‘Pakistan ready to be degraded as nation, but won’t give up Kashmir’

After starting the 1965 war, Pakistan sought an assurance from the US and United Nations for a plebiscite in Kashmir, a declassified US document has revealed. The day on which the Indian forces entered Pakistan, US Ambassador in Islamabad Walter Patrick McConaughy met the then Pakistan President Ayub Khan and Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who wanted an assurance from the US, UN and the international community for a plebiscite in Kashmir, declassified US documents of the era reveal. During the conversation, McConaughy told them that Pakistan was responsible for…

Read More