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
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/70526c52-0302-4de2-9370-20fb0ca381df_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/34238204-95d4-4f3c-911e-e4a8caea4304_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/38a8d591-9403-4770-96fa-ad9cfd8fe034_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![In the chaos, mobs attacked their religious counterparts in violence that killed hundreds of thousands and shocked the world.](https://gdb.rferl.org/53aec064-ccb2-4d5c-82ed-783b00fac4d7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In the chaos, mobs attacked their religious counterparts in violence that killed hundreds of thousands and shocked the world.