ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the origins of the dispute, the Kashmir question at the United Nations (UN), the causes of Indo-Pakistan Wars, and the post-Simla Accord period. It highlights the role of the Kashmir dispute in Pakistan's foreign policy. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru used the change in Pakistan's foreign policy as grounds for the rejection of the already promised Kashmir plebiscite. Pakistan, of course, continued to raise the issue at the UN whenever it felt that new developments constituted material changes in the status of Kashmir, or assisted in moving towards significant changes. According to an Indian Army general, trained guerrillas from Pakistan were sent into Indian Kashmir under the code name "Operation Gibraltar" with the aim fomenting political trouble, spreading confusion, and inciting and helping Kashmiris to rise and rebel against their government. A comparative analysis of Indian attitudes over the Korean War and Kashmir dispute, clearly exemplifies the employment of dual standards of international principles.
