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On 31 October 2021, about 30,000 Sikhs took part in the first phase of the Khalistan referendum in London. [9] [1] A similar referendum was held in London in November 2021 with campaigners claiming that some 10,000 people participated. [10] On 9 January 2022, the cities of Leeds and Luton hosted the eighth round of the Khalistan Referendum. [11]
United Nations blue beret with UN badge worn by UN Military Observer Richard Cooper in India and Kashmir, c. 1973–1974. The United Nations has played an advisory role in maintaining peace and order in the Kashmir region soon after the independence and partition of British India into the dominions of Pakistan and India in 1947, when a dispute erupted between the two new States on the question ...
It continues to assert that a secular, independent Kashmir—free of both India and Pakistan—is its eventual goal. [5] [6] Despite having received support in the form of weapons and training from the Pakistani military, [7] it regards Pakistan as an 'occupation power' and carries out a political struggle against it in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. [8]
The state of Jammu and Kashmir, which was contiguous to both India and Pakistan, decided to remain independent. It offered to sign standstill agreements with both of the dominions. Pakistan immediately accepted, but India asked for further discussions. The Khanate of Kalat, at the western periphery of Pakistan, also decided to remain ...
An independent news outlet in Indian-administered Kashmir has been evicted from its office after access to its website and social media accounts was blocked.
The Kashmir Valley is the only region of the former princely state where the majority of the population is unhappy with its current status. The Hindus of Jammu and Buddhists of Ladakh are content under Indian administration. Muslims of Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas are content under Pakistani administration.
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was created in 1846, through the Treaty of Amritsar, between the British Empire, who had taken the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and Gilgit Baltistan from the earlier Sikh rule, and Gulab Singh, a Dogra from Jammu who subsequently initiated the Dogra dynasty which ruled Jammu and Kashmir as a princely state of British India for the next century.
Ranbir Singh's grandson Hari Singh, who had ascended the throne of Kashmir in 1925, was the reigning monarch in 1947 at the conclusion of British rule of the subcontinent and the subsequent partition of the British Indian Empire into the newly independent Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan.