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As World War II drew to a close, many new nations began to emerge. In the Middle East of course, the State of Israel was established; in South East Asia, two nascent countries were born, India and Pakistan. In 1947, Great Britain drafted a partition plan, separating British India into the two countries we now know as India and Pakistan. In conjunction was the Indian Independence Act, which formally gave both countries their sovereign right to govern, and also set forth plans for the princely states that surrounded India and Pakistan. One of these princely states, known as the Jammu/Kashmir region, was and still continues to be the casus belli of violence and dispute between both India and Pakistan. The region was 90% Muslim, but governed by a Hindu Maharaja, which resulted in discrepancies over which nation it would accede to. A war in 1947, known as the First Kashmir War, erupted between India and Pakistan in an effort to gain the territory for their respective nations. Out of fear for the safety of himself and the region, the Maharaja quickly signed the Instrument of Ascension, formally granting jurisdiction and rule to India. Pakistan denied the legitimacy of this ascension and thus the war progressed. It ended in January of 1949 after a UN brokered ceasefire. In 1962 India, seemingly wishful for Kashmir to be completely under its domain, clashed with the Chinese over regions in the North East of the Jammu/Kashmir territory known as Aksai Chin. The Chinese won a swift and complete victory of India, which maintained it’s control over the region; additionally, as a gesture of good faith towards China’s continued support of them, Pakistan formally gave China the rights to the Trans-Karakor...

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...sure the lasting peace of the implemented ceasefire as well as took a special interest in the establishment of the new nation of Bangladesh. Since 1948, the UN Security Council has passed 27 resolutions in regards to the issue of Kashmir, and the latest one was Resolution 307 in 1971. Landmark resolutions include Resolution 47, which established grounds for a free impartial plebiscite, and Resolution 91, which implemented and deployed the UNMOGIP. Since then, all previous and current Secretary Generals of the UN have stressed that the UNMOGIP remain in the region because no resolution has been passed to terminate it, as well as the fact that no definite future for Jammu/Kashmir has been decided upon, and until then, a clear peace in the region is highly skeptical. To date, no concrete agreement nor plebiscite has surfaced to determine the future of the Kashmiri state.

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