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| Saif Gaddafi tried to rig Kashmir survey in Pak's favour |
| 2011-04-03 |
| Bradnock says that Saif returned from POK with grandiose ideas of forcing a plebiscite in Kashmir as desired by Pakistan. He then asked the academic to conduct a survey, which he would underwrite. He funded it to the extent of $200,000 but any designs he might have had of doctoring the outcome were demolished when Bradnock insisted that he would do this only if the exercise was completely independent and had the institutional involvement of Chatham House and Kings College. Saif agreed. Brainwashed in Pakistan, he perhaps could not believe the findings would be anything other than in Islamabad's favour. He was in for a rather rude shock. The plebiscite, as agreed at the UN in 1948, which Pakistan still demands, gave Kashmiris only two choices: either to remain with India or join Pakistan. In the event, Bradnock's poll, the first ever to be held on both sides of LoC, unearthed that 98% of people in India-controlled J&K did not wish to be a part of Pakistan; and 50% in POK did not wish to remain with Pakistan, either. |
| Posted by:john frum |