The Kasmir region is located in the red area and is currently partially controlled by Pakistan and India.
India is blaming Pakistan for funding separatist on their side of the border.
Located between the northern border of Pakistan and India there's a region called Kashmir. Ever since the partition of British India in 1947, where both India and Pakistan claimed the region, war and conflict have existed in the area. India currently controls a little over half the land and roughly 70% of the population in the region. In total there have been three direct wars between the two countries along with other smaller armed confrontations. The first war in 1947 established the “Line of Control” (see the map further down), and the following wars in 1965 and 1999 didn’t really change it. In total over 20,000 people died in the wars.
While there haven’t been any major wars in the recent years, the conflict is far from over. Both nations are in the possession of nuclear weapons, and the region is one of the most militarized in the world. India is also currently accusing Pakistan of backing separatist militants in the Indian controlled part of Kashmir.
The Kasmir region is located in the red area and is currently partially controlled by Pakistan and India.
India is blaming Pakistan for funding separatist on their side of the border.
Currently only 1.2 percent of the Pakistani population see Hinduism as their main religion. Many of them are systemically discriminated in society when it comes to housing, jobs and access to government welfare. They simply don’t get to do the same things as Muslims, and this has led to many Hindus in Pakistan leaving the country or converting to Islam. For many poorer Hindus the conversion to Islam is the only possible way to get a job and escape poverty. In an article by the New York Times a family explains how they were provided all sorts of advantages like more land and help finding jobs as soon as they converted.
People protesting over the mass conversions from Hinduism to Islam in Pakistan. For many converting is the only way out of discrimination.
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