The dispute between India and Pakistan over the region of Jammu and Kashmir can be traced back to 1947, when British India was partitioned.
The partition established a Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India and was to allow the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir to choose which country to accede to.
The Kashmiri monarch at the time, or the Hindu maharaja, had sought to keep Kashmir independent because the state has been subjugated and oppressed for centuries by conquering empires.
But the monarch decided to join India in exchange for help to dispel invading Pakistani herders, triggering the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947-48.
The Karachi Agreement of 1949 temporarily ended violence in the Jammu-Kashmir region by…
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