How India’s partition in 1947 led to the strife over Kashmir today

The partition of India

The long history of the Kashmir conflict

Fears of an all-out war on the Indian subcontinent persist, as India and Pakistan are accusing each other of violating a ceasefire agreement. That deal, which was first announced by President Trump on social media, is meant to bring a halt to the deadliest hostilities over the Kashmir region in decades. Ali Velshi tells the long history of the Kashmir conflict.

Suffocating Kashmir In India-Pakistan Conflict

Pahalgam has reopened the wounds of two difficult neighbors that is India and Pakistan

How India’s partition in 1947 led to the strife over Kashmir today

Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.

In an interview with the "World", Jean-Luc Racine, a specialist in India, analyses the historical springs of the conflict between the two neighbouring regional powers, reactivated on 22 April by the Pahalgam bombing.

The dispute between the two nations, called 'nuclear powers', has been going on for more than 70 years.