Amit Krishankant Paul is a lawyer, mediator and researcher. He is the Author of the book ‘Meghdoot: The Beginning of the Coldest War’ and has written several papers and articles on the Siachen Dispute. The views expressed here are his own.
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This Occasional Paper weaves together international and regional developments in the 1940s to show that Britain wanted Pakistan and Kashmir as part of the Islamic arc envisaged by it in 1947 as a buffer against the Soviet influence.
