India Today – August 19, 2019

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TheCentre’sjurisdictionis

restrictedtokeyareas,such

asforeignaffairs,defence

andcommunications

Sept.-Oct. 1951

FirstelectionheldinJ&K.

TheSheikhAbdullah-led

Jammu&KashmirNational

Conference(earlierMuslim

Conference)winsall 75

seats.UNSCdeclaresthat

electionscannotbeasubsti-

tuteforplebiscite

February 1954

TheBakshiGhulamMoham-

mad-ledregimeinSrinagar

ratifiestheInstrumentof

AccessionafterSheikh

Abdullahdevelopscoldfeet

andisincarcerated

November17, 1956

Thestateadoptsaconstitu-

tiondefiningJ&Kaspartof

India.Itcomesintoeffect

onJanuary26,1957.Govind

BallabhPant,thenUnion

homeminister,declaresin

Srinagar,thecapitalcity,

“JammuandKashmirisan

integralpartofIndia”

1965

Pakistanimilitantsbegin

insurgencyintheKashmir

Valley.MaqboolBhatand

AmanullahKhanlauncha

plebiscitefront—theJammu

andKashmirNationalLibera-

tionFront(NLF).Operation

codenamedGibraltarby

Pakistaniterroristsleads

tofull-scalehostilities

betweenIndiaandPakistan.

InJanuary1966,ahistoric

agreementissignedin

Tashkentwherebothsides

agreetoreverttothepre-

1965 position

1971

ThirdwarbetweenIndia

andPakistanleadstothe

liberationandcreationof

Bangladesh(erstwhileEast

Pakistan).Pakistanpremier

ZulfiqarAliBhuttoandIndian

primeministerIndiraGandhi

signtheSimlaAgreement

thefollowingyear,whereby

theKashmirissueistobe

settledonlybilaterally.The

ceasefirelineishenceforth

tobetreatedastheLineof

Control(LoC)

BATTLE

ZONE

Curfew imposed

in Srinagar on

August 5

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