With Qayyum Khan, the chief minister of NWFP in the loop, Pak Army organizers sand-planned extension of the geologically enormous and deliberately urgent State of Jammu and Kashmir. In contact with the British remaining partner, they united on hindering India’s endeavor of recovering Gilgit-Baltistan whose lines addressed Soviet Central Asia. The British pioneer attitude would not surrender Lord Curzon’s “Extraordinary Game in Central Asia” methodology.
Pakistani commanders persuaded the lashkars by impelling their strict opinion of battling the unbeliever (kafir) and besides, whetted up their desire for male-ghaneem or adversary property (gold and adornments) and kidnapping of their young ladies.
Operation Gulmarg, Pak Army’s code name of Kashmir invasion, was not dispatched on the booked date of August 20, 1947. By one way or another, Major OS Kalkat, the Brigade Major of Bannu Brigade, had come to know about it. Yet, before he would be gotten by Pakistanis, he gave them a slip and came to New Delhi on Oct 18, 1947. Senior armed force officials in New Delhi and the Defense Ministry mandarins questioned the veracity of Major Kalkat’s story. He was delivered before PM Nehru, who reproached his faultfinders as well as flung to them plenty of papers advising them to search for a letter he had gotten currently about the scheme of Pak armed force’s attack plan of Kashmir by the lashkars.
In mid-September 1947, PM Liaquat Ali Khan assembled a mysterious gathering in Lahore to talk about the addition of Kashmir. NWFP Chief Minister Qayyum Khan’s proposition of drafting lashkars was endorsed. The cash would come from PM’s mysterious asset. After three days a gathering of ancestral pioneers met in a basement of a broken-down working in the walled city of Peshawar. Maj. Khurshid Anwar would function as boss. In practically no time, in the mud-walled mixtures of their towns in Landi Kotal, the tribesmen passed the antiquated battle cry of jihad. They started purchasing hard tac and gurh. Taken twice or multiple times, the significant piece could support a Pathan for quite a long time.
Two British officials in NWFP, Governor Sir George Cunningham and Lt. Gen Sir Frank Messervy, the C-in-C of Pakistan armed force, talked on the phone. Cunningham said, “Tribesmen reciting Allah o Akbar have been pouring through Peshawar. My main pastor is by all accounts working up the Pathans.” Messervy answered Prime Minister Qayyum had given him individual confirmation of his resistance to assaulting Kashmir.
