Administers approximately 43% of the region it controls Jammu the Kashmir Valley

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which administers approximately 37 percent of Jammu and Kashmir namely Azad Kashmir and gilgit-baltistan

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Welcome back to another episode of FTD facts

I'm Leroy, Kenton, and yeah

We're jumping into this debatable topic because you guys have been requesting for me to do this video for a very

long time

Here's all the requests

Now before I continue the question I wanna ask is should Kashmir join Pakistan

India or be independent now beginning with the origin of the dispute now, so

Kashmir is the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent

more specifically Jammu and Kashmir the Kashmir dispute dates back from

1947 the partition of the Indian subcontinent

Along religious lines led to the formation of India and Pakistan, but they were still around

650 States run by princes which existed inside these two independent

countries in theory these princely states had the option of deciding which country to join or

remaining independent

But in reality the population of these states

Chose which country they wanted to join they had been struggling to get freedom from the British for almost

100 years and now that they had gotten what they

Wanted they were not going to just let the princess make the decisions for them

Kashmir was one of these states and because of its location it could join either India or Pakistan

The Mahara of Kashmir was Hindu while the majority of its population wasn't Muslim so he decided to stay

Neutral when it came to choosing

Now let's talk about the war of 1947 the hopes of remaining neutral crumbled on October 1947

Pakistan sent in Muslim tribes men who are knocking at the gates of the capital of Srinagar?

to try and persuade the Maharaja

The Maharaja Hari Singh appealed to the Indian government for military assistance and fled to India. He signed the Instrument of Accession

Giving up Kashmir to India on October 26

so India and Pakistani forces fought their first war over Kashmir in

1947 to 1948 in a resolution dated August 13 1948 the UN asked Pakistan to remove its troops

After which India was also to withdraw the bulk of its forces

India haven't taken the issue to the UN was confident since the most influential

Kashmiri mass leader Sheikh Abdullah was firmly on India's side an

Emergency government was formed on October 30th

1948 with Sheikh Abdullah as a prime minister

Pakistan ignored the UN mandate and

continued fighting

Holding on to the portion of Kashmir under its control

On January 1st

1949 a ceasefire was agreed with

65% of the territory under Indian control and the remainder with

Pakistan in the year 1957 now Kashmir was formally incorporated into the Indian Union

Continuing on now talking about the Kargil war when the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Set out to Lahore by bus On February 20th 1999

inaugurating the four times a week Delhi to Lahore to Delhi bus service the world felt that such a genuine effort at

Friendly neighbourhood relations would lower the tensions along the line of control in Kashmir

But all hopes of diplomacy disappeared once the cross, LOC

Firing in Kargil began during the mid-1990s the death toll including both soldiers and civilians was more than thirty

thousand

despite much pressure from the military and public the Indian government decided not to cross the

LOC the conflict ended only after Bill Clinton the US president and Nawaz Sharif

Pakistan's prime minister met in Washington on July 4th 1999

Now despite a lot of the violence. There is still some hope

the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative

Assembly election in

2014 was held in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in five phases from the 25th of November

to the 20th of December 2014

despite repeated boycott calls by separatist hariette leaders

elections recorded the highest voters turnout in the last 25 years

That is more than 65%

Which is more than usual voting percentage in other states in India like even the European?

Parliament on the behalf of the European Union welcomed the smooth conduct of the state legislative

elections in Jammu and Kashmir

But there still has remained constant violence on July 8th 2016 a popular militant leader

Berhan mujesar hwanhee was cornered by the security forces and killed

protests had taken place leading to an

amplified instability in the Kashmir Valley

curfews had been imposed in all 10 districts of Kashmir cell phone and internet service Sid had also been blocked and

newspapers have also been restricted in many parts of the state

Also in pretty recent development and attacked by four militants on an army base in India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir

on September 8th 2016 was also known as a

2016 urea attack that resulted in 19 soldiers losing their lives as well as the militants

themselves the Indians were particularly shaken by the event which they blamed on

Pakistan on the Pakistani side military alertness was raised and some Pakistan International Airlines flights were

Suspended so that was your breakdown and a Bri history on the Kashmir dispute from the beginning to current days

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In closing and kashmir is still a hot topic today

Cash mary's would say that the future of kashmir should be determined by cash mary's not by india

Not by pakistan not by anybody else

Some want to join pakistan some water remain in india, but again. What do you think the future of kashmir should be?

And thanks guys for watching to the end of another episode if you want more videos about

India and Pakistan and South Asia in general you can check out some of these videos

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