Commentary: Kashmir conflict is not just a border dispute between India and Pakistan

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The dispute over Kashmir has caused tension and conflict in the Indian subcontinent since 1947, but there are many sides to it, says historian ...

NOT JUST A BILATERAL DISPUTE

But Kashmir is not simply a bilateral dispute between India and Pakistan. Kashmir is a multi-ethnic region with several internal sub-regions, whose inhabitants have distinct political goals.Pakistani Kashmir consists of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, jurisdictions that want to become formal provinces of Pakistan to gain more political autonomy over their internal affairs.

The UN also cites Pakistan’s role in the violence in Kashmir. Its government supports the movement for Kashmir’s independence from India by providing moral and material support to Kashmiri militants – allegations the Pakistani government refutes. Pakistan also tacitly supports the operations in Kashmir of non-Kashmiri extremist groups like JeM.

Militant groups in the region tap into this discontent, recruiting young people to use violence in their quest for Kashmir’s freedom. Indeed, the man who under the auspices of JeM blew himself up in the Feb 14 suicide bombing of the Indian military convoy was a young Kashmiri.Tensions in Kashmir may have subsided, but the root causes of the violence there have not.

 

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It's a fight of india against radicalisation and state sponsored terrorism by Pakistan.

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