Kashmir Dispute

Location

      The State of Jammu and Kashmir is bordered in north by China, east by autonomous region of Tibet, south by Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, and west by Pakistan. 63 per cent of the territory is under Indian occupation; while the rest, 37 per cent, is with Pakistan, called Azad (independent) Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)

Area

151,360 square kilometers

Indian-occupied Kashmir: 95,356 sq.kms

Azad Jammu and Kashmir : 56,003 sq.kms

 Population

13 million (approximate)

Indian-occupied Kashmir: 7.7 million (projected figures, as census has not been held since 1991) Azad Jammu Kashmir: 2.58 million (1990 figure) Refugees in Pakistan: 1.5 million Expatriates: 1.5 million

Cause of the Kashmir dispute

        India’s forcible occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 is the main cause of the dispute. India claims to have ‘signed’ a controversial document, the Instrument of Accession, on 26 October 1947 with the Maharaja of Kashmir, in which the Maharaja obtained India’s military help against popular insurgency. The people of Kashmir and Pakistan do not accept the Indian claim. There are doubts about the very existence of the Instrument of Accesion. The United Nations also does not consider Indian claim as legally valid: it recognises Kashmir as a disputed territory. Except India, the entire world community recognises Kashmir as a disputed territory. The fact is that all the principles on the basis of which the Indian subcontinent was partitioned by the British in 1947 justify Kashmir becoming a part of Pakistan:  the State had majority Muslim population, and it not only enjoyed geographical proximity with Pakistan but also had essential economic linkages with the territories constituting Pakistan

About Pakistan    

Father of the Nation

Quaid-i-Azam

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Area : 796,095 Sq. km

Population : 180 million

Capital : Islamabad

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