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Nehru Blocked 1963 J and K Settlement Agencies
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Islamabad: Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, "blocked" an Anglo-American proposal to settle the Kashmir dispute in 1963 as Pakistan received the draft before India did due to a bureaucratic mix-up, according to a new US study.
Dwelling on former US diplomat Denis Kux's recent book, "The India-Pakistan Negotiating Experience", the Daily Times newspaper said that if Nehru had accepted the proposal, "the history of the sub-continent would have been quite different today".
The proposal had been jointly worked out by then US president John F Kennedy and then British PM Harold Macmillan.
Kux writes that by the time the proposal was submitted to the Indian and Pakistani governments, "President Kennedy had grown increasingly pessimistic about the negotiations". Unfortunately, due to a bureaucratic mix-up, Pakistan received the proposal, called "Elements of a Kashmir Settlement", before India did, which Nehru "used" as "an excuse to finish" What he called "ill-concieved initiatives, however well-intentioned they may be".
Released on: Jun 3, 2006
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