India launched attacks in the early hours of May 7 about what he said they were “terrorist fields” in the province of Punjab in Pakistan, even in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir region.
The strike followed the murder of 26 people, mostly tourists, in illegally occupied Indians Jammu and Kashmira (Iiojk) last month for the attackers that India blamed Pakistan.
The general director of Public Relations between Services (ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said at least eight Pakistani were martyred and 35 were injured in Indian missile attacks.
The Muslim majority Himalayas region has been the site of multiple wars, freedom movements and diplomatic confrontations.
Here is a look at the region, its history and why it remains a source of tension between the two countries:
Partition and adhesion
After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, after the independence of the British domain, Cashmiro was expected to become part of Pakistan, as with other Muslim majority regions. His Hindu ruler wanted to remain independent, but agreed to India in October 1947 in exchange for help.
Geography and demography
The region ended up divided between Hindu majority India, which governs the Iiojk and Ladakh; Pakistan, who manages Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the areas of the North; and China, which contains Aksai’s chin.
Iiojk has a population of around 7 million, of which almost 70% are Muslims.
Article 370
A provision of the Constitution of India, article 370, provided a partial autonomy for Iiojk. He was written in 1947 by the then state prime minister, Sheikh Abdullah, and accepted by the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Although it was intended as temporary, it was included in the Constitution of India in 1949 by the Constituent Assembly.
Military wars and confrontations
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since Independence, two of them about Iiojk, in 1947 and 1965. A third in 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh. In 1999, they faced each other again in the Kargil region in what was described as an unstalled war. A line of high the non -negotiated fire, the control line, now divides the region.
The struggle for freedom
Many Muslims in Iiojk have long bothered what they see as a hard rule for India. In 1989, that bubbled in a movement for independence led by the combatants of Muslim freedom. India poured troops in the region, and tens of thousands of people have been killed.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training militants, what Islamabad denies.
Special status revocation
In August 2019, the Government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the semi -autonomous status of Kashmir in a movement that said that the region would better integrate with the rest of the country. The Iiojk was reorganized in two union territories administered by the federal government: Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Pakistan strongly opposed, degrading diplomatic ties with India.
Recent years
Modi said that his 2019 decision brought Normality to IIOJK after decades of bloodshed. Violence has decreased in recent years, according to Indian officials, with fewer -scale attacks and arrivals of rising tourists. However, murders of civilians and security forces were still reported.
2024 elections
In 2024, Iiojk celebrated its first local elections since the revocation of the autonomy of 2019. Several newly elected legislators urged a partial restoration of article 370. The key regional parties boycotted or criticized the vote, saying that the winners would not obtain any real political power.
