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Pakistan vs India (Kashmir conflict on the rise)

Indian Prime Minister Pandat Jawahar Lal Nehru with Founder of Pakistan Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"If I am right why should I bend, let the other side bend" Quaid e Azam
  • Facts about India & Pakistan & Kashmir

  • 80,000 Kashmiris have been killed by Indian Forces

  • Hizbul Mujahideen is the largest freedom fighter's group in Kashmir backed by powerful Jamaat e Islami, but Lasker e Taiba is more popular

  • Popular slogan in Indian occupied Kashmir is, Kashmir Bane Ga Pakistan, Insha Allah.

  • Dec 13th 2001 Indian Parliament was attacked by un identified terrorists, India blames Kashmiri freedom fighters groups, Lashker e Toiba and Jash e Muhammad, groups deny any link with the attack and Pakistan asks proof.

  • Pakistan and Indian forces have been moved from their bases to front lines.

  • Both Pakistan and India are nuclear powers.

  • Both India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two over Kashmir.

  • Indian army is twice the size of the Pakistan army

  • India has 850 war planes and Pakistan has 350

Kashmir's troubled history
  • August 1947 Pakistan & India gain independence. Kashmir status undecided.
  • October 1947 war between Pakistan & India after Kashmir's Maharaja hands key powers to India.
  • July 1949 ceasefire agreed. Pakistan gains one third of Kashmir.
  • September 1965 war breaks out as India blames Pakistan for insurgency.
  • Late 1971 heavy fighting in Kashmir during Pakistan India's war over Bangladesh.
  • July 1972 line of control in Kashmir agreed, similar to the 1949 ceasefire line.
  • 1989 insurgency begins in Indian controlled Kashmir.
  • July 1999 Kargil conflict begins when Pakistan crosses line of control.
  • October 2001 worst fighting for more than year breaks out as India starts shelling what it calls Pakistani military positions.
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