Kashmir: Paradise in Contention
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The Kashmir crisis. It is now more than 60 years since it started, and it can hardly be called a crisis any more. Yet everyone keeps talking about it. Everyone knows there’s trouble brewing along the Indo-Pak borders in the Kashmir valley and that international forces have been trying to chip in to resolve the issue. It keeps rearing its ugly head in the news every now and then. Yet how many of us know what the crisis is all about? How and why did it start?
The BBC’s former Delhi correspondent, Andrew Whitehead, looks back on how the Kashmir crisis started in this article posted on news.bbc.co.uk: How the Kashmir crisis began, and explains succintly with a timeline what exacty happened in 1947 when India and Pakistan acquired their independence… read on.

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