| India and Pakistan, as two nations united
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| | won their independence from Britain in
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| by history but divided by destiny, are
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| | August 1947. Under the partition plan
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| almost like two estranged siblings. Their
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| | provided by the Indian Independence Act
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| rivalries over five decades have
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| | of 1947, Kashmir was free to accede to
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| prevented both the countries from
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| | India or Pakistan.The Maharaja, Hari
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| realizing their full economic and
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| | Singh, wanted to stay independent but
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| geopolitical potential.Since the founding
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| | eventually decided to accede to India,
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| of India and Pakistan as separate states
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| | signing over key powers to the Indian
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| in 1947, the dispute over who should
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| | Government - in return for military aid
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| control Kashmir has been one of the
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| | and a promised referendum.Since then, the
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| world's most enduring and violent
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| | territory has been the flashpoint for two
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| conflicts. There are also signs of a
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| | of the three India-Pakistan wars: the
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| religious conflict at play, pitting
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| | first in 1947-48, the second in 1965. In
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| predominantly Hindu India against Muslim
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| | 1999, India fought a brief but bitter
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| Pakistan.There has been a paradigm shift
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| | conflict with Pakistani-backed forces
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| since the initial stages of insurgency in
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| | that had infiltrated Indian-controlled
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| Kashmir. The direct, bold, loudly
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| | territory in the Kargil
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| eulogized direct strategy of the
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| | area.Theoretically speaking, there was a
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| insurgents establishing themselves as
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| | sudden mushrooming of a number of jihadi
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| protectors of the people of Kashmir and
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| | groups in mid-1990s in J&K. With the
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| suitable spreading their cause through
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| | purse strings tightly controlled by the
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| the media, has since seen many changes in
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| | Pakistani leadership, the supposedly
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| the methodology.It is worth recalling
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| | indigenous struggle of freedom for all in
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| that the territory of Kashmir was hotly
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| | Kashmir became a Pakistan-sponsored fight
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| contested even before India and Pakistan
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| | of terror.
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