06111947 Text of Telegram dated November 6, 1947 front Liaquat Ali Khan to Nehru
06111947 Text of Telegram dated November 6, 1947 front Liaquat Ali Khan to Nehru
"Following Pandit Nehru from Liaquat Ali Khan,
Your telegram No. Primin-255 dated October 31st, 270 and 285 dated November 4th regarding Kashmir.
In a broadcast I made on the evening of November 4th I gave a review of the Kashmir situation and of events leading up to it. It is hardly necessary for me to go over the whole ground again or reply to your allegations in detail. But I must say that you are singularly misinformed about your position in Jammu and Kashmir. In particular, your account of border incidents in Jammu and of conditions in Jammu is so contrary to facts that lean only to conclude that the Jammu and Kashmir Government are sedulously keeping truth away from you. Let me repeat that it is the Muslims in Jammu who are being massacred by thousands every day with active assistance of State police and military who are also organising raids into West Punjab. When the Kashmir Government made an offer of an impartial enquiry into these border incidents we accepted it at once. The Kashmir Government never broached the subject again. Your other allegations and insinuations are equally devoid of foundation and I emphatically repudiate them.
A day before your broadcast indicating the policy of your -Government, a long discussion took place between Lord Mountbatten and the Quaid-i-Azam as a result of which the
The following proposals were put before Lord Mountbatten for communication to you and your Government:
(1) To put an immediate stop to fighting the two Governors -General should be authorised and vested with full powers by both the Dominion Governments to issue a proclamation forthwith giving 48 hours' ribice to two opposing forces to cease fire. We have no control over forces of provisional Government of Kashmir or tribesmen engaged in fighting but we will warn them in clearest terms that if they do not obey order to cease fire immediately, forces of both Dominions will make war on them.
(2) Both the forces of Indian Dominion and tribesmen to withdraw simultaneously and with utmost expedition from Jammu and Kashmir State territory.
(3) With the sanction of two Dominion Governments the two Governor-General to be given full powers to restore peace, undertake administration of Jammu and Kashmir State and arrange for plebiscite without delay under their joint control and supervision.
Lord Mountbatten promised to let me know your Government's reply to these proposals but we have heard no more about them. Your Government's policy is vague. I still ask your Government to let me have your reply to our definite proposals."