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Another attempt to annex Kashmir was carried out, this time by Sultan Said Khan of the Yarkent Khanate. Said Khan dispatched Haidar Dughlat, a Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general, to Kashmir in 1533. [82] Despite early defeats, Kashmiris repelled and defeated Turco-Mongol forces, forcing them to sign a peace treaty that same year. [83]
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. Kashmir Valley's Muslims want to change their national status to independence. [428] Scholar A.G. Noorani testifies that Kashmiris want a plebiscite to achieve freedom. [429]
The Mughal conquest of Kashmir [a] also known as War of Kashmiri Independence, [b] [c] [1] [2] [3] was an invasion of the Kashmir Sultanate by the Mughal Empire in 1585–1589. [4] After severe fighting and heavy casualties, the Mughals defeated the Kashmiris in the Battle of Hastivanj (10 October 1586) [ 5 ] and annexed the sultanate into ...
In 2003, the percentage of Muslims in the Kashmir Valley was 95% [108] and those of Hindus 4%; the same year, in Jammu, the percentage of Hindus was 67% and those of Muslims 27%. [108] Among the Muslims of the Kashmir province within the princely state, four divisions were recorded: "Shaikhs, Saiyids, Mughals, and Pathans. The Shaikhs, who are ...
Pakistan brought the case of Junagadh to the United Nations in January 1948. The UN Security Council commanded its commission on Kashmir to examine the conflict over Junagadh. [24] The Kashmir conflict eclipsed the matter of Junagadh at the United Nations Security Council, [48] where Junagadh's case is still unresolved.
India reinforced Kashmir by an additional brigade. [145] 27 December 1947 (): British Commonwealth Minister Philip Noel-Baker considered it a "political miscalculation" by India that the UN Security Council would condemn Pakistan as an aggressor. The events before Kashmir's accession would also come into play.
Under this Sino-Pakistan Agreement, Pakistani control to a part of northern Kashmir was recognized by China. [3] During this period, China was in dispute with India regarding Kashmir's eastern boundary, with India making claims of the border having been demarcated beforehand and China making claims that such demarcations had never happened.
After the death of Fateh Khan Wazir in 1818, governor Azim Khan left Kashmir for Kabul to assume Wazir's office, leaving Jabbar Khan in charge of Kashmir. [2] Birbal Dhar , Azim Khan's revenue minister, betrayed his master and traveled to Lahore , the capital of the Sikh Empire, asking Ranjit Singh to annex Kashmir, saying the Afghan rule was ...