Don't blame the Pakistan Army for this fiasco. AS you know I am a avid reader. I read a article on the history of Pakistan Military Academy [I have lost it and have been desperately trying to find it but you need to read it] by Brigadier
Francis Ingall who set up PMA after 1947. He tells how his first batch of cadet officers almost mutinied because they felt Pakistan Army needed to go in and help the Kashmiri's instead of idling about and let the freedom fighters, Pashtun tribals and other irregular forces take the fight. In fact this was the first recorded case of military civilian crack to appear and later would lead to the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case. Ingall had the lead cadet placed on house arrest and reported this to Liaqat as he was required to do. The lead cadet officer was discharged.
The fact was the ML government of the time did absolutely nothing. It was more concerned about events in Hyderabad, UP, Junagadh because most of them were from India. The army on the other hand was effected by Kashmir because most men were from the GT road strip from Peshawar, Attock, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Jehlum etc and bordered Kashmir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ingall
Ps. Most of this failure has been covered up by vested interests in Pakistan and you will struggle to ever see this bing covered in mainstream Pakistan. Because this of course raises some difficult questions about figures like Liaqat Khan who have been turned into heroic figures in Pakistan history with titles like Quaid-e-Millat whereas he deserves the tile of "Quaid e loser of Kashmir". India has been painted as some evil Hindu entity. I also thought the same but as I began to read over the decades I saw the reality. India was not evil. she merely did what any state should do - secure it's self interest. Something that Pakistan should have done. When India was securing Hyderabad via the "Operation Polo" there should have been another "Polo" game being played by Pakistan in Kashmir. The fact that Pakistan did not was the fault of our leaders. That India took advantage and came out better was our failure. No point in covering up our failure by calling India 'evil. As they say the winner takes all. For loser is sour grapes.
And Liaqat got his just dessert. Bullet in the head. Pity he did not get it earlier and we did not have somebody like Maj.Gen. Akbar Khan in charge. Kashmir would have been part of Pakistan federation for the last 70 years.
And for those of you in Pakistan who croak on about the UN Resolution I would encourage you to read it. It was actually a sellout by Pakistan. First Pakistan failed to do a "Operation Polo" on Kashmir and then via the UN Resolutution it effectively sold Kashmir to India.
How so? The UN resolution actually requires Pakistan to -
- Pull out it's troops from AJK
- Leave behind Indian Army to oversee the plebicite
This is as good as sell out. The Indian's argue and rightly so that the question of plebicite is not on the table as Pakistan has failed to honour the UN resolution for 70 years. It has failed to meet condition [1]. Furthermore when Pakistan Army pulls out the Indian army stays behind in Kashmir. What do they say about possession being 9/10ths of the law?
It's Pakistan that has failed to implement the UN resolution. Not India !!!!!!!