NEW YORK, N.Y. (Army News Service, April 2, 2009) -- In the center of Times Square, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. swore 32 recruits into the service Wednesday, and half of them enlisted through a new program for non-citizens with special skills.
The group included 16 recruits who are part of the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest, or MAVNI program. MAVNI seeks to give individuals from other countries the opportunity to gain citizenship through joining the U.S. Army.
MAVNI allows non-resident aliens with special skills who are legally in the United States to enlist in the Army. (Resident aliens - persons with green cards - have previously been able to join.) The MAVNI pilot program began Feb. 23 and continues until Dec. 31.
The pilot program allows men and women with essential language, cultural or technical skills to enlist and possibly gain U.S. citizenship. Although many skill sets are being sought, the majority of recruits under the program thus far possess medical or language skills.
The New York City Recruiting Battalion is conducting the pilot program for MAVNI and has authority to enlist applicants under the program's strict guidelines. These guidelines include being in legal immigration status, scoring in the upper half of the Army's qualification test and meeting the Army's height and weight standards.
The MAVNI program has enlisted 52 individuals so far and has more than 2,000 interested applicants.
"The actions of these men and women epitomize the spirit the President called for in his inaugural address," Gen. Casey said at the Times Square recruiting station.
President Barack Obama spoke of military members being the "Guardians of our liberty (and those who) embody the spirit of service: a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves."
Son FLY to USA to Desert NS, my $75,000 Security Bond GONE!
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TS,
I don't know what documents or visa status your son is holding in the states side. Other than married to an American to quickly get a PR status the other alternative is to hold a employment visa H1B1. Or the final express way is to joint the US Army or Marine to fight in Afghanistan for 12 months to be a citizen soldier.
Immigration thru employment visa can last for years as it needs to go thru labor certification. At the current rate of unemployment in states side certification is not easy.
If he is "out of status" over stayed he will need to engage an attorney to get it reinstated more likely he needs to leave the country and returned back to the US. If he is denial entry at the border the only way for him is to return back to Singapore.
If he buy into a social security and a fake driver license if he is Caught he than is a Federal felony of identity thief that would deny him from any chances of immigrating to the United States.
So......
If you can get contact of him please tell him career opportunity for this next decade will be in Asia return back to serve National Service and get into a job get the experiences before going returning back to States side.
He is still young. He is a smart person to think for himself.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Since you ask, yes, yes, yes and yes.
For the first two questions, I spent years working in the juvenile justice system with kids who had records of crimes such as car theft, burglary and assault, and rehabilitating them. Rest assured that your kid's nothing compared to the ones I built a professional reputation of dealing with - you ain't seen smart till you've seen an 11-year-old get past a car alarm like it was never installed. Hate to burst your bubble, but that PSLE score ain't nothing special in the real world, booster.
After that, I quit and went corporate, which leads to the third point. My clients make multi-million dollar decisions based upon my analysis and advice - it's not a job for fly- by-nighters.
For the last point, I have never scored anything below 135 on test batteries such as the Weschler or Stanford-Binet scales - I'd go into standards of deviation above the mean but that might hurt your head.
Huh. So professional juvenile guy brags about his high IQ test scores, experience with youthful idiots, and how my kid is nothing compared to the foster guys that you can't adopt. Stop whining. Besides the fact that you don't have a son, or wish you sorely do, you aren't fooling me. First, evidence. Show evidence for your super genuis 11 year-old who got through a fire alarm. Can't? Then I label it bullshit.
Second, your exxageration for your experience and job doesn't impress me either. Yeah, you're great, and yeah, you're really smart, but unless you provide evidence for you who are (pfft, would someone like you go on a forum?), everything you say is cock.
Third, IQ scores does not equal intelligence. Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble, but you're not as smart as you think you are. Want proof? Sure.
http://www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia_dyslexic/dyslexia014.htm
Proof that your high income actually betrays low IQ? Sure.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/07/higher_intellig.html
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/04/correlation-between-iq-and-net-worth.html
Your "high" job position does not impress me, neither does your pride in your IQ score. The fact that you have pride in your IQ score just betrays an unstable ego, and an arrogant mind-set.
And, if you actually think I would fall for your self-praise makes me think of you as stupid. Sure, go ahead and cry to the world how awesome you are.
And here you are, whining about your 75 grand and threatening to sue your son and sic the cops on him. Hoo. Rah.
You can try to justify it any way you want and make all manner of excuses. The current state of play itself reflects how desperately you're trying to fool yourself.
Oh, I see. So because you claim the other party doesn't keep its deals, it's perfectly all right for you to not keep yours?
NOBODY forced you to put up the bond - you chose to do it and now you are looking to worm your way out of your decision. That's irresponsible, plain and simple.
Still epic fail.
I see you are avoiding my correction of your poor english usage. Instead of making a counter-argument to the definition of a deal, you are whining and reverting the blame to me. Thus, I conclude you are supid.
First, the "you can justify and make excuses" accusation only shows that you can't say anything against my previous argument because I'm right. Yeah, I'm a fool, but I'm a witty fool. The problem with you is that you're an idiot.
Second, if the other party doesn't keep it's deals, what is the other party? Plain and simple. A hypocrite. And your definition of "keeping the deal" is irrelevant, because as I have addressed previously, a deal is only a deal on the terms. Not the results, idiot.
Third, another unoriginal repeat of your second argument. If all you care about is stupid values, then shut up. NOBODY forced me, but you see, I was forced to give the money. If nobody forced me, would I give up the money? Idiot.
No, I don't judge, I conclude - the facts as you have presented them point squarely to your irresponsibility.
The fact that I can post on the forum simply means that when my clients agree to pay three and a half grand a day for my professional time and then hold up the process, I can chill instead of getting my knickers in a twist slogging like some poor slob.
Lemme lay it out for you, sunshine. I've been there and done that - if there's a stunt to be pulled I've seen it. I've had my fair share of wins and losses with the scars to go with it all, and sport, you've been had in the biggest way possible.
Now I have to take my hat off to you for coming into a place full of strangers and admitting that you've been right buttfucked by your boy - that takes a certain kind of gumption.
Or stupidity. Take your pick because I really don't care.
Hah! Conclude? Bullshit. The facts that you have taken is relative to your own "smart" reception. You have taken the facts wrongly. The fact that you can post on a forum and your "high-tier job" is irrelevant, because most likely your talk is bullshit.
Let me lay it down for you kid, your stunts mean nothing if you don't do it. If you are so big, then get my kid back. Your eleven-year old genuis has no correlation to you if he's the one that does it. You're not the one that can get through a car alarm so shut it. I don't care about your masochistic bragging if you can't back it up. So stop your cock and do something.
Now, I have to take my hat off to a profound mix of ignorance and stupidity. Though you haven't admitted anything, I conclude that you are stupid. Screw the facts, you have cited no facts to begin with,
The fact of the matter is that you're rightfully angry at getting screwed proper, but you're just being childish in trying to take it out on folks who have sweet fuck-all to do with your predicament. After all, if they had anything to do with it, wouldn't you be going after them for your 75 grand?
So grow up, be a man and deal with the loss of your cash without being a drama queen and going after people who had no part in the loss of your wad.
Sheesh.
No, I'm not going after people who don't have part in the loss of my wad, I'm going after people who are stupid, like you. Just as your opinion of me is childish, I think you are childish. Yeah, it's okay to play the victim. After all, stupidity is a condition that in inherited. Not my fault you're stupid.
Geez, you're a man? I thought you were a pussy. Then again, I learn new things everyday.
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Edit: I just read your last post, and am officially disgusted with you.
It's clear that it was your son that is irresponsible and of poor character, but not only do you doggedly refuse to face up to that, while desperate to reclaim your lost money which was only lost because of your son's dishonour and irresponsibility (probably inherited from you), you now try to blame the government. LoL.
I was appalled to see you even had the gall to post some stupid temasekreview link to support your claims that it was the system that wronged you, and not your ill-bred and immoral son of bad character.
It's super clear where your son got all his irresponsible, dishonorable and unreliable character traits from! It was from you. Even if he didn't genetically inherit them from you, he must have mimicked you over the years back in Singapore.
You deserve it 100%. I hope you try to sue the govt (like the fired SLA nutjob employee bitch who accuses the civil service of "sloppiness" but is sueing to desperately have a job in the civil service LOL), join the opposition party lunatics like Uncle Yap and eventually get admitted into IMH like them.
p/s: you may also want to know that while intelligence is highly prized by society and has rewarded many a great people with high IQ financially, it's only intelligent people with honour that go the long haul and eventually reach the apex. Your son with his inherited fucked-up character just like his irresponsible and look-everywhere-to-blame dad will not last long before he gets eliminated from the race of life.Alright, let me lay the facts clear in front of you, twit.
1) Who is responsible for the policies regarding NS?
2) Is the NS necessary in this era? Do we really stand a chance against other countries even with such NS policies?
3) Has the NS really have been protecting us, not our geographical, economical, and democratical position?
If you can't answer the above questions, shut it. Like the above, you aren't impressing anybody.
Now, appealing to your disgust, do I care about your feelings? (Hint: No.) Besides your feelings, have I clearly been blaming my son? (Hint: Yes.) And based on the above three questions, does it show that the government has a part in this? (Hint: Yes.)
Then, keep your mouth shut.
Now, you have betrayed a huge lack of intelligence by accrediting personality to genetics. First, have you heard of nurture? Second, have you heard of psychology? Third, have you heard of Science? No? I don't blame you. After all, stupidity isn't bred so it's not your fault, right?
Yeah, blah blah blah, I deserve it. Not my son. Not the government. Ha Ha Ha. Alright. Then if you run away, your father deserves it. After all, let's blame the father for your irresponsible action. After all, it is his fault for bringing you up incorrectly. Yeah, everything the child does is the parent's fault. Nothing to do with the child, because it is the parent's responsibility to bring them up well. Hell, blame the child for killing his dad. It's not the child's fault for killing the dad, it's the dad for not bringing him up properly. Yeah, well done mature and intelligent Singaporeans. You sure are worthy of respect.
Now, have I said anywhere that I will sue the government? Do you know English? No? Yeah, you're an idiot. Everything else is irrelevant and bullshit.
And see the above regarding IQ, twit.
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like father like son
the idiosyncratic son is the product of the father
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Ask your son not to come back (to Singapore) before he hits 50.
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Well, well, well.
So I'm a pussy and insidestory is a twit.
And you're the jackass who got buttfucked by his kid to the tune of 75 grand (plus whatever you got ripped off for in the course of his "education" overseas).
Let me lay the facts clear in front of you, twit.
When it came time for you to sign the bond, you could have refused. In fact, when they asked you for the bond, you could be the fucking hero like you are now, arguing that NS is not necessary and we don't stand a chance.
But nooooooo, you cowered and said, "Yes sir, no sir, three bags full. Here's my money and what colour did you want me to fart in, sir?".
In fact, you could still go to the people who hold your 75 grand and tell them how futile it all is.
But nooooooo, you're dictating your view to people who can't do anything about it - that's if they gave a flying fuck in the first place.
So, you're talking like king dick to people who don't count, but to the people who do you can't even stop wetting yourself long enough to ask for your money back.
Hell, sport, you're a coward and a moron.
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This bullshit is getting serious. And now this TS is blaming government for NS.
Whats next, blame god ? Now its too obvious. This part made me chuckle 
Yeah, blah blah blah, I deserve it. Not my son. Not the government. Ha Ha Ha. Alright. Then if you run away, your father deserves it. After all, let's blame the father for your irresponsible action. After all, it is his fault for bringing you up incorrectly. Yeah, everything the child does is the parent's fault. Nothing to do with the child, because it is the parent's responsibility to bring them up well. Hell, blame the child for killing his dad. It's not the child's fault for killing the dad, it's the dad for not bringing him up properly. Yeah, well done mature and intelligent Singaporeans. You sure are worthy of respect.
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Whoops, you wrote so much crap the forum software automatically collapsed it.
I'll forgive you for thinking that none of what I say about myself is true - after all, plenty of people do that online. It's your choice and I'm not going to waste my time providing bona fides - all I was doing was giving straight answers to the questions you asked.
The people on this forum who know me personally (and there are quite a few) know that I don't bullshit, and that's good enough for me. Dumb cunts like you don't count.
By the way, I didn't even bother looking at the pop-culture websites that you posted links to - the very fact that you're presenting them shows your lack of education. Maybe Google "peer reviewed journals" and try and find out what educated people read, dipshit.
Edit: the above wasn't aimed at you, TTFU.
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actually if u look at TS previous posts...u wuld have realised he's a 17 yr old pimple filled n puss infected no life troll finding ways to entertain himself and waste people time. 1 advice is not to feed the troll..
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Well, well, well.
So I'm a pussy and insidestory is a twit.
And you're the jackass who got buttfucked by his kid to the tune of 75 grand (plus whatever you got ripped off for in the course of his "education" overseas).
Let me lay the facts clear in front of you, twit.
When it came time for you to sign the bond, you could have refused. In fact, when they asked you for the bond, you could be the fucking hero like you are now, arguing that NS is not necessary and we don't stand a chance.
But nooooooo, you cowered and said, "Yes sir, no sir, three bags full. Here's my money and what colour did you want me to fart in, sir?".
In fact, you could still go to the people who hold your 75 grand and tell them how futile it all is.
But nooooooo, you're dictating your view to people who can't do anything about it - that's if they gave a flying fuck in the first place.
So, you're talking like king dick to people who don't count, but to the people who do you can't even stop wetting yourself long enough to ask for your money back.
Hell, sport, you're a coward and a moron.
As far as I know, you're a pussy and an idiot. The fact is, you failed to reply and address any of the points I listed, and thus, your petty insults show nothing but failure for intelligent conversation.
Here, twit. I lay the facts in front of you.
Hopefully you are as smart as you think you are, because I'm going to say it very slowly. When I agreed to sign the bond, it was under the condition that I would get it back when my son was enlisted. Now, show that you have an adequete grasp of English. Read: "condition". Get it now?
Hopefully, if you get it, you will now know that you are mindless idiot droning on the same insult everytime. Who counts? Well, you definitely don't count. I'm sorry, once again, it 's not your fault that you are stupid.
Sure, now you play the victim? Yeah, you can't do anything about it, so shut your mouth and admit your worthlessness and that your "conclusions" are bullshit, pussy.
And show me the evidence for your "high IQ" and "high-tier" job. Can't? Then, you have shown yourself to be a real talk cocker.So please, stop your retard thoughts.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Whoops, you wrote so much crap the forum software automatically collapsed it.
I'll forgive you for thinking that none of what I say about myself is true - after all, plenty of people do that online. It's your choice and I'm not going to waste my time providing bona fides - all I was doing was giving straight answers to the questions you asked.
The people on this forum who know me personally (and there are quite a few) know that I don't bullshit, and that's good enough for me. Dumb cunts like you don't count.
By the way, I didn't even bother looking at the pop-culture websites that you posted links to - the very fact that you're presenting them shows your lack of education. Maybe Google "peer reviewed journals" and try and find out what educated people read, dipshit.
Edit: the above wasn't aimed at you, TTFU.
Ah, getting more and more creative, aren't we? Yeah, I write crap but you breath crap, mainly because your brain can't think up anything better than that. Please, stop spewing your bullshit unless the universe implodes.
Yeah, your straight answers helped. In fact, they helped so much that I cried for joy. Keep trying, dumbass. Your crap does nothing but add shit to the sewer. Or, more accurately, your face compliments the sewer.
Now, I see your ignorance regarding what you say. Here's three facts.
1) What you think of as right is only an opinion, not a fact.
2) The fact that you think of yourself as intelligent and sophiscated is an opinion.
3) I think of you as a dolt and a simpleton, and my opinion is fact.
Hopefully, you get it now, but no, you don't get an A+. Bring your bullshit about you being a professional whatever to the idiot who believes you. You know what they say, like minds attract like.
LOL, did you even read the articles? Yeah, you are an educated person. Yeah, you know what educated people read. Yeah, your bullshit about yourself is totally being believed. Sure, you are so "educated" and "professional" but your words show that you are worthy of down syndrome. If you are going to at least try to appear "educated", try being less of an idiot, dipshit.
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he sign on US army?
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Originally posted by Keii:
I can kinda see the reason why the son prolly ran away in the first place. And this time, it's not NS.
Where is the thumbs up emoticon?
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It's an agreement. If your son runs away from Singapore and does not come back, the 75k Security bond is gone. Simple as that.
You agreed to it, you paid and signed for it stating that you understand the terms and conditions of this bond - your son doesn't come back, you lose your money. You understood prior to this that you will be clearly paying for your son's "shit' if he doesn't come back. If you don't agree to it or have not understood you would not have signed and paid this bond.
It's hilarious to me now, that all you are trying to do is to blame the system that makes you lose your money, questioning the purpose, the validity of this bond and saying the system is unfair to you.
It's even more hilarious when you are pushing all the blame to your child, stating that it's all his fault - saying juvenile things like suing him to get your money back.
You are just sore because you have lost your money. Nothing else.
Just says so much about yourself, and how your child has turned out to be. An utter failure. Why do other parents NOT have problems with their child and why do YOU have such problems.
People judge you. Yes, and I'm judging you now. When almost everyone in this thread share the same sentiments and impression about you, clearly, it's true about you. No point denying and rebutting back, trying to say it's not you. -
If you were such a good father, your son would not have severed all ties with you and not keep in contact. There were cases where sons ran away and did not come back. They did i so that they do not have to serve national service.
What differs from you and them is that they kept in contact with their relatives and loved ones, and happenings back in Singapore.
In many years on Sgforums and people I know personally, some regretted their actions when they found out that their loved ones have passed on, but they can't take a step back into Singapore to pay their last respects.
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this is a great time to sign on with the us military....the us forces are pulling out of iraq so sign on ...lookks like its much safer now..free food...lotsa allowance and $$$$.
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U.S. Army expands recruitment of non-citizens
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look like signin on is meant for selected few..in medical side and language side.besides recruitment program ended last year.
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If you think NS is not necessary, than join the opposition party or set up your own party to defeat the PAP instead of blaming the govt.
Or your whole family can simply migrate and never come back to sg
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1) Who is responsible for the policies regarding NS?
2) Is the NS necessary in this era? Do we really stand a chance against other countries even with such NS policies?
3) Has the NS really have been protecting us, not our geographical, economical, and democratical position?
I think I smell a red herring here. This thread is not about getting money back. It is another cleverly disguised anti-government ranting.
I don't think TS, if he has a son of NS age, and post in English quite well, is clueless about the implications of breaking a bond.
He should have posted in SC, and we would have had a field day.
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Is this a blame game? If so, only three options 1) The gahman. for imposing NS. 2) The son. For running away. 3) TS. For AGREEING to impose the bond, with no complains. When shit happens, complains a lot, but never blame himself. Quick, cast your votes!
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it's 1), if there's no 1 there wun be 2) and 3)
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Originally posted by Cranere:
As far as I know, you're a pussy and an idiot. The fact is, you failed to reply and address any of the points I listed, and thus, your petty insults show nothing but failure for intelligent conversation.
Here, twit. I lay the facts in front of you.
Hopefully you are as smart as you think you are, because I'm going to say it very slowly. When I agreed to sign the bond, it was under the condition that I would get it back when my son was enlisted. Now, show that you have an adequete grasp of English. Read: "condition". Get it now?
Hopefully, if you get it, you will now know that you are mindless idiot droning on the same insult everytime. Who counts? Well, you definitely don't count. I'm sorry, once again, it 's not your fault that you are stupid.
Sure, now you play the victim? Yeah, you can't do anything about it, so shut your mouth and admit your worthlessness and that your "conclusions" are bullshit, pussy.
And show me the evidence for your "high IQ" and "high-tier" job. Can't? Then, you have shown yourself to be a real talk cocker.So please, stop your retard thoughts.
*Yawn*
There's no reason to address your points because a) they're all bullshit and b) just look how you've been such a crybaby to other people who have addressed your points anyway. Complete waste of time.
Which part of "you don't count" do you not understand? Even if you got on your knees and begged for evidence, I wouldn't waste my time. Like I said, the people who do count on this forum know the facts and beyond that, whatever losers like you believe doesn't mean a thing to me.
If you think the vanity-press bullshit you posted is worth wasting my time on, well, boy, you really are a two-bit Mickey Mouse operator. Never did a degree, did you? Or are you now going to brag about scraping through third-year undergrad? Either way, your sadly misguided faith in websites for information broadcasts your ignorance with flashing lights and a siren. You're well out of your league, booster.
Speaking of things that you don't understand, which part of "condition" do you not understand? When you signed, you agreed that the money would be the government's til your brat enlisted. Your brat didn't enlist and the money is still the government's. Things are precisely as described in black and white, so where's the problem?
It's 100% fair so stop being a crybaby.
By the way, I didn't mean to help with my answers to the questions that you asked in the first place. In fact, I'm not here to help at all.
What I am here for is to delight in the hilarity of your public announcement of being arsefucked by your kid, and then your trying to blame NS, the government, your kid and strangers on the Internet for what amounts to nothing other than your own stupidity. It's always a sidesplitter watching yet another shithead who thinks the responsibilities of fatherhood end once he pulls his dick out of a conveniently available hole, and then scratches his head wondering why his kids don't automatically become Nobel Prize winners for filial piety.
Speaking of convenient holes, what's the missus make of all this? Or are you no longer talking to her because she doesn't agree that you're 100% blameless?
Anyway, do carry on. The more you claim that it's everyone else's fault and how you've had to "slog" and nobody knows how smart your kids is and how valiant all of your efforts were and all that other bullshit, the funnier this gets.
By the way, I've been too busy laughing to mention this, but your kid's now 18, so it's curious why you're bragging about his PSLE results. Has he done nothing but fuck up for the past six years, or do you not know anything about the brat since your FedEx'd him stateside?
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Originally posted by Keii:
I can kinda see the reason why the son prolly ran away in the first place. And this time, it's not NS.
+1
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Here is something for those who scoff at national defence to note.
If you can't defend your turf, like the Red Indians of America, the Tibetians and also Maharaja Hari Singh, your neighbours will just walk in.
WHAT THE DISPUTE IS ABOUT
When the British departed from most of the sub-continent in August 1947, and India and Pakistan emerged as free but separate nations, Kashmir's Hindu maharaja chose to remain independent.
But a tribal uprising against the ruler, assisted by Pakistani irregulars, succeeded in advancing all the way to the outskirts of state capital Srinagar. To save his kingdom, Maharaja Hari Singh signed an Instrument of Accession that October with India, which dispatched its army to secure Srinagar.
That led to the first Indo-Pakistan war, which ended only in mid-1948 with a ceasefire agreement.
After India took the matter to the United Nations, the world body ordered a plebiscite for Kashmiris to decide their future. That plebiscite has never been held.
India says Pakistan has not complied with a key proviso - the withdrawal of Pakistani troops from Kashmir before such a poll is held. The stalemate led to the 1965 war and a third, undeclared war in 1999.
India, which holds about 45 per cent of the territory ruled by the maharaja, claims all of Kashmir. Pakistan controls about 35 per cent, while China has been
in possession of the icy Aksai Chin area, which it wrested in the 1962 war with India. Beijing also has control of the Karakoram area, which was ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963.
Today India claims all of Kashmir while Pakistan says it is a disputed area, a position backed by China.
Jammu & Kashmir enjoys special autonomy under the Indian Constitution, but that autonomy has been whittled down over the decades by New Delhi, stoking anti-India feelings among Kashmiris.
~from thesundaytimes August 29, 2010