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NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 9 - 15 November 2020 Vol - 30 No. 41 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Pakistan befriended It’s not about China, now dreads what you have but Indo-US proximity how you use it On October 26, India and the United States signed a Basic In history, wise or insightful individuals have contended Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) to boost that people need to live simpler by restricting external their bilateral defence and military ties. This could not have come at... wealth to achieve inner... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 24 By NDT Special Bureau Page 2 What’s happening around the ‘Friend’ America confronts ‘predator’ Trump’s warnings about election World? 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For protecting Army for revolt against the Dogra rule that was declined and the whole state of @NewDelhiTimes borders, the British formed a paramilitary and attacked the Sikh soldiers. Governor Kashmir - including GB - became disputed force (Gilgit Scouts); trained, equipped and Ghansara Singh could not hold. Gilgit got territory. Even after 73 years of illegal [email protected] led them. In 1935, the British took over separated from the Kashmir Dogra rule. The occupation, Pakistan struggles to integrate the Gilgit Agency administration from the n November 1, Pakistani Prime Dogra ruler on a 60-year lease. Baltistan O Minister Imran Khan declared Gilgit- remained under Kashmiri rule. Baltistan (GB) as Pakistan’s fifth province. The integration coincided with separation of Two weeks before Indian independence, Gilgit from the erstwhile Kingdom of Jammu the British abruptly cancelled the lease & Kashmir. Earlier, India has protested and asked Maharaja of Kashmir to take Pakistan displaying Gilgit-Baltistan-whose over Gilgit. Maharaja appointed Brigadier status has yet to be determined-in Pakistan’s Ghansara Singh as Governor of Gilgit. On map. India has also objected strongly to the August 1, Ghansara took charge of the Gilgit latest Pakistani move. The history of GB Agency from the British political agent. And describes vividly how Pakistan conspired to Gilgit came under the Kashmiri rule. annex GB. Abrupt cancellation of the lease and transfer GB was part of the State of Jammu and of power to the Dogras created existential Kashmir that was created in 1846 after crisis for the Gilgit Scouts. Rumours floated so-called revolutionary government acceded the region. The recent announcement the treaty between the British and Gulab that their privileged cadre will be replaced to Pakistan and on November 16, 1947 the of provincial status has brought Gilgit- Singh of the Dogra Dynasty. During the by the Kashmir Army. Subedar Major Babar political agent of Pakistan took charge. Baltistan under the spotlight again but first Anglo-Sikh war (1845-1846), Gulab Khan presented demands to Ghansara Singh Baltistan had no local force. After conspired Pakistan can’t bring this disputed territory Singh-the then ruler of Jammu in the Sikh to elevate Scouts’ status to that of Kashmir accession of Gilgit by Scouts with Pakistan, under its Constitution. Pakistan clarifies that empire-remained neutral to help the British Army in training, salaries and facilities. Muslim ruler of Rondu incited the people GB would “be included in the plebiscite the East India Company. The Britishers sold Kashmir’s accession to India or Pakistan was to fight the Sikh troops and later invited the day the plebiscite happens” but only after Kashmir to Gulab Singh for 7.5 million not decided yet. The regions of Gilgit and Gilgit Scouts to separate Baltistan from the the people of Gilgit-Baltistan desire full rupees making him the first Maharaja of Baltistan were dotted with small kingdoms Dogra Raj. integration with Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir. The State had four of Rajas and Mirs under the dual British- units: the province of Jammu, the province Dogra administrative control. Their ruling “Pakistan has illegally occupied GB. of Kashmir, the district of Gilgit and the elites had officers’ ranks in the Scouts and Pakistan annexed GB but didn’t have the Pakistan is going to make it a province district of Ladakh (which included Baltistan wielded influence in the future settlement. competence or courage to administer and now,” reiterated Defence Minister Rajnath in its Skardu tehsil). formally incorporate GB into its territory. Singh stating that “GB, along with the Jinnah utilised India’s funds to send militants Pakistan tagged GB with Kashmir to gain entire Pakistan occupied Kashmir, is an The region was geo-strategically important from 22 Pakhtun tribes to invade Kashmir on more votes in a possible plebiscite for integral part of India.” GB is connected to due to probable Russian invasion from October 22, 1947. That forced Maharaja Hari Kashmir. India historically before Islamist fighters Central Asia. The British created the ‘Gilgit Singh to declare the accession of Kashmir conspired to illegally merge it with Pakistan. Agency’ with the British-Dogra dual to India on October 27, 1947 leaving Gilgit GB’s integration into Pakistan is complicated Can India get the territory back from the control. Civil administration remained with uncertain about its future. Mirza Hasan as India and Pakistan both claim it. When clutches of Islamists? If yes, when? Trump’s warnings about election fraud may prove true who has been a lifelong leftist, and had I been American would have cheered Senator ◆ By Tarek Fatah Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Tulsi Author & Columnist, Canada Gabbard, I find the new millionaire Marxists @TarekFatah of America repugnant. [email protected] The working man and woman are too boring s early as April this year, U.S. President to deserve their attention. Greta and the A Donald Trump raised the danger of Greens are a priority; damn the blue-collared “fraud” taking place if postal balloting workers who built America. Both he and the was permitted. Speaking to media at the nation he built as well as the U.S. flag he White House, Trump said “mail-in voting is fought under, deserved to be set alight, in horrible, it’s corrupt.” their minds. Then on Aug. 5, the President stated The entire U.S. mainstream media led by explicitly that “mail-in votes in Nevada and CNN and The New York Times worked just other states will lead to widespread fraud.” like the newspaper Izvestia laboured for the The President also identified Arizona as Soviet Communist Party leaders Khrushchev another state where these votes may be and Brezhnev. They reversed the role and cause for concern. PC : Getty Images targeted Trump with hostility and bias that I have not witnessed as a journalist for 50 the exasperated woman expresses alarm: who run the Chinese Communist Party were His words from August sound prophetic years, some of those years under military “How come? They have already called my thrilled at the prospect that no one will ever today as we have witnessed both Arizona rule. and Nevada struggling to come up with a State” to which one of the men wearing blame them for the catastrophe they have result as of Thursday evening. masks informs her, “they are postal ballots.” inflicted on the world — COVID-19, which Then we had the pollsters who lied through Trump as referred to as the “China Virus.” their teeth and tried to excite the bourgeoisie It’s unclear what’s really going on in that Potential fraud by voters voting more than China will never have to face the wrath of into believing that the ‘blue wave’ would video, but seen in the context of how the once or even dead people voting has been the world, now that the Democrats have wipe out the Reds into oblivion. Has entire system had been geared to defeat raised by Trump’s lawyers who are seeking managed to lay the blame for the pandemic anyone admitted that all their predictions, Donald Trump, it would make anyone intervention in the courts at many levels. situation in the United States squarely at extrapolations, and statistical analyses were suspicious. Anecdotal evidence was rife on social media Trump’s feet. bogus? yesterday. One showed a video of two postal It seems those who wanted Trump out of If one were to hear the Democrat propaganda The Republicans retained the Senate workers emptying a large container on a city their way were leaving no stone unturned to machine, it was as if all the COVID-19 and added to their count in the House of street. Watching it would make any ordinary get rid of him and replace him with former deaths in the world – Russia and France, Representatives by not just women, but person believe that something fishy was Vice President Joe Biden, who had a cloud South Africa and Somalia – were Trump’s minority women.