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The partition, as the division came to be known, triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. It would forever change the face and geopolitics of South Asia; almost 25 years later, for ...
1972 — India and Pakistan sign a peace accord, renaming the ceasefire line in Kashmir as the Line of Control, a heavily fortified stretch of military outposts that divide the region between them.
1949 — A UN-brokered ceasefire line leaves Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan, with the promise of a U.N.-sponsored vote that would enable the region's people to decide whether to be ...
Partition logic suggested that Kashmir, with its majority-Muslim population, ... History demonstrates that movements for self-determination – whether in South Africa, ...
Till 1947 Jammu and Kashmir was a free and sovereign state and as per the principles laid for the partition between India and Pakistan, it is clear that Kashmir is not in any way a part of India ...
But his hand was forced when, after Partition, Muslims in northwest Kashmir, backed by a Pakistani tribal army, rose up against the Hindu population and massacred them.
After partition of the subcontinent in 1947 following independence from British rule, Kashmir was expected to become part of Pakistan, as with other Muslim-majority regions.
October 27 is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir. Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control, ... Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the Subcontinent’s partition.