Since both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons in 1998, Kashmir has become one of world's most dangerous flashpoints. HISTORYAfter partition of the subcontinent in 1947, Kashmir was expected to go to Pakistan, as other Muslim majority regions did. WARSThe dispute over the former princely state sparked the first two of three wars between India and Pakistan after independence 1947. India also accused Pakistan of backing the separatists, in particular by arming and training fighters in its part of Kashmir and sending them into Indian Kashmir. PAKISTANI KASHMIRConsists of the smaller Azad Kashmir (“Free Kashmir”) and the Northern Areas, which also formed part of the state before independence.

Source: bd News24 February 27, 2019 14:34 UTC