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Essentially, India kept Kashmir and gave Sindh areas like Umerkot which was hindu majority but Pakistan did not want the indus river to be cut off by India via Sindh. It was a fair trade. Keeping additional muslims was extra burden on India. It would have been better if India gave away Kashmir and took back part of Sindh and done a full population exchange. Kashmir is too small a land to justify keeping such large muslim
I have read in numerous places that the areas of Sindh were in exchange for the Muslim majority areas of Punjab (Kapurthala, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur etc) that Radcliffe decided to give to India.
Bear in mind - Pakistan did not receive even one district that had a non Muslim majority in West Pakistan, but lost at least 4 to India.
See this map -
So nothing was given to Pakistan in exchange for Kashmir. By all logic Kashmir was a Muslim majority area bordering Pakistan and was bound to go to Pakistan.
Of course the idea it was acceded by the Dogra King, was completely negated by the accession of Junagadh to Pakistan which later snatched back by India.
But as others have so partition was never meant to include partition transfer. Even duplicitous Nehru, was reported to be saddened when he heard some Muslims were pushed out of Rajasthan. The situation would have been much different.