What did the current confrontation between India and Pakistan?

The latest violence between India and Pakistan is a great revival in the struggle over the long-controversial region of Kashmir, a famous tourist destination located in the skirts of the Himalayas.

India Pakistan’s Pakistani province of Pakistan and Pakistan Run Kashmir on Wednesday, at least 26 in several places The leader of Pakistan called the act of war. India said that the rapidly used infrastructure used by the sequelers The killing of at least 26 tourists last month Kashmir managed in India.

India accused Pakistan for supporting the tourist attack, and a claim rejected Pakistani officials.

Kenneth MacDonald is a professor of human geography at the University of Toronto, Kashmir long ago in Kashmir, class and religion.

However, when the land dispute gained independence from the Britain in India and Pakistan, it stems from the divisions in 1947.

In the 1940s established ‘control line’

During the section, half autonomous states in the region were given to India and Pakistan. At that time, Maharaja Hari Singh was the ruler of Cammu and Kashmir. Despite many Muslims in accordance with Pakistan, the Indian-majority chose for the state for the state to join India.

The 1947-48 war controlled a severe ceasefire border in the middle of Pakistan’s larger region of Kashmir and called the “Control Line”. Today, both countries claim all of Kashmir, but each manages part of the territory on both sides of a legally recognized international management line.

Armed Rebels India-Run Kashmir They resisted the rule of India, and some Muslim Kashmiris supports both completely bringing it completely under the Pakistani authority or to be an independent country.

MacDonald said that in 1965, 1971 and 1999, he has been a large number of “shooting” over the territory.

But after the 1980s and the political violence in ’90 years Pakistan in 2002 began to block Hard-hearted Warriors who entered India and ban the extremist groups.

“The Pakistani government has made a lot of effort to stop in 2002-03 and was relatively successful,” said MacDonald CBC news. However, “periodic speeches” continued with significant attacks on 2008 in 2008 and 2019caused by the drawing violence.

The Prime Minister of India has hit anger in 2019

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Indian Administrator canceled the special status of Kashmir In 2019 – this limited autonomy and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) created new rules that allow outsiders to take land to the area.

Both moves have angered many Kashmir residents.

MacDonald does not believe that Pakistan’s recent tourist attacks to “be in the end of something that can earn” from supporting the murder of civilians in India. But Modi, The popularity of popularity in IndiaHe said he wanted to “look strong” in the attack.

The latest escalation from India is partly especially serious, because it is located in India in India, located on both sides of the border, as “Pakistan’s heart”.

South Asian analyst and writer Michael Kugelman, located in Washington for the foreign policy magazine, can expect a great Pakistan reaction, taking into account the scale of India’s holiday.

“We have striked and counter-holidays and the next thing will show the strongest of how serious crisis will be,” he said.

Countries, including the United States, helped protect the results of the escalation between the former conflicts and nuclear armed people in the region.

However, some are worried that the US management will not prevent the US leadership under the past, which is a more isolated approach.

Trump, called the articular conflict between India and Pakistan on Wednesday, called “so terrible” and called on both sides to stop violence.