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To India, Pakistan's claim to Kashmir based on no better reason than the fact that Kashmir has a Muslim majority population is insupportable; even more so because in [[1947]], when Kashmir still had a Muslim majority population, its popular leader, [[Sheikh Abdullah]] of its dominant political party, the [[National Conference]], had unequivocally said that Kashmir would choose to join India, not Pakistan, refelcting the [[Sufi]] religious tolerance and secularism that has been part of Kashmir's history since time immemorial and lives in the heart and soul of most Kashmiris, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist; as opposed to the dogmatic and non-secular Wahabi/Sunni Islam represented by Pakistan. Indeed, the secular nature of Kashmiri Muslims and Hindus is exemplified by the fact that till 1947, Jammu and Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu King, [[Maharaja]] [[Hari Singh]], even though an overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir were Muslim.<!--Source?-->
Indian government maintains that, the Pakistani-held territories are land illegally taken by Pakistan. The fact that Pakistan gave five thousand square miles of this Kashmiri/Indian land (see [[Aksai Chin]]) that it had forcibly occupied in [[1948]] to [[China]] in [[1963]], is even more difficult for India to understand or accept.<!--Source?-->
===Pakistani view===
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