Briefmarke von 1960 aus Pakistan mit der Aufschrift „endgültiger Status noch nicht festgelegt“ Kaschmirs sowie Junagarh [Junagadh] und Manavadar

The Kashmir dispute is probably well known. As for Junagadh/Junagarh and its vassal Manavadar (meanwhile Junagarh itself was a vassal of Baroda, and all were part of British India) were two small „princely states“ (surrounded on all of its land borders by modern-day India, but with access to the Arabian Sea) which in 1947 could choose to join either newly independent India or Pakistan. Junagarh was ruled by a line of Muslim monarchs (with the title of „Nawab“), but with a Hindu majority, and decided to join Pakistan. When Pakistan accepted the Nawab’s Instrument of Accession on 13 September 1947, the Government of India objected.

>[India responded with] cessation of all trade and the food position became precarious. With the region in crisis, the Nawab, fearing for his life, fled to Karachi with his family and followers. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel [India’s Home Minister] offered Pakistan time to reverse its acceptance of the accession and to hold a plebiscite in Junagadh. Meanwhile, tensions were simmering in the regional areas and in major cities such as Bombay against the Nawab’s decision. 25,000 – 30,000 people belonging to Saurashtra and Junagadh gathered in Bombay, proclaiming to „liberate“ Junagadh from the Nawab’s regime. Samaldas Gandhi formed a provisional government-in-exile, called the Aarzi Hukumat (lit. Provisional Government) of the people of Junagadh. Eventually, Patel ordered the forcible annexation of Junagadh’s three subsidiary principalities. Junagadh’s state government, facing financial collapse and lacking forces with which to resist Indian force, invited the Government of India to take control. A plebiscite was conducted in December, in which approximately 99.95% of the people chose India over Pakistan.

* – [Annexation of Junagadh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Junagadh)

This annexation of these two princely states was never acknowledged by Pakistan, and official government maps still mark these territories in a similar way like on this stamp (minus independent Bangladesh of course):

* https://thehimalayantimes.com/world/pakistan-unveils-new-political-map-claiming-jammu-india-retorts
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