When the Formers gained independence by British India and divided into India and Pakistan in 1947, the Muslim-Bahul Kashmir was free to choose which new country was to be included, or to be independent.
The Hindu ruler of a Muslim-dominated state, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir sought independence, but eventually chose India to accept the Pakistani-backed tribal invasion.
A was raised and India asked the United Nations to intervene. The United Nations recommended that they make a referendum on whether the state will be India or Pakistan. However, neither the country may agree on a deal to reduce the region before such a vote.
In July 1949, as recommended by the United Nations, India and Pakistan, after being signed in 1972, finally agreed to a ceasefire line, which became the so -called line (LOC).
The region was divided into India’s administered Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan to Azad Kashmir Plus Gilgit-Baltistan. Adding to complexity, controls China, a part (Aksai Chin).
Both India and Pakistan still claim complete sovereignty on the region.
Since then, there have been sporadic conflicts between the two sides, since then, interceptors with the periods of de-size.
But the election of Hindu nationalist BJP in India in power in 2014 marked a new period of stress. The BJP government responded to a major attack in 2019 by launching air attacks from across the border. Later that year, it canceled the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, an increased protest within the region that was accompanied by Daman.
This was followed by a period of relative calm in which Delhi promoted a newborn tourist area in the region on 22 April 2025 till the attack against tourists near Pahngam’s hotspot.