75 years of tensions in India-Pakistan relations

By AFP

NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan, born 75 years in the past out of the bloody division of the British Raj, are deeply troubled neighbours, at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Here are key dates within the fraught relations of the nuclear-armed rivals:

1947: Bloody partition

Overnight on August 14-15, 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the final viceroy of India, brings the curtain down on two centuries of British rule. The Indian sub-continent is split into primarily Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

A poorly ready partition throws life into disarray, displacing some 15 million and unleashing sectarian bloodshed that kills presumably greater than one million individuals.

1949: Kashmir divided

Late in 1947, battle breaks out between the 2 neighbours over Kashmir, a Muslim-majority area within the Himalayas.

A UN-backed, 770-kilometre (478-mile) ceasefire line in January 1949 turns into a de facto frontier dividing the territory, now often known as the Line of Control and closely militarised on either side.

Some 37 per cent of the territory is run by Pakistan and 63 per cent by India, with each claiming it in full.

1965-72: Second battle

Pakistan launches a battle in August-September 1965 towards India for management of Kashmir. It ends inconclusively seven weeks later after a ceasefire brokered by the Soviet Union.

1971: Bangladesh is born

The neighbours struggle a 3rd battle in 1971, over Islamabad’s rule in then East Pakistan, with New Delhi supporting Bengali nationalists searching for independence for what would in March 1971 grow to be Bangladesh. Three million individuals die within the brief battle.

1974: Marking nuclear territory

India detonates its first atomic system in 1974, whereas Pakistan’s first public take a look at won’t come till May 1998. India carries out 5 assessments that 12 months and Pakistan six. Respectively the world’s sixth and seventh nuclear powers, they stoke world concern and sanctions.

1989-90: Rebellion

An rebellion breaks out in Kashmir towards New Delhi’s rule in 1989, and hundreds of fighters and civilians are killed within the following years as battles between safety forces and Kashmiri militants roil the area.

Widespread human rights abuses are documented on either side of the battle because the insurgency takes maintain.

Thousands of Kashmiri Hindus flee to different components of India from 1990 fearing reprisal assaults.

1999-2003: Kargil battle

In 1999, Pakistan-backed militants cross the disputed Kashmir border, seizing Indian navy posts within the icy heights of the Kargil mountains. Indian troops push the intruders again, ending the 10-week battle, which prices 1,000 lives on either side.

The battle ends underneath strain from the United States.

A collection of assaults in 2001 and 2002, which India blames on Pakistani militants, results in a brand new mobilisation of troops on either side.

A ceasefire is asserted alongside the frontier in 2003, however a peace course of launched the next 12 months ends inconclusively.

2008-2016: Mumbai assaults

In November 2008, Islamist gunmen assault the Indian metropolis of Mumbai and kill 166 individuals. India blames Pakistan’s intelligence service for the assault and suspends peace talks.

Contacts resume in 2011, however the scenario is marred by sporadic preventing.

Indian troops stage cross-border raids in Kashmir towards separatist positions.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a shock go to in December 2015 to Pakistan.

2019-22: Crackdown

India vows retaliation after 41 paramilitary members are killed in a 2019 suicide assault in Kashmir claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group.

Tit-for-tat air strikes between the 2 nations take them to the brink of battle.

Later that 12 months, India instantly revokes Kashmir’s restricted autonomy underneath the structure, detaining hundreds of political opponents within the territory.

Authorities impose what turns into the world’s longest web shutdown and troops are despatched to bolster the estimated half one million safety forces already stationed there.

Tens of hundreds of individuals, primarily civilians, have been killed since 1990 within the insurgency.

NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan, born 75 years in the past out of the bloody division of the British Raj, are deeply troubled neighbours, at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Here are key dates within the fraught relations of the nuclear-armed rivals:

1947: Bloody partition

Overnight on August 14-15, 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the final viceroy of India, brings the curtain down on two centuries of British rule. The Indian sub-continent is split into primarily Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

A poorly ready partition throws life into disarray, displacing some 15 million and unleashing sectarian bloodshed that kills presumably greater than one million individuals.

1949: Kashmir divided

Late in 1947, battle breaks out between the 2 neighbours over Kashmir, a Muslim-majority area within the Himalayas.

A UN-backed, 770-kilometre (478-mile) ceasefire line in January 1949 turns into a de facto frontier dividing the territory, now often known as the Line of Control and closely militarised on either side.

Some 37 per cent of the territory is run by Pakistan and 63 per cent by India, with each claiming it in full.

1965-72: Second battle

Pakistan launches a battle in August-September 1965 towards India for management of Kashmir. It ends inconclusively seven weeks later after a ceasefire brokered by the Soviet Union.

1971: Bangladesh is born

The neighbours struggle a 3rd battle in 1971, over Islamabad’s rule in then East Pakistan, with New Delhi supporting Bengali nationalists searching for independence for what would in March 1971 grow to be Bangladesh. Three million individuals die within the brief battle.

1974: Marking nuclear territory

India detonates its first atomic system in 1974, whereas Pakistan’s first public take a look at won’t come till May 1998. India carries out 5 assessments that 12 months and Pakistan six. Respectively the world’s sixth and seventh nuclear powers, they stoke world concern and sanctions.

1989-90: Rebellion

An rebellion breaks out in Kashmir towards New Delhi’s rule in 1989, and hundreds of fighters and civilians are killed within the following years as battles between safety forces and Kashmiri militants roil the area.

Widespread human rights abuses are documented on either side of the battle because the insurgency takes maintain.

Thousands of Kashmiri Hindus flee to different components of India from 1990 fearing reprisal assaults.

1999-2003: Kargil battle

In 1999, Pakistan-backed militants cross the disputed Kashmir border, seizing Indian navy posts within the icy heights of the Kargil mountains. Indian troops push the intruders again, ending the 10-week battle, which prices 1,000 lives on either side.

The battle ends underneath strain from the United States.

A collection of assaults in 2001 and 2002, which India blames on Pakistani militants, results in a brand new mobilisation of troops on either side.

A ceasefire is asserted alongside the frontier in 2003, however a peace course of launched the next 12 months ends inconclusively.

2008-2016: Mumbai assaults

In November 2008, Islamist gunmen assault the Indian metropolis of Mumbai and kill 166 individuals. India blames Pakistan’s intelligence service for the assault and suspends peace talks.

Contacts resume in 2011, however the scenario is marred by sporadic preventing.

Indian troops stage cross-border raids in Kashmir towards separatist positions.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a shock go to in December 2015 to Pakistan.

2019-22: Crackdown

India vows retaliation after 41 paramilitary members are killed in a 2019 suicide assault in Kashmir claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group.

Tit-for-tat air strikes between the 2 nations take them to the brink of battle.

Later that 12 months, India instantly revokes Kashmir’s restricted autonomy underneath the structure, detaining hundreds of political opponents within the territory.

Authorities impose what turns into the world’s longest web shutdown and troops are despatched to bolster the estimated half one million safety forces already stationed there.

Tens of hundreds of individuals, primarily civilians, have been killed since 1990 within the insurgency.