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It was Pakistan to violate the Standstill Agreement and only after the repeated request of the sovereign authority to his Pakistani counterparts did he reluctantly agree to sign the IoA with India.The ascension was illegal in our opinion. The people did not want it but the ruler forced it and went to the extent of ethnical cleansing to do it.
You are correct on this one, the Maharaja had little choices left after the plunder and rape of the Kashmiris(Baramulla massacre for example) by the tribesmen and informal militias sent by Pakistan.And we believe he signed it so as to gain the military protection.
This only goes to show the 'magnanimity' of Jawaharlal Nehru that he decided to approach the United Nations although he was under no compulsion to do so being backed-up by legal handover of external security of Kashmir.Furthermore, Gandhi and Nehru, both in India and in UN promised Kashmir the right to self determination as CHOSEN representatives of the new Indian state.
So far as the UN mandated self determination of Kashmiris is concerned, the conditions laid down by it have not been met by Pakistan which had further gone on to gift a chunk of Kashmiri territory to China thereby bringing another party to the dispute. Lot of water have flown under the bridge since 1948 and anyone who believes that the status quo would change is being misled.