The dispute of India and Pakistan threatens the world with an atomic conflict about the previously undeveloped scale. And the source of this dispute is Kashmir, hidden among the snowy peaks, a fabulously beautiful basin. But what is this conflict? And how did the local prince Kashmir create a problem a decade ago that can cause a replacement of nuclear blows today?
It seems that the dispute of India i Pakistan It has always been going on. These two huge Asian countries with atomic weapons have already fought several wars and regularly stand on the edge of the next. Most often due to terrorist attacks in India, which the state accuses Pakistan of this. Such as In 2008 at the hotel in Mumbaiin which 166 people were killed and about 300 were injured. Or as recent, April 22, 2025 in Pahalgam in Indian cashmereas a result of which 26 people were killed. And yet India and Pakistan 80 years ago were one British colony known as British India.
So where does this hostility come from? What are the real causes of the conflict of India and Pakistan? And like Kashmir, a land hidden in mountain valleys, found himself in its center?
India and Pakistan – History
The conflict of India and Pakistan has its sources mainly in the colonial past of the region. It is worth remembering that historically none of these countries has never existed before. India created a separate civilization, proud of the thousands of years of history, but they never created one country covering the territory of modern India. Although there were periods in which the powers dominating on the Indian Peninsula controlled its vast majority – like the Delhian sultanate in the fourteenth century or the Great Mogołów state in the 17th century – they were short -term creations, quickly crumbling under the weight of internal differences. Most of the time, the area of ​​today's India consisted of hundreds of smaller and larger countries with huge diversity in ethnic, cultural and linguistic terms. India we know today was not.
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Pakistan did not exist in the past. His current territory was part of various historical periods AfghanistanPersia or countries from the Indian Peninsula, and it was usually simply an area of ​​abrasion of these powers. The fact that Pakistan has never existed as one whole before had been coded in his name in its own way. The word “Pakistan”, originally “Pakstan”, was created from the first letters of four of its separate territories: Pendżab, Afghan (today called Chajber Pasztunchwa), Kashmir and Sindhu, and the ends ” – Stan” – taken from the name of the fifth territory – Beludjistan. So while India was created from the union of hundreds of small countries, Pakistan from the merger of the five main, ethnically and culturally different from each other.
This unification, initially into one state organism, was the result of the colonial conquest of the British who managed to conquer virtually all of South Asia and were the first to create a centralized administration there. This colony, called British India, was by far the most valuable of British prey, called the pearl in the crown of the entire empire.