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The Indo Pakistan Conflict

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Indo Pakistan Conflict Topic Background:
As World War II drew to a close, many new nations began to emerge. In the Middle East of course, the State of Israel was established; in South East Asia, two nascent countries were born, India and Pakistan. In 1947, Great Britain drafted a partition plan, separating British India into the two countries we now know as India and Pakistan. In conjunction was the Indian Independence Act, which formally gave both countries their sovereign right to govern, and also set forth plans for the princely states that surrounded India and Pakistan. One of these princely states, known as the Jammu/Kashmir region, was and still continues to be the casus belli of violence and dispute between both India and Pakistan. …show more content…

India, for the second time with it’s foreign backing, prevailed over Pakistan in this war, acquiring over 1500 miles of Kashmir and Pakistani land, while Pakistani gained a mere 210 miles. Again, this war was extinguished by a UN mandated cease-fire, as well as a subsequent issuing of Tashkent Declaration. As the violence in Kashmir subsides to minimal levels, Pakistan encountered much rebellion in the region known as East Pakistan. The populace was making attempts to secede from Pakistani rule and create their own sovereign nation, and in a method to prevent this, West Pakistan launched what would become known as Operation Searchlight. India stepped in on the side of East Pakistan, resulting in an air strike against India from West Pakistan. This sparked the 1971 War between India and Pakistan, and war fought entirely between West Pakistan against India and East Pakistan. In 1972, West Pakistan signed the Simla Agreement, surrendering to the war, and giving East Pakistan its independence as the new nation of Bangladesh. After this war, Pakistan began its nuclear program in 1972, conducting its first test in 1998; India had begun its program backing 1967, and conducted its first test in 1974. Each state’s nuclear power is a prevalent issue; to date, neither has signed the NPT. Since 1972, several other small skirmishes have broken out between India and

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