Partition of India and Pakistan: The Origin of the Kashmir Conflict

Author: Chen Yanqi
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The towering Kashmir has been a strategic battleground since ancient times. The ethnic and religious conflicts there are one of the most enduring and intense in contemporary ethnic and religious relations. The Kashmir issue is complex and enigmatic, still an unsolvable knot to this day. Kashmir is a simmering powder keg, where India and Pakistan station a million troops, and the shadow of nuclear war looms over the snow-capped Siachen Glacier, sending shivers down one's spine!