India Pakistan: Kashmir issue cannot keep boiling over, PM Khan says
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Thursday's incident markedNew Delhi and India's 75th anniversary of independence from British colonial rule. just before celebrating.
The Rajouri district was attacked early in the morning.
The area was subsequently cordoned off as security forces conducted a search.
An army official said, "The attack killed three of his soldiers and wounded two others. But the army fought back and killed two militants."
India has struggled for decades to contain separatist sentiment in the only Muslim-majority India.
Many Kashmiris , viewed the loss of special autonomy in 2019 as another step in the encroachment of Muslim rights by India's Hindu nationalist government.
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reasserted control of New Delhi in August of that year,
57} Prime Minister Narendra Modirepealed the state constitution, which repealed Article 370, and divided Kashmir into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The government rejects criticism of the Kashmiri people, claiming it promotes regional development by bringing them closer to the rest of the country.
Pakistan } was also outraged by the change, saying that Kashmir was an international conflict and that any unilateral change in its status violated international law and UN resolutions on the region.
Human Rights Watch last week announced that New Delhi would restrict freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and other fundamental rights three years after it withdrew its special autonomous status in the Jammu and Kashmir region. said that
Meenakshi Ganguly, Director of South Asia at HRW, said: Authorities appear more interested in projecting an image of normalcy than in securing rights and accountability. Action must be taken to protect at-risk minority groups.”
Since India and Pakistan's independence from Britain in 1947, Kashmir has suffered from riots, blockades and political deception.
The beautiful Himalayan territory is fully claimed by India and Pakistan, but partially controlled by India. It has been contested by India and neighboring Pakistan since the end of British colonial rule.
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India holds the populous Kashmir Valley and Hindu-controlled areas around Jammu city, while Pakistan It dominates a wedge of territory in the west.
Then there is China, which holds a sparsely populated highland region in the mostly Buddhist northern Ladakh region.
In fact, Kashmir was central to two of her four wars in which India fought Pakistan and China.
For decades, New Delhi did not see Beijing as a major military threat.
However, India's growing economy (now much larger than Pakistan's) and China's increasingly aggressive power across Asia have put a new frontier on the foreign policy front. There is room for challenges.
His two Asian giants' current military impasse over the mountainous border of Ladakh has caused a severe escalation of tensions between the two countries.
Despite 17 diplomatic and military talks, the stalemate continues.
In the Galwan clashes of 2020, soldiers from both sides engaged in medieval-style combat with stones, fists, and clubs, which Xi Jinpingand his and Modi regimes .
At least twenty Indian soldiers and four of his Chinese soldiers died in this battle.
