gubbi
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It is relevant. That or the very reason for creation of Pakistan is flawed.And the conditions of accession of Princely States did not involve taking into account the ideology of the two countries, so the argument about Pakistan being a State for Muslims is a completely flawed and irrelevant one.
Pakistan hesitated accepting Junagadh's and Hyderabad's accession. That hesitation should explain what your leaders at that time were thinking.India was the occupying entity, it had no right to hold anything in Junagadh without going through the UN or asking Pakistan's permission. And the difficulty of holding a plebiscite in J&K is precisely why the UN was approached on the issue, passed resolutions and initiated commissions to propose solutions. Holding a plebiscite in J&K is not impossible, it is merely not in Indian interests to do so, rather hypocritically given that the Hindus in Junagadh were given a plebiscite within months.
Secondly, though accession was later accepted, there was no way that Pakistan could put in place an administrative machinery and neither were there troops to "defend" territorial integrity. Pakistan knew they were a lost cause and held no moral grounds for any justification and thats why, attention was shifted to Kashmir.
Basically, those territories were never yours, in any sense of the term, so any argument holds no weight.