Seventy years of hostility in the Himalayas has led Pakistan and India back to the brink of major conflict.
Mountains Of Trouble: The Kashmir Conflict
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Ringed by the world's highest peaks and streaked with precious waterways, the Kashmir region lies behind almost every conflict between India and Pakistan since the British Empire left the continent.
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Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British-ruled India. In 1947, the departing British authorities oversaw the slicing up of India along religious lines. The partition sparked the largest mass migration in history.
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As Muslims flooded west and east to the newly formed Islamic "homelands" of today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh, Hindus and Sikhs moved in the opposite directions.
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In the chaos, mobs attacked their religious counterparts in violence that killed hundreds of thousands and shocked the world.