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dated March 22, 1957: Pak claim untenable

Prime Minister Nehru told the Lok Sabha on March 21 that Pakistan's major difficulty was that they were trying to develop something on the basis of the two-nation theory. "The result is that they cannot get a grip and they have to rely more and more on external forces and external aid." Mr. Nehru not only reiterated India's stand that the basic issue in regard to Kashmir was Pakistan's aggression but called upon Pakistan to give up the two-nation theory on which she based her claim to Kashmir. Winding up the debate on the President's address, Mr. Nehru referred to the suspension of the Constitution in West Pakistan and said he sympathised with the people and Government of West Pakistan. He said any upset of the present situation in Kashmir would bring ruin to the people of Kashmir. Mr. Nehru said India had advanced on the political, economic and social plane in the past ten years and asked other countries to remember that the people of India were the children of the Indian Revolution "who cannot be dealt with in a casual way."

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