This argument is circular. Kashmir was a free country from August 1947 to October 1947 - like Nepal or Bhutan. Why did Pakistan invade it?
No Sir,
Indians invaded first and not the Pathans. Surprisingly, this fact is not even known to many Pakistanis as well.
The invasion of Kashmir was planned by Hindu Indians and their leaders much before the Pathan ingresses in to Kashmir to save the Muslims from being completely massacred by marauding Hindu invaders from India. It was all started by and planned in meetings between rulers of Alwar, Kapurthala and Patiala etc with Maharaja of Kashmir, in complete knowledge of Hindu Indian leaders.
And, the intrusion of Pathans has been blamed for everything. However, does any of you even know that after the 1947 pogrom in Punjab where Muslims were killed in millions in order to ethnically cleanse the areas and change the demography, where did these marauding Hindu and Sikh hordes were sent to? No you wouldn’t know or probably wouldn’t want to acknowledge it – these hordes were sent to Jammu to loot, rape, abduct and kill Muslims.
As planned, in the initial instance, they intended to ethnically cleanse areas of Jammu where Muslims were in minority. Between July and October 47, over 500,000 Muslims were thrown out of their homes, out of which 200,000 thousand were killed and about 300,000 were forced to emigrate to Pakistan. This was the first stage of this operation. The Pathans came to safeguard the Muslims from hordes of marauding Sikhs and fundamentalist Hindus.
May I recommend more study of actual history than what is being taught in Indian school and college system and propagated in India.