13111947 Text of two Telegrams sent by the Indian Prime Minister to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on November 13, 1947
13111947 Text of two Telegrams sent by the Indian Prime Minister to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on November 13, 1947
1. For Liaquat Ali Khan from Jawaharlal Nehru.
On return from Kashmir I have received your telegram No. 695-G dated November 10th. I am surprised to see reference to some draft agreement. There is no such thing to my knowledge, but some kind of a formula for discussion was placed before me and I was told by Menon that he did not agree with parts of it. Lord Ismay also informed me that he did not think it feasible. When I saw it I made it clear to Mohammed AH that we could not possibly consider it.
An essential prerequisite is complete withdrawal of all raiders and invaders into Kashmir territory from Pakistan. We cannot withdraw our troops from Kashmir, or cease taking precautionary measures, till Kashmir is free from these raids and there is no chance of further attack. Already Kashmir State has suffered greatly. My recent visit to Kashmir brought home to me the urgent necessity of every action being taken by us to drive away every single raider from State territory. The acts of vandalism that they have committed in Kashmir shocked me beyond measure. No organised authority can permit such savage behaviour in its territory. Hospitals, convents, churches, libraries, shops, in fact every place was ruined and looted. I saw large numbers of Muslim women with their ears torn because ear-rings had been pulled out. The population of Kashmir valley which as you know is chiefly Muslim complained bitterly of this outrageous behaviour and bagged us to continue to protect them. We cannot leave them in the lurch.``
2. "News come yesterday of sack and large scale massacre in Rajouri in Jammu province by these raiders. We are going into these areas in Jammu Province to ride the people of this scourge.
During my stay in Kashmir our military officers placed before me numerous instances indicating the complicity of Pakistan Army soldiers in this invasion. I put it to you that the help given by Pakistan authorities to this barbarous raid is an act which must be resented very deeply by us and by the people of Kashmir. In order to clear up these charges against Pakistan authorities and Army, it is desirable from your point of view as well as ours, to have a thorough enquiry into this matter that is what part the North-West Frontier Province Government, or civil officers, or Army of Pakistan have played in helping this raid into Kashmir.
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah is at present the head of the Kashmir administration and anything relating to Kashmir must necessarily have his approval and consent.
I would be glad to meet you to discuss these and other matters but for the next few days I am completely tied up with important meetings of the Congress Working Committee and All India Congress Committee; the Constituent Assembly follows immediately after. Our meeting I hope would be helpful, but it can only bear results when all raiders have been driven out of Kashmir and the Pakistan Government has declared its firm policy to the exclusion of these raiders away from Kashmir."