The Tribune dated 24th March 2024
Comments by Simranjit Singh Mann: Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) states that the Kashmir dispute along with the Ladakh dispute requires the sitting of a Sikh delegation as Kashmir was annexed from Afghanistan by the Lahore Darbar (Sikh Empire 1799-1849) in 1819 and similarly Ladakh was annexed in 1834 by the Lahore Darbar. The Sikhs do not recognized colonial boundaries or the 1966 cartography of the Punjab by the Congress Party and Indira Gandhi.