Two weeks after an attack that killed 26 people in Indian cashmere, the tension increases in the region. Between diplomatic reprisals and military threats is the risk of a new confrontation. But where does this conflict between India and Pakistan come from? Carole Dieterich, journalist based in New Dehli, returns to 80 years of discord in point J.
The tensions between the two nuclear powers date back to the 1947 score, when the former British colony was divided into two states. The fate of cashmere, a Muslim majority region, then remained pending. Since then, three wars have broken out between the two countries and the peace processes have never really succeeded.
“The solution which had been found in 1949, this famous line of control, should only be temporary. It had to be subject to the vote of the inhabitants of the region, but it never happened. It is not an internationally recognized border, it is a de facto border. The two states have therefore never stopped claiming the sovereignty of the whole cashmere,” recalls the correspondent of the world.
Since the arrival of the Hindu nationalists in New Delhi in 2014 with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, interreligious tensions have been exacerbated
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A separatist insurrection in Indian cashmere has contributed to avenue already fragile relations between the two countries. Beyond the religious dimension, the conflict also relates to access to water resources. “With its dams on the Indus, New Delhi has a considerable nuisance power on Pakistan,” notes Carole Dieterich.
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