Original sentence: Pakistan insists that the Maharaja was not a popular leader, and was regarded as a tyrant by most Kashmiris Pakistan maintains that the Maharaja used brute force to suppress the population.. Pakistan accuses India of hypocrisy, as it refused to recognize the accession of Junagadh to Pakistan and Hyderabad's independence, on the grounds that those two states had Hindu majorities (in fact, India had occupied and forcibly integrated those two territories)
Edited sentence: Pakistan accuses India of hypocrisy, as it refused to recognize the accession of Junagadh to Pakistan and Hyderabad's independence, on the grounds that those two states had Hindu majorities (in fact, India had occupied and forcibly integrated those two territories).Pakistan insists that the Maharaja was not a popular leader, and was regarded as a tyrant by most Kashmiris (the Pakistanis conveniently forget that the most popular, National Conference, was also in favour of acceding to India)