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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As the two countries dug in on their respective claims in Kashmir, the disputed region was split into a Pakistani-held north and Indian-held south. The "line of control" was to become the front line of the ensuing conflict. The United Nations recommended that India prepare for a referendum that would decide whether Kashmir would join with India or Pakistan, a vote that was never held.
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Indian troops patrolling the Kashmiri mountains in 1965. Pakistan and India have fought three wars over Kashmir, most recently in 1999.
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An Indian soldier leaps from a blazing government compound after it was attacked by militants in 2005. Violence in Indian-administered Kashmir has been nearly continuous but surged after 1989, when a Pakistan-backed insurgency against Indian rule began. Since then, more than 20,000 people have died in the violence.
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A demonstration in Pakistan in 1998. That year, both India and Pakistan acquired nuclear weapons, further raising the stakes in the ongoing dispute over Kashmir.