’s discussion on the Kashmir issue may be put forward before the Security Council when it takes up the issue”. (January 22, 1951) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, expressed to the Security Council, Pakistan’s views and reactions to the Anglo-American resolution on Kashmir, passed by the Council on March 21, 1951. (April 2, 1951) (Dawn., Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah April Kay Ainain Main, p. 4).

The Premier of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi, from the tour of NWFP. He described the Indian move to convene a “constituent assembly” for occupied Jammu and Kashmir as “absurd”. (May 5, 1951) (Dawn).

India’s move to convene a ‘constituent assembly” for the Indian occupied part of the State of Jammu and Kashmir was described as “a direct challenge to the Security Council” by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan. (May 14, 1951) (Dawn).

Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, warned India, that if she persisted in repudiating all the principles of peaceful settlement of international dispute, Pakistan “will stand no nonsense, no matter to what measure it may be compelled to have recourse in order to     secure a just and fair settlement of the Kashmir dispute”. (June 12, 1951) (Dawn).

Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, said that “only a just and peaceful solution of the Kashmir question can provide a firm basis for sincere friendship between India and Pakistan”. (June 24, 1951) (Dawn).

Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs, said in a settlement that the continuance of the Kashmir dispute for nearly four years and the presence of troops on both sides of a very long cease-fire line in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir State, was full of dangerous possibilities. (July 5, 1951) (Dawn).

At a press conference, Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, declared that heavy concentrations of Indian armed forces were talking place in the East Punjab and in the occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir. He added that as a result of troops movements, the bulk of the Indian Army was concentrated on Pakistan’s borders. (July 15, 1951) (Dawn).

In his latest communication, in reply to the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawarlal Nehru, the Premier of Pakistan, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, told Pandit Nehru that: “you appear to be determined to put in jeopardy the peace of the sub-continent and the world for the sake of staging a political face and forcing through your programme of aggressions in Kashmir. (August 7, 1951) (Dawn).

Pakistan Premier, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan’s latest reply to the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was received in New Delhi, in which Khan Liaquat Ali Khan had changed the Indian Premier, with reserving to himself, freedom to attack Pakistan unless Pakistan accepted India’s “unfounded claim to Kashmir as Indian territory”. (August 12, 1951) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, declared in Karachi, that the Memorandum presented to the UN representative, Dr. Frank P. Graham, by  14 leading Muslims of India, proved that “but for Pakistan a hundred million Muslims would have been living in that State of inward terror in which 35 or 40 millions of Muslims are now living there”. (August 18, 1951) (Dawn).

Pakistan’s Kashmir Affairs Minister, Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, declared that Kashmir was a “trust of the Quaid-e-Azam”. (August 27, 1951) (Dawn).

The NWFP Chief Minister, Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, said in a public meeting at Mardan, that: “If India succeeded in getting Kashmir, the Muslim of Kashmir as well as that of Pakistan would have to spend a life of perpetual servitude”. (August 31, 1951) (Dawn).

The Government of India, admitted that it could divert Pakistan’s entire water supply from the river Chenab into the Indian river Ravi, by building a dam at Dhinagarh, in held Kashmir, but at the same time, said that such a move would be neither practical nor essential. (September 9, 1951) (Dawn).

Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Pakistan Kashmir Affairs Minister, said that India’s action in regard to Kashmir “is just the negation of the principle which the Government of India claims to follow”. (September  14, 1951) (Dawn).

Mian Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani, Pakistan Minister for Kashmir Affairs, said in an interview that; “It is necessary of facts to say that the Indian Army went to Kashmir at the invitation of the people of Kashmir”. (September 19, 1951) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah September Kay Ainain Mani, p. 29).

In a joint statement, the editor of 16 leading dailies of West Pakistan, warned the United Nations and those powers who would influence over that organization to beware of the grave consequence of tempering with justice “in Kashmir either through deliberate procrastination or otherwise”. (October 12, 1951) (Dawn).

Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, left for Paris. He said in an interview that: “now it is the duty of the Security Council, having tried and failed to resolved the points of differences between India and Pakistan, on the question of demilitarization of the State of Jammu and Kashmir through nominating representatives of the UN, to resolve them itself”. (January 5, 1952) (Dawn., Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah January Kay Ainain Main, p.35).

Ghulam Mohammad, Governor General of Pakistan, said in  Lahore, that Pakistan would not rest content until the people of Kashmir had been given the right of self-determination to decided their future. (February 23, 1952) (Dawn).

The Governor General of Pakistan, said in Peshawar, that Pakistan wanted free plebiscite in Kashmir. (March 9, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Mahmud Husain, Minister for Kashmir Affairs, disclosed in the Pakistan Parliament that India had committed 594 breaches of the cease-fire till March 14, 1952. (March 14, 1952) (Dawn).

Pakistan was disappointed over the third report of Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for the Kashmir issue. (April 26, 1952) (Dawn).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, said in a press conference in Karachi, that Pakistan had suggested a time limit of one month for the renewed conversation which Dr. Frank P. Graham, the UN representative for Kashmir dispute, had proposal to have with representative of Pakistan and India. (May 25, 1952) (Dawn).

Dr. Mahmud Husain, Pakistan Minister of Kashmir Affairs, said: “accession of Kashmir to Pakistan is regarded as a sacred motto of the Government and people of Pakistan”. (August 15, 1952) (Dawn).

The Pakistan Government sources held India responsible for the breakdown of the Tripartite parleys on Kashmir, which concluded in Geneva. (September 13, 1952) (Dawn).

The Governor General of Pakistan, Ghulam Mohammad, said in Gilgit that the Kashmir Question had put the United Nations and the basic principles on which, it was founded, on trial. (September 18, 1952) (Dawn).

Pakistan Premier, Khawaja Nazimuddin, while addressing an open Session of the Pakistan Muslim League in Dhaka, said that people of Kashmir, must decide their own destiny by a free and impartial plebiscite. (October 12, 1952) (Dawn).

Pakistan accepted the latest Anglo-American Resolution on Kashmir. (December 17, 1952) (Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cot., Mah December Kay Ainain Main, p.29).

Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi, after attending Geneva Talks on Kashmir issue (March 2, 1953) (Dawn).

Pakistan Foreign Minister, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, in an interview described Dr. Graham’s report on Kashmir, as a “very disappointing document” and called upon the Security Council to make “definite recommendations” for the settlement of this “very grave dispute”. (April 7, 1953) (Dawn; Zahid Hussain Anjum, op.cit., Mah April Kay Ainain Main, p. 12).

The Pakistan Premier, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali sent a communication to the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, expressing his concern at the events in India held Kashmir, and asking for an immediate meeting between the two Premier to consider the Kashmir situation. (August 10, 1953) (Dawn).

According to a press note issued at Karachi, it was announced that the Government of Pakistan, decided to cancel all festivities such as the holding of receptions, illuminations or decoration of buildings etc., in connection with the celebration of Independence Day, in view of the latest developments and happenings in Indian held Kashmir and, as a mark of sympathy with the people of Kashmir. (August 12, 1953) (Dawn).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, reiterated that the acceptance of American military aid by Pakistan, did not affect the agreement between Pakistan and India, for the solution of the Kashmir dispute. (March 5, 1954) (Dawn).

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, declared in the Pakistan Parliament, that so long as the Kashmir dispute was not resolved, it would be idle to hope that the five countries representing in the Colombo meeting of the Asian Prime Ministers, would succeed in establishing mutual understanding and trust. (May 8, 1954) (PH, Karachi, Vol. VII, No. 4, December 1954).

It was reported that the Pakistan Cabinet decided to refer the Kashmir dispute back to the United Nations Security Council. (August 30, 1954) (PH, VII, No. 4, December 1954).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, charged the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, for blocking Kashmir plebiscite (October 5, 1954) (PH, VII, No. 4, December 1954).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, declared that so long as the people of Kashmir were denied the right of self-determination, “bitterness and tension between Pakistan and India will continue”. (November 2, 1954 (PH, VII, No. 4, December 1954).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, called on the British Commonwealth to work for a solution for the Kashmir dispute by mediation or arbitration. (January 20, 1955) (PH. VIII, No. 1, March 1955).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, told a press conference that the Pakistan Government was firm in its stand that the Kashmir dispute should be settled through a plebiscite in the whole State. (May 26, 1955) (PH, VII, No. 2, June 1955).

It was announced that the Pakistan Government had sent a protest note to the Government of India, against their Home Minister. Pandit Pant’s statement, that there was no more need of a plebiscite in Kashmir. (July 15, 1955) (PH, VIII. No. 3, September 1955).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, invited the leaders of the political parties of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, to meet in Karachi, to discuss the Kashmir dispute (September 22, 1955) (PH. VIII, No. 3, September 1955).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali declared that Kashmir’s accession of Pakistan, would be on the terms and conditions to be decided by the people of Kashmir themselves. (October 10, 1955) (PH. VIII, No. 4, December 1955).

The Russian Premier, Marshal Bulganin’s statement, that occupied Kashmir was a part of India, was rebutted by Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali. In reply to Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushev’s statements, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali said: “It would seem that these Soviet leaders were now bend on making Kashmir a toy in a far more dangerous game, which is bound not only to aggravate discord between Pakistan and India but also to heighten world tension”. The Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, welcomed the statements of the Soviet leaders, Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khurshchev, supporting India’s stand on Kashmir and Goa. (December 11, 1955) (PH, VIII, No. 4, December 1955).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Hamidul Haq Chaudhry, said that the Russian leaders’ statements on Kashmir were “intended to encourage Indian leaders to repudiate the right of the Kashmiris to decide their future and to involve the sub-continent in a sort of cold war”. (December 12, 1955) (PH, VIII, No. 4, June 1955).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, in his speech at the first session of the SEATO Council in Karachi, that SEATO nations should uphold the United Nation’s resolution on Kashmir, to counter the recent Russian intervention in the dispute. (March 6, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 1, March 1956).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, said that Pakistan would strongly protest against India’s claim that Kashmir was “both in law and in fact” a state of the Indian Republic. (March11, 1956) (PH, IX. No. 1, March 1956).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, told the National Assembly that Pakistan would “fight to the last to secure the people of Kashmir their right to decide their future”. He added: “We consider the continued Indian occupation of Kashmir, not only immoral but also illegal”. (March 31, 1956) (PH, X, No. 1, March 1956).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, declared in the National Assembly that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s statement, that India was no longer bound by the commitment to a plebiscite in Kashmir, ended the protects of settling the dispute over that State through negotiation. (April 1, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 2, June 1956).

It was announced that Pakistan would take the Kashmir dispute back to the Security Council. (April 6, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 2, June 1956).

Rejecting Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s offer to settle the Kashmir dispute on the basis of partition along the present cease-fire line, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, declared: “The mere fact that the Indian Prime Minister should put forward such a proposal shows that little value he attaches to India’s international commitments and how little is the reliance that can be placed on his words”. (April 14, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 2, June 1956).

Addressing a press conference, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, stated that the situation in Kashmir, was very grave. “We have received information” he said, “that there are plans to convert the Muslim majority there into a minority”. (May 1, 1956) (PH. IX No. 2, June 1956).

Pakistan rejected India’s protest against the discussion of the Kashmir dispute at the Tehran meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council. (May 16, 1956) (PH. IX. No. 2, June 1956).

Addressing the members of the Foreign Press association London, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, the Premier of Pakistan, said that the World was faced with a great moral issue in Kashmir. (June 25, 1956) (PH, IX. No. 2, June 1956).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Hamada Has Chaudhry, at a news conference in London, stated that in order to reduce tension in the Middle East, it was essential that the problems of Palestine, Algeria and Kashmir should be resolved. (July 6, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 3, September 1956).

Addressing the Turkish National Assembly, President of Pakistan, General Islander Mira, said: “We do not ask Kashmir to be given to Pakistan. All we want is that the people of Kashmir be given an opportunity to decide their own future by means of free and unfettered plebiscite”. (July 16, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 3, September 1956).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, pointed out in a statement, that India’s refusal to sign the Afro-Asian nation’s demand for the consideration of the Algerian issue, was a part of the deal which India has made with France, pledging help to her, over the Algerian issue in return for support over the Kashmir question in the United Nations. (October 3, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Malik Firoz Khan Noon, said that relations between Pakistan and India, could never become cordial unit the Kashmir problem was solved. (October 21, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Pakistan told the Security Council of the United Nations, that India “should be called upon to desist” from annexing Kashmir (November 17, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussain Shaheed Shoreward, announced that Pakistan would never recognise the right of the so-called constituent assembly of occupied Kashmir, to decide the issue of Kashmir’s assertion. (November 18, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Pakistan’s delegate, Begum Shasta Ikramullah, told the United Nations General Assembly: “We condemn aggression and oppression equally in Egypt and in Hungry, in Algeria and in Kashmir”. (November 24, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Pakistan requested the President of the Security Council, to demand for India, a clarification of the intended integration of the occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir. (November 28, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, addressing a press conference in Lahore, stated that the time for the settlement of Kashmir dispute by negotiations was over and any suggestion to that effect from any quarter would be considered an excuse for avoiding a decision on that vital issue. (December 29, 1956) (PH, IX, No. 4, December 1956).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, in a letter addressed to the President of the United Nations Security Council, asked for an early meeting of the Council, to discuss the Kashmir dispute. (January 2, 1957) (PH. X, No. 1, March 1957).

Pakistan observed a “Black Day” to condemn the integration of occupied Kashmir with India. (January 24, 1957) (PH. X, No. 1, March 1957).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, urged the UN Security Council, to resolve the deadlock between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, by introducing a United nations force into the area and by calling on all Indian and Pakistan Forces, to withdraw from the dispute State. (January 29, 1957) (PH. X. No. 1, March, 1957).

Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Hussain Shaheed Suharwardy, informed the Prime Ministers of China and Ceylon, that Pakistan could not accept their suggestions for direct talks with India on Kashmir. (February 15, 1957) (PH, X. No. 1, March 1957).

Commenting on the failure of the Jarring’s Mission, the Pakistan Prime Minister, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, said that it was “the result of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s intransigence”. (April 30, 1957) (PH, X, No. 2, June 1957).

Addressing a press conference in Bangkok, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, expressed the hope that all decent countries believing in non-aggression would come to Pakistan’s assistance, irrespective of any pact, if India attacked Pakistan. (May 5, 1957) (PH, X, No. 2, June 1957).

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, stated in Washington, that the people of Pakistan, would die fighting rather than permit India, to divert the waters of the Kashmir rivers. (July 14, 1957) (PH, X, No. 3, September 1957).

Pakistan complained to the UN Security Council, that “the recent mass introduction of non-Muslims from outside into the Indian-held zone of the (Kashmir) State is being deliberately undertaken as a planned operation in order that the Government of India are able to assert later than a plebiscite has become progressively more difficult to hold in view of the changed circumstances and that any attempt to hold the plebiscite would cause insuperable administrative and technical difficulties, besides disturbing the life of the people of State which the Prime Minister of India wishes to avoid”. (August 6, 1957) (PH, X, No. 3, September 1957).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, stated in the National Assembly, that Russian planes were known to have been landing in Indian occupied Kashmir. (August 24, 1957) (PH, X, No. 3, September 1957).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, announced that Pakistan would consider an attack on India, as an attack on Pakistan, “provided Panditji (Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India) honours his international commitments with regards to the holding of a free and fair plebiscite, under the auspices of the United Nations in Kashmir”. (September 8, 1957) (PH, X, No. 3, September 1957).

An official spokesman of the Government of Pakistan, stated in Karachi, that the migration of Hindus from East Pakistan, which was designed by India to cloud the Kashmir issue, had been reduced to “just a trickle”. (September 9, 1957) (PH, X, No. 3, September 1957).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy speaking at Narayanganj, declared that Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was aware that Kashmir would accede to Pakistan, if the people were given the right to decide their future for themselves. The was the reason why Pandit Nehru had so long denied the Kashmiri’s their right of self-determination. (September 13, 1957) (PH, No. 3, September 1957).

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, speaking at Narayanganj, declared that Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was aware that Kashmir would accede to Pakistan, if the people were given the right to decide their future for themselves. This was the reasons why Pandit Nehru had no long denied the Kashmiri’s their right of self-determination. (September 13, 1957) (PH, No. 3, September 1957).

Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, told the UN Security Council, that Pakistan was willing to withdraw her Forces from the Pakistan side of the cease-fire line in Jammu and Kashmir, provided a “strong United Nation’s Force was stationed before hand along the line provided India reduced her Forces to the level prescribed by the Security Council in its resolution of December 23, 1952”. (September 24, 1957) (PH. X, No. 3, September 1957).

Denying the Indian charge that the Mangla Dam Project aimed at consolidating “Pakistan authority over Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir”, Pakistan permanent representative to the United Nations stated, in a letter to the Security Council, that the project was executed on the initiative of the Azad Kashmir Government, and was not dissimilar to many projects carried out on the Indian side of the cease-fire line”. (October 6, 1957) (PH, X, No. 4, December 1957).

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, replying to the Indian Defence Minister, Mr. Krishna Menon’s speech in the Security Council, said that Pakistan had not increased its military strength in Azad Kashmir. (October 11, 1957) (PH, X, No. 4, December 1957).

In a letter to the President of the UN Security Council, the acting head of the Pakistan Delegation of the United Nations, charged India with having let loose reign of terror in occupied Kashmir to crush the growing demand of the people for a free and impartial plebiscite. (April 11, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 2, June 1958).

Pakistan’s permanent representative at the Untied Nations, sent a letter to the President of the Security Council, protesting against the re-arrest of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the Kashmiri leader. (May 6, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 2, June 1958).

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, stated that any attempt by volunteers of the Liberation Movement Front, to violate the cease-fire line in Kashmir, will be opposed by the Pakistan Government. (June 22, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 2, June 1958).

Addressing a press conference, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Malik Firoz Khan Noon, declared his Government’s determination to prevent violation of the Indo-Pakistan cease-fire line in Kashmir, by volunteer of the Liberation Movement Front. (July 3, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 3, September 1958).

In a letter to the UN Security Council, the Acting Pakistan Delegate, said that India had prevented settlement of the Kashmir dispute by breaking previous agreement with Pakistan. (August 28, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 3, September 1958).

Pakistan’s delegate to the UN sent a letter to the Security Council President, accusing India of staging an unfair trial in the court hearing against Skaikh Mohammad Abdullah and other Kashmiri leaders. (November 10, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 4, December 1958).

The President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, said in Karachi, that the solution of Kashmir and Canal Water problems was essential to Pakistan’s security and could not be ignored. (November 28, 1958) (PH, XI, No. 4, December 1958).

Pakistan sent a letter to the President of the Security Council, drawing the Council’s attention to the deteriorating condition in Indian occupied Kashmir. (February 6, 1959) (PH, XII, No. 1, March 1959) (PH, XII, No. 2, June 1959).

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Manzur Qadir, said in a TV network programme, in New York, that an early solution of the Kashmir question was vitally important for World peace. (October 5, 1959) (PH, XII, No. 4, December 1959).

In a special interview given to the British Sunday newspaper, Reynolds News, the President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, said that no military alliance with India would be considered until the Kashmir issue was solved. (December 20, 1959) (PH, XII, No. 4, December 1959).

Appearing on a London TV programme, the President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, said that Pakistan invited India’s friendship but there was no question of a compromise along the existing Kashmir cease-fire line. (January 25, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 1, March 1960).

Addressing the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Manzur Qadir, said that the only solution of the Kashmir problem that he could think of was a free and impartial plebiscite to which both India and Pakistan were committed, but if somebody had a better solution, he (the Foreign Minister) was prepared to consider it. He further declared that “alliance with the West is the sheet anchor of Pakistan’s foreign policy”. (March 11, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 1, I Quarter, 1960).

In his Independence Day message to the nation, President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, made reference to India’s unwillingness to settle the Kashmir issue. (August 13, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 3, III Quarter 1960).

The leader of the Pakistan delegation to the United Nations, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, said in the General Assembly, that the peace of the Indian sub-continent would remain precariously poised unless the Kashmir question was solved. (September 29, 1960) (PH, XIV, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

The President of Pakistan, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, said in Muzaffarabad, that the Pakistan Army, as the defence of the motherland, could not leave the question of Kashmir unresolved. (October 6, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

General Mohammad Ayub Khan, declared that Pakistan would never accept a solution of Kashmir on the existing cease-fire line. (October 8, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan delegation to the General Assembly, said in a press conference, that the fact that the Indus problem had been settled between India and Pakistan, did not in any way diminish the importance of the Kashmir issue. (October 20, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

The President of Pakistan, said in a broadcast on the eve of the Second Anniversary of the Resolution, that the Kashmir problem was a “time bomb never very far removed from the flash point”. (October 26, 1960) (PH, XIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

Pakistan, told the UN Security Council, that it did not want to get into arguments with the India, on the Kashmir issue “for the present”. (November 1, 1960) (PH. XIII, No. 4, IV Quarter 1960).

At the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ meeting in London, President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, called for an early solution of the problems of Kashmir, Algeria and Palestine (March 9, 1961) (PH, XIV, No. 2, II Quarter 1961).

Lt. General K.M. Sheikh, had a 45-minute meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in Delhi Among other things, they also discussed Kashmir issue. Later, addressing a press conference, General Sheikh, said that the “pursuit of Indo-Pakistan army would be a wild goose chase if the issue of Kashmir remains unsolved”. (July 8, 1961), (PH, XIV, No. 3, III Quarter 1961).

Addressing a luncheon meeting at the American National Press Club, President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, said that Pakistan’s destiny was linked with Kashmir. He also disclosed that he had told President John F. Kennedy of USA that the US decision to give arms aid to India would be “a tremendous strains on Pakistan American relations”. (July 13, 1961) (PH, XIV, No. 3, III Quarter 1961).

President of Pakistan, declared that if peaceful methods for the settlement of Kashmir dispute failed, Pakistan would be forced to resort to “other means”. (September 29, 1961) (PH, XIV, NO. 4, iv Quarter 1961).

Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, declared that if the Kashmir situation remained as, it was, Pakistan would have to go to the Security Council. He told a press conference that all efforts to resolve the dispute through direct negotiations with India had failed. He also said that the Azad Kashmir Government represented the people of Kashmir and had every right to seek recognition from the nations of the World. Regarding SEATO and CENTO, he said that if the UN had been an effective force, there would have been no need of the pacts. (October 3, 1961) (PH, XIV, No. 4, IV Quarter 1961).

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, declared that the solution of the Kashmir problem was a matter of “life and death” for Pakistan. He said that people of Pakistan would not hesitate to sacrifice even their lives for the cause of Kashmir, as the safety and territorial integrity of Pakistan, especially the western wing would always be threatened unless the problem of Kashmir was solved. (October 18, 1961) (PH, XIV, No. 4, IV Quarter 1961).

President of Pakistan, said that Pakistan would take the Kashmir issue to the UN General Assembly, if it failed in the Security Council, because of a veto. (January 16, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 1, I Quarter 1962).

It was reported that Pakistan had accepted World Bank President, Eugene Black, as mediator in its dispute about Indian held Kashmir, as supported by the US President. (January 24, 1962) (PH. XV, No. 1, I Quarter 1962).

The Security Council met to debate the Kashmir question. Later, it was agreed to postpone the debate till March 1962. The adjournment move was jointly made by the United States and the Soviet Union. Presenting the case for Pakistan, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, Pakistan representative at UN said: “I do wish solemnly to assure the Council members that if 150 years passed this dispute will not be settled except through the freely expressed wishes of the people themselves”. (February 1, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 1, I Quarter 1962).

S.K. Sehlavi, Secretary, Pakistan Ministry of External Affairs, warned that unless the question of Kashmir was settled peacefully, a situation could develop which the Government of Pakistan, would like very much to prevent or avoid. (April 18, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, said that it was very difficult to control the people of Kashmir, who wanted to oust India from the occupied State by force. (May 3, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 2, II Quarter 1962).

Members of the Pakistan National Assembly from both wings (East and West) of the country, expressed strong resentment over the Soviet veto of the resolution on Kashmir. (June 24, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 3, III Quarter 1962).

The External Affairs Minister of Pakistan, in his statement in the National Assembly, deplored the Soviet veto of the Kashmir resolution. (June 25, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 3, III Quarter 1962).

The West Pakistan Assembly, unanimously adopted an adjournment motion to discuss the Soviet veto, on the Irish resolution on Kashmir in the Security council. (July 3, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 3, III Quarter 1962).

Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary, S.K. Dehlavi, reiterated Pakistan’s willingness to discuss the Kashmir dispute with India across the table, provided the discussion was confined to points relevant to the issue and was conducted on realistic just and reasonable basis. (July 11, 1962) (PH, XV, No. 3, III Quarter 1962).

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, talking in Quetta, ruled out the possibility of the United States and Britain, being associated with the Indo-Pakistan negotiations on Kashmir. (December 10, 1962) (PH, XVI, No. 1, I Quarter 1963).

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, declared in Lyallpur (Faisalabad), that Pakistan would not accept any settlement of the Kashmir dispute, unless it was based on the right of self-determination of the people of Kashmir, security of Pakistan’s borders and economic safeguards for Pakistan. (March 29, 1963) (PH, No. 2, II Quarter 1963).

Z.A. Bhutto, External Minister for Pakistan, categorically stated in the National Assembly, that Pakistan would never accept a proposal on Kashmir, which was not equitable and honorable and which did not safeguard the interest of the people of occupied Kashmir. (April 10, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 2, II Quarter 1963).

Pakistan told the UN Security Council, that the Border Agreement with China, did not prejudice implementation of the Council’s resolution on Kashmir. (April 12, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 2, II Quarter  1963).            

President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, said in Dhakka, that the question of the mediation in the Kashmir dispute was premature. (May 12, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 2, II Quarter 1963).

Z.A. Bhutto, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, said in New Delhi, that it was unrealistic to consider Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s proposal for a joint Indo-Pakistan no-war declaration until the Kashmir dispute was settled. (May 14, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 2, II Quarter 1963).

Z.A. Bhutto, said in New Delhi, that Pakistan was willing to refer the Kashmir dispute to an International judicial body to consider the totality of the question of Kashmir and not the mere act of accession to India as an isolated issue. (May 17, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 2, II Quarter 1963).

Addressing a public meeting at Sargodha, President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, said that no useful purpose would be served by the mediation efforts, proposed by the western bloc, for the settlement of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. (June 4, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 3, III Quarter 1963).

Pakistan, proposed that mediation on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, should be on the basis of the United Nations resolution. (June 7, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 3, III Quarter 1963).

Pakistan’s External Affairs Minister, Z.A. Bhutto, stated that Pakistan would not compromise the right of self-determination for the people of Kashmir and would not accept India’s suggestion of a “no-war declaration” as long as the Kashmir dispute remained unsolved. (July 24, 1963) (PH, XVI, No. 3, III Quarter 1963).

In a statement issued at Rawalpindi, President of Pakistan, Mohammad Ayub Khan, strongly condemned the Indian move to integrate Jammu and Kashmir with India. (October 5, 1963) (PH, XVI. No. 4, IV Quarter 1963).

Z.A. Bhutto, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, lodged a strong protest with the US Department of State, a