Pak-backed Tribal Invasion of Kashmir First Attack on Independent India, Says Min Prahlad Patel
News 18The Pakistan-backed tribal invasion of Kashmir on October 22, 1947 was the first attack on independent India in which Pakistani terrorists and Army inflicted dreadful torture on people, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said on Thursday. In a video message at the inauguration of the first-ever two-day national symposium and exhibition, "Memories of 22 October 1947", the Union minister said the day was a black day for Kashmiriyat and the people of Kashmir. "I think all the people of Jammu and Kashmir will also take part in it to see the scenario of those circumstances," he said. Being organised by National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory Government at SKICC here, the symposium will bring forth the historical narrative of the day.