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  Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ABDULLAH, SHEIKH MUHAMMAD [Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad], 1905-82, nationalist leader in Kashmir, known as the Lion of Kashmir.
He became active in political reform while a student at Lahore Univ. and was frequently imprisoned from 1931 for urging self-rule for Kashmir, a region now divided between Indian and Pakistan.
After denouncing (1953) India's treatment of Kashmir, he was removed as prime minister and generally kept in preventive detention by the Indian government, although he was allowed to play a more active role in the early 1970s.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/A/Abdullh-SM.asp   (322 words)

  
 Pakistan Alert Network: Chronology of India-Pakistan Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He acceded to India by signing the Instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947, and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, the leader of the largest secular and popular organization in the state, approved the accession.
Shortly after, Indian troops landed in Srinagar and blocked the advance of the invading forces.
In East Pakistan, the Awami League led by Sheikh Mujiber Rehman won an overwhelming majority.
www.pakalert.net /articles/war_chronology.asp   (1130 words)

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