* Sumathi Subbiah is the Senior Executive Editor of the Boston College International & Comparative Law Review. 1SeeSumit Ganguly, The Origins of war in South Asia 910 (1994) [hereinafter Ganguly, Origins]; Somini Sengupta, The India-Pakistan Tension: The Background, N.Y. Times, Jan. 13, 2002, � 1, at 12. 2SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 1; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 3See Erik Eckholm, The India-Pakistan Tension: The Brink, N.Y. Times, Jan. 14, 2002, at A6; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 4See U.N.Charter art. 3, para. 1. 5SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 5253; Ali Khan, The Kashmir Dispute: A Plan for Regional Cooperation, 31 Colum. J. Transnatl L. 495, 51216 (1994). 6See Khan, supra note 5, at 516. 7See id. at 522. 8See id. at 52829. 9SeeSumit Ganguly, The Crisis in Kashmir 8 (1997) [hereinafter Ganguly, Crisis]; Ganguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 9; Alastair Lamb, Kashmir, A Disputed Legacy, 18461990, at 101 (1991). 10SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 7; Khan, supra note 5, at 496. Hereinafter, the region of Jammu and Kashmir will be referred to as Kashmir as it is in much of the scholarship and press. See Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 7. 11Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 6. 12Id. at 78. 13Id. 14Id. 15Ganguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 3234. 16See id. at 36. 17SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 911. 18SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 36. 19SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 157 (providing text of the Instrument of Accession signed by Hari Singh); Ganguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 36. 20SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 10 n.23, 157; Lamb, supra note 9, at 13637. 21Ganguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 3637. 22See Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 23Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 11; Ganguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 37. 24Letter from the Representatives of India Addressed to the President of the Security Council Dated 1 January 1948, U.N. Doc. S/628, at 1 (1948) [hereinafter Indian Complaint]; Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 11. 25SeeIndian Complaint, supra note 24, at 1; Pauline Dawson, The Peacekeepers of Kashmir 23 (1994); Damodar R. SarDesai, The Origins of Kashmirs International Legal Status, inPerspectives on Kashmir 80, 8586 (Raju G.C. Thomas ed., 1992). 26SeeIndian Complaint, supra note 24, at 1, 3. 27Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Addressed to the Secretary-General Dated 15 January 1948 Concerning the Situation in Jammu and Kashmir, U.N. Doc. S/646, at 12 (1948) [hereinafter Pakistani Reply]; Lamb, supra note 9, at 165. 28Pakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 23; seeLamb, supra note 9, at 165. 29SeePakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 1822; Dawson, supra note 25, at 23. 30SeePakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 1822; Lamb, supra note 9, at 15051. 31SeePakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 69. 32Seeid.; Lamb, supra note 9, at 151. 33SeePakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 1011; Khan, supra note 5, at 513. 34See S.C. Res. 39, U.N. SCOR, 3d Sess., at 2, U.N. Doc. S/654 (1948) [hereinafter S.C. Res. 39]; S.C. Res. 38, U.N. SCOR, 3dSess., at 1, U.N. Doc. S/651 (1948) [hereinafter S.C. Res. 38]; Dawson, supra note 25, at 23. 35 S.C. Res. 39, supra note 34, at 2. 36Id. 37See Khan, supra note 5, at 513. 38 S.C. Res. 47, U.N. SCOR, 3d Sess., Supp. for Apr. 1948, at 912, U.N. Doc. S/726 (1948) [hereinafter S.C. Res. 47]. 39Id. at 910. 40Id. at 912. 41Id. at 812; Pakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 9; Indian Complaint, supra note 24, at 1. 42SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 24. 43See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 9; Dawson, supra note 25, at 25. 44Dawson, supra note 25, at 25. 45Seeid. 46Id. at 2526. 47Interim Report of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (Nov. 9, 1948), U.N. Doc S/1100, at 59 (1948) [hereinafter UNCIP Interim Report]; see S.C. Res. 38, supra note 34, at 1; Dawson, supra note 25, at 25. 48See UNCIP Interim Report, supra note 47, at 59; Dawson, supra note 25, at 26. 49SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 26; Lamb, supra note 9, at 16869. 50Dawson, supra note 25, at 26. 51Id. 52 Khan, supra note 5, at 51415. 53SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 53. 54See Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 55SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 53. 56See SarDesai, supra note 25, at 8990. 57See Khan, supra note 5, at 51516. 58See S.C. Res. 80, U.N. SCOR, 5th Sess., U.N. Doc. S/1469 (1950) [hereinafter S.C. Res. 80]; United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, Third Interim Report (Dec. 9, 1949), U.N. Doc. S/1430, at 79 (1949) [hereinafter UNCIP Third Interim Report]. 59SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 5355. Among these attempts included those by General McNaugton, Sir Owen Dixon, Dr. Frank Graham, and Mr. Gunnar V. Jarring. See id. at 5355, 5960. 60See Khan, supra note 5, at 516. 61Seeid. at 52122. 62See id. 63See id. at 52123. India and Pakistan agreed to allow the Soviet Union to be the main mediator, and the negotiations resulted in the Tashkent Declaration, which returned the situation in Kashmir to the status quo ante bellum and annulled all territorial gains. See id. 64See id. at 52324. 65SeeLamb, supra note 9, at 297; Khan, supra note 5, at 52529. 66See Khan, supra note 5, at 52930. 67See id. 68SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1416; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 69SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1516; Khan, supra note 5, at 52830; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 70See Khan, supra note 5, at 534. 71See Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 72See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 8; UNCIP Third Interim Report,supra note 58, at 77; Fredric L. Kirgis, Jr., The United Nations at Fifty: The Security Councils First Fifty Years, 89 Am. J. Intl L. 506, 52729 (1995). 73See S.C. 47, supra note 38, at 8; Dawson, supra note 25, at 23. 74See Kirgis, supra note 72, at 50910, 52829. 75SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1113; Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52728. 76See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 8; UNCIP Third Interim Report, supra note 58, at 7779; Pakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 9; Indian Complaint, supra note 24, at 1; Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52728. 77See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 912; Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 15759. 78See id. 79See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 9. 80Seeid. at 1012; Ganguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 15759. 81See S.C. Res. 47, supra note 38, at 1012. 82Seeid. at 812. 83See id. at 9. 84See id. at 1012. 85SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 5355; Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52728. 86SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 24. 87See id. 88See Khan, supra note 5, at 51315. 89SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 2526. 90See id. at 2527. 91See id.; Lamb, supra note 9, at 16869. 92SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 26; Lamb, supra note 9, at 169. 93SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 5355; Khan, supra note 5, at 51416. 94SeeGanguly, Origins, supra note 1, at 5455; Khan, supra note 5, at 51720. 95See Khan, supra note 5, at 52022. 96See Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 97See Anthony Wanis St. John, The Mediating Role in the Kashmir Dispute Between India and Pakistan, 21 SPG Fletcher F. World Aff. 173, 176 (1997) (quoting Jacob Bercovitch, The Structure and Diversity of Mediation in International Relations, inMediation in International Relations: Multiple Approaches to Conflict Management (Jacob Bercovitch & Jeffrey Z. Rubin eds., 1992)). 98See Brian Farrell, The Role of International Law in the Kashmir Conflict, 21 Pa. St. Intl L. Rev. 293, 313 (2003); Khan, supra note 5, at 52830. 99See Khan, supra note 5, at 52830. 100SeeDawson, supra note 25, at 24; Farrell, supra note 98, at 30001. 101See Khan, supra note 5, at 52729. 102See id. at 529. 103See Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52728. 104SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1416; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 105SeeLamb, supra note 9, at 297; Khan, supra note 5, at 52529. 106SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1416; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 107SeeIndian Complaint, supra note 24, at 1; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 108SeePakistani Reply, supra note 27, at 2; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 109See Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 110See Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52728; Sengupta, supra note 1, at 12. 111SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1516; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 112See Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 113SeeGanguly, Crisis, supra note 9, at 1516; Kirgis, supra note 72, at 52729; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6. 114See Khan, supra note 5, at 529. 115See St. John, supra note 97, at 176; Eckholm, supra note 3, at A6.