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The Ahmadi writer Khwaja Nazir Ahmad in his advocacy of evidence for Jesus in India (1952) produced a photograph of a page in a folio he had tried to purchase in 1946 which he identified as being from Mullah Nadri. [3] The folio is now lost and no identification of the document had been made by academic sources.
In the Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir written by Kalhana in the mid-12th century, it is stated that the valley of Kashmir was formerly a lake. According to Hindu mythology, the lake was drained by the great rishi or sage, Kashyapa , son of Marichi, son of Brahma , by cutting the gap in the hills at Baramulla ( Varaha-mula ).
My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir is a memoir by Jagmohan first published in September 1991. It focuses on his months as a governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 during the peak of insurgency. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its scope is wide, ranging from the history of ancient Kashmir and modern Kashmir, to how the state saw a breakdown of government ...
In order to draw the world's attention to the Kashmiri independence movement, the NLF planned an airline hijacking fashioned after the Dawson's Field hijackings by the Palestinian militants. Hashim Qureshi, along with his cousin Ashraf Qureshi, was ordered to execute one. A former Pakistani air force pilot Jamshed Manto trained him for the task.
In 1966, he expanded the book into a large two-volume work titled The McMahon Line. [8] Lamb also came to be recognised as an expert on the juridical and diplomatic history of the Kashmir dispute. [9] He wrote his first book on the Kashmir conflict in 1966, titled The Crisis in Kashmir. This was soon after the Second Kashmir War.
The history of Kashmir, from 1846 to 1947 part of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, and from 1947 divided between the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (now split into Ladakh and the union territory Jammu and Kashmir) and the Pakistani territories of the Gilgit Agency and Baltistan (now amalgamated as Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir.
12 October 1947 (): K. H. Khurshid, Jinnah's private secretary, was sent to Kashmir to mobilise support for Pakistan, and reported: "Muslim Conference is now practically a dead organisation." He advocated Pakistan to use force, and "supply arms and foodstuff to the tribes within and without the state."
His history entitled Waqiat-i-Kashmir (The Story of Kashmir), also known after the writer's name as Tarikh-i-Azami (History by Azam), was published in Persian in 1747. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Urdu translations were published by Munshi Ashraf Ali (Delhi, 1846), [ 4 ] and Khwaja Hamid Yazdani (Jammu, 1988). [ 5 ]