"Pakistan does not consider Kashmir to be a geographical or border dispute but a dispute due to the unfinished business of Partition of the subcontinent in 1947," Mr Sharif writes in his letter to Ms Andrabi, who heads the outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
Saadat Hasan Manto had posed the existential dilemma of a newly minted Pakistani soldier, in 1947 :
"Were Pakistanis fighting for Kashmir or for Kashmiri Muslims?" And Rub Nawaz wonders "If the latter, why not fight for the Muslims of Hyderabad and Junagarh?" And "if this was purely a war for Islam, why weren't other Muslim countries fighting alongside of them?" These matters, he concludes were far too subtle for the intelligence of an ordinary soldier.
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