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India controls approximately 55% of the land area of the region that includes Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, most of Ladakh, the Siachen Glacier, [3] [4] and 70% of its population; Pakistan controls approximately 30% of the land area that includes Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan; and China controls the remaining 15% of the land area that includes ...
India reinforced Kashmir by an additional brigade. [145] 27 December 1947 (): British Commonwealth Minister Philip Noel-Baker considered it a "political miscalculation" by India that the UN Security Council would condemn Pakistan as an aggressor. The events before Kashmir's accession would also come into play.
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, [25] was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars between the two newly independent nations .
Summer 1944: Mohammad Ali Jinnah visits Kashmir, supports Muslim Conference in preference to National Conference. [9] 1946. May 1946: Sheikh Abdullah launches the "Quit Kashmir" movement against the Maharaja. He is arrested. Jawaharlal Nehru attempts to go to Kashmir to defend Abdullah. He is arrested and forced to leave the State. [9]
In 2003, the percentage of Muslims in the Kashmir Valley was 95% [108] and those of Hindus 4%; the same year, in Jammu, the percentage of Hindus was 67% and those of Muslims 27%. [108] Among the Muslims of the Kashmir province within the princely state, four divisions were recorded: "Shaikhs, Saiyids, Mughals, and Pathans. The Shaikhs, who are ...
India did not, however, capture all of the Jammu and Kashmir. The northern and western portions of Kashmir came under Pakistan's control in 1947 during 1947 Poonch rebellion and 1947 Gilgit rebellion, and came to be called Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
United Nations blue beret with UN badge worn by UN Military Observer Richard Cooper in India and Kashmir, c. 1973–1974. The United Nations has played an advisory role in maintaining peace and order in the Kashmir region soon after the independence and partition of British India into the dominions of Pakistan and India in 1947, when a dispute erupted between the two new States on the question ...
Pakistan recognized Chinese sovereignty over land in Northern Areas of Kashmir and Ladakh. [4] [5] However, Indian writers have insisted that in this transaction, Pakistan surrendered approximately 5,300 km 2 (2,050 sq mi) of territory to China. [6] [7] India claims the agreement