: Rajnath Singhs statement on PoJK and the tasks ahead #IndiaNEWS #Other News By Dr Amjad Ayub MirzaDuring his recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement

Rajnath Singhs statement on PoJK and the tasks ahead #IndiaNEWS #Other News
By Dr Amjad Ayub MirzaDuring his recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement regarding Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) being an integral part of the Republic of India. This statement bears a lot of significance as PoJK remains engulfed in civil unrest.
Hundreds of political workers and their leaders have been arrested and put behind bars. Protests in PoJK against taxes levied on fuel, increase in load shedding and the suggested 15th constitutional amendment that will give sweeping powers to Pakistan and reduce PoJK to a provincial administrative territory are not going to go away any time sooner.
Rajnath Singhs statement should be seen in the light of two issues. Firstly, that the people of PoJK are closely observing development projects that have been launched in the Union Territory which includes a Rs 1. 4 lakh crore annual budget and secondly, that the Ministers statement includes the occupied territory of Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB).
It is PoGB that I want to talk about in this article. As we all know that Pakistan attacked the state of Jammu and Kashmir on October 22, 1947 that led to the first India-Pakistan War but fewer people understand that PoGB was handed over to Pakistan by instigating a coup guided and manipulated directly by the British.
As Indian troops landed at Srinagar airport on October 27 and began to push the invading armies of Pakistan and the tribal back, it soon became evident that Pakistani army was no match to the Indian liberators.
Let me remind our reader that in 1935 the administrative and defence responsibilities of Gilgit Agency had been transferred to the British Government by the Maharaja of Jammu Kashmir Shri Hari Singh. It was a lease for 60 years and was signed during a period when civil war in China was threatening an invasion of Xin Jiang by the Soviet troops. The arrangement between the Maharaja and the British was meant to secure the northern border of the British Empire.
However, on August 1, 1947 the Gilgit lease was annulled by Delhi and the territory was handed back to the Maharaja. Subsequently Lieutenant Colonel Roger Bacon the political agent of Gilgit Agency handed over the Agency to Brigadier Ghansara Singh who was appointed as the new governor of the Gilgit-Agency.
As war broke out on October 22, 1947 and by October 31 it became more than evident that Pakistan was losing, a statement issued by the secretary of state for common wealth relations and sent as a top secret directive to British High Commission in Delhi and Karachi are very significant. It read: It would be natural for Kashmir to eventually accede to Pakistan.
After the Gilgit Agency was handed back to the Maharaja, the British officers of the Gilgit Scots Major William Alexander Brown and Captain Mathieson were requested to continue as Maharajas contract officers.

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