See also: Cashmere (homonymy)

The Cachemire is an area of the Indian sub-continent, now divided between the India and the Pakistan. A portion was also annexed by the China. This area is the subject always of an argument between the nuclear powers of the area.

  • On the Cashmere in general, see Histoire of the Cashmere
  • On the part controlled by India, see Jammu-and-Cashmere
  • On the part controlled by Pakistan, see Azad Kashmir and Territoires of North
  • On the part controlled by China, see the Aksai Chin

Cashmere at the 20th century and indo-Pakistani relations

Positions of the two camps

Whereas they appeared in the process of standardization on the long run after three wars (1947 - 1949, 1965 and 1971), the indo-Pakistani relations became frankly bad with the appearance, in 1989, of a cycle demonstration-repression-terrorism (18 000 to 30.000 died, according to the sources, of 1988 with 1998) in the Indian State of the Jammu-and-Cashmere whose Pakistan occupies the two fifths since the partition of 1947. This cycle created serious tensions between the communities Musulman are and Hindou be.

Islâmâbâd claims the implementation of the " free plebiscite and impartial" , recommended by the resolution of the January 5th 1949 of the Commission of the United Nations for India and Pakistan (CNUIP), so that the population of this old principality decides on her fastening to the one of the two countries. A contrario of this request for plebiscite India proposes the agreement signed with Pakistan in 1947 conferring the authority to him on this part of the world.

It was thus never question of independence for Cachemiris. However, the Face of release of Jammu and Cashmere (JKLF) asserts a total independence.

Towards a resolution of the conflict?

The indo-Pakistani wars of 1947 and 1965 already had as an aim Jammu and Cachemire. The risks of release of a war of great width between the two countries even of a nuclear war appear however weak: by the agreement of Simla of the July 2nd 1972, the two countries were committed “solving their disagreements by peaceful means”. Their “official” access, in 1998, with the control of the nuclear armaments, does not seem to have worsened these risks, on the contrary: one attends a kind of cold war between the two countries, none of both really not wishing to use this weapon.

This question appears however very difficult to solve, because after fifty years of interior propaganda, any Indian or Pakistani government fears to be reversed with the least sign of weakness. The governments places from there at the turning of the century were of “hard” tendency: soldier in Pakistan, ultranationalist of BJP in India, seeming, paradoxically, to have more weight to impose an agreement on their public opinions. The recent elections which carried the Parti the Congress to the capacity to India are unrolled in a climate of appeasing between the various communities (Christian, Hindou E, Musulman E) since indicated the Prime Minister is not Hindu, but Sikh. Perhaps this is a first stage towards the acceptance of the various ethnos groups and beyond the starter of a peace process to the Cashmere.

See too

With reading

Internal bonds

  • Massage Cachemirien (Kashmiri Massage)
  • Road of Karakorum (KKH)

External bonds

  • Blankonthemap the site of North Cashmere
  • a report in images in '' the Express train ''

Sources

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