The region called Azad Kashmir in Pakistan is called Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in India.

Kashmir is a diplomatic minefield.

Kashmir is still on edge.

Narendra Modi s Digital India does not include Kashmir

Indian Army on duty in Jammu and Kashmir.

Kashmir is not the only place where the Indian government has employed this tactic.

Kashmir is infamous as the largest militarized zone in the world.

Posturing over Kashmir remains the best way of doing that.

Moreover, India and Pakistan remain divided by a bitter territorial dispute over Kashmir.

Obama mentioned Kashmir as an unresolved issue, while pleading for stability in South Asian affairs.

He is restless these days, he has been restless ever since Wani died and Kashmir erupted in anti India demonstrations.

The Government of India has been keen to economically integrate Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India.

Khurram Parvez shows a victory sign as he is taken to Kot Balawal Jail, Jammu Kashmir.

Education In 1970, the state government of Jammu and Kashmir established its own education board and university.

A soldier guards the roadside checkpoint outside Srinagar International Airport in Jammu and Kashmri, January 2009.

Kashmir is like Solomon s Baby, except both of its prospective mothers are happy to cut it in half.

Western think tanks such as the right wing Gatestone Institute believe that Kashmir should be part of the West s discourse on Islamic terrorism.

This comes after a wave of takedowns of content supporting Kashmiri independence during the summer months of 2016.

Like all the states of India, Jammu and Kashmir has a multi party democratic system of governance with a bicameral legislature.

As the only state in India with a Muslim majority, Jammu and Kashmir has a special status under India's Constitution.

The cyber crime cell of the Jammu and Kashmir State Police in Srinagar was in the process of identifying and banning users who uploaded such videos.

China also has started questioning Indian sovereignty over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, one fifth of which it occupied following the Tibet annexation.

The dispute over Kashmir had occupied the minds of military planners throughout Pakistan s history, and war had been the raison d etre for maintaining the world s eighth largest standing army.

Lashkar e Taiba (LET, Army of the Pure), a Pakistan based militant outfit supporting insurgency on the Indian side of Kashmir, was a product of these years.

But nukes, a belief in deterrence, and the growing realization that Kashmir is a lost cause, have freed the army from the hard life of the trenches.

In the absence of strong moderate voices on both sides, it is understandable that Kashmir appears to Western governments and media as just another headache they would rather ignore.

Jammu and Kashmir is the only Indian state that has its own official flag and constitution, and Indians from other states cannot purchase land or property in the state.

In its bilateral relations with India, China s shift in focus from its claims on the Northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir is enormously worrisome.

Today, Kashmir is seen as a front against terrorism, and Indian Muslims are seen as sympathizers with terrorists although the overwhelming majority of the jihadis' victims inside Kashmir have been Muslim.

According to Stratfor, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's party won 76 percent of the seats in Pakistan administered Kashmir's state elections on July 21 by taking a tough stance against India.

The occupation would end only when Pakistan formally relinquished its claim to Kashmir and dismantled all terrorist training camps operating within its borders.

For both Pakistan and India, Afghanistan risks turning into a new disputed territory, like Kashmir, where conflict has damaged both countries for more than 60 years.

For example, units of the People s Liberation Army are engaged in dam and other strategic projects in the restive, Shia majority region of Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan held Kashmir.

He sent young scholars to Kashmir for training and was responsible for inviting Atiśa to Tibet in 1040, thus ushering in the Chidar ( Phyi dar ) phase of Buddhism in Tibet.

If Tibetans should be allowed to break away from China, why not the Welsh from Britain, the Basques from Spain, the Kurds from Turkey, or the Kashmiris from India?

Despite India s historically established territorial claims to the region, China terms the area disputed, a description that it has now begun to extend to the whole of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Among the Hindus of Jammu province, who numbered 626,177 (or 90.87 of the Hindu population of the princely state), the most important castes recorded in the census were Brahmans (186,000), the Rajputs (167,000), the Khattris (48,000) and the Thakkars (93,000).

From Pakistani held Kashmir to Burma s troubled Kachin and Shan states, China has widened its dam building to disputed or insurgency torn areas, despite local backlashes.

With demonstrators boycotting recent elections and public violence increasing in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, mobile 3G and 4G connections were cut on April 17.

In between writing books on Modern Islam and Kashmiri independence, Nana Jaan cried unapologetically for his family in Indian ruled Kashmir, family he wasn t allowed to embrace in half a century.

In 1965, after helping the country to build up its economy and its military strength, the US walked out over the war with India that Pakistan had provoked by sending freedom fighters into Kashmir.

Gilani did, however, say that they had discussed all core issues, including Kashmir, and that they hope the next round will be more constructive, more positive, and will open up a new chapter in the history of both countries.

Serbia s claim to Kosovo is, to Serbs, far stronger than Russia s claim to Chechnya, China s to Xinjiang, India s to Kashmir (a claim still disputed by Pakistan), and the Philippines to the island of Mindanao.

Uniyal believes that unless India builds fortified compounds and arms Hindu and Sikh civilians to reverse the ethnic cleansing of non Muslims from the Kashmir valley, Kashmir will become another Islamic State.

Those personnel are enabled further by laws like the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act (1990) and the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (1978).