What is the conflict in Kashmir?

Kashmir flourished under some of India’s greatest rulers, such as Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who reigned between 273 and 233 BC and is recorded to have founded the old city of Srinagar. During the colonization period, the British colonial rulers of India sold Kashmir, including its population, through a deed of sale called the Treaty of Amritsar, to a Hindu warlord who had no roots in the area. and eventually to the Azad Kashmir movement which gained momentum a year later. The Security Council discussed the question from January until April of 1948. Since both parties desired that the question of accession should be decided through an impartial plebiscite, the council developed proposals based on the common ground between them. Kashmir continues to be the bone of contention between India and Pakistan. Each side insists it is right and the other is wrong. India insists that the accession of Kashmir to India is final and complete and hence Kashmir is an integral part of India and that all would be well in Kashmir, but for Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism. Pakistan, on the other hand, insists that Kashmir is a disputed territory and that it is merely providing moral and diplomatic support for an indigenous freedom struggle in Kashmir.

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