Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 326
326 AHMADIYY AT restored in the territories of the State, the question of the accession of the State to India or Pakistan would be deter- mined in accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people of the State. Subsequent developments clearly established that this an- nouncement of the Government of India was only a ruse to cover its military takeover of the State which, from the very first moment, was intended to make the State an integral part of India. The arrival of the Indian military contingents in the valley of Kashmir served to block the advance of the tribal hosts a few miles short of Srinagar, but thereafter the severe cold of the winter in the mountainous region of Kashmir brought about a stalemate and India found it difficult to drive the tribal hosts out of the territories of the State. In the meantime Gilgit, Hunza and portions of Ladakh repudiated their nominal allegiance to the Maharaja and went over to Pakistan. In this situation the Government of India, at the beginning of 1948, placed the matter before the Security Council of the United Nations describing it as a situation that constituted a grave threat to the maintenance of international peace. Pakis- tan was represented before the Security council by its Foreign Minister, an Ahmadi. The Security Council, after listening to lengthy statements of the representatives of India and Pakistan, discovered that despite their acute differences of outlook, points of view and appraisal of the actual situation, there was one matter on which there was enough agreement between the parties which could form the basis of a settlement of the dispute between them. The Indian representative had made a clear submission to the Security Council that the policy of the government of India on the question of the accession of a State to India or Pakistan was that in cases in which the ruler of a State adhered t9 one religious persuasion and the major- ity of the people of the State professed allegiance to the other religious persuasion, the question of the accession of the State should be determined in accordance with the freely expressed