The Conflict Between India and Pakistan in Data

On 22 April 2025, a terrorist attack in the Kashmir region, administered by New Delhi, triggered the latest escalation in the already tense relations between India and Pakistan. Both countries of South Asia maintain a dispute arising from open wounds that left colonialism. Under a logic of “divide and conquer,” the now extinct British empire ruled the region by promoting racial, ethnic and religious division to maintain control over the entire t…

In South Asia, there is one of the longest and most tense disputes in the modern world: the conflict between India and Pakistan. Although both countries share a common historical root, their paths were violently separated in 1947, when the Partition of British India took place. Since then, the relationship between these two nations has been marked by mistrust, military confrontations and a constant territorial struggle, especially in the Kashmir…

Contributed by Isidoros Karderinis – India and Pakistan have been involved in four major wars since gaining independence from Britain in August 1947. They have also been involved in dozens of smaller skirmishes and conflicts. In 1947, two separate states were created in the most violent “divorce” in history: India, where Hindus predominate, and Pakistan, where Muslims predominate. The two countries’ coexistence has been marred by mass violence a…

The conflict between India and Pakistan originated with the independence of both, in 1947, when, after World War II, the United Kingdom divided what had been its colonies in that area of Asia into two countries: the first of the Hindu majority and the second of the Muslim majority.Among the new countries and neighboring China was the principality of Kashmir, which decided to integrate into Pakistan, something India did not accept for since 1947 …

After the bloody attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir, the decades-long conflict in the Indian subcontinent has rekindled. Conflict researcher Dr. Pascale Schild classifys the events and explains why the people in Kashmir have been crushed between the fronts for decades.