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Kashmir conflict
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The Kashmir conflict is a long-standing territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, with both countries claiming sovereignty over the area. It matters because the dispute has led to multiple wars and ongoing tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations, affecting the lives of millions of people in the region.
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- Instance of
- war
- Has part
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- Named after
- Kashmir
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Location
- Kashmir
- Image
- Kashmir Region November 2019.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 47000
- Participant
- All Parties Hurriyat Conference
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kashmir conflict
- Commons category
- Kashmir
- start time
- 1947-10-22
- point in time
- 1947-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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 started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a dispute over the region that escalated into three wars between India and Pakistan and several other armed skirmishes. India controls approximately 55% of the land area of the region that includes Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, most of Ladakh, the Siachen Glacier, and 70% of its population; Pakistan controls approximately 30% of the land area that includes Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan; and China controls the remaining 15% of the land area that includes the Aksai Chin region, the mostly uninhabited Trans-Karakoram Tract, and part of the Demchok sector.
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