Mani Shankar Aiyar substantiates the same view in these lines "IN my paper of December 1981 for the internal use of the Ministry of External Affairs, I had drawn pointed attention to the curious absence in the Pakistan of the seventies of any real belief of the sustainability of the Kashmir question (See pp 15-27, upra)".

Mani Shankar Aiyar's
(Pakistan Paper)

In plebiscite front doves also existed and Miss Mirdola Sara Bhai had close contacts with them and confidence building measures between Abdullah and India always continued from 60's till 70's with some breaks. when Indra Gandhi took over as the Prime Minister of India Abdullah's problems became psychologically easier. Neither Abdullah nor his lieutenant Mirza Afzal Beg were willing to meet the angel of death, before reaching echelons of power in Srinagar. At the same time there were people in India able to read the mind of our youthful generation. On the basis of their observations they felt that it was high time to satisfy Abdullah in his life time, because after him there was no one to sit on the table with Delhi and be ready to solve Kashmir issue within the frame work of Indian constitution.

A daring generation of Kashmiries always existed and worked in the valley, whose political activities were blanketed from the outside world. Therefore, keeping in view the dismemberment of Pakistan, Simla pact, lack of political will among the leaders of plebiscite front and election fighting tendencies, New Delhi thought it proper to go ahead with the preparation of a new instrument of compromise with Abdullah. Owing to lack of vision and unmindful of the premonition of our public, Abdullah and Beg were caught in the Indian trap of dialogues, and within four years an agreement, according to the interests of India was ready between New Delhi and a short- sighted leader Abdullah who became chief Minister and Afzal Beg Deputy Chief Minister, and Subsequently the plebiscite front was rechristened as Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.

The people of Kashmir rejected the accord 1975 between Abdullah and Indra Gandhi, and expressed their hatred and anger by making the life still on 28th Feb 1975, throughout the Indian occupied Muslim region of the state in response to a call of total bandh given by the late Prime Minister of Pakistan Z.A Bhutto. This was a tremendous and enthusiastic display of political will and determination by our populace against the ugly ethics of selfish and foolish leaders.