Kashmir

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Kashmir

• By Yash Desai

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Information About Kashmir

• Map of Kashmir
• Kashmir is located in Northern Part of India
• It borders with Pakistan and China
• Located in the valley of Himalayas, Himalayas is
  shared by four countries
• Known as crown of India
• current conflicts in other words I will tell you
  how the one of the beautiful place in the world
  is turned into hell
• Conclusion

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Kashmir

• Kashmir is the part of country which is widely
  diverse one of the example of the diversity is
  the languages spoken.
• In India we have about 15 government recognized
  languages to name a few they are Hindi, Marathi,
  Gujarati and English
• And each one has its own grammar and vocabulary
  and they differ from each other like English
  differ from French
• Unity in Diversity

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Picture of Lake in Kashmir
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People Working in Kashmir
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Beautiful scenery of Kashmir
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Another picture
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A Lake in Kashmir
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Himalayas Range
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Current picture
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Map of Kashmir
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Current Conflicts

• India divided in three parts in 1947
• Because of Mohammad Ali and few other activists
• It got divided in three parts India, East
  Pakistan (today's Bangladesh) and West Pakistan.
• When India got independence all the kings and
  state got join either in India or Pakistan

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Current Conflicts

• But the Hari Singh the king of Kashmir undecided
• So India and Pakistan makes a standstill
  agreement and he gets help from both countries.
• Pakistan violates agreement on 22nd October 1947
  and holds the supplies and attacks Kashmir
• He writes a letter to the governor general of
  India (sd). Lord Mountbatten stating that
  Pakistan has attacked his territory and he needs
  Indian support
• India said sign the instrument of accession and
  we will supply you with army.

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Current ConflictsOctober 27th 1947

• October 27th 1947 Indian army enters Kashmir to
  defend against Pakistani troops

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December 31st,1947

• On December 31st,1947 a highly unconstitutional
  offer of plebiscite was made by prime minister
  Nehru

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January 1st 1948

• India under Nehru declares unilateral cease-fire
  
• under article 35 of the U.N. chapter, India
  files complains against pakistan
• Since that day there are two parts of Kashmir
• IOK
• POK (they call it Azad (independent) Kashmir
  thats 2/5 of the state

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Wars

• 3 wars
• 1st war when they entered Kashmir against
  Pakistani military.
• In 1971 creation of Bangladesh
• In 1999 Kargil War

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Link to the civilian casualty in Kashmir

• http//www.armyinkashmir.org/civilian.html

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Last but not the least

• One of the beautiful in the world is turned into
  hell, by the terrorism by Pakistan and nobody is
  doing anything
• To let my audience know how beautiful Kashmir is
  and what is going on there
• My purpose of choosing this topic was to inform
  people what Kashmir is and why are we fighting
  over a small piece of land over last 50 years
• in my next speech I will tell you what I think
  about it

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Work cited

• The Instrument of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir
  state A Historical Perpective. armyinkashmir. 08
  July 2003 lthttp//www.armyinkashmir.org/history/hi
  story1.htmlgt.