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dated May 31, 1956: India's case on Kashmir

Prime Minister Nehru said in New Delhi on May 29 that India's case on Kashmir was quite strong and that none need worry about it. Addressing the last meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party held during the Budget session of Parliament, he made a reference to the reactions to his speech in which he had suggested a settlement of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of the present ceasefire line. The context of Indo-Pakistan dispute on Kashmir had completely changed since Pakistan's acceptance of US military aid and her membership of various military alliances, and hence the situation had to be viewed from a different angle. His recent statements did not rule out the possibility of talks on this question with the Pakistan leaders. But no useful purpose could be served by such talks if the same old arguments, which had become quite out-of-date, were to be repeated. Pakistan, he added, was out and out an aggressor in Kashmir and that fact must be recognised. Referring to "certain proposals" he had made to the Pakistan leaders when they visited India last year to settle the dispute, Mr. Nehru said these proposals had been made not out of any weakness, but to take out the Kashmir question from the present state of uncertainty and place it on a realistic plane. The people of Kashmir, he said, had struck a serious blow to the two-nation theory on which Pakistan was based and in fact the relations between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir were most cordial.

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