The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. The conflict s
India claims the entire erstwhile British Indian princely state of Jammu and Kashmir based on an instrument of accession signed in 1947. Pakistan claims most of the region based on its Muslim-majority population, whereas China claims the largely uninhabited regions of Aksai Chin and the Shaksgam Valley.
The Instrument of Accession of Kashmir to India was accepted by the Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten.
Sir Owen Dixon, UN mediator
Kashmir Solidarity Day on every 5 February is observed in Pakistan. This banner was hung in Islamabad.
Since the partition of British India in 1947 and subsequent creation of the dominions of India and Pakistan, the two countries have been involved in a number of wars, conflicts, and military standoffs
Kashmir conflict
…displaced within it, as well as abductions, arson, rapes and terrorist attacks, and forced an Islamic code of conduct on the larger society. Multiple wars and cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan along the LOC, at times aimed to enable cross-border movement of militants by Pakistan, has also…
Lieutenant-General A. A. K. Niazi, the commander of Pakistan Eastern Command, signing the instrument of surrender in Dhaka on 16 Dec 1971, in the presence of India's Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora.
Pakistan's PNS Ghazi, the Pakistani submarine which sank during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War under mysterious circumstances off the Visakhapatnam coast.