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India and Pakistan have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political events, most notably the partition of British India in August 1947.

Two years after World War II, the United Kingdom formally dissolved British India, dividing it into two new sovereign nations: the Union of India and Pakistan. The partitioning of the former British colony resulted in the displacement of up to 15 million people, with the death toll estimated to have reached between several hundred thousand and one million people as Hindus and Muslims migrated in opposite directions across the Radcliffe Line to reach India and Pakistan, respectively.^[1] In 1950, India emerged as a secular republic with a Hindu-majority population. Shortly afterwards, in 1956, Pakistan emerged as an Islamic republic with a Muslim-majority population.

While the two South Asian countries established full diplomatic ties shortly after their formal independence, their relationship was quickly overshadowed by the mutual effects of the partition as well as by the emergence of conflicting territorial claims over various princely states, with the most significant dispute being that of Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1947, India and Pakistan have fought three major wars and one undeclared war, and have also engaged in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs; the Kashmir conflict has served as the catalyst for every war between the two states, with the exception of the India–Pakistan war of 1971, which instead occurred alongside the Bangladesh Liberation War, which saw the secession of East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh. It resulted in a large displacement of Pakistan's Hindu minority.^[2]^[3]

The India–Pakistan border is one of the most militarized international boundaries in the world. There have been numerous attempts to improve the relationship, notably with the 1972 Shimla summit, 1999 Lahore summit, and the 2001 Agra summit in addition to various peace and co-operation initiatives. Despite those efforts, relations between the countries have remained frigid as a result of repeated acts of cross-border terrorism sponsored by the Pakistani side and alleged subversive acts sponsored by India.^[4] The lack of any political advantages on either side for pursuing better relations has resulted in a period of "minimalist engagement" by both countries. This allows them to keep a "cold peace" with each other.^[5]

Northern India and most of modern-day eastern Pakistan overlap with each other in terms of their common Indo-Aryan demographic, natively speaking a variety of Indo-Aryan languages (mainly Punjabi, Sindhi, and Hindi–Urdu). Although the two countries have linguistic and cultural ties, the size of India–Pakistan trade is very small relative to the size of their economies and the fact that they share a land border.^[6] Trade across direct routes has been curtailed formally,^[7] so the bulk of India–Pakistan trade is routed through Dubai in the Middle East.^[8] According to a BBC World Service poll in 2017, only 5% of Indians view Pakistan's influence positively, with 85% expressing a negative view, while 11% of Pakistanis view India's influence positively, with 62% expressing a negative view.^[9]

Country comparison[edit | edit source]

	Republic of India	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Flag
Population	1,428,627,663	241,599,431
Area	3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi)	881,913 km² (340,509 sq mi)
Population Density	432.3/km² (1,120/sq mi)	273.8/km² (709/sq mi)
Capital	New Delhi	Islamabad
Largest City	Mumbai – 12,442,373 (18,414,288 Metro)	Karachi – 18,868,021 (20,382,881 Metro)
Government	Federal parliamentary constitutional republic	Federal parliamentary Islamic republic
Current Leaders	Droupadi Murmu (President) Narendra Modi (Prime minister)	Asif Ali Zardari (President) Shehbaz Sharif (Prime minister)
Official languages	English and Hindi	English and Urdu
GDP (PPP)	US$17.647 trillion $12,132 per capita	US$1.58 trillion $6,287 per capita

Background[edit | edit source]

Pre-partition era[edit | edit source]

Most of the pre-British invasions into India (the Muslim conquests having been the most impactful) took place from the northwest through the modern-day territory of Pakistan. This geography meant that Pakistan absorbed more Persian and Muslim influences than the rest of the subcontinent, which can be seen in its usage of a modified Perso-Arabic alphabet for writing its native languages.^[10]

In the 1840s, Sindh, Kashmir, and Punjab, which are along today's India–Pakistan border, were annexed into British India. British historian John Keay notes that while the rest of British India had generally been consolidated through treaties and more nonviolent means, much of what is now Pakistan had to be physically conquered.^[11] By the early 20th century, the Pakistan Movement had emerged, demanding a separate nation for Indian Muslims carved out of the northwestern and northeastern regions.^[12]

Seeds of conflict during independence[edit | edit source]

Massive population exchanges occurred between the two newly formed states in the months immediately following the partition. There was no conception that population transfers would be necessary because of the partitioning. Religious minorities were expected to stay put in the states they found themselves residing in. However, while an exception was made for Punjab, where the transfer of populations was organised because of the communal violence affecting the province, this did not apply to other provinces.^[13]^[14]

The partition of British India split the former British province of Punjab and Bengal between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The mostly Muslim western part of the province became Pakistan's Punjab province; the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern part became India's East Punjab state (later divided into the new states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh). Many Hindus and Sikhs lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and the fears of all such minorities were so great that the Partition saw many people displaced and much inter-communal violence. Some have described the violence in Punjab as a retributive genocide.^[15] Total migration across Punjab during the partition is estimated at 12 million people;^[16] around 6.5 million Muslims moved from East Punjab to West Punjab, and 4.7 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from West Punjab to East Punjab.

According to the British plan for the partition of British India, all the 680 princely states were allowed to decide which of the two countries to join. With the exception of a few, most of the Muslim-majority princely-states acceded to Pakistan while most of the Hindu-majority princely states joined India. However, the decisions of some of the princely states would shape the Pakistan–India relationship considerably in the years to come.

Junagadh issue[edit | edit source]

Junagadh was a state on the south-western end of Gujarat, with the principalities of Manavadar, Mangrol and Babriawad. It was not contiguous to Pakistan and other states physically separated it from Pakistan. The state had an overwhelming Hindu population which constituted more than 80% of its citizens, while its ruler, Nawab Mahabat Khan, was a Muslim. Mahabat Khan acceded to Pakistan on 15 August 1947. Pakistan confirmed the acceptance of the accession on 15 September 1947.

India did not accept the accession as legitimate. The Indian point of view was that Junagadh was not contiguous to Pakistan, that the Hindu majority of Junagadh wanted it to be a part of India, and that the state was surrounded by Indian territory on three sides.

The Pakistani point of view was that since Junagadh had a ruler and governing body who chose to accede to Pakistan, it should be allowed to do so. Also, because Junagadh had a coastline, it could have maintained maritime links with Pakistan even as an enclave within India.

Neither of the states was able to resolve this issue amicably and it only added fuel to an already charged environment. Sardar Patel, India's Home Minister, felt that if Junagadh was permitted to go to Pakistan, it would create communal unrest across Gujarat. The government of India gave Pakistan time to void the accession and hold a plebiscite in Junagadh to pre-empt any violence in Gujarat. Samaldas Gandhi formed a government-in-exile, the Arzi Hukumat (in Urdu: Arzi: Transitional, Hukumat: Government) of the people of Junagadh. Patel ordered the annexation of Junagadh's three principalities.

India cut off supplies of fuel and coal to Junagadh, severed air and postal links, sent troops to the frontier, and occupied the principalities of Mangrol and Babariawad that had acceded to India.^[17] On 26 October, Nawab of Junagadh and his family fled to Pakistan following clashes with Indian troops. On 7 November, Junagadh's court, facing collapse, invited the Government of India to take over the State's administration. The Dewan of Junagadh, Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, the father of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, decided to invite the Government of India to intervene and wrote a letter to Mr. Buch, the Regional Commissioner of Saurashtra in the Government of India to this effect.^[18] The Government of Pakistan protested. The Government of India rejected the protests of Pakistan and accepted the invitation of the Dewan to intervene.^[19] Indian troops occupied Junagadh on 9 November 1947. In February 1948, a plebiscite held almost unanimously voted for accession to India.

Kashmir conflict[edit | edit source]

Kashmir was a Muslim-majority princely state, ruled by a Hindu king, Maharaja Hari Singh. At the time of the partition of India, Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of the state, preferred to remain independent and did not want to join either the Dominion of India or the Dominion of Pakistan.

Despite the standstill agreement with Pakistan, teams of Pakistani forces were dispatched into Kashmir. Backed by Pakistani paramilitary forces, Pashtun Mehsud tribals^[20] invaded Kashmir in October 1947 under the code name "Operation Gulmarg" to seize Kashmir. The Maharaja requested military assistance from India. The Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten, required the Maharaja to accede to India before India could send troops. Accordingly, the instrument of accession was signed and accepted during 26–27 October 1947. The accession as well as India's military assistance were supported by Sheikh Abdullah, the state's political leader heading the National Conference party, and Abdullah was appointed as the Head of Emergency Administration of the state the following week.

Pakistan refused to accept the state's accession to India and escalated the conflict, by giving full-fledged support to the rebels and invading tribes. A constant replenishment of Pashtun tribes were organised, and provided arms and ammunition as well as military leadership.

Indian troops managed to evict the invading tribes from the Kashmir Valley but the onset of winter made much of the state impassable. In December 1947, India referred the conflict to the United Nations Security Council, requesting it to prevent the outbreak of a general war between the two fledgling nations. The Security Council passed Resolution 47, asking Pakistan to withdraw all its nationals from Kashmir, asking India to withdraw the bulk of its forces as a second step, and offering to conduct a plebiscite to determine the people's wishes. Though India rejected the resolution, it accepted a suitably amended version of it negotiated by the UN Commission set up for the purpose, as did Pakistan towards the end of 1948. A ceasefire was declared on 1 January the following year.

However, India and Pakistan could not agree on the suitable steps for demilitarisation to occur as prelude to the plebiscite. Pakistan organised the rebel fighting forces of Azad Kashmir into a full-fledged military of 32 battalions, and India insisted that it should be disbanded as part of the demilitarisation. No agreement was reached and the plebiscite never took place.

Wars, conflicts, and disputes[edit | edit source]

India and Pakistan have fought in numerous armed conflicts since their independence. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In addition to this was the unofficial Kargil War in 1999 and some border skirmishes.^[21] While both nations have held a shaky cease-fire agreement since 2003, they continue to trade fire across the disputed area. Both nations blame the other for breaking the cease-fire agreement, claiming that they are firing in retaliation for attacks.^[22] On both sides of the disputed border, an increase in territorial skirmishes that started in late 2016 and escalated into 2018 killed hundreds of civilians and made thousand homeless.^[21]^[22]

War of 1965[edit | edit source]

The India–Pakistan war of 1965 started following the culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 and Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against rule by India.^[23] India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan. The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II.^[24]^[25] Hostilities between the two countries ended after a United Nations-mandated ceasefire was declared following diplomatic intervention by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the subsequent issuance of the Tashkent Declaration.^[26] The five-week war caused thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of the battles were fought by opposing infantry and armoured units, with substantial backing from air forces, and naval operations. It ended in a United Nations (UN) mandated ceasefire and the subsequent issuance of the Tashkent Declaration.

War of 1971[edit | edit source]

Pakistan, since independence, was geo-politically divided into two major regions, West Pakistan and East Pakistan. East Pakistan was occupied mostly by Bengali people. After a Pakistani military operation and a genocide on Bengalis in December 1971, following a political crisis in East Pakistan, the situation soon spiralled out of control in East Pakistan and India intervened in favour of the rebelling Bengali populace. The conflict, a brief but bloody war, resulted in the independence of East Pakistan. In the war, the Indian Army invaded East Pakistan from three sides, while the Indian Navy used the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant to impose a naval blockade of East Pakistan. The war saw the first offensive operations undertaken by the Indian Navy against an enemy port, when Karachi harbour was attacked twice during Operation Trident (1971) and Operation Python. These attacks destroyed a significant portion of Pakistan's naval strength, whereas no Indian ship was lost. The Indian Navy did, however, lose a single ship, when INS Khukri (F149) was torpedoed by a Pakistani submarine. 13 days after the invasion of East Pakistan, 93,000 Pakistani military personnel surrendered to the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini. After the surrender of Pakistani forces, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh.

1999 Kargil War[edit | edit source]

In May 1999 some Kashmiri shepherds discovered the presence of militants and non-uniformed Pakistani soldiers (many with official identifications and Pakistan Army's custom weaponry) in the Kashmir Valley, where they had taken control of border hilltops and unmanned border posts. The incursion was centred around the town of Kargil, but also included the Batalik and Akhnoor sectors and artillery exchanges at the Siachen Glacier.^[27]^[28]

The Indian army responded with Operation Vijay, which launched on 26 May 1999. This saw the Indian military fighting thousands of militants and soldiers in the midst of heavy artillery shelling and while facing extremely cold weather, snow and treacherous terrain at the high altitude.^[29] Over 500 Indian soldiers were killed in the three-month-long Kargil War, and it is estimated around 600–4,000 Pakistani militants and soldiers died as well.^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33] India pushed back the Pakistani militants and Northern Light Infantry soldiers. Almost 70% of the territory was recaptured by India.^[29] Vajpayee sent a "secret letter" to U.S. President Bill Clinton that if Pakistani infiltrators did not withdraw from the Indian territory, "we will get them out, one way or the other".^[34]

After Pakistan suffered heavy losses, and with both the United States and China refusing to condone the incursion or threaten India to stop its military operations, General Pervez Musharraf was recalcitrant and Nawaz Sharif asked the remaining militants to stop and withdraw to positions along the LoC.^[35] The militants were not willing to accept orders from Sharif but the NLI soldiers withdrew.^[35] The militants were killed by the Indian army or forced to withdraw in skirmishes which continued even after the announcement of withdrawal by Pakistan.^[35]

A subsequent military coup in Pakistan that overturned the democratically elected Nawaz Sharif government in October of the same year also proved a setback to relations.

Water disputes[edit | edit source]

The Indus Waters Treaty governs the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan. Water is cited as one possible cause for a conflict between the two nations, but to date issues such as the Nimoo Bazgo Project have been resolved through diplomacy.^[36]

Bengal refugee crisis (1949)[edit | edit source]

In 1949, India recorded close to 1 million Hindu refugees, who flooded into West Bengal and other states from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), owing to communal violence, intimidation and repression from authorities. The plight of the refugees outraged Hindus and Indian nationalists, and the refugee population drained the resources of Indian states, which were unable to absorb them. While not ruling out war, Prime Minister Nehru and Sardar Patel invited Liaquat Ali Khan for talks in Delhi. Although many Indians termed this appeasement, Nehru signed a pact with Liaquat Ali Khan that pledged both nations to the protection of minorities and creation of minority commissions. Khan and Nehru also signed a trade agreement, and committed to resolving bilateral conflicts through peaceful means. Steadily, hundreds of thousands of Hindus returned to East Pakistan, but the thaw in relations did not last long, primarily owing to the Kashmir conflict.

Insurgency in Kashmir (1989–present)[edit | edit source]

According to some reports published by the Council of Foreign Relations, the Pakistan military and the ISI have provided covert support to terrorist groups active in Kashmir, including the al-Qaeda affiliate Jaish-e-Mohammed.^[37]^[38] Pakistan has denied any involvement in terrorist activities in Kashmir, arguing that it only provides political and moral support to the secessionist groups who wish to escape Indian rule. Many Kashmiri militant groups also maintain their headquarters in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, which is cited as further proof by the Indian government.

Journalist Stephen Suleyman Schwartz notes that several militant and criminal groups are "backed by senior officers in the Pakistani army, the country's ISI intelligence establishment and other armed bodies of the state."^[39]

Insurgent attacks[edit | edit source]

Insurgents attack on Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly: A car bomb exploded near the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly on 1 October 2001, killing 27 people on an attack that was blamed on Kashmiri separatists. It was one of the most prominent attacks against India apart from on the Indian Parliament in December 2001. The dead bodies of the terrorists and the data recovered from them revealed that Pakistan was solely responsible for the activity.^[40]
Qasim Nagar Attack: On 13 July 2003, armed men believed to be a part of the Lashkar-e-Toiba threw hand grenades at the Qasim Nagar market in Srinagar and then fired on civilians standing nearby killing twenty-seven and injuring many more.^[41]^[42]^[43]^[44]^[45]
Assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone: Abdul Ghani Lone, a prominent All Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was assassinated by an unidentified gunmen during a memorial rally in Srinagar. The assassination resulted in wide-scale demonstrations against the Indian occupied-forces for failing to provide enough security cover for Mr. Lone.^[1]
20 July 2005 Srinagar Bombing: A car bomb exploded near an armoured Indian Army vehicle in the Church Lane area in Srinagar killing four Indian Army personnel, one civilian and the suicide bomber. Terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.^[2]
Budshah Chowk attack: A terrorist attack on 29 July 2005 at Srinigar's city centre, Budshah Chowk, killed two and left more than 17 people injured. Most of those injured were media journalists.^[3]
Murder of Ghulam Nabi Lone: On 18 October 2005, a suspected man killed Jammu and Kashmir's then education minister Ghulam Nabi Lone. No Terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.^[4]
2016 Uri attack: A terrorist attack by four heavily armed terrorists on 18 September 2016, near the town of Uri in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killed 18 and left more than 20 people injured. It was reported as "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades".^[46]
2019 Pulwama attack: On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-bound suicide bomber in Lethpora near Awantipora, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the death of 38 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and the attacker. The responsibility of the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed.^[47]
2025 Pahalgam attack: On 22 April 2025, 26 tourists were attacked by terrorists, resulting in the death of 28 people, including a local from Jammu and Kashmir and two foreigners from Nepal and the UAE. India stopped supplying the Indus river to Pakistan.

Insurgent activities elsewhere[edit | edit source]

The attack on the Indian Parliament was by far the most dramatic attack carried out allegedly by Pakistani terrorists. India blamed Pakistan for carrying out the attacks, an allegation which Pakistan strongly denied. The following 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff raised concerns of a possible nuclear confrontation. However, international peace efforts ensured the cooling of tensions between the two nuclear-capable nations.

Apart from this, the most notable was the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 en route New Delhi from Kathmandu, Nepal. The plane was hijacked on 24 December 1999 approximately one hour after takeoff and was taken to Amritsar airport and then to Lahore in Pakistan. After refuelling the plane took off for Dubai and then finally landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Under intense media pressure, New Delhi complied with the hijackers' demand and freed Maulana Masood Azhar from his captivity in return for the freedom of the Indian passengers on the flight. The decision, however, cost New Delhi dearly. Maulana, who is believed to be hiding in Karachi, later became the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed, an organisation which has carried out several terrorist acts against Indian security forces in Kashmir.^[5]

On 22 December 2000, a group of terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba stormed the Red Fort in New Delhi. The fort houses an Indian military unit and a high-security interrogation cell used both by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Indian Army. The terrorists successfully breached the security cover around the Red Fort and opened fire at the Indian military personnel on duty killing two of them on spot. The attack was significant because it was carried out just two days after the declaration of the cease-fire between India and Pakistan.^[6]

In 2002, India claimed again that terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir were infiltrating into India, a claim denied by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, who claimed that such infiltration had stopped—India's spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry did away with Pakistan's claim, calling it "terminological inexactitude".^[48] Only two months later, two Kashmiri terrorists belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed raided the Swami Narayan temple complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat killing 30 people, including 18 women and five children. The attack was carried out on 25 September 2002, just few days after state elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir. Two identical letters found on both the terrorists claimed that the attack was done in retaliation for the deaths of thousands of Muslims during the Gujarat riots.^[7]

Two car bombs exploded in south Mumbai on 25 August 2003; one near the Gateway of India and the other at the Zaveri Bazaar, killing at least 48 and injuring 150 people. Though no terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks, Mumbai Police and RAW suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba's hand in the twin blasts.^[8]

In an unsuccessful attempt, six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba, stormed the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex on 5 July 2005. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One Hindu worshipper and two policemen were injured during the incident.^[9]

2001 Indian Parliament attack[edit | edit source]

The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was an attack at the Parliament of India in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, during which fourteen people, including the five men who attacked the building, were killed. The perpetrators were Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists.^[49]^[50] The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists, six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel and a gardener, in total 14^[51] and to increased tensions between India and Pakistan, resulting in the 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff.^[52]

2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff[edit | edit source]

The 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff was a military standoff between India and Pakistan that resulted in the massing of troops on either side of the border and along the Line of Control (LoC) in the region of Kashmir. This was the first major military standoff between India and Pakistan since the Kargil War in 1999. The military buildup was initiated by India responding to a 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly attack.^[53] India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups, the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's ISI^[54] a charge that Pakistan denied.^[55]^[56]^[57] Tensions de-escalated following international diplomatic mediation which resulted in the October 2002 withdrawal of Indian^[58] and Pakistani troops^[59] from the international border.

2007 Samjhauta Express bombings[edit | edit source]

The 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings was a terrorist attack targeted on the Samjhauta Express train on 18 February. The Samjhauta Express is an international train that runs from New Delhi, India to Lahore, Pakistan, and is one of two trains to cross the India–Pakistan border. At least 68 people were killed, mostly Pakistani civilians but also some Indian security personnel and civilians.^[60]

2008 Mumbai attacks[edit | edit source]

The 2008 Mumbai attacks by ten Pakistani terrorists killed over 173 and wounded 308. The sole surviving gunman Ajmal Kasab who was arrested during the attacks was found to be a Pakistani national. This fact was acknowledged by Pakistani authorities.^[61] In May 2010, an Indian court convicted him on four counts of murder, waging war against India, conspiracy and terrorism offences, and sentenced him to death.^[62]

India blamed the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group, for planning and executing the attacks. Indian officials demanded Pakistan extradite suspects for trial. They also said that, given the sophistication of the attacks, the perpetrators "must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan".^[63] In July 2009 Pakistani authorities confirmed that LeT plotted and financed the attacks from LeT camps in Karachi and Thatta.^[64] In November 2009, Pakistani authorities charged seven men they had arrested earlier, of planning and executing the assault.^[65]

On 9 April 2015, the foremost ringleader of the attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi^[66]^[67] was granted bail against surety bonds of Rs. 200,000 (Template:PKRConvert/out) in Pakistan.^[68]^[69]

Balochistan Insurgency[edit | edit source]

The Balochistan Insurgency, ongoing since the early 2000s, involves separatist groups in Pakistan's Balochistan province seeking autonomy. The largest and most prominent group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), has fought for independence, citing long-standing grievances over perceived discrimination and underdevelopment by the central government. The insurgency escalated in March 2025 when the BLA hijacked a train in a remote area of Balochistan, killing 26 people.

Pakistan's military has accused India of supporting the insurgents, citing the 2016 arrest of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was convicted of espionage and allegedly aiding Baloch separatists. These accusations have been rejected by India, which denies any involvement in the insurgency. The region's strategic importance, with its oil and mineral wealth, and its proximity to India, has made the conflict a focal point in South Asian military tensions.^[70]^[71]

2025 conflict[edit | edit source]

Following the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22 which resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians, including 25 Indian tourists and one Nepali national, India–Pakistan relations have reached a critical low point. The attack, attributed by India to the Islamic Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, has triggered a series of retaliatory measures from both nations, escalating tensions to levels not seen in years.^[72]^[73] According to Indian news, unnamed sources have stated that Hashim Musa, a former para commando in the Pakistan Army's elite Special Service Group (SSG), was involved in the attack. Trained in covert and unconventional warfare, he is said to have joined the banned terror group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, after his dismissal from SSG and to have infiltrated Kashmir in September 2023. Unnamed sources say his name and SSG background were revealed during the interrogation of Over Ground Workers (OGWs) who supported the perpetrators.^[74]

Diplomatic fallout[edit | edit source]

India's response[edit | edit source]

In response to escalating tensions, India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, placing the long-standing water-sharing agreement "in abeyance" due to what it alleges is Pakistan's ongoing support for cross-border terrorism. Additionally, India has imposed visa and diplomatic restrictions, halting visa services for Pakistani nationals and expelling several Pakistani diplomats. As part of broader punitive measures, the Attari–Wagah border has been closed, effectively cutting off overland trade and further straining bilateral ties.^[75]^[76]

Additionally, authorities across various states started a crackdown on illegal immigrants from Pakistan and began the process of deporting them. Many of these illegal immigrants had reportedly possessed voter IDs and ration cards, sparking a major controversy and debate as non-citizens do not have right to vote.^[77] Furthermore, short term visas of several Pakistani visitors, some of who were married to Indians, were also being cancelled.^[78]

Pakistan's countermeasures[edit | edit source]

In retaliation, Pakistan announced a series of countermeasures. It suspended the 1972 Shimla Agreement, which had emphasized the peaceful resolution of bilateral disputes. Pakistan also closed its airspace to Indian aircraft and halted all trade with India. On the diplomatic front, Indian diplomats have been expelled, and the staff size at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad has been significantly reduced, deepening the diplomatic rift between the two countries.^[73]^[79]

India's missile strikes[edit | edit source]

On May 6, India targeted Pakistan proper and Pakistan-administered Kashmir with multiple airstrikes as part of Operation Sindoor, marking a significant escalation of the conflict.^[80] India announced that it struck nine "terrorist infrastructure" sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, stating the targets were used to plan and direct attacks. It stressed the strikes were precise, avoided Pakistani military sites, and were non-escalatory. Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba's base in Muridke were among the targets. Pakistan reported hits in Muzaffarabad, Kotli, and Bahawalpur.^[81]^[82]

Diplomatic expulsions[edit | edit source]

On 13 May, India reportedly declared Md. Ehsan Ur Rahim, a staff member at the Pakistan High Commission, persona non grata for engaging in activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status. He was allegedly involved in espionage.^[83]^[84] More information on the expulsion was revealed to Indian media after 17 May when a YouTuber was arrested.^[85] It was alleged that Ehsan used an Indian YouTuber, namely Jyoti Malhotra, for espionage activities.^[86] He reportedly befriended the youtuber in 2023 and maintained close contact with her during the four-day military conflict. Over time, he reportedly cultivated her as an asset by introducing her to Pakistani contacts and facilitating her visit to Pakistan, where she met intelligence officials. The youtuber is believed to have maintained communication with these officials through encrypted platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Snapchat, and shared sensitive information, according to Indian police.^[87]^[88]

Weapons of mass destruction[edit | edit source]

India has a long history of nuclear weapons development.^[89] The origins of India's nuclear program date back to 1944, when it started a nuclear program soon after obtaining independence.^[89] In the 1940s–1960s, India's nuclear program slowly matured towards militarisation and expanded the nuclear power infrastructure throughout the country.^[89] Decisions on the development of nuclear weapons were made by Indian political leaders after the 1962 Chinese invasion and territorial annexation of North India. In 1967, India's nuclear program was aimed at the development of nuclear weapons, with Indira Gandhi overseeing the development of the weapons.^[90] In 1971, India gained military and political momentum over Pakistan, after their success in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. Starting preparations for a nuclear test in 1972, India finally exploded its first nuclear bomb at the Pokhran test range, codenamed Smiling Buddha, in 1974.^[90] During the 1980s–90s, India began development of space and nuclear armed rockets with its Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, which marked Pakistan's efforts to engage in the space race with India.^[91] Pakistan's own Integrated Missile Research and Development Programme developed space and nuclear missiles and began unmanned flight tests of its space vehicles in the mid-1990s.^[91]

After their defeat in the Indo-Pakistani war in 1971, Pakistan launched its own nuclear bomb program in 1972, and accelerated its efforts in 1974, after India exploded its first nuclear bomb in Pokhran test range.^[90]^[92] This large-scale nuclear bomb program was directly in response to India's nuclear program.^[93] In 1983, Pakistan achieved a major milestone in its efforts after it covertly performed a series of non-fission tests, codenamed Kirana-I. No official announcements of such tests were made by the Pakistani Government.^[93] Over the next several years, Pakistan expanded and modernized nuclear power projects around the country to supply its electricity sector and to provide back-up support and benefit to its national economy. In 1988, a mutual understanding was reached between the two countries in which each pledged not to attack nuclear facilities. Agreements on cultural exchanges and civil aviation were also initiated in 1988.^[93] Finally, in May 1998, India carried out its second nuclear test series (see Pokhran-II) which caused Pakistan to reply with its own test series, also in May 1998 (see Chagai-I and Chagai-II).

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's 2025 assessment stated that Pakistan viewed India as an existential threat and was modernizing its military, focusing on tactical nuclear weapons to counter India's conventional superiority. The report estimated Pakistan's arsenal at 170 warheads in 2024, potentially rising to 200 by 2025, and noted growing defense ties with China, a key supplier for materials and technologies for its weapons of mass destruction programs.^[94]^[95]

In August 2025, Pakistan's army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir issued a nuclear threat against India during a black-tie dinner in Tampa, Florida, stating that if Pakistan faced an existential threat, "we'll take half the world down with us."^[96]^[97] India condemned the remarks as "nuclear sabre-rattling," with Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stating that it was "Pakistan's stock-in-trade" and adding that "the international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks."^[98] Pakistan's Foreign Office claimed the remarks were "distorted."^[99]

Terrorism charges[edit | edit source]

Border terrorism[edit | edit source]

Countries including India and the United States have demanded that Pakistan stop using its territory as a base for terrorist groups following multiple terrorist attacks by Islamic jihadists in Kashmir and other parts of India.^[100] The Pakistani government has denied the accusation and accused India of sponsoring so-called "state-backed terror".^[101]

Fugitives[edit | edit source]

India has accused some of the most wanted Indian fugitives, such as Dawood Ibrahim, of having a presence in Pakistan. On 11 May 2011, India released a list of 50 "Most Wanted Fugitives" hiding in Pakistan. This was to tactically pressure Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad.^[102] After two errors in the list received publicity, the Central Bureau of Investigation removed it from their website, pending review.^[103] After this incident, the Pakistani interior ministry rejected the list forwarded by India to Islamabad, saying it should first probe if those named in the list were even living in the country.^[104]

Talks and other confidence-building measures[edit | edit source]

After the 1971 war, Pakistan and India made slow progress towards the normalisation of relations. In July 1972, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met in the Indian hill station of Shimla. They signed the Shimla Agreement, by which India would return all Pakistani personnel (over 90,000) and captured territory in the west, and the two countries would "settle their differences by peaceful means through bilateral negotiations." Diplomatic and trade relations were also re-established in 1976.

1990s[edit | edit source]

In 1997, high-level Indo-Pakistan talks resumed after a three-year pause. The Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India met twice and the foreign secretaries conducted three rounds of talks. In June 1997, the foreign secretaries identified eight "outstanding issues" around which continuing talks would be focused. The conflict over the status of Kashmir, (referred by India as Jammu and Kashmir), an issue since Independence, remains the major stumbling block in their dialogue. India maintains that the entire former princely state is an integral part of the Indian union, while Pakistan insists that UN resolutions calling for self-determination of the people of the state/province must be taken into account. It however refuses to abide by the previous part of the resolution, which calls for it to vacate all territories occupied.

In September 1997, the talks broke down over the structure of how to deal with the issues of Kashmir, and peace and security. Pakistan advocated that the issues be treated by separate working groups. India responded that the two issues be taken up along with six others on a simultaneous basis.

Attempts to restart dialogue between the two nations were given a major boost by the February 1999 meeting of both Prime Ministers in Lahore and their signing of three agreements.

2000s[edit | edit source]

In 2001, a summit was called in Agra; Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf turned up to meet Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. The talks fell through.

On 20 June 2004, with a new government in place in India, both countries agreed to extend a nuclear testing ban and to set up a hotline between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to a nuclear war.^[105]

Baglihar Dam issue was a new issue raised by Pakistan in 2005.

After Dr. Manmohan Singh become prime minister of India in May 2004, the Punjab provincial Government declared it would develop Gah, his place of birth, as a model village in his honour and name a school after him.^[106] There is also a village in India named Pakistan, despite occasional pressure over the years to change its name the villagers have resisted.^[107]

Violent activities in the region declined in 2004. There are two main reasons for this: warming of relations between New Delhi and Islamabad which consequently lead to a ceasefire between the two countries in 2003 and the fencing of the Line of Control being carried out by the Indian Army. Moreover, coming under intense international pressure, Islamabad was compelled to take action against the militants' training camps on its territory. In 2004, the two countries also agreed upon decreasing the number of troops present in the region.

Under pressure, Kashmiri militant organisations made an offer for talks and negotiations with New Delhi, which India welcomed.

India's Border Security Force blamed the Pakistani military for providing cover-fire for the terrorists whenever they infiltrated into Indian territory from Pakistan. Pakistan in turn has also blamed India for providing support to terrorist organisations operating in Pakistan such as the BLA.

In 2005, Pakistan's information minister, Sheikh Rashid, was alleged to have run a terrorist training camp in 1990 in N.W. Frontier, Pakistan. The Pakistani government dismissed the charges against its minister as an attempt to hamper the ongoing peace process between the two neighbours.

Both India and Pakistan have launched several mutual confidence-building measures (CBMs) to ease tensions between the two. These include more high-level talks, easing visa restrictions, and restarting of cricket matches between the two. The new bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad has also helped bring the two sides closer. Pakistan and India have also decided to co-operate on economic fronts.

Some improvements in the relations are seen with the re-opening of a series of transportation networks near the India–Pakistan border, with the most important being bus routes and railway lines.

A major clash between Indian security forces and militants occurred when a group of insurgents tried to infiltrate into Kashmir from Pakistan in July 2005. The same month also saw a Kashmiri militant attack on Ayodhya and Srinagar. However, these developments had little impact on the peace process.

An Indian man held in Pakistani prisons since 1975 as an accused spy walked across the border to freedom 3 March 2008, an unconditional release that Pakistan said was done to improve relations between the two countries.^[108]

In 2006, a "Friends Without Borders" scheme began with the help of two British tourists. The idea was that Indian and Pakistani children would make pen pals and write friendly letters to each other. The idea was so successful in both countries that the organisation found it "impossible to keep up". The World's Largest Love Letter was recently sent from India to Pakistan.^[109]

2010s[edit | edit source]

In December 2010, several Pakistani newspapers published stories about India's leadership and relationship with militants in Pakistan that the papers claimed were found in the United States diplomatic cables leak. A British newspaper, The Guardian, which had the Wikileaks cables in its possession reviewed the cables and concluded that the Pakistani claims were "not accurate" and that "WikiLeaks [was] being exploited for propaganda purposes."^[111]

On 10 February 2011, India agreed to resume talks with Pakistan which were suspended after 26/11 Mumbai Attacks.^[112] India had put on hold all the diplomatic relations saying it will only continue if Pakistan will act against the accused of Mumbai attacks.

On 13 April 2012, following a thaw in relations whereby India gained most favoured nation status in the country, India announced the removal of foreign direct investment restrictions from Pakistan to India.^[113]

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar on 11 July 2012, stated in Phnom Penh that her country is willing to resolve some of the disputes, including Sir Creek and Siachen, on the basis of agreements reached in past.^[114]

On 7 September 2012, Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna would pay a 3-day visit to Pakistan to review the progress of bilateral dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart.^[115]

In August 2019, following the approval of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill in the Indian Parliament, which revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir,^[116]^[117] further tension was brought between the two countries, with Pakistan downgrading their diplomatic ties, closing its airspace, and suspending bilateral trade with India.^[118]

The Kartarpur Corridor was opened in November 2019.^[119]

2020s[edit | edit source]

On 25 February 2021, India and Pakistan issued a joint statement indicating that both sides agreed to stop firing at each other at the Line of Control (LOC, disputed de facto border) in Kashmir.^[120]

Despite this, in July 2021 Indian government rejected Pakistan's call for talks, stating that "Peace, prosperity can't coexist with terrorism".^[121]

On 16 October 2024, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to discuss topics at the SCO Summit dinner in Islamabad.^[122]^[123]^[124]

Response to natural calamities[edit | edit source]

2001 Gujarat earthquake in India[edit | edit source]

In response to the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, Pakistani President Pervez Mushrraf sent a plane load of relief supplies from Islamabad to Ahmedabad.^[125] They carried 200 tents and more than 2,000 blankets.^[126] Furthermore, the President called Indian PM to express his 'sympathy' over the loss from the earthquake.^[127]

2005 earthquake in Pakistan[edit | edit source]

India offered aid to Pakistan in response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake on 8 October. Indian and Pakistani High Commissioners consulted with one another regarding cooperation in relief work. India sent 25 tonnes of relief material to Pakistan including food, blankets and medicine. Large Indian companies such as Infosys offered aid up to $226,000. On 12 October, an Ilyushin-76 cargo plane ferried across seven truckloads (about 82 tons) of army medicines, 15,000 blankets and 50 tents and returned to New Delhi. A senior air force official also stated that they had been asked by the Indian government to be ready to fly out another similar consignment.^[128]

On 14 October, India dispatched the second consignment of relief material to Pakistan, by train through the Wagah Border. The consignment included 5,000 blankets, 370 tents, 5 tons of plastic sheets and 12 tons of medicine. A third consignment of medicine and relief material was also sent shortly afterwards by train.^[129] India also pledged $25 million as aid to Pakistan.^[130] India opened the first of three points at Chakan Da Bagh, in Poonch, on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan for earthquake relief work.^[131]

2022 Pakistan floods[edit | edit source]

Amid the 2022 Pakistan floods, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his "heartfelt condolences to families of the victims".^[132] The Government of India considered sending relief aid to Pakistan, but chose not to.^[133]

Economic relations[edit | edit source]

India and Pakistan have curtailed formal trade; South Asia, the region inhabited by the two countries, is the least economically integrated region in the world, with only 5% of its trade conducted internally.^[134] However, there is an informal bilateral trade of around $10 billion, with most of the goods imported by Pakistan.^[135]

During the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict, bilateral maritime trade was suspended.^[136]

Social relations[edit | edit source]

Organisational ties[edit | edit source]

India and Pakistan both feature in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the Commonwealth of Nations. SAARC membership initially helped the two countries come to certain agreements, such as simplifying visa access for each other, while in the early years of independence, one of the reasons both countries remained in the Commonwealth was arguably to prevent a British preference towards the other country.^[138]^[139] Eventually SAARC became defunct largely due to the impasse between the two nations,^[140] and since the 2025 Pahalgam attack, India removed SAARC visa privileges for Pakistani nationals.^[141]

Aman ki Asha is a joint venture and campaign between The Times of India and the Jang Group started in 2010 calling for mutual peace and development of diplomatic and cultural relations.^[142]

Cultural links[edit | edit source]

The Kartarpur Corridor (left) was launched in 2019 to allow Indian Sikhs to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur (right), which is 4km across the border^[143]

India and Pakistan, particularly Northern India and Eastern Pakistan, to some degree have similar cultures, cuisines and languages due to common Indo-Aryan heritage which spans through the two countries and throughout much of the northern subcontinent which also underpin the historical ties between the two. Pakistani singers, musicians, comedians and entertainers have enjoyed widespread popularity in India, with many achieving overnight fame in the Indian film industry Bollywood. Likewise, Indian music and film are very popular in Pakistan. Being located in the northernmost region of South Asia, Pakistan's culture is somewhat similar to that of North India, especially the northwest.

The Punjab region was split into Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India following the independence and partition of the two countries in 1947. The Punjabi people are today the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and also an important ethnic group of northern India. The founder of Sikhism was born in the modern-day Pakistani Punjab province, in the city of Nankana Sahib. Each year, millions of Indian Sikh pilgrims cross over to visit holy Sikh sites in Nankana Sahib. The Sindhi people are the native ethnic group of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Many Hindu Sindhis migrated to India in 1947, making the country home to a sizeable Sindhi community. In addition, the millions of Muslims who migrated from India to the newly created Pakistan during independence came to be known as the Muhajir people; they are settled predominantly in Karachi and still maintain family links in India.

Relations between Pakistan and India have also resumed through platforms such as media and communications.

Geographic links[edit | edit source]

The India–Pakistan border is the official international boundary that demarcates the Indian states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat from the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. The Wagah border is the only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the Grand Trunk Road, connecting Lahore, Pakistan with Amritsar, India. Each evening, the Wagah–Attari border ceremony takes place, in which the flags are lowered and guards on both sides make a pompous military display and exchange handshakes.

Linguistic ties[edit | edit source]

The name Hindustani written in Hindi and Urdu scripts

Hindustani is the lingua franca of North India and Pakistan, as well as the official language of both countries, under the standard registers Hindi and Urdu, respectively. Standard Urdu is mutually intelligible with standard Hindi. Hindustani is also widely understood and used as a lingua franca amongst South Asians including Sri Lankans, Nepalis and Bangladeshis, and is the language of Bollywood, which is enjoyed throughout much of the subcontinent.

Apart from Hindustani, India and Pakistan also share a distribution of the Punjabi language (written in the Gurmukhi script in Indian Punjab, and the Shahmukhi script in Pakistani Punjab), Kashmiri language and Sindhi language, mainly due to population exchange. These languages belong to a common Indo-Aryan family that are spoken in countries across the subcontinent.

Matrimonial ties[edit | edit source]

Some Indian and Pakistani people marry across the border at instances. Many Indians and Pakistanis in the diaspora, especially in the United States, intermarry, as there are large cultural similarities between the two countries respectively.^[144]

In April 2010 a high-profile Pakistani cricketer, Shoaib Malik married the Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.^[145] The wedding received much media attention and was said to transfix both India and Pakistan.^[146]

Sporting ties[edit | edit source]

Cricket and hockey matches between the two (as well as other sports to a lesser degree such as those of the SAARC/South Asian Games) have often been political in nature. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan General Zia-ul Haq travelled to India for a bout of "cricket diplomacy" to keep India from supporting the Soviets by opening another front. Pervez Musharaff also tried to do the same in the aftermath of the Kargil War, which led to some bilateral series between India and Pakistan.

Following the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, India stopped playing bilateral cricket series against Pakistan. Since then, the Indian team has only played against them in ICC and Asian Cricket Council events such as the Cricket World Cup, T20 World Cup, Asia Cup and ICC Champions Trophy. In 2017, the then Sports Minister of India, Vijay Goel opposed further bilateral series due to Pakistan's alleged sponsoring of terrorism, saying that "there cannot be sports relations between the two countries [while] there is terrorism from the Pakistani side."^[147] The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) also opposed any further series without the permission of the Indian government.^[148] The BCCI also did not allow Pakistani players to play in the Indian Premier League in the aftermath of the 2008 terror attack, although they were part of the inaugural season.^[149]

The two nations also share some of the same traditional games, such as kabaddi and kho kho.^[150] In tennis, Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan have formed a successful duo and have been dubbed as the "Indo-Pak Express".^[151]

Although both the teams have willingly participated in ICC and Asian Cricket Council events, tensions evolved following the Pahalgam terror attack in April 2025 by Pakistan based terror group The Resistance Front and the military conflict. While there were demands to boycott the matches during the 2025 Asia Cup, the Government of India gave a go-ahead, and following each India - Pakistan match during the series, the Indian team refused to shake hands with the Pakistan team.^[152]^[153] The policy continued during the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup, where at Group Stage, India had defeated Pakistan by 61 runs. ^[154]

Diasporic relations[edit | edit source]

The large size of the Indian diaspora and Pakistani diaspora in many different countries throughout the world has created strong diasporic relations. It is quite common for a "Little India" and a "Little Pakistan" to co-exist in South Asian ethnic enclaves in overseas countries.

British Indians and British Pakistanis, the largest and second-largest ethnic minorities living in the United Kingdom respectively, are said to have friendly relations with one another.^[155]^[156] There are various cities such as Birmingham, Blackburn and Manchester where British Indians and British Pakistanis live alongside each other in peace and harmony. Both Indians and Pakistanis living in the UK fit under the category of British Asian. The UK is also home to the Pakistan & India friendship forum.^[157] In the United States, Indians and Pakistanis are classified under the South Asian American category and share many cultural traits, with intermarriage being common.^[144] After September 11 attacks however, in response to reported incidents of discrimination, particularly in public spaces such as airports, several Pakistani Americans started identifying themselves as Indians to avoid discrimination and for better business and economic opportunities.^[158]^[159]

The British MEP Sajjad Karim is of Pakistani origin. He is a member of the European Parliament Friends of India Group, Karim was also responsible for opening up Europe to free trade with India.^[160]^[161] He narrowly escaped the Mumbai attacks at the Taj Hotel in November 2008. Despite the atrocity, Karim did not wish the remaining killer Ajmal Kasab to be sentenced to death. He said: "I believe he had a fair and transparent trial and I support the guilty verdict. But I am not a supporter of capital punishment. I believe he should be given a life sentence, but that life should mean life."^[162]^[163]

While relations within both the diasporas are largely peaceful, certain tensions between Indian and Pakistani communities have occasionally led to incidents of instability. In some cases, business owners have closed establishments, citing harassment or safety concerns; for instance, in February 2026, Rangrez, an Indian restaurant in London, closed after 16 years, as the owner attributed the decision to disturbances and online harassment he linked to members of the Pakistani community.^[164]

Head of state visits[edit | edit source]

From India to Pakistan
Year	Name
1953	Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
1960	Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
1964	Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
1988	Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (Funeral of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan and SAARC Summit)
1989	Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1999	Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2004	Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (SAARC Summit)
2015	Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Informal meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif)

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-'''India–Pakistan relations''' ({{Lang-hi|भारत-पाकिस्तान सम्बन्ध}}; {{Lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|بھارت پاکستان تعلقات}}}}) refer to the [[bilateral relations]] between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. The relations between the two countries have been complex and largely hostile due to a number of historical and political events. Relations between the two states have been defined by the violent [[Partition of India|partition of British India]] in 1947 which started the [[Kashmir conflict]], and the numerous [[Indo-Pakistani wars|military conflicts]] fought between the two nations. Consequently, their relationship has been plagued by hostility and suspicion. Northern India and Pakistan somewhat overlap in [[Indo-Aryan peoples|certain demographics]] and shared [[lingua franca]]s (mainly [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], and [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]).
-After the dissolution of the [[British Raj]] in 1947, two new sovereign nations were formed—the [[Dominion of India]] and the [[Dominion of Pakistan]]. The subsequent partition of the former British India displaced up to 12.5 million people, with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to 1 million.<ref>{{Harvnb|Metcalf|Metcalf|2006|pp=221–222}}</ref> [[India]] emerged as a [[secularism in India|secular nation]] with a [[Hinduism in India|Hindu majority]] population and a large [[Islam in India|Muslim minority]], while [[Pakistan]], with a [[Islam in Pakistan|Muslim majority]] population and a large [[Hinduism in Pakistan|Hindu minority]], later became an Islamic Republic,<ref>[http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/area_pop/area_pop.html Area, Population, Density and Urban/Rural Proportion by Administrative Units] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222185234/http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/area_pop/area_pop.html |date=22 December 2010 }}</ref> although its constitution guaranteed [[Freedom of religion in Pakistan|freedom of religion]] to people of all faiths.<ref name="Cavendish2006">{{cite book|author=Marshall Cavendish|title=World and Its Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j894miuOqc4C&pg=PA396|date=September 2006|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-7571-2|page=396}}</ref> It later lost most of its [[Hinduism in Pakistan|Hindu minority]] due to migration and the separation of East Pakistan in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].
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+[[India]] and [[Pakistan]] have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political events, most notably the [[Partition of India|partition of British India]] in August 1947.
-Soon after gaining their independence, India and Pakistan established diplomatic relations, but the violent partition and reciprocal territorial claims quickly overshadowed their relationship. Since their independence, the two countries have fought [[Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts|three major wars]], as well as one [[Kargil War|undeclared war]], and have been involved in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs. The [[Kashmir conflict]] is the main centre-point of all of these conflicts with the exception of the [[Indo-Pakistan War of 1971]] and the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]], which resulted in the secession of [[East Pakistan]] (now [[Bangladesh]]).
+Two years after [[World War II]], the [[United Kingdom]] formally dissolved [[British Raj|British India]], dividing it into two new sovereign nations: the [[Dominion of India|Union of India]] and [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]]. The partitioning of the former British colony resulted in the displacement of up to 15 million people, with the death toll estimated to have reached between several hundred thousand and one million people as [[Hindus]] and [[Muslims]] migrated in opposite directions across the [[Radcliffe Line]] to reach India and Pakistan, respectively.<ref>{{Harvnb|Metcalf|Metcalf|2006|pp=221–222}}</ref> In 1950, India emerged as a [[secularism in India|secular republic]] with a [[Hinduism in India|Hindu-majority population]]. Shortly afterwards, in 1956, Pakistan emerged as an [[Islamic republic]] with a [[Islam in Pakistan|Muslim-majority population]].
-There have been numerous attempts to improve the relationship, notably the [[Shimla Summit|Shimla summit]], the [[Agra summit]], and the [[Lahore Summit|Lahore summit]]. Since the early 1980s, relations between the two nations have grown increasingly sour, particularly after the [[Siachen conflict]], intensification of the [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir|Kashmir insurgency]] in 1989, [[Pokhran-II|Indian]] and [[Chagai-I|Pakistani]] nuclear tests in 1998, and the 1999 [[Kargil War]]. Certain [[confidence-building measures]], such as the 2003 ceasefire agreement and the [[Delhi–Lahore Bus]] service, have been successful in de-escalating tensions. However, these efforts have been impeded by periodic terrorist attacks. The [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] brought the two nations to the [[2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff|brink of a nuclear war]]. The [[2007 Samjhauta Express bombings]], which killed 68 civilians (most of whom were Pakistani), was also a crucial turning point in relations. Additionally, the [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] carried out by Pakistani militants<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-pakistan-india8-2009jan08,0,6016768.story|title=Pakistan acknowledges surviving Mumbai gunman is a Pakistani|website=latimes}}</ref> resulted in a [[Aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks#Indo-Pakistani relations|severe blow]] to the ongoing India–Pakistan peace talks.
+While the two [[South Asian]] countries established full diplomatic ties shortly after their formal independence, their relationship was quickly overshadowed by the mutual effects of the partition as well as by the emergence of conflicting territorial claims over various [[princely state]]s, with the most significant dispute being that of [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]. Since 1947, India and Pakistan have fought [[Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts|three major wars and one undeclared war]], and have also engaged in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs; the [[Kashmir conflict]] has served as the catalyst for every war between the two states, with the exception of the [[India–Pakistan war of 1971]], which instead occurred alongside the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]], which saw the secession of [[East Pakistan]] as the independent country of [[Bangladesh]]. It resulted in a large displacement of Pakistan's [[Hinduism in Pakistan|Hindu minority]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/area_pop/area_pop.html |title=Area, Population, Density and Urban/Rural Proportion by Administrative Units |publisher=Ministry of Economic Affairs and Statistics, Statistics Division |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222185234/http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/area_pop/area_pop.html |archive-date=22 December 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Cavendish2006">{{cite book |author=Marshall Cavendish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j894miuOqc4C&pg=PA396 |title=World and Its Peoples |date=September 2006 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-0-7614-7571-2 |page=396}}</ref>
-After a brief thaw following the election of new governments in both nations, bilateral discussions again stalled after the [[2016 Pathankot attack]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Sushma Swaraj rules out talks with Pakistan, John Kerry says no good or bad terrorist|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/sushma-swaraj-pakistan-terrorism-john-kerry-india-visit-3004565/|access-date=30 August 2016|work=Indian Express|agency=ENS|date=30 August 2016|location=New Delhi}}</ref> In September 2016, a [[2016 Uri attack|terrorist attack on an Indian military base]] in Indian-administered Kashmir killed 19 [[Indian Army]] soldiers, the deadliest such attack in years. India's claim that the attack had been orchestrated by a Pakistan-supported [[Jihadist terrorism|jihadist]] group was denied by Pakistan, which claimed the attack had been a local reaction to [[2016 Kashmir unrest|unrest in the region]] due to excessive force by Indian security personnel. The attack sparked a [[2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation|military confrontation]] across the [[Line of Control]] (LoC), with an escalation in ceasefire violations and further [[2016 attacks on India|militant attacks on Indian security forces]]. Since 2016, the ongoing confrontation, continued terrorist attacks, and an increase in nationalist rhetoric on both sides has resulted in the collapse of bilateral relations, with little expectation that they will recover.<ref>{{citation |author=Ankit Panda |url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/gurdaspur-pathankot-and-now-uri-what-are-indias-options/ |title=Gurdaspur, Pathankot, and Now Uri: What Are India's Options? |work=The Diplomat |date=19 September 2016 |access-date=3 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Geeta Anand, Hari Kumar |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/world/asia/kashmir-jammu-attack.html?_r=0 |title=Militants Attack Indian Army Base in Nagrota, Inflaming Tensions With Pakistan|work=The New York Times |date=29 November 2016 |access-date=3 December 2016}}</ref> Notably, following the [[2019 Pulwama attack]], the Indian government revoked Pakistan's [[most favoured nation]] trade status, which it had granted to Pakistan in 1996.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47249133 |title=Pulwama attack: India will 'completely isolate' Pakistan |work=BBC News |date=15 February 2019 |access-date=15 February 2019}}</ref> India also increased the custom duty to 200% which affected the trade of Pakistani apparel and cement.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=200% duty on Pakistan cement cheers industry|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/himachal/200-duty-on-pakistan-cement-cheers-industry-735938|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Khan|first=Aamir Shafaat|date=2019-02-19|title=India halts cement purchases from Pakistan|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1464740|access-date=2021-05-09|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>
+The [[India–Pakistan border]] is one of the most militarized international boundaries in the world. There have been numerous attempts to improve the relationship, notably with the 1972 [[Simla Agreement|Shimla summit]], 1999 [[Lahore Declaration|Lahore summit]], and the 2001 [[Agra summit]] in addition to various peace and co-operation initiatives. Despite those efforts, relations between the countries have remained frigid as a result of repeated acts of cross-border terrorism sponsored by the Pakistani side and alleged subversive acts sponsored by India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakistan Ups the Ante With India on Terrorism |url=https://thediplomat.com/2022/12/pakistan-ups-the-ante-with-india-on-terrorism/ |access-date=18 December 2024 |website=thediplomat.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The lack of any political advantages on either side for pursuing better relations has resulted in a period of "minimalist engagement" by both countries. This allows them to keep a "[[cold peace]]" with each other.<ref>{{cite news |title=The age of minimalism in India-Pakistan ties |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-age-of-minimalism-in-india-pakistan-ties/article66108192.ece |work=The Hindu |date=7 November 2022 |access-date=8 November 2022}}</ref>
-Since the election of new governments in both India and Pakistan in the early 2010s, some attempts have been made to improve relations, in particular the development of a consensus on the agreement of Non-Discriminatory Market Access on Reciprocal Basis (NDMARB) status for each other, which will liberalise trade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/683073/non-discriminatory-market-access-pakistan-india-all-but-sign-trade-normalisation-deal/|title=Non-discriminatory market access: Pakistan, India all but sign trade normalisation deal|date=15 March 2014|website=The Express Tribune}}</ref> Both India and Pakistan are members of the [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation]] and its [[South Asian Free Trade Area]]. Pakistan used to host a pavilion at the annual India International Trade Fair which drew huge crowds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://twocircles.net/2012nov18/pakistani_apparel_trade_fair_draws_huge_crowds.html|title=Pakistani apparel at Trade Fair draws huge crowds|work=TwoCircles}}</ref> Deteriorating relations between the two nations resulted in a boycott of Pakistani traders at the trade fair.
+[[North India|Northern India]] and most of modern-day eastern Pakistan overlap with each other in terms of their common [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan demographic]], natively speaking a variety of [[Indo-Aryan languages]] (mainly [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], and [[Hindustani language|Hindi–Urdu]]). Although the two countries have linguistic and cultural ties, the size of India–Pakistan trade is very small relative to the size of their economies and the fact that they share a land border.<ref>[https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/pakistan-india-trade-what-needs-to-be-done-what-does-it-matter Pakistan-India Trade: What Needs to Be Done? What Does It Matter?] Asia Centre Program. ''The Wilson Centre''. Accessed 1 March 2022.</ref> Trade across direct routes has been curtailed formally,<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nisha Taneja (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations)|author2=Shaheen Rafi Khan |author3=Moeed Yusuf |author4=Shahbaz Bokhari |author5=Shoaib Aziz |title=''Chapter 4: India–Pakistan Trade: The View from the Indian Side'' (p. 72-77) ''Chapter 5: Quantifying Informal Trade Between Pakistan and India'' (p. 87-104) |editor=Zareen Fatima Naqvi and Philip Schuler |website=The Challenges and Potential of Pakistan-India Trade |date=January 2007 |publisher=(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, June 2007) |access-date=29 August 2012 |url=https://nub.academia.edu/NishaAkter/Papers/910718/The_Challenges_and_Potential_of_Pakistan-India_Trade }}</ref> so the bulk of India–Pakistan trade is routed through [[Dubai]] in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ahmed |last2=Ghani |first1=Sadiq |first2=Ejaz |title=''South Asia's Growth and Regional Integration: An Overview'' |page=33 |website=World Bank |access-date=29 August 2012 |url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/Publications/448813-1171648504958/SAR_integration_overview.pdf }}</ref> According to a [[BBC World Service]] poll in 2017, only 5% of Indians view Pakistan's influence positively, with 85% expressing a negative view, while 11% of Pakistanis view India's influence positively, with 62% expressing a negative view.<ref name="BBC_Poll">{{cite web|title=2017 BBC World Service Global Poll|url=http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf|publisher=BBC World Service|access-date=4 August 2017|archive-date=8 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608143515/https://globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf}}</ref>
-In November 2015, Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] and Pakistani Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]] agreed to the resumption of bilateral talks; the following month, Modi made a brief, unscheduled visit to Pakistan while en route to India, becoming the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Pakistan since 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/3-minutes-that-changed-indiapakties/article8029441.ece?homepage=true|title=3 minutes that changed India-Pak ties|first=Suhasini |last=Haidar|website=The Hindu}}</ref> Despite those efforts, relations between the countries have remained frigid, following repeated acts of cross-border [[terrorism]]. According to a 2017 [[BBC World Service]] poll, only 5% of Indians view Pakistan's influence positively, with 85% expressing a negative view, while 11% of Pakistanis view India's influence positively, with 62% expressing a negative view.<ref name="BBC_Poll">{{cite web|title=2017 BBC World Service Global Poll|url=http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf|website=BBC World Service|access-date=4 August 2017}}</ref>
+== Country comparison ==
+{|class="wikitable"
+|
+! '''Republic of India'''
+! '''Islamic Republic of Pakistan'''
+|-
+| '''Flag'''
+| style="text-align:center" | {{Flagicon|IND|size=125px}}
+| style="text-align:center" | {{Flagicon|PAK|size=125px}}
+|-
+| '''Population'''
+| 1,428,627,663
+| 241,599,431
+|-
+| '''Area'''
+| {{convert|3,287,263|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}
+| {{convert|881,913|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}
+|-
+| '''Population Density'''
+| {{convert|432.3|/sqkm|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
+| {{convert|273.8|/sqkm|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
+|-
+| '''Capital'''
+| [[New Delhi]]
+| [[Islamabad]]
+|-
+| '''Largest City'''
+| [[Mumbai]] – 12,442,373 (18,414,288 Metro)
+| [[Karachi]] – 18,868,021 (20,382,881 Metro)
+|-
+| '''Government'''
+| [[Federalism|Federal]] [[Parliamentary system|parliamentary]] constitutional republic
+| [[Federalism|Federal]] [[Parliamentary system|parliamentary]] [[Islamic republic]]
+|-
+|-
+| '''Current Leaders'''
+| [[Droupadi Murmu]] (President)<br>[[Narendra Modi]] (Prime minister)
+| [[Asif Ali Zardari]] (President) <br> [[Shehbaz Sharif]] (Prime minister)
+|-
+| '''Official languages'''
+| [[English language|English]] and [[Hindi]]
+| [[English language|English]] and [[Urdu]]
+|-
+| '''GDP ([[Purchasing power parity|PPP]])'''
+|
+*[[United States dollar|US$]]17.647 trillion
+**$12,132 [[per capita]]
+|
+*US$1.58 trillion
+**$6,287 per capita
+|-
+|}
-==Seeds of conflict during independence==
+== Background ==
+=== Pre-partition era ===
+{{See also|Northwest India#History}}[[File:British_troops_crossing_the_Sutlej_(Punjab)_in_boats._10_February_1846.jpg|thumb|British troops crossing the [[Sutlej|Sutlej river]] in 1846 during the [[first Anglo-Sikh war]]. By 1849, Punjab [[Second Anglo-Sikh War|was annexed]]]]
+Most of the pre-British invasions into India (the [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|Muslim conquests]] having been the most impactful) took place from the northwest through the modern-day territory of Pakistan. This geography meant that Pakistan absorbed more [[Indo-Persian culture|Persian and Muslim influences]] than the rest of the subcontinent, which can be seen in its usage of a modified [[Perso-Arabic alphabet]] for writing its native languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Details for: South Asia's geography of conflict / › ACKU catalog |url=https://archive.af/bib/35886 |access-date=20 December 2024 |website=archive.af}}</ref>
+In the 1840s, [[British conquest of Sindh|Sindh]], [[Kashmir]], and [[British conquest of Punjab|Punjab]], which are along today's India–Pakistan border, were annexed into British India. British historian [[John Keay]] notes that while the rest of British India had generally been consolidated through treaties and more nonviolent means, much of what is now Pakistan [[Military history of Pakistan#British annexation|had to be physically conquered]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shaikh |first=Dr Muhammad Ali |date=31 October 2021 |title=HISTORY: THE BRITISH CONQUEST OF SINDH |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1655098 |access-date=20 December 2024 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}</ref> By the early 20th century, the [[Pakistan Movement]] had emerged, demanding a separate nation for Indian Muslims carved out of the northwestern and northeastern regions.<ref>{{Citation |last=Jalal |first=Ayesha |title=The Creation of Pakistan |date=2017-11-20 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History |url=https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-114 |access-date=2025-04-24 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.114 |isbn=978-0-19-027772-7}}</ref>
+===Seeds of conflict during independence===
 {{Main|Partition of India}}
-[[File:Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah having a difference of opinion.jpg|thumb|270px|right|[[Jinnah]] and [[Gandhi]] engaged in a heated conversation. A well-known photograph recently attributed to [[Kulwant Roy]].]]
+[[File:Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah having a difference of opinion.jpg|thumb|[[Jinnah]] and [[Gandhi]] engaged in a heated conversation. A well-known photograph recently attributed to [[Kulwant Roy]].|left]]
+[[Population transfer|Massive population exchanges]] occurred between the two newly formed states in the months immediately following the partition. There was no conception that population transfers would be necessary because of the partitioning. Religious minorities were expected to stay put in the states they found themselves residing in. However, while an exception was made for Punjab, where the transfer of populations was organised because of the communal violence affecting the province, this did not apply to other provinces.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5c9ta97GeoC&pg=PA40|title=The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories|author=Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-231-13847-5|pages=40–|quote=Second, it was feared that if an exchange of populations was agreed to in principle in Punjab, ' there was the likelihood of trouble breaking out in other parts of the subcontinent to force Muslims in the Indian Dominion to move to Pakistan. If that happened, we would find ourselves with inadequate land and other resources to support the influx.' Punjab could set a very dangerous precedent for the rest of the subcontinent. Given that Muslims in the rest of India, some 42 million, formed a population larger than the entire population of West Pakistan at the time, economic rationality eschewed such a forced migration. However, in divided Punjab, millions of people were already on the move, and the two governments had to respond to this mass movement. Thus, despite these important reservations, the establishment of the MEO led to an acceptance of a 'transfer of populations' in divided Punjab, too, 'to give a sense of security' to ravaged communities on both sides. A statement of the Indian government's position of such a transfer across divided Punjab was made in the legislature by Neogy on November 18, 1947. He stated that although the Indian government's policy was 'to discourage mass migration from one province to another.' Punjab was to be an exception. In the rest of the subcontinent migrations were not to be on a planned basis, but a matter of individual choice. This exceptional character of movements across divided Punjab needs to be emphasized, for the agreed and 'planned evacuations' by the two governments formed the context of those displacements.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAkarK3gLDgC&pg=PA149|title=The Making of the Modern Refugee|author=Peter Gatrell|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-967416-9|pages=149–|quote=Notwithstanding the accumulated evidence of inter-communal tension, the signatories to the agreement that divided the Raj did not expect the transfer of power and the partition of India to be accompanied by a mass movement of population. Partition was conceived as a means of preventing migration on a large scale because the borders would be adjusted instead. Minorities need not be troubled by the new configuration. As Pakistan's first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, affirmed, 'the division of India into Pakistan and India Dominions was based on the principle that minorities will stay where they were and that the two states will afford all protection to them as citizens of the respective states'.}}</ref>
 [[File:A refugee special train at Ambala Station during partition of India.jpg|thumb|A refugee special train at Ambala Station during the partition of India]]
-[[Population transfer|Massive population exchanges]] occurred between the two newly formed states in the months immediately following the partition. There was no conception that population transfers would be necessary because of the partitioning. Religious minorities were expected to stay put in the states they found themselves residing in. However, an exception was made for Punjab, where the transfer of populations was organized because of the communal violence affecting the province, this did not apply to other provinces.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5c9ta97GeoC&pg=PA40|title=The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories|author=Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-231-13847-5|pages=40–|quote=Second, it was feared that if an exchange of populations was agreed to in principle in Punjab, ' there was the likelihood of trouble breaking out in other parts of the subcontinent to force Muslims in the Indian Dominion to move to Pakistan. If that happened, we would find ourselves with inadequate land and other resources to support the influx.' Punjab could set a very dangerous precedent for the rest of the subcontinent. Given that Muslims in the rest of India, some 42 million, formed a population larger than the entire population of West Pakistan at the time, economic rationality eschewed such a forced migration. However, in divided Punjab, millions of people were already on the move, and the two governments had to respond to this mass movement. Thus, despite these important reservations, the establishment of the MEO led to an acceptance of a 'transfer of populations' in divided Punjab, too, 'to give a sense of security' to ravaged communities on both sides. A statement of the Indian government's position of such a transfer across divided Punjab was made in the legislature by Neogy on November 18, 1947. He stated that although the Indian government's policy was 'to discourage mass migration from one province to another.' Punjab was to be an exception. In the rest of the subcontinent migrations were not to be on a planned basis, but a matter of individual choice. This exceptional character of movements across divided Punjab needs to be emphasized, for the agreed and 'planned evacuations' by the two governments formed the context of those displacements.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAkarK3gLDgC&pg=PA149|title=The Making of the Modern Refugee|author=Peter Gatrell|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-967416-9|pages=149–|quote=Notwithstanding the accumulated evidence of inter-communal tension, the signatories to the agreement that divided the Raj did not expect the transfer of power and the partition of India to be accompanied by a mass movement of population. Partition was conceived as a means of preventing migration on a large scale because the borders would be adjusted instead. Minorities need not be troubled by the new configuration. As Pakistan's first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, affirmed, 'the division of India into Pakistan and India Dominions was based on the principle that minorities will stay where they were and that the two states will afford all protection to them as citizens of the respective states'.}}</ref>
+The partition of British India split the former [[Punjab Province (British India)|British province of Punjab]] and [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] between the [[Dominion of India]] and the [[Dominion of Pakistan]]. The mostly Muslim western part of the province became Pakistan's [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab province]]; the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern part became India's East Punjab state (later divided into the new states of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Haryana]] and [[Himachal Pradesh]]). Many Hindus and Sikhs lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and the fears of all such minorities were so great that the Partition saw many people displaced and much inter-communal violence. Some have described the violence in Punjab as a retributive genocide.<ref name="washedu">{{cite web|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/brass/Partition.pdf|title=The partition of India and retributive genocide in the Punjab, 1946–47: means, methods, and purposes|access-date=19 December 2006|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414111514/http://faculty.washington.edu/brass/Partition.pdf}}</ref> Total migration across Punjab during the partition is estimated at 12 million people;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zamindar|first=Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali|title=India–Pakistan Partition 1947 and forced migration|publisher=Wiley Online Library|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4443-3489-0|quote="Some 12 million people were displaced in the divided province of Punjab alone, and up to 20 million in the subcontinent as a whole."}}</ref> around 6.5 million Muslims moved from East Punjab to West Punjab, and 4.7 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from West Punjab to East Punjab.
-The partition of British India split the former [[Punjab Province (British India)|British province of Punjab]] and [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] between the [[Dominion of India]] and the [[Dominion of Pakistan]]. The mostly Muslim western part of the province became Pakistan's [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab province]]; the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern part became India's East Punjab state (later divided into the new states of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Haryana]] and [[Himachal Pradesh]]). Many Hindus and Sikhs lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and the fears of all such minorities were so great that the Partition saw many people displaced and much inter-communal violence. Some have described the violence in Punjab as a retributive genocide.<ref name="washedu">{{cite web|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/brass/Partition.pdf|title=The partition of India and retributive genocide in the Punjab, 1946–47: means, methods, and purposes|access-date=19 December 2006}}</ref> Total migration across Punjab during the partition is estimated at around 12 million people;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zamindar|first=Vazira Fazila‐Yacoobali|title=India–Pakistan Partition 1947 and forced migration|publisher=Wiley Online Library|year=2013|isbn=9781444334890|quote="Some 12 million people were displaced in the divided province of Punjab alone, and up to 20 million in the subcontinent as a whole."}}</ref> around 6.5 million Muslims moved from East Punjab to West Punjab, and 4.7 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from West Punjab to East Punjab.
+According to the British plan for the partition of British India, all the 680 [[princely states]] were allowed to decide which of the two countries to join. With the exception of a few, most of the Muslim-majority princely-states acceded to Pakistan while most of the Hindu-majority princely states joined India. However, the decisions of some of the princely states would shape the Pakistan–India relationship considerably in the years to come.
-According to the British plan for the partition of British India, all the 680 [[princely states]] were allowed to decide which of the two countries to join. With the exception of a few, most of the Muslim-majority princely-states acceded to Pakistan while most of the Hindu-majority princely states joined India. However, the decisions of some of the princely states would shape the Pakistan-India relationship considerably in the years to come.
+====Junagadh issue====
+{{Main|Annexation of Junagadh}}
-===Junagadh issue===
+[[File:Map GujDist Saurastra.png|thumb|upright=1.2|right|Junagadh is one of the modern districts of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]], Gujarat]]
-{{Main|Annexation of Junagadh}}
-[[File:Map GujDist Saurastra.png|thumb|upright=1.2|right|Junagadh is one of the modern districts of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurastra]], Gujarat]]
 [[Junagadh]] was a state on the south-western end of [[Gujarat]], with the principalities of [[Manavadar]], [[Mangrol State|Mangrol]] and [[Babariawad|Babriawad]]. It was not contiguous to Pakistan and other states physically separated it from Pakistan. The state had an overwhelming Hindu population which constituted more than 80% of its citizens, while its ruler, [[Nawab of Junagadh|Nawab]] [[Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III|Mahabat Khan]], was a Muslim. Mahabat Khan acceded to Pakistan on 15 August 1947. Pakistan confirmed the acceptance of the accession on 15 September 1947.
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 The Pakistani point of view was that since Junagadh had a ruler and governing body who chose to accede to Pakistan, it should be allowed to do so. Also, because Junagadh had a coastline, it could have maintained maritime links with Pakistan even as an [[enclave]] within India.
+[[File:Partition of India 1947 en.svg|thumb|The [[partition of India]]: green regions were all part of Pakistan by 1948, and orange ones part of India.]]
 Neither of the states was able to resolve this issue amicably and it only added fuel to an already charged environment. [[Sardar Patel]], India's [[Home Minister]], felt that if Junagadh was permitted to go to Pakistan, it would create communal unrest across Gujarat. The government of India gave Pakistan time to void the accession and hold a [[plebiscite]] in Junagadh to pre-empt any violence in Gujarat. [[Samaldas Gandhi]] formed a government-in-exile, the ''Arzi Hukumat'' (in [[Urdu]]: ''Arzi'': Transitional, ''Hukumat'': Government) of the people of Junagadh. Patel ordered the annexation of Junagadh's three principalities.
-India [[blockade|cut off]] supplies of fuel and coal to Junagadh, severed air and postal links, sent troops to the frontier, and occupied the [[principality|principalities]] of Mangrol and Babariawad that had acceded to India.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lumby|1954|p=238}}</ref> On 26 October, Nawab of Junagadh and his family fled to Pakistan following clashes with Indian troops. On 7 November, Junagadh's court, facing collapse, invited the Government of India to take over the State's administration. The Dewan of Junagadh, Sir [[Shah Nawaz Bhutto]], the father of the more famous [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]], decided to invite the [[Government of India]] to intervene and wrote a letter to Mr. Buch, the Regional Commissioner of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] in the Government of India to this effect.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hellojunagadh.com/history_letter.aspx |title=Letter Inviting India to Intervene |access-date=16 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326005939/http://www.hellojunagadh.com/history_letter.aspx |archive-date=26 March 2012  }}</ref> The [[Government of Pakistan]] protested. The Government of India rejected the protests of Pakistan and accepted the invitation of the Dewan to intervene.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lumby|1954|pp=238–239}}</ref> Indian troops occupied Junagadh on 9 November 1947. In February 1948, a [[plebiscite]] held almost unanimously voted for accession to India.
+India [[blockade|cut off]] supplies of fuel and coal to Junagadh, severed air and postal links, sent troops to the frontier, and occupied the [[principality|principalities]] of Mangrol and Babariawad that had acceded to India.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lumby|1954|p=238}}</ref> On 26 October, Nawab of Junagadh and his family fled to Pakistan following clashes with Indian troops. On 7 November, Junagadh's court, facing collapse, invited the Government of India to take over the State's administration. The Dewan of Junagadh, Sir [[Shah Nawaz Bhutto]], the father of [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]], decided to invite the [[Government of India]] to intervene and wrote a letter to Mr. Buch, the Regional Commissioner of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] in the Government of India to this effect.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hellojunagadh.com/history_letter.aspx |title=Letter Inviting India to Intervene |access-date=16 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326005939/http://www.hellojunagadh.com/history_letter.aspx |archive-date=26 March 2012 }}</ref> The [[Government of Pakistan]] protested. The Government of India rejected the protests of Pakistan and accepted the invitation of the Dewan to intervene.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lumby|1954|pp=238–239}}</ref> Indian troops occupied Junagadh on 9 November 1947. In February 1948, a [[plebiscite]] held almost unanimously voted for accession to India.
-===Kashmir conflict===
+====Kashmir conflict====
 {{Main|Kashmir conflict}}
-{{Sync|Kashmir conflict|here|Semi-protected edit request on 28 September 2018|date=September 2018}}
-[[Kashmir]] was a Muslim-majority princely state, ruled by a Hindu king, [[Maharaja]] [[Hari Singh]]. At the time of the [[partition of India]], Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of the state, preferred to remain independent and did not want to join either the [[Dominion of India]] or the [[Dominion of Pakistan]]. He wanted both India and Pakistan to recognise his princely state as an independent neutral country.<ref>{{cite book | author=Mehr Chand Mahajan | year=1963 | title=Looking Back | page=162| publisher=Asia Publishing House (Digitalised by Google at the University of Michigan)| location=Bombay | isbn= 9788124101940 | author-link=Mehr Chand Mahajan }}</ref>
-Despite the [[standstill agreement (India)|standstill agreement]] with Pakistan, teams of Pakistani forces were dispatched into Kashmir. Backed by Pakistani paramilitary forces, [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] [[Mehsud]] tribals<ref name="Haroon2007">{{cite book|last=Haroon|first=Sana|title=Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=20VIdFUoC3UC&pg=PA179|access-date=26 February 2012|date=1 December 2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70013-9|pages=179–180}}</ref><!--Ref for invasion by tribals--> invaded Kashmir in October 1947 under the code name "[[Operation Gulmarg]]" to seize Kashmir. They reached and captured [[Baramulla]] on 25 October. Instead of moving on to Srinagar just 50&nbsp;km away and capturing its undefended airfield, they stayed there for several days. Kashmir's security forces turned out to be too weak and ill-equipped to fight against Pakistan. Fearing that this invasion would bring about an accession to Pakistan, the Maharaja now turned to India and requested India for troops to safeguard Kashmir. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was ready to send the troops, but the acting Governor General of India, [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]], advised the Maharaja to accede to India before India could send its troops. Hence, considering the emergent situation he signed the instrument of accession to the Union of India on 26 October 1947.
+[[File:Kashmir_region._LOC_2003626427_-_showing_sub-regions_administered_by_different_countries.jpg|thumb|India claims the entire erstwhile [[British Raj|British Indian]] [[princely state]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] based on an [[Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)|instrument of accession]] signed in 1947.]]
+[[Kashmir]] was a Muslim-majority princely state, ruled by a Hindu king, [[Maharaja]] [[Hari Singh]]. At the time of the [[partition of India]], Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of the state, preferred to remain independent and did not want to join either the [[Dominion of India]] or the [[Dominion of Pakistan]].
-[[Charles Chenevix Trench]] writes in his 'The Frontier Scouts' (1985):
+Despite the [[standstill agreement (India)|standstill agreement]] with Pakistan, teams of Pakistani forces were dispatched into Kashmir. Backed by Pakistani paramilitary forces, [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] [[Mehsud]] tribals<ref name="Haroon2007">{{cite book|last=Haroon|first=Sana|title=Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=20VIdFUoC3UC&pg=PA179|access-date=26 February 2012|date=1 December 2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70013-9|pages=179–180}}</ref><!--Ref for invasion by tribals--> invaded Kashmir in October 1947 under the code name "[[Operation Gulmarg]]" to seize Kashmir. The Maharaja requested military assistance from India. The Governor General of India, [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten]], required the Maharaja to accede to India before India could send troops. Accordingly, the [[Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)|instrument of accession]] was signed and accepted during 26–27 October 1947. The accession as well as India's military assistance were supported by [[Sheikh Abdullah]], the state's political leader heading the [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|National Conference]] party, and Abdullah was appointed as the Head of Emergency Administration of the state the following week.
-<blockquote>
-In October 1947... tribal lashkars hastened in lorries - undoubtedly with official logistic support - into Kashmir... at least one British Officer, Harvey-Kelly took part in the campaign. It seemed that nothing could stop these hordes of tribesmen taking Srinagar with its vital airfield. Indeed nothing did, but their own greed. The [[Mahsud]]s in particular stopped to loot, rape and murder; Indian troops were flown in and the lashkars pushed out of the Vale of Kashmir into the mountains. The Mahsuds returned home in a savage mood, having muffed an easy chance, lost the loot of Srinagar and made fools of themselves.
-</blockquote>
-According to Pakistani General [[Akbar Khan (Pakistani general)|Mohammad Akbar Khan]], the raiders "delayed in [[Baramulla district|Baramulla]] for two (whole) days for some unknown reason."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontlinekashmir.org/2011/10/october-27-1947-dakota-in-my-dell.html |title=October 27, 1947: Dakota in my dell ~ FRONTLINE KASHMIR |publisher=Frontlinekashmir.org |date=27 October 2011 |access-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425132919/http://www.frontlinekashmir.org/2011/10/october-27-1947-dakota-in-my-dell.html |archive-date=25 April 2012  }}</ref>
+Pakistan refused to accept the state's accession to India and escalated the conflict, by giving full-fledged support to the rebels and invading tribes. A constant replenishment of Pashtun tribes were organised, and provided arms and ammunition as well as military leadership.
-While the invading Pakistanis spread across the State and looted [[Baramulla]] town just 50&nbsp;km from the state capital, Srinagar, for several days starting 25 October 1947, the Maharaja signed [[Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)|Instrument of Accession]] to the Dominion of India on 26 October 1947. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah had already reached Delhi a day earlier on 25 October to persuade Nehru to send troops. He made no secret of the danger the State faced and asked Nehru to lose no time in accepting the accession and ensuring the speedy dispatch of Indian troops to the State. ([[Sheikh Abdullah]] corroborates this account in his Aatish-e-Chinaar (at pages 416 and 417) and records (at page 417) that [[V.P. Menon]] returned to Delhi on 26 October with signed Instrument of accession.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/archive-news/|title=Hindustan Times - Archive News|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref> The Instrument was accepted by the [[Governor-General of India]] the next day, 27 October 1947. With this signing by the Maharaja and acceptance by the Governor-General, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir became a part of Dominion of India as per the [[Indian Independence Act 1947]] passed by the British parliament.
+Indian troops managed to evict the invading tribes from the [[Kashmir Valley]] but the onset of winter made much of the state impassable. In December 1947, India referred the conflict to the [[United Nations Security Council]], requesting it to prevent the outbreak of a general war between the two fledgling nations. The Security Council passed [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 47|Resolution 47]], asking Pakistan to withdraw all its nationals from Kashmir, asking India to withdraw the bulk of its forces as a second step, and offering to conduct a [[plebiscite]] to determine the people's wishes. Though India rejected the resolution, it accepted a suitably amended version of it negotiated by the [[United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan|UN Commission]] set up for the purpose, as did Pakistan towards the end of 1948. A ceasefire was declared on 1 January the following year.
-By this time the raiders were close to the capital, [[Srinagar]] Indian troops were airlifted from Delhi, landed at Srinagar airport in Kashmir on 27 October 1947 and secured the airport before proceeding to evict the invaders from Kashmir valley.
+However, India and Pakistan could not agree on the suitable steps for demilitarisation to occur as prelude to the plebiscite. Pakistan organised the rebel fighting forces of Azad Kashmir into a full-fledged military of 32 battalions, and India insisted that it should be disbanded as part of the demilitarisation. No agreement was reached and the plebiscite never took place.
-The Indian troops managed to evict the aggressors from parts of Kashmir but the onset of winter made much of the state impassable. After weeks of intense fighting between Pakistan and India, Pakistani leaders and the Indian Prime Minister Nehru declared a ceasefire and sought [[U.N.]] arbitration with the promise of a [[plebiscite]].
+==Wars, conflicts, and disputes==
-In 1957, north-western Kashmir was fully integrated into Pakistan, becoming [[Azad Kashmir]] (Pakistan-administered Kashmir). In 1962, China occupied [[Aksai Chin]], the north-eastern region bordering [[Ladakh]]. In 1984, India launched [[Operation Meghdoot]] and captured more than 80% of the [[Siachen Glacier]].
+{{Campaignbox Indo-Pakistani Wars}}
+{{Main|India–Pakistan wars and conflicts}}
+{{Further|India–Pakistan war of 1947–1948|India–Pakistan war of 1965|India–Pakistan war of 1971|Kargil War|Siachen conflict|Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir}}
-Pakistan now maintains Kashmiris' right to self-determination through a [[plebiscite]] and the promised plebiscite should be allowed to decide the fate of the Kashmiri people. India on the other hand asserts that with the Maharaja's signing the instrument of accession, Kashmir has become an integral part of India.
+India and Pakistan have fought in numerous armed conflicts since their independence. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In addition to this was the unofficial [[Kargil War]] in 1999 and some border skirmishes.<ref name="CM">{{Citation|last=Ganguly|first=Sumit|title=India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: Civil-Military Relations|date=17 December 2020|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1926|isbn=978-0-19-022863-7}}</ref> While both nations have held a shaky cease-fire agreement since 2003, they continue to trade fire across the disputed area. Both nations blame the other for breaking the cease-fire agreement, claiming that they are firing in retaliation for attacks.<ref name="UW">{{Cite journal|last1=Pye|first1=Lucian W.|last2=Schofield|first2=Victoria|date=2000|title=Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished War|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=79|issue=6|page=190|doi=10.2307/20050024|jstor=20050024|s2cid=129061164 |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> On both sides of the disputed border, an increase in territorial skirmishes that started in late 2016 and escalated into 2018 killed hundreds of civilians and made thousand homeless.<ref name="CM" /><ref name="UW" />
-Due to all such political differences, this territorial claim has been the subject of wars between the two countries in [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947|1947]] and [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|1965]], and a limited conflict in [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1999|1999]]. The state remains divided between the two countries by the Line of Control (LoC), which demarcates the ceasefire line agreed upon in the 1947 conflict modified in 1972 as per [[Simla Agreement|Shimla Agreement]].
+===War of 1965===
+{{Main|India–Pakistan war of 1965}}
-==Wars, conflicts and disputes==
+The India–Pakistan war of 1965 started following the culmination of [[skirmish]]es that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 and Pakistan's [[Operation Gibraltar]], which was designed to infiltrate forces into [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] to precipitate an [[insurgency]] against rule by India.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050603/main2.htm Chandigarh, India – Main News]. Tribuneindia.com. Retrieved on 14 April 2011.</ref> India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on [[West Pakistan]]. The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II.{{sfn|David R. Higgins|2016}}{{sfn|Rachna Bisht|2015}} Hostilities between the two countries ended after a [[United Nations]]-mandated ceasefire was declared following diplomatic intervention by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the subsequent issuance of the [[Tashkent Declaration]].<ref name="Lyon2008">{{cite book|last=Lyon|first=Peter|title=Conflict between India and Pakistan: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLwOck15eboC&pg=PR11|access-date=30 October 2011|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-712-2|page=82}}</ref> The five-week war caused thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of the battles were fought by opposing [[infantry]] and [[armoured warfare|armoured]] units, with substantial backing from air forces, and naval operations. It ended in a [[United Nations]] (UN) mandated [[ceasefire]] and the subsequent issuance of the [[Tashkent Declaration]].
-{{Campaignbox Indo-Pakistani Wars}}
-{{Main|Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts}}
-{{Further|Indo-Pakistani War of 1947|Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|Kargil War|Siachen conflict|Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir}}
-India and Pakistan have fought in numerous armed conflicts since their independence. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In addition to this was the unofficial [[Kargil War]] in 1999 and some border skirmishes. Major conflicts between India and Pakistan, [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948|War of1947]] and [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|War of 1965]], and a small-scale [[Kargil War]] in 1999, were triggered by conflict over the border of [[Kashmir]].<ref name=":1">{{Citation|last=Ganguly|first=Sumit|title=India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: Civil-Military Relations|date=2020-12-17|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1926|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1926|isbn=978-0-19-022863-7|access-date=2021-04-23}}</ref> While both nations have held a shaky cease-fire agreement since 2003, they continue to trade fire across the disputed area. Both nations blame the other for breaking the cease-fire agreement, claiming that they are firing in retaliation for attacks.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Pye|first1=Lucian W.|last2=Schofield|first2=Victoria|date=2000|title=Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished War|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20050024|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=79|issue=6|pages=190|doi=10.2307/20050024|jstor=20050024|issn=0015-7120}}</ref> On both sides of the disputed border, an increase in territorial skirmishes that started in late 2016 and escalated into 2018 killed hundreds of civilians and made thousand homeless.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
-===War of 1965===
+===War of 1971===
-{{Main|Indo-Pakistani War of 1965}}
+[[File:1971 Instrument of Surrender WaPo.jpg|thumb|right| Pakistan's Lt Gen [[:en:Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi|Niazi]] (sitting second from right) signing the [[:en:Instrument of Surrender (1971)|Instrument of Surrender]], following the defeat of Pakistan in the [[India–Pakistan war of 1971]].]]
+{{Main|India–Pakistan war of 1971|Bangladesh Liberation War|Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971}}
-The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 started following the culmination of [[skirmish]]es that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 and Pakistan's [[Operation Gibraltar]], which was designed to infiltrate forces into [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] to precipitate an [[insurgency]] against rule by India.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050603/main2.htm Chandigarh, India – Main News]. Tribuneindia.com. Retrieved on 14 April 2011.</ref> India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on [[West Pakistan]]. The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II.{{sfn|David R. Higgins|2016}}{{sfn|Rachna Bisht|2015}} Hostilities between the two countries ended after a [[United Nations]]-mandated ceasefire was declared following diplomatic intervention by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the subsequent issuance of the [[Tashkent Declaration]].<ref name="Lyon2008">{{cite book|last=Lyon|first=Peter|title=Conflict between India and Pakistan: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLwOck15eboC&pg=PR11|access-date=30 October 2011|year=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-712-2|page=82}}</ref> The five-week war caused thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of the battles were fought by opposing [[infantry]] and [[armoured warfare|armoured]] units, with substantial backing from air forces, and naval operations. It ended in a [[United Nations]] (UN) mandated [[ceasefire]] and the subsequent issuance of the [[Tashkent Declaration]].
+Pakistan, since independence, was geo-politically divided into two major regions, [[West Pakistan]] and [[East Pakistan]]. East Pakistan was occupied mostly by [[Bengali people]]. After a Pakistani [[Operation Searchlight|military operation]] and a [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|genocide on Bengalis]] in December 1971, following a political crisis in East Pakistan, the situation soon spiralled out of control in East Pakistan and India intervened in favour of the rebelling Bengali populace. The conflict, a brief but bloody war, resulted in the independence of East Pakistan. In the war, the [[Indian Army]] invaded East Pakistan from three sides, while the [[Indian Navy]] used the aircraft carrier {{INS|Vikrant|1961|6}} to impose a naval blockade of East Pakistan. The war saw the first offensive operations undertaken by the Indian Navy against an enemy port, when Karachi harbour was attacked twice during [[Operation Trident (1971)]] and [[Operation Python]]. These attacks destroyed a significant portion of Pakistan's naval strength, whereas no Indian ship was lost. The Indian Navy did, however, lose a single ship, when [[INS Khukri (F149)]] was torpedoed by a Pakistani submarine. 13 days after the invasion of East Pakistan, 93,000 [[Pakistani Military|Pakistani military]] personnel surrendered to the [[Indian Army]] and the [[Mukti Bahini]]. After the surrender of Pakistani forces, East Pakistan became the independent nation of [[Bangladesh]].
-===War of 1971===
+=== 1999 Kargil War ===
-[[File:1971 Instrument of Surrender.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right| Pakistan's Lt Gen [[:en:Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi|Niazi]](sitting second from right) signing the [[:en:Instrument of Surrender (1971)|Instrument of Surrender]], following the defeat of Pakistan in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].]]
+[[File:Kargil war.jpg|thumb|Indian soldiers after capturing a hill from Pakistani forces during the Kargil war in 1999.]]
-{{Main|Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|Bangladesh Liberation War|Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971}}
+{{Further|Kargil War}}
-Pakistan, since independence, was geo-politically divided into two major regions, [[West Pakistan]] and [[East Pakistan]]. East Pakistan was occupied mostly by [[Bengali people]]. After a Pakistani [[Operation Searchlight|military operation]] and a [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|genocide on Bengalis]] in December 1971, following a political crisis in East Pakistan, the situation soon spiralled out of control in East Pakistan and India intervened in favour of the rebelling Bengali populace. The conflict, a brief but bloody war, resulted in the independence of East Pakistan. In the war, the [[Indian Army]] invaded East Pakistan from three sides, while the [[Indian Navy]] used the aircraft carrier [[INS Vikrant (R11)]] to impose a naval blockade of East Pakistan. The war saw the first offensive operations undertaken by the Indian Navy against an enemy port, when Karachi harbour was attacked twice during [[Operation Trident (1971)]] and [[Operation Python]]. These attacks destroyed a significant portion of Pakistan's naval strength, whereas no Indian ship was lost. The Indian Navy did, however, lose a single ship, when [[INS Khukri (F149)]] was torpedoed by a Pakistani submarine. 13 days after the invasion of East Pakistan, 90,000 [[Pakistani Military|Pakistani military]] personnel surrendered to the [[Indian Army]] and the [[Mukti Bahini]]. After the surrender of Pakistani forces, East Pakistan became the independent nation of [[Bangladesh]].
+In May 1999 some Kashmiri shepherds discovered the presence of militants and non-uniformed Pakistani soldiers (many with official identifications and [[Pakistan Army]]'s custom weaponry) in the Kashmir Valley, where they had taken control of border hilltops and unmanned border posts. The incursion was centred around the town of [[Kargil]], but also included the [[Batalik]] and [[Akhnoor]] sectors and artillery exchanges at the [[Siachen Glacier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/sjir/3.1.06_kapur-narang.html|title=SJIR: The Fate of Kashmir: International Law or Lawlessness?|website=web.stanford.edu|access-date=17 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012061736/https://web.stanford.edu/group/sjir/3.1.06_kapur-narang.html|archive-date=12 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Guha|2007|pp=675–678}}
-===Kargil War===
+The Indian army responded with Operation Vijay, which launched on 26 May 1999. This saw the Indian military fighting thousands of militants and soldiers in the midst of heavy artillery shelling and while facing extremely cold weather, snow and treacherous terrain at the high altitude.{{sfn|Myra|2017|pp=27–66}} Over 500 Indian soldiers were killed in the three-month-long Kargil War, and it is estimated around 600–4,000 Pakistani militants and soldiers died as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.24.208/lsq/quest.asp?qref=51302|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202045832/http://164.100.24.208/lsq/quest.asp?qref=51302|archive-date=2 December 2008|title=PARLIAMENT QUESTIONS, LOK SABHA|date=2 December 2008|access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>{{sfn|Rodrigo|2006|p=}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/08/17/stories/2003081702900800.htm|title=Over 4,000 soldiers killed in Kargil: Sharif|access-date=17 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040531145342/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/08/17/stories/2003081702900800.htm|archive-date=31 May 2004|date=17 August 2003|last1=Reddy|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|first1=B. Muralidhar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-pak-quietly-names-453-men-killed-in-kargil-war/20101118.htm|title=Pak quietly names 453 men killed in Kargil war|work=Rediff.com|access-date=17 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627173200/http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-pak-quietly-names-453-men-killed-in-kargil-war/20101118.htm|archive-date=27 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> India pushed back the Pakistani militants and [[Northern Light Infantry]] soldiers. Almost 70% of the territory was recaptured by India.{{sfn|Myra|2017|pp=27–66}} Vajpayee sent a "secret letter" to U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] that if Pakistani infiltrators did not withdraw from the Indian territory, "we will get them out, one way or the other".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-was-ready-to-cross-loc-use-nuclear-weapons-in-kargil-war-115120300518_1.html|title=India was ready to cross LoC, use nuclear weapons in Kargil war|last=Team|first=BS Web|date=3 December 2015|work=Business Standard India|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609100347/http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-was-ready-to-cross-loc-use-nuclear-weapons-in-kargil-war-115120300518_1.html|archive-date=9 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
-{{Main|Kargil War}}
-During the winter months of 1998–99, the Indian army vacated its posts at very high peaks in [[Kargil town|Kargil]] sector in [[Kashmir]] as it used to do every year. [[Pakistani Army]] intruded across the Line of Control and occupied the posts. Indian army discovered this in May 1999 when the snow thawed. This resulted in intense fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces, known as the [[Kargil conflict]]. Backed by the Indian Air Force, the Indian Army regained many of the posts that Pakistan had occupied. Pakistan later withdrew from the remaining portion under international pressure and high casualties.
+After Pakistan suffered heavy losses, and with both the United States and China refusing to condone the incursion or threaten India to stop its military operations, General [[Pervez Musharraf]] was [[recalcitrant]] and [[Nawaz Sharif]] asked the remaining militants to stop and withdraw to positions along the LoC.<ref name="NS">{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/14/the-story-of-how-nawaz-sharif-pulled-back-from-nuclear-war/|title=The story of how Nawaz Sharif pulled back from nuclear war|website=Foreign Policy|date=14 May 2013 |access-date=17 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817193426/https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/14/the-story-of-how-nawaz-sharif-pulled-back-from-nuclear-war/|archive-date=17 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The militants were not willing to accept orders from Sharif but the [[Northern Light Infantry|NLI]] soldiers withdrew.<ref name="NS" /> The militants were killed by the Indian army or forced to withdraw in skirmishes which continued even after the announcement of withdrawal by Pakistan.<ref name="NS" />
-===Other territorial claims===
+A subsequent military coup in Pakistan that overturned the democratically elected [[Nawaz Sharif]] government in October of the same year also proved a setback to relations.
-{{Expand section|date=March 2013}}
-The relations are locked in other territorial claims such as the [[Siachen Glacier]] and [[Kori Creek]].
 ===Water disputes===
-The [[Indus Waters Treaty]] governs the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan. Water is cited as one possible cause for a conflict between the two nations, but to date issues such as the [[Nimoo Bazgo Project]] have been resolved through diplomacy.<ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/21538687 "Unquenchable thirst."] ''The Economist'', 19 November 2011.</ref>
+The [[Indus Waters Treaty]] governs the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan. Water is cited as one possible cause for a conflict between the two nations, but to date issues such as the [[Nimoo Bazgo Project]] have been resolved through diplomacy.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/11/19/unquenchable-thirst |title=Unquenchable thirst |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=19 November 2011}}</ref>
 ===Bengal refugee crisis (1949)===
 {{Further|East Bengali refugees}}
 In 1949, India recorded close to 1 million Hindu refugees, who flooded into [[West Bengal]] and other states from [[East Pakistan]] (now Bangladesh), owing to communal violence, intimidation and repression from authorities. The plight of the refugees outraged Hindus and Indian nationalists, and the refugee population drained the resources of Indian states, which were unable to absorb them. While not ruling out war, Prime Minister Nehru and Sardar Patel invited [[Liaquat Ali Khan]] for talks in Delhi. Although many Indians termed this appeasement, Nehru signed a pact with Liaquat Ali Khan that pledged both nations to the protection of minorities and creation of minority commissions. Khan and Nehru also signed a trade agreement, and committed to resolving bilateral conflicts through peaceful means. Steadily, hundreds of thousands of Hindus returned to East Pakistan, but the thaw in relations did not last long, primarily owing to the [[Kashmir conflict]].
-===Afghanistan===
-{{Further|Afghanistan–India relations|Afghanistan–Pakistan relations}}
-Afghanistan and Pakistan have had their own historic rivalry over their border, the [[Durand Line]], which numerous Afghan governments have refused to recognise as the border. This has led to strong tensions between the two countries and even [[Afghanistan-Pakistan skirmishes|military confrontations]], resulting in Pakistan as victorious. Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan of harbouring [[Balochistan insurgency|Baloch separatist rebels]] and attempting to sponsor separatist tendencies amongst its Pashtun and Baloch populations, going as far back as the 1950s. It has been believed that Pakistan during the 1970s, then under [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], in retaliation began supporting Islamist factions in Afghanistan.<ref>Husain Haqqani ''Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military'' pg 174 Carnegie Endowment, 2010 {{ISBN|0870032852}}, 9780870032851</ref> These factions proved rebellious for the Afghan government that was friendly to the Soviet Union and its South Asian ally, India.
-The later Soviet intervention in Afghanistan to prevent further escalation and eventual Islamist takeover of the country proved disastrous afterwards. The United States and its allies feared direct Soviet involvement in Afghanistan and began aiding Pakistan's support for the Afghan Mujaheddin, in hopes of crippling the Soviet Union. The [[Soviet-Afghan war]] turned out to be a stalemate with heavy casualties on all sides and costly for the Soviets. Under international agreement, the Soviets withdrew. But various Afghan factions fought one another and their external supporters, including the Soviet Union, Iran, Pakistan and others disagreed on which should be in power.
-Continued rival proxy support led to the [[Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996)|civil war]], in which Pakistan supported in the [[Taliban]], seeking to secure its interests in Afghanistan and providing strategic support, while India and Afghanistan's other neighbours backed the [[Northern Alliance]].
-After the [[Taliban]] defeated the Northern Alliance in much of Afghanistan in the [[Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)]], the Taliban regime continued to be supported by Pakistan – one of the three countries to do so – before the [[11 September attacks]]. India firmly opposed the Taliban and criticised Pakistan for supporting it. India established its links with the [[Northern Alliance]] as India officially recognised their government, with the [[United Nations]]. India's [[Afghanistan–India relations|relations with Afghanistan]], Pakistan's neighbour, and its increasing presence there has irked Pakistan.
-The [[2008 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul|2008 Indian embassy bombing]] in Kabul was a suicide bomb [[terror attack]] on the Indian embassy in [[Kabul]], Afghanistan on 7 July 2008 at 8:30&nbsp;AM local time.<ref name="Militants mounting pressure to destabilize Afghan gov't">{{cite news|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/07/content_8506817.htm|title=Militants mounting pressure to destabilise Afghan gov't|last=Haleem|first=Abdul |author2=Lin Jing |date=7 July 2008|publisher=news.xinhuanet.com|access-date=7 July 2008}}</ref> US [[CIA|intelligence]] officials suggested that Pakistan's [[Inter-Services Intelligence|ISI intelligence agency]] had planned the attack.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/world/asia/01pstan.html |title=Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say |first1=Mark |last1=Mazzetti |first2=Eric |last2=Schmitt |date=1 August 2008 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
-Pakistan tried to deny any responsibility,<ref name="nyt" /><ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/01/pakistan.usa|title=Pakistan condemns New York Times claims|date=1 August 2008 |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Mark |last=Tran |access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref>
-but [[United States President]] [[George W. Bush]] confronted [[Pakistani Prime Minister]] [[Yousuf Raza Gilani]] with evidence and warned him that in the case of another such attack he would have to take "serious action".<ref name="timesonline">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4449330.ece |title=Rogue Pakistan spies aid Taliban in Afghanistan |first=Christina |last=Lamb |publisher=The Times of London |date=3 August 2008}}</ref>
-Pakistan has been accused by India, Afghanistan, the United States,<ref name="US">International Terrorism: Threats and Responses: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary By United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, {{ISBN|0-16-052230-7}}, 1996, pp482</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2000/2441.htm|title=We're sorry, that page can't be found|website=state.gov}}</ref> and the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-5-2002_pg1_1 |title=Daily Times Story |publisher=Dailytimes.com.pk |date=29 May 2002 |access-date=21 June 2010}}</ref> of involvement in [[terrorism in Kashmir]] and Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/world/asia/18cnd-afghan.html|title=Coalition Vows to Regain Afghan Town Seized by Taliban|date=18 July 2006|website=The New York Times}}</ref> In July 2009, former [[President of Pakistan]] [[Asif Ali Zardari]] admitted that the [[Pakistani government]] had "created and nurtured" terrorist groups to achieve its short-term foreign policy goals.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nelson |first=Dean |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5779916/Pakistani-president-Asif-Zardari-admits-creating-terrorist-groups.html |title=Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups - by Telegraph UK |work=Telegraph|date=8 July 2009 |access-date=21 June 2010 |location=London}}</ref> According to an analysis published by [[Saban Centre for Middle East Policy]] at [[Brookings Institution]] in 2008 Pakistan was the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism including aiding groups and Pakistan has long aided a range of terrorist groups fighting against India in Kashmir and is a major sponsor of Taliban forces fighting the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan.<ref name="brookings.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/05_terrorism_byman/05_terrorism_byman.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905133823/http://brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/05_terrorism_byman/05_terrorism_byman.pdf |archive-date=5 September 2010 |title=The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism |first=Daniel L.|last=Byman |website=The Brookings Institution |series=Analysis Paper |number=16 |date=May 2008}}</ref>
 ===Insurgency in Kashmir (1989–present)===
 {{Main|Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir}}
-According to some reports published by the [[Council of Foreign Relations]], the Pakistan military and the ISI have provided covert support to terrorist groups active in Kashmir, including the [[al-Qaeda]] affiliate [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]].<ref>[http://www.cfr.org/publication/11644/ The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724100526/http://www.cfr.org/publication/11644/ |date=24 July 2009 }}, [[Council on Foreign Relations]], 28 May 2009</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/publication/9514/|title=Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists|website=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=22 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202062723/http://www.cfr.org/publication/9514/|archive-date=2 December 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pakistan has denied any involvement in terrorist activities in Kashmir, arguing that it only provides political and moral support to the [[secessionist]] groups who wish to escape Indian rule. Many Kashmiri militant groups also maintain their headquarters in [[Pakistan-administered Kashmir]], which is cited as further proof by the Indian government.
-Journalist [[Stephen Schwartz (journalist)|Stephen Suleyman Schwartz]] notes that several militant and criminal groups are "backed by senior officers in the Pakistani army, the country's ISI intelligence establishment and other armed bodies of the state."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/24639/a-threat-to-the-world.thtml |title=A threat to the world |access-date=20 September 2007 |author=Stephen Schwartz |date=19 August 2006 |publisher=[[The Spectator]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224052833/http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/24639/a-threat-to-the-world.thtml |archive-date=24 December 2007 }}</ref>
+[[File:India disputed areas map.svg|thumb|Map showing [[disputed territories of India]]]]
+According to some reports published by the [[Council of Foreign Relations]], the Pakistan military and the ISI have provided covert support to terrorist groups active in Kashmir, including the [[al-Qaeda]] affiliate [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]].<ref>[http://www.cfr.org/publication/11644/ The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724100526/http://www.cfr.org/publication/11644/ |date=24 July 2009 }}, [[Council on Foreign Relations]], 28 May 2009</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/publication/9514/|title=Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists|website=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=22 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202062723/http://www.cfr.org/publication/9514/|archive-date=2 December 2008}}</ref> Pakistan has denied any involvement in terrorist activities in Kashmir, arguing that it only provides political and moral support to the [[secessionist]] groups who wish to escape Indian rule. Many Kashmiri militant groups also maintain their headquarters in [[Pakistan-administered Kashmir]], which is cited as further proof by the Indian government.
-====List of some insurgent attacks====
+Journalist [[Stephen Schwartz (journalist)|Stephen Suleyman Schwartz]] notes that several militant and criminal groups are "backed by senior officers in the Pakistani army, the country's ISI intelligence establishment and other armed bodies of the state."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/24639/a-threat-to-the-world.thtml |title=A threat to the world |access-date=20 September 2007 |author=Stephen Schwartz |date=19 August 2006 |publisher=[[The Spectator]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224052833/http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/24639/a-threat-to-the-world.thtml |archive-date=24 December 2007 }}</ref>
-* Insurgents attack on Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly: A car bomb exploded near the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly on 1 October 2001, killing 27 people on an attack that was blamed on Kashmiri separatists. It was one of the most prominent attacks against India apart from on the [[Indian Parliament]] in December 2001. The dead bodies of the terrorists and the data recovered from them revealed that Pakistan was solely responsible for the activity.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}
-* Qasim Nagar Attack: On 13 July 2003, armed men believed to be a part of the [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]] threw hand grenades at the Qasim Nagar market in [[Srinagar]] and then fired on civilians standing nearby killing twenty-seven and injuring many more.{{ref|hrw}}
+====Insurgent attacks====
+{{incomplete list|date=May 2025}}
+* Insurgents attack on Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly: A car bomb exploded near the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly on 1 October 2001, killing 27 people on an attack that was blamed on Kashmiri separatists. It was one of the most prominent attacks against India apart from on the [[Indian Parliament]] in December 2001. The dead bodies of the terrorists and the data recovered from them revealed that Pakistan was solely responsible for the activity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/01/india.kashmir/index.html|title=Bombing at Kashmir assembly kills at least 29|access-date=23 March 2024}}</ref>
+* Qasim Nagar Attack: On 13 July 2003, armed men believed to be a part of the [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]] threw hand grenades at the Qasim Nagar market in [[Srinagar]] and then fired on civilians standing nearby killing twenty-seven and injuring many more.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=What happened to Muslims in Jammu? Local identity, '"the massacre" of 1947' and the roots of the 'Kashmir problem' |last=Snedden |first=Christopher |date=8 May 2007 |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=111–134 |doi=10.1080/00856400108723454}}</ref><ref name=independent>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/panic-in-the-dark-as-slum-is-attacked-by-islamic-militants-184336.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/panic-in-the-dark-as-slum-is-attacked-by-islamic-militants-184336.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Panic in the dark as slum is attacked by Kashmiri militants|work=The Independent|date=15 July 2002|first=Maseeh|last=Rahman|access-date=19 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Rediff 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jul/13jk2.htm|title=29 killed in militant attack in Jammu|work=Rediff|date=13 July 2002|first=Mukhtar|last=Ahmad|access-date=19 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="Rediff 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/sep/06jk5.htm|title=Terrorists behind Qasim Nagar massacre nabbed|date=6 September 2002|work=Rediff|access-date=19 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Rory|last=McCarthy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/15/kashmir.india|title=Massacre in Kashmir slum renews fear of war|work=The Guardian|date=15 July 2002|access-date=3 June 2018}}</ref>
 * Assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone: Abdul Ghani Lone, a prominent All Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was assassinated by an unidentified gunmen during a memorial rally in [[Srinagar]]. The assassination resulted in wide-scale demonstrations against the Indian occupied-forces for failing to provide enough security cover for Mr. Lone.{{ref|hrw}}
-* 20 July 2005 [[Srinagar]] Bombing: A car bomb exploded near an armoured [[Indian Army]] vehicle in the famous Church Lane area in [[Srinagar]] killing four [[Indian Army]] personnel, one civilian and the suicide bomber. Terrorist group [[Hizbul Mujahideen]], claimed responsibility for the attack.{{ref|church}}
+* 20 July 2005 [[Srinagar]] Bombing: A car bomb exploded near an armoured [[Indian Army]] vehicle in the Church Lane area in [[Srinagar]] killing four [[Indian Army]] personnel, one civilian and the suicide bomber. Terrorist group [[Hizbul Mujahideen]], claimed responsibility for the attack.{{ref|church}}
 * [[Srinagar (city)|Budshah Chowk attack]]: A terrorist attack on 29 July 2005 at [[Srinagar (city)|Srinigar]]'s city centre, Budshah Chowk, killed two and left more than 17 people injured. Most of those injured were media journalists.{{ref|Bud}}
 * Murder of Ghulam Nabi Lone: On 18 October 2005, a suspected man killed Jammu and Kashmir's then education minister Ghulam Nabi Lone. No Terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.{{ref|Nabi}}
-* [[2016 Uri attack]]: A terrorist attack by four heavily armed terrorists on 18 September 2016, near the town of [[Uri, Jammu and Kashmir|Uri]] in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killed 18 and left more than 20 people injured. It was reported as "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades".<ref name="uri">{{cite news|title=Militants attack Indian army base in Kashmir 'killing 17'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37399969|access-date=18 September 2016 |agency=BBC News|date=18 September 2016}}</ref>
+* [[2016 Uri attack]]: A terrorist attack by four heavily armed terrorists on 18 September 2016, near the town of [[Uri, Jammu and Kashmir|Uri]] in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killed 18 and left more than 20 people injured. It was reported as "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades".<ref name="uri">{{cite news|title=Militants attack Indian army base in Kashmir 'killing 17'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37399969|access-date=18 September 2016 |publisher=BBC News|date=18 September 2016}}</ref>
 * [[2019 Pulwama attack]]: On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-bound suicide bomber in Lethpora near Awantipora, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the death of 38 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and the attacker. The responsibility of the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pulwama-attack-2019-everything-about-jammu-and-kashmir-terror-attack-on-crpf-by-terrorist-adil-ahmed-dar-jaish-e-mohammad-1457530-2019-02-16|title=Pulwama Attack 2019, everything about J&K terror attack on CRPF by terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar, Jaish-e-Mohammad|date=16 February 2019|website=India Today}}</ref>
+* [[2025 Pahalgam attack]]: On 22 April 2025, 26 tourists were attacked by terrorists, resulting in the death of 28 people, including a local from [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]] and two foreigners from [[Nepal]] and the [[UAE]]. India stopped supplying the [[Indus river]] to Pakistan.
 ===Insurgent activities elsewhere===
-The attack on the [[Indian Parliament]] was by far the most dramatic attack carried out allegedly by Pakistani terrorists. India blamed Pakistan for carrying out the attacks, an allegation which Pakistan strongly denied and one that brought both nations to the brink of a [[nuclear warfare|nuclear]] confrontation in 2001–02. However, international peace efforts ensured the cooling of tensions between the two nuclear-capable nations.
+<!-- https://en.Bharatpedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_2008_Mumbai_attacks#Indo-Pakistani_relations links here. -->
+The attack on the [[Indian Parliament]] was by far the most dramatic attack carried out allegedly by Pakistani terrorists. India blamed Pakistan for carrying out the attacks, an allegation which Pakistan strongly denied. The following [[2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff]] raised concerns of a possible [[nuclear warfare|nuclear]] confrontation. However, international peace efforts ensured the cooling of tensions between the two nuclear-capable nations.
-Apart from this, the most notable was the [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]] of [[Indian Airlines Flight 814|Indian Airlines Flight IC 814]] en route New Delhi from [[Kathmandu]], Nepal. The plane was hijacked on 24 December 1999 approximately one hour after takeoff and was taken to [[Amritsar]] airport and then to [[Lahore]] in Pakistan. After refuelling the plane took off for [[Dubai]] and then finally landed in [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan. Under intense media pressure, New Delhi complied with the hijackers' demand and freed [[Maulana Masood Azhar]] from its captivity in return for the freedom of the Indian passengers on the flight. The decision, however, cost New Delhi dearly. Maulana, who is believed to be hiding in [[Karachi]], later became the leader of [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]], an organisation which has carried out several terrorist acts against Indian security forces in Kashmir.{{ref|814}}
+Apart from this, the most notable was the [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]] of [[Indian Airlines Flight 814|Indian Airlines Flight IC 814]] en route New Delhi from [[Kathmandu]], Nepal. The plane was hijacked on 24 December 1999 approximately one hour after takeoff and was taken to [[Amritsar]] airport and then to [[Lahore]] in Pakistan. After refuelling the plane took off for [[Dubai]] and then finally landed in [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan. Under intense media pressure, New Delhi complied with the hijackers' demand and freed [[Maulana Masood Azhar]] from his captivity in return for the freedom of the Indian passengers on the flight. The decision, however, cost New Delhi dearly. Maulana, who is believed to be hiding in [[Karachi]], later became the leader of [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]], an organisation which has carried out several terrorist acts against Indian security forces in Kashmir.{{ref|814}}
-On 22 December 2000, a group of terrorists belonging to the [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]] stormed the famous [[Red Fort]] in [[New Delhi]]. The [[Red Fort|Fort]] houses an [[Indian Army|Indian military]] unit and a high-security interrogation cell used both by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] and the [[Indian Army]]. The terrorists successfully breached the security cover around the [[Red Fort]] and opened fire at the [[Indian Military|Indian military personnel]] on duty killing two of them on spot. The attack was significant because it was carried out just two days after the declaration of the cease-fire between India and Pakistan.{{ref|red}}
+On 22 December 2000, a group of terrorists belonging to the [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]] stormed the [[Red Fort]] in [[New Delhi]]. The fort houses an [[Indian Army|Indian military]] unit and a high-security interrogation cell used both by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] and the [[Indian Army]]. The terrorists successfully breached the security cover around the [[Red Fort]] and opened fire at the [[Indian Military|Indian military personnel]] on duty killing two of them on spot. The attack was significant because it was carried out just two days after the declaration of the cease-fire between India and Pakistan.{{ref|red}}
-In 2002, India claimed again that terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir were infiltrating into India, a claim denied by Pakistan President [[Pervez Musharraf]], who claimed that such infiltration had stopped—India's spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry did away with Pakistan's claim, calling it "terminological inexactitude."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-07-28/news/27364071_1_infiltration-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-state-colin-powell|title=India rejects Musharraf's claim on infiltration|date=28 July 2002|work=[[The Economic Times]]|access-date=15 July 2011}}</ref> Only two months later, two Kashmiri terrorists belonging to [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]] raided the [[Akshardham Gandhinagar|Swami Narayan temple complex]] in [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]] killing 30 people, including 18 women and five children. The attack was carried out on 25 September 2002, just few days after state elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir. Two identical letters found on both the terrorists claimed that the attack was done in retaliation for the deaths of thousands of Muslims during the [[2002 Gujarat violence|Gujarat riots]].{{ref|attack}}
+In 2002, India claimed again that terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir were infiltrating into India, a claim denied by Pakistan President [[Pervez Musharraf]], who claimed that such infiltration had stopped—India's spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry did away with Pakistan's claim, calling it "terminological inexactitude".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-07-28/news/27364071_1_infiltration-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-state-colin-powell|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509210942/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-07-28/news/27364071_1_infiltration-pakistan-president-pervez-musharraf-state-colin-powell|archive-date=9 May 2012|title=India rejects Musharraf's claim on infiltration|date=28 July 2002|work=[[The Economic Times]]|access-date=15 July 2011}}</ref> Only two months later, two Kashmiri terrorists belonging to [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]] raided the [[Akshardham Gandhinagar|Swami Narayan temple complex]] in [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]] killing 30 people, including 18 women and five children. The attack was carried out on 25 September 2002, just few days after state elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir. Two identical letters found on both the terrorists claimed that the attack was done in retaliation for the deaths of thousands of Muslims during the [[2002 Gujarat violence|Gujarat riots]].{{ref|attack}}
-Two car bombs exploded in south [[Mumbai]] on 25 August 2003; one near the [[Gateway of India]] and the other at the famous Zaveri Bazaar, killing at least 48 and injuring 150 people. Though no terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks, [[Military of India|Mumbai Police]] and [[Research and Analysis Wing|RAW]] suspected [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]]'s hand in the twin blasts.{{ref|Mumbai}}
+Two car bombs exploded in south [[Mumbai]] on 25 August 2003; one near the [[Gateway of India]] and the other at the Zaveri Bazaar, killing at least 48 and injuring 150 people. Though no terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks, [[Military of India|Mumbai Police]] and [[Research and Analysis Wing|RAW]] suspected [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]]'s hand in the twin blasts.{{ref|Mumbai}}
 In an unsuccessful attempt, six terrorists belonging to [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]], stormed the [[Ayodhya]] [[Babri Masjid|Ram Janmbhomi complex]] on 5 July 2005. Before the terrorists could reach the main [[Babri Masjid|disputed site]], they were shot down by [[Military of India|Indian security forces]]. One [[Hindus|Hindu]] worshipper and two policemen were injured during the incident.{{ref|ram}}
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 {{Main|2001 Indian Parliament attack}}
-The [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] was an attack at the [[Parliament of India]] in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, during which fourteen people, including the five men who attacked the building, were killed. The perpetrators were [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] (Let) and [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]] (JeM) terrorists.<ref name="demarche">[http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/dec/14parl12.htm "Govt blames LeT for Parliament attack"]. Rediff.com (14 December 2001). Retrieved 8 September 2011.</ref><ref name="indianembassy.org">[http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm#STATEMENT%20MADE%20BY%20HOME%20MINISTER,%20L.%20K.%20ADVANI%20ON%20THE%20TERRORIST%20ATTACK%20ON%20PARLIAMENT%20HOUSE%20ON%20DECEMBER%2013,%202001 Embassy of India – Washington DC (official website) United States of America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152203/http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm#STATEMENT%20MADE%20BY%20HOME%20MINISTER,%20L.%20K.%20ADVANI%20ON%20THE%20TERRORIST%20ATTACK%20ON%20PARLIAMENT%20HOUSE%20ON%20DECEMBER%2013,%202001 |date=11 June 2010 }}. Indianembassy.org. Retrieved 8 September 2011.</ref> The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists, six [[Delhi Police]] personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel and a gardener, in total 14<ref name=remember>{{cite news|last1=PTI|title=Parliament attack victims remembered |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/parliament-attack-victims-remembered/article2711970.ece|access-date=23 October 2014|work=The Hindu|date=13 December 2011}}</ref> and to increased tensions between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], resulting in the [[2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff]].<ref>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127094835/http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/image-from-gates-of-pakistan-naval.html |title=From Kashmir to the FATA: The ISI Loses Control|website=Global Bearings|date=27 January 2012 }}</ref>
+The [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] was an attack at the [[Parliament of India]] in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, during which fourteen people, including the five men who attacked the building, were killed. The perpetrators were [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] (Let) and [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]] (JeM) terrorists.<ref name="demarche">[http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/dec/14parl12.htm "Govt blames LeT for Parliament attack"]. Rediff.com (14 December 2001). Retrieved 8 September 2011.</ref><ref name="indianembassy.org">[http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm#STATEMENT%20MADE%20BY%20HOME%20MINISTER,%20L.%20K.%20ADVANI%20ON%20THE%20TERRORIST%20ATTACK%20ON%20PARLIAMENT%20HOUSE%20ON%20DECEMBER%2013,%202001 Embassy of India – Washington DC (official website) United States of America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152203/http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm#STATEMENT%20MADE%20BY%20HOME%20MINISTER,%20L.%20K.%20ADVANI%20ON%20THE%20TERRORIST%20ATTACK%20ON%20PARLIAMENT%20HOUSE%20ON%20DECEMBER%2013,%202001 |date=11 June 2010 }}. Indianembassy.org. Retrieved 8 September 2011.</ref> The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists, six [[Delhi Police]] personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel and a gardener, in total 14<ref name=remember>{{cite news|last1=PTI|title=Parliament attack victims remembered |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/parliament-attack-victims-remembered/article2711970.ece|access-date=23 October 2014|work=The Hindu|date=13 December 2011}}</ref> and to increased tensions between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], resulting in the [[2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/image-from-gates-of-pakistan-naval.html |title=From Kashmir to the FATA: The ISI Loses Control |access-date=8 June 2016 |archive-date=27 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127094835/http://www.globalbearings.net/2011/10/image-from-gates-of-pakistan-naval.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 ====2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff====
 {{Main|2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff}}
-The [[2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff]] was a military standoff between India and Pakistan that resulted in the massing of troops on either side of the [[Indo-Pakistani border|border]] and along the [[Line of Control]] (LoC) in the region of [[Kashmir]]. This was the first major military standoff between India and Pakistan since the [[Kargil War]] in 1999. The military buildup was initiated by India responding to a [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] and the [[2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly attack]].<ref name="Rajesh M. Basrur">{{cite book|title=Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76721-7|page=326|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vifpWqV2WYC&pg=PA326|author=Rajesh M. Basrur|edition=1st|editor=Peter R. Lavoy|access-date=8 August 2013|chapter=The lessons of Kargil as learned by India|date=14 December 2009}}</ref> India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups, the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] and [[Jaish-e-Mohammad]], both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's [[Inter Services Intelligence|ISI]]<ref name=letjemisi>[http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917228 "Who will strike first"], [[The Economist]], 20 December 2001.</ref> a charge that Pakistan denied.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kashmir Militant Extremists|url=http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|publisher=Council Foreign Relations|author=Jamal Afridi|date=9 July 2009|quote=Pakistan denies any ongoing collaboration between the ISI and militants, stressing a change of course after 11 September 2001.|access-date=4 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302144145/http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Perlez |first=Jane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30pstan.html |title=Pakistan Denies Any Role in Mumbai Attacks |location=Mumbai (India);Pakistan |work=NYTimes.com |date=29 November 2008 |access-date=31 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/ind-d20.shtml |title=Attack on Indian parliament heightens danger of Indo-Pakistan war |publisher=Wsws.org |date=20 December 2001 |access-date=31 January 2012}}</ref> Tensions de-escalated following international [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] mediation which resulted in the October 2002 withdrawal of Indian<ref name=toiwithdraw>[http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 "India to withdraw troops from Pak border"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031130174834/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 |date=30 November 2003 }}, [[Times of India]], 16 October 2002.</ref> and Pakistani troops<ref name=bbcwithdraw>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/2335599.stm "Pakistan to withdraw front-line troops"], [[BBC]], 17 October 2002.</ref> from the international border.
+The [[2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff]] was a military standoff between India and Pakistan that resulted in the massing of troops on either side of the [[Indo-Pakistani border|border]] and along the [[Line of Control]] (LoC) in the region of [[Kashmir]]. This was the first major military standoff between India and Pakistan since the [[Kargil War]] in 1999. The military buildup was initiated by India responding to a [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]] and the [[2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly attack]].<ref name="Rajesh M. Basrur">{{cite book|title=Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76721-7|page=326|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vifpWqV2WYC&pg=PA326|author=Rajesh M. Basrur|edition=1st|editor=Peter R. Lavoy|access-date=8 August 2013|chapter=The lessons of Kargil as learned by India|date=14 December 2009}}</ref> India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups, the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] and [[Jaish-e-Mohammad]], both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's [[Inter Services Intelligence|ISI]]<ref name=letjemisi>{{Cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917228 |title=Who will strike first |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=20 December 2001}}</ref> a charge that Pakistan denied.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kashmir Militant Extremists|url=http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|publisher=Council Foreign Relations|author=Jamal Afridi|date=9 July 2009|quote=Pakistan denies any ongoing collaboration between the ISI and militants, stressing a change of course after 11 September 2001.|access-date=4 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302144145/http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|archive-date=2 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Perlez |first=Jane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30pstan.html |title=Pakistan Denies Any Role in Mumbai Attacks |location=Mumbai (India);Pakistan |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 November 2008 |access-date=31 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/ind-d20.shtml |title=Attack on Indian parliament heightens danger of Indo-Pakistan war |publisher=Wsws.org |date=20 December 2001 |access-date=31 January 2012}}</ref> Tensions de-escalated following international [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] mediation which resulted in the October 2002 withdrawal of Indian<ref name=toiwithdraw>[http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 "India to withdraw troops from Pak border"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031130174834/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 |date=30 November 2003 }}, [[Times of India]], 16 October 2002.</ref> and Pakistani troops<ref name=bbcwithdraw>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2335599.stm "Pakistan to withdraw front-line troops"], [[BBC]], 17 October 2002.</ref> from the international border.
 ====2007 Samjhauta Express bombings====
 {{Main|2007 Samjhauta Express bombings}}
-The [[2007 Samjhauta Express bombings]] was a terrorist attack targeted on the [[Samjhauta Express]] train on 18 February. The Samjhauta Express is an international train that runs from New Delhi, India to Lahore, Pakistan, and is one of two trains to cross the India-Pakistan border. At least 68 people were killed, mostly Pakistani civilians but also some Indian security personnel and civilians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pakistan-train-idUSDEL34195220070219|title=Indian police release sketches of bomb suspects|author=Reuters Editorial|date=21 February 2007|website=Reuters}}</ref>
+The [[2007 Samjhauta Express bombings]] was a terrorist attack targeted on the [[Samjhauta Express]] train on 18 February. The Samjhauta Express is an international train that runs from New Delhi, India to Lahore, Pakistan, and is one of two trains to cross the India–Pakistan border. At least 68 people were killed, mostly Pakistani civilians but also some Indian security personnel and civilians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pakistan-train-idUSDEL34195220070219|title=Indian police release sketches of bomb suspects|date=21 February 2007|work=Reuters}}</ref>
 ====2008 Mumbai attacks====
 {{Main|2008 Mumbai attacks}}
-The [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] by ten Pakistani terrorists killed over 173 and wounded 308. The sole surviving gunman [[Ajmal Kasab]] who was arrested during the attacks was found to be a Pakistani national. This fact was acknowledged by Pakistani authorities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/surviving-gunmans-identity-established-as-pakistani-ss|title=Surviving gunman's identity established as Pakistani}}</ref> In May 2010, an Indian court convicted him on four counts of murder, waging war against India, [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] and [[terrorism]] offences, and sentenced him to death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-ajmal-kasab-death-qs-07|title=Ajmal Kasab sentenced to death for Mumbai attacks}}</ref>
-India blamed the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]], a Pakistan-based militant group, for planning and executing the attacks. Indian officials demanded Pakistan extradite suspects for trial. They also said that, given the sophistication of the attacks, the perpetrators "must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan".<ref name="BlameAgenciesWaPo">{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010500097.html|title=India Gives Pakistan Findings From Mumbai Probe, Urges Action Against Suspects|first=Rama|last=Lakshmi|date=6 January 2009|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> In July 2009 Pakistani authorities confirmed that LeT plotted and financed the attacks from LeT camps in Karachi and [[Thatta]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hussain |first=Zahid |title=Islamabad Tells of Plot by Lashkar |place=Islamabad |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=28 July 2009 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124872197786784603?mod=googlenews_wsj |access-date=28 July 2009}}</ref> In November 2009, Pakistani authorities charged seven men they had arrested earlier, of planning and executing the assault.<ref name="abc20091125">{{Cite news |last=Schifrin |first=Nick |title=Mumbai terror attacks: 7 Pakistanis charged |work=[[ABC News]] |date=25 November 2009 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/mumbai-terror-attacks-pakistanis-charged/story?id=9176592 |access-date=1 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091127091951/http://abcnews.go.com/International/mumbai-terror-attacks-pakistanis-charged/story?id=9176592 |archive-date=27 November 2009  |url-status=live}}</ref>
+The [[2008 Mumbai attacks]] by ten Pakistani terrorists killed over 173 and wounded 308. The sole surviving gunman [[Ajmal Kasab]] who was arrested during the attacks was found to be a Pakistani national. This fact was acknowledged by Pakistani authorities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/surviving-gunmans-identity-established-as-pakistani-ss|title=DAWN.COM &#124; Pakistan &#124; Surviving-gunmans-identity-established-as-Pakistani-ss|website=www.dawn.com}}</ref> In May 2010, an Indian court convicted him on four counts of murder, waging war against India, [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] and [[terrorism]] offences, and sentenced him to death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/04-ajmal-kasab-death-qs-07|title=DAWN.COM &#124; World &#124; Ajmal Kasab sentenced to death for Mumbai attacks|website=www.dawn.com}}</ref>
-On 9 April 2015, the foremost ringleader of the attacks, [[Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi]]<ref name="Masood">{{Cite news |last=Masood |first=Salman |title=Pakistan Announces Arrests for Mumbai Attacks |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 February 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/world/asia/13pstan.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref><ref name="Haider">{{Cite news |last=Haider |first=Kamran |title=Pakistan says it arrests Mumbai attack plotters |publisher=Reuters |date=12 February 2009 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51B25820090212?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10112 |access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref> was granted bail against [[surety]] bonds of {{PKRConvert|200|k}} in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pak court grants bail to Mumbai terror attack accused Lakhvi |url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/pak-court-grants-bail-to-mumbai-terror-attack-accused-lakhvi-061534426.html |access-date=9 January 2015 |publisher=Yahoo! News |date=9 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Lakhvi gets bail, again |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1155805 |access-date=9 January 2015 |publisher=Dawn, Pakistan}}</ref>
+India blamed the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]], a Pakistan-based militant group, for planning and executing the attacks. Indian officials demanded Pakistan extradite suspects for trial. They also said that, given the sophistication of the attacks, the perpetrators "must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan".<ref name="BlameAgenciesWaPo">{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010500097.html|title=India Gives Pakistan Findings From Mumbai Probe, Urges Action Against Suspects|first=Rama|last=Lakshmi|date=6 January 2009|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> In July 2009 Pakistani authorities confirmed that LeT plotted and financed the attacks from LeT camps in Karachi and [[Thatta]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hussain |first=Zahid |title=Islamabad Tells of Plot by Lashkar |place=Islamabad |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=28 July 2009 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124872197786784603?mod=googlenews_wsj |access-date=28 July 2009}}</ref> In November 2009, Pakistani authorities charged seven men they had arrested earlier, of planning and executing the assault.<ref name="abc20091125">{{Cite news |last=Schifrin |first=Nick |title=Mumbai terror attacks: 7 Pakistanis charged |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|location=United States |date=25 November 2009 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/mumbai-terror-attacks-pakistanis-charged/story?id=9176592 |access-date=1 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091127091951/http://abcnews.go.com/International/mumbai-terror-attacks-pakistanis-charged/story?id=9176592 |archive-date=27 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>
-The Indian intelligence agency [[Research and Analysis Wing|RAW]] is claimed to be working in cover to malign Pakistan and train & support insurgents for [[Balochistan conflict]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?231032 |title=RAW Is Training 600 Balochis In Afghanistan |publisher=outlookindia.com |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pak-times.com/2008/09/05/raw-creating-trouble-for-nato-in-afghanistan/ |title=Pakistan Times! " RAW Creating Trouble for NATO in Afghanistan |publisher=Pak-times.com |date=25 September 2010 |access-date=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430194436/http://www.pak-times.com/2008/09/05/raw-creating-trouble-for-nato-in-afghanistan/ |archive-date=30 April 2012  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/308841/afghan-commander-orchestrated-nov-26-attack-report/ |title=RAW collusion suspected: Probe faults Afghan serviceman for NATO air raid, says report – The Express Tribune |publisher=Tribune.com.pk |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/08raw-helping-militants-in-afghanistan-says-musharraf.htm |title=RAW helping militants in Afghanistan: Musharraf |work=Rediff.com |date=31 December 2004 |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref>
+On 9 April 2015, the foremost ringleader of the attacks, [[Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi]]<ref name="Masood">{{Cite news |last=Masood |first=Salman |title=Pakistan Announces Arrests for Mumbai Attacks |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 February 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/world/asia/13pstan.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref><ref name="Haider">{{Cite news |last=Haider |first=Kamran |title=Pakistan says it arrests Mumbai attack plotters |work=Reuters|date=12 February 2009 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51B25820090212?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10112 |access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref> was granted bail against [[surety]] bonds of {{PKRConvert|200|k}} in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pak court grants bail to Mumbai terror attack accused Lakhvi |url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/pak-court-grants-bail-to-mumbai-terror-attack-accused-lakhvi-061534426.html |access-date=9 January 2015 |publisher=Yahoo! News |date=9 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Lakhvi gets bail, again |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1155805 |access-date=9 January 2015 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref>
+==== Balochistan Insurgency ====
+The [[Insurgency in Balochistan|Balochistan Insurgency]], ongoing since the early 2000s, involves separatist groups in Pakistan's Balochistan province seeking autonomy. The largest and most prominent group, the [[Balochistan Liberation Army|Baloch Liberation Army]] (BLA), has fought for independence, citing long-standing grievances over perceived discrimination and underdevelopment by the central government. The insurgency escalated in March 2025 when the BLA hijacked a train in a remote area of [[Balochistan]], killing 26 people.
+Pakistan's military has accused India of supporting the insurgents, citing the 2016 arrest of Indian naval officer [[Kulbhushan Jadhav]], who was convicted of espionage and allegedly aiding Baloch separatists. These accusations have been rejected by India, which denies any involvement in the insurgency. The region's strategic importance, with its oil and mineral wealth, and its proximity to India, has made the conflict a focal point in South Asian military tensions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 March 2025 |title=Pakistan moves closer to Bangladesh as India watches warily |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge1gxxn07qo |access-date=19 March 2025 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Press |first=Associated |date=14 March 2025 |title=Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring militant terror group after train hijacking |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/14/pakistan-accuses-india-of-sponsoring-militant-terror-group-after-train-hijacking |access-date=19 March 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
+==== 2025 conflict ====
+{{main|2025 India–Pakistan conflict}}
+Following the [[2025 Pahalgam attack|Pahalgam terrorist attack]] on April 22 which resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians, including 25 Indian tourists and one Nepali national, India–Pakistan relations have reached a critical low point. The attack, attributed by India to the [[Islam]]ic [[The Resistance Front|Resistance Front]], an offshoot of the Pakistan-based [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]], has triggered a series of retaliatory measures from both nations, escalating tensions to levels not seen in years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025 |title=Deadly Kashmir attack threatens new escalation between India and Pakistan |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/23/kashmir-attack-pahalgam-india-pakistan/?utm_}}</ref><ref name="Blair">{{Cite web |last=Blair |first=Anthony |date=2025-04-28 |title=Tourist captures Kashmir terror attack as he films himself ziplining |url=https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/world-news/tourist-captures-terror-attack-as-he-films-himself-ziplining/?utm_ |access-date=2025-04-30 |language=en-US}}</ref> According to Indian news, unnamed sources have stated that Hashim Musa, a former para commando in the Pakistan Army's elite Special Service Group (SSG), was involved in the attack. Trained in covert and unconventional warfare, he is said to have joined the banned terror group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, after his dismissal from SSG and to have infiltrated Kashmir in September 2023. Unnamed sources say his name and SSG background were revealed during the interrogation of Over Ground Workers (OGWs) who supported the perpetrators.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranjan |first=Mukesh |date=2025-04-29 |title=Hashim Musa, ex-Pakistan Army Special Forces soldier, prime suspect in Pahalgam terror attack |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Apr/29/hashim-musa-ex-pakistan-army-special-forces-soldier-prime-suspect-in-pahalgam-terror-attack |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>
+===== Diplomatic fallout =====
+====== India's response ======
+In response to escalating tensions, India has suspended the [[Indus Waters Treaty|Indus Waters Treaty of 1960]], placing the long-standing water-sharing agreement "in abeyance" due to what it alleges is Pakistan's ongoing support for cross-border terrorism. Additionally, India has imposed visa and diplomatic restrictions, halting visa services for Pakistani nationals and expelling several Pakistani diplomats. As part of broader punitive measures, the Attari–Wagah border has been closed, effectively cutting off overland trade and further straining bilateral ties.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025 |title=Pakistan preparing to challenge India's suspension of water treaty, minister says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-preparing-challenge-indias-suspension-water-treaty-minister-says-2025-04-29/?utm_}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Matthew |date=2025-04-26 |title=Are India and Pakistan on the cusp of war over water? |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/india-pakistan-kashmir-water-rvghjhm5s?utm_ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref>
+Additionally, authorities across various states started a crackdown on illegal immigrants from Pakistan and began the process of deporting them. Many of these illegal immigrants had reportedly possessed voter IDs and ration cards, sparking a major controversy and debate as non-citizens do not have right to vote.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/22-women-with-pakistani-citizenship-found-in-moradabad-many-have-grandchildren-families-total-over-500/articleshow/120898093.cms?from=mdr|title= 22 women with Pakistani citizenship found in Moradabad; many have grandchildren, families total over 500|work= The Economic Times|date= 5 May 2025}}</ref> Furthermore, short term visas of several Pakistani visitors, some of who were married to Indians, were also being cancelled.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Apr/28/fate-of-pregnant-maryam-illegal-settler-seema-hangs-in-balance-as-up-speeds-up-deportation-of-pakistanis|title= Fate of pregnant Maryam, illegal settler Seema hangs in balance as UP speeds up deportation of Pakistanis|date= 28 April 2025}}</ref>
+====== Pakistan's countermeasures ======
+In retaliation, Pakistan announced a series of countermeasures. It suspended the 1972 [[Simla Agreement|Shimla Agreement]], which had emphasized the peaceful resolution of bilateral disputes. Pakistan also closed its airspace to Indian aircraft and halted all trade with India. On the diplomatic front, Indian diplomats have been expelled, and the staff size at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad has been significantly reduced, deepening the diplomatic rift between the two countries.<ref name="Blair"/><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025 |title=India File: A deadly reminder from Kashmir |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-file-deadly-reminder-kashmir-2025-04-30/?utm_}}</ref>
+====== India's missile strikes ======
+On May 6, India [[2025 India-Pakistan strikes|targeted]] Pakistan proper and Pakistan-administered [[Azad Kashmir|Kashmir]] with multiple airstrikes as part of [[Operation Sindoor]], marking a significant escalation of the conflict.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakistan 'attacked with missiles' - as India says it targeted terrorist camps |url=https://news.sky.com/story/pakistan-attacked-with-missiles-as-india-says-it-targeted-terrorist-camps-13362775 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref> India announced that it struck nine "terrorist infrastructure" sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, stating the targets were used to plan and direct attacks. It stressed the strikes were precise, avoided Pakistani military sites, and were non-escalatory. Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba's base in Muridke were among the targets. Pakistan reported hits in Muzaffarabad, Kotli, and Bahawalpur.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-07 |title=What we know about India's strike on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6868pdpw4o |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-05-07 |title=Operation Sindoor: Full list of terrorist camps in Pakistan, PoJK targeted by Indian strikes |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/operation-sindoor-full-list-of-terrorist-camps-in-pakistan-pojk-targeted-by-indian-strikes/article69547986.ece |access-date=2025-05-07 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
+====== Diplomatic expulsions ======
+On 13 May, India reportedly declared Md. Ehsan Ur Rahim, a staff member at the Pakistan High Commission, persona non grata for engaging in activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status. He was allegedly involved in espionage.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chaudhury |first=Dipanjan Roy |date=2025-05-13 |title=Pakistan High Commissioner staffer declared persona non grata for 'espionage' |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pakistan-high-commissioner-staffer-declared-persona-non-grata-for-espionage/articleshow/121145884.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Pakistani official declared persona non grata |url=https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/39494/Pakistani_official_declared_persona_non_grata |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514085254/https://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/39494/Pakistani_official_declared_persona_non_grata |archive-date=14 May 2025 |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref> More information on the expulsion was revealed to Indian media after 17 May when a YouTuber was arrested.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-17 |title=Haryana-based YouTuber among 6 arrested for spying for Pakistan |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/haryana-based-youtuber-among-arrested-for-spying-for-pakistan-2726271-2025-05-17 |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> It was alleged that Ehsan used an Indian YouTuber, namely Jyoti Malhotra, for espionage activities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-19 |title=India-Pakistan tensions: YouTuber arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2e7xv8v80o |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> He reportedly befriended the youtuber in 2023 and maintained close contact with her during the four-day military conflict. Over time, he reportedly cultivated her as an asset by introducing her to Pakistani contacts and facilitating her visit to Pakistan, where she met intelligence officials. The youtuber is believed to have maintained communication with these officials through encrypted platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Snapchat, and shared sensitive information, according to Indian police.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cops Say Haryana YouTuber Was Groomed As A Pak Asset. How She Was Lured |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/youtuber-jyoti-malhotra-operation-sindoor-from-likes-to-lock-up-how-haryana-youtuber-went-from-vlogging-to-spying-8450903 |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=www.ndtv.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-05-18 |title=How YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra used social media apps to pass secrets to Pakistan |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/how-youtuber-jyoti-malhotra-used-social-media-apps-to-pass-secrets-to-pakistan/articleshow/121245520.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref>
 ==Weapons of mass destruction==
-{{See also|India and weapons of mass destruction|Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction|nuclear race}}
+{{See also|India and weapons of mass destruction|Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction|Nuclear arms race}}
-India has a long history of development of [[nuclear weapons]].<ref name="Indian nuclear pgoram: origin">{{cite news|last=Carey Sublette|title=Indian nuclear pgoram: origin|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaOrigin.html|access-date=4 February 2013|date=30 March 2001}}</ref> Origins of India's nuclear program dates back to 1944, when started its nuclear program soon after its independence.<ref name="Indian nuclear pgoram: origin"/> In the 1940s–1960s, India's nuclear program slowly matured towards militarisation and expanded the nuclear power infrastructure throughout the country.<ref name="Indian nuclear pgoram: origin"/> Decisions on the development of nuclear weapons were made by Indian political leaders after the [[Sino-Indian War|Chinese invasion]] and territorial annexation of [[northern India]]. In 1967, India's nuclear program was aimed at the development of nuclear weapons, with [[Indira Gandhi]] carefully overseeing the development of weapons.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974">{{cite web|last=India's First Bomb: 1967-1974|title=India's First Bomb: 1967-1974|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaFirstBomb.html|publisher=India's First Bomb: 1967-1974|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> In 1971, India gained military and political [[Instrument of Surrender (1971)|momentum]] over Pakistan, after a successful [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971|military campaign]] against Pakistan. Starting preparations for a nuclear test in 1972, India finally exploded its first nuclear bomb in [[Pokhran|Pokhran test]] range, codename ''[[Smiling Buddha]]'', in 1974.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974"/> During the 1980s–90s, India began development of space and nuclear [[Integrated Guided Missile Development Program|rockets]], which marked Pakistan's efforts to engage in the space race with India.<ref name="Pakistan Space Journal"/> Pakistan's [[Integrated Missile Research and Development Programme|own program]] developed space and nuclear missiles and began unmanned flight tests of its space vehicles in the mid-1990s, which continues in the present.<ref name="Pakistan Space Journal">{{cite web|last=Lodhi |first=SFS |title=Pakistan's space technology |url=https://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm |publisher=Pakistan Space Journal |access-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430031214/http://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm |archive-date=30 April 2013  }}</ref>
-After the defeat in the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971]], Pakistan launched its own nuclear bomb program in 1972, and accelerated its efforts in 1974, after India exploded its first nuclear bomb in [[Pokhran|Pokhran test]] range, codename ''[[Smiling Buddha]]''.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974"/><ref name="Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning">{{cite web|last=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|title=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakOrigin.html|publisher=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> This large-scale nuclear bomb program was directly in response to India's nuclear program.<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities">{{cite news|title=The Eighties: Developing Capabilities|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakDevelop.html|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> In 1983, Pakistan achieved a major milestone in its efforts after it covertly performed a series of [[Subcritical testing|non-fission tests]], codename [[Kirana-I]]. No official announcements of such [[Subcritical testing|cold tests]] were made by [[Pakistan Government|Pakistan government]].<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities"/> Over the next several years, Pakistan expanded and modernised nuclear power projects around the country to supply its electricity sector and to provide back-up support and benefit to its national economy. In 1988, a mutual understanding was reached between the two countries in which each pledged not to attack nuclear facilities. Agreements on cultural exchanges and civil aviation were also initiated, also in 1988.<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities"/> Finally, in 1998, India exploded its second nuclear test (see: ''[[Pokhran-II]]'') which invited Pakistan to follow the latter's step and performed its own [[atomic test]]s (see:''[[Chagai-I]]'' and ''[[Chagai-II]]'').
+India has a long history of [[nuclear weapons]] development.<ref name="Indian nuclear program: origin">{{cite news |last=Carey Sublette |title=Indian nuclear program: origin |url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaOrigin.html |access-date=4 February 2013 |date=30 March 2001}}</ref> The origins of India's nuclear program date back to 1944, when it started a nuclear program soon after obtaining independence.<ref name="Indian nuclear program: origin"/> In the 1940s–1960s, India's nuclear program slowly matured towards militarisation and expanded the nuclear power infrastructure throughout the country.<ref name="Indian nuclear program: origin"/> Decisions on the development of nuclear weapons were made by Indian political leaders after the 1962 [[Sino-Indian War|Chinese invasion]] and territorial annexation of [[North India]]. In 1967, India's nuclear program was aimed at the development of nuclear weapons, with [[Indira Gandhi]] overseeing the development of the weapons.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974">{{cite web|title=India's First Bomb: 1967-1974|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaFirstBomb.html|publisher=India's First Bomb: 1967-1974|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> In 1971, India gained [[Instrument of Surrender (1971)|military and political momentum]] over Pakistan, after their success in the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971]]. Starting preparations for a [[nuclear test]] in 1972, India finally exploded its first nuclear bomb at the [[Pokhran]] test range, codenamed ''[[Smiling Buddha]]'', in 1974.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974"/> During the 1980s–90s, India began development of space and nuclear armed rockets with its [[Integrated Guided Missile Development Program]], which marked Pakistan's efforts to engage in the space race with India.<ref name="Pakistan Space Journal"/> Pakistan's own [[Integrated Missile Research and Development Programme]] developed space and nuclear missiles and began unmanned flight tests of its space vehicles in the mid-1990s.<ref name="Pakistan Space Journal">{{cite web|last=Lodhi |first=SFS |title=Pakistan's space technology |url=https://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm |publisher=Pakistan Space Journal |access-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430031214/http://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm |archive-date=30 April 2013 }}</ref>
-=== Consequences of using mass destruction weapons ===
+After their defeat in the Indo-Pakistani war in 1971, Pakistan launched its own nuclear bomb program in 1972, and accelerated its efforts in 1974, after India exploded its first nuclear bomb in Pokhran test range.<ref name="India's First Bomb: 1967-1974"/><ref name="Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning">{{cite web|last=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|title=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakOrigin.html|publisher=Pakistan atomic bomb project: The Beginning|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> This large-scale nuclear bomb program was directly in response to India's nuclear program.<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities">{{cite news|title=The Eighties: Developing Capabilities|url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakDevelop.html|access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref> In 1983, Pakistan achieved a major milestone in its efforts after it covertly performed a series of [[Subcritical testing|non-fission tests]], codenamed ''[[Kirana-I]]''. No official announcements of such tests were made by the [[Pakistani Government]].<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities"/> Over the next several years, Pakistan expanded and modernized nuclear power projects around the country to supply its electricity sector and to provide back-up support and benefit to its national economy. In 1988, a mutual understanding was reached between the two countries in which each pledged not to attack nuclear facilities. Agreements on cultural exchanges and civil aviation were also initiated in 1988.<ref name="The Eighties: Developing Capabilities"/> Finally, in May 1998, India carried out its second nuclear test series (see ''[[Pokhran-II]]'') which caused Pakistan to reply with its own test series, also in May 1998 (see ''[[Chagai-I]]'' and ''[[Chagai-II]]'').
-Pakistan and India are estimated to have nuclear arsenals of between 100 and 300 warheads each.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Singh|first=P.K.|date=2015|title=The India-Pakistan Nuclear Dyad and Regional Nuclear Dynamics|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/asp.2015.0019|journal=Asia Policy|volume=19|issue=1|pages=37–44|doi=10.1353/asp.2015.0019|s2cid=153779296|issn=1559-2960}}</ref> The use of [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear warheads]] by [[Nuclear weapons by country|nuclear-armed countries]] could result in a regional, if not a global catastrophe. However, India and Pakistan are of particular concern when it comes to nuclear weapons because of their long history of military conflicts including recent attacks, lack of success in settling territorial disputes, heavily populated urban areas, and continuing rapid expansion of their respective nuclear stockpiles.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Toon|first1=Owen B.|last2=Bardeen|first2=Charles G.|last3=Robock|first3=Alan|last4=Xia|first4=Lili|last5=Kristensen|first5=Hans|last6=McKinzie|first6=Matthew|last7=Peterson|first7=R. J.|last8=Harrison|first8=Cheryl S.|last9=Lovenduski|first9=Nicole S.|last10=Turco|first10=Richard P.|date=October 2019|title=Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe|url= |journal=Science Advances|language=en|volume=5|issue=10|pages=eaay5478|doi=10.1126/sciadv.aay5478|issn=2375-2548|pmc=6774726|pmid=31616796}}</ref> By 2025, Pakistan and India could have 400 to 500 nuclear warheads, with yields ranging from approximately 50 kilotons to a few hundred kilotons.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Batcher|first=Robert T.|date=December 2004|title=The Consequences of an Indo-Pakistani Nuclear War1|url=https://academic.oup.com/isr/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.00453.x|journal=International Studies Review|language=en|volume=6|issue=4|pages=135–162|doi=10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.00453.x|issn=1521-9488}}</ref> If India uses 100 nuclear warheads and Pakistan utilizes 150 nuclear weapons, approximately 100 to 150 million civilians could be killed, and nuclear-fueled fires could emit about 20 to 40 [[Teragram (unit)|Teragram]] (Tg) of [[black carbon]] into the atmosphere, depending on the yield of the nuclear weapons.<ref name=":3" /> Within weeks, the smoke will climb into the [[Atmosphere of Earth|upper atmosphere]]. The sunlight on the surface of the earth would decrease by approximately 20 to 30 percent, lowering the global temperature by approximately 3 to 5 degrees Celsius and annual rainfall would decrease by approximately 20 to 35 percent, with greater geographical disruptions.<ref name=":4" /> Net primary production will drops by approximately 20 to 40 percent on land and in the seas, posing a threat of widespread [[famine]] and high regional collateral deaths.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Özdoğan|first1=Mutlu|last2=Robock|first2=Alan|last3=Kucharik|first3=Christopher J.|date=January 2013|title=Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on soybean and maize production in the Midwest United States|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-012-0518-1|journal=Climatic Change|language=en|volume=116|issue=2|pages=373–387|doi=10.1007/s10584-012-0518-1|s2cid=2837628|issn=0165-0009}}</ref> Recovering from this catastrophe will take more than ten years. Even a small-scale nuclear conflict has catastrophic global consequences.
-=== How to prevent Indo-Pakistani nuclear war ===
+The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's 2025 assessment stated that Pakistan viewed India as an existential threat and was modernizing its military, focusing on tactical nuclear weapons to counter India's conventional superiority. The report estimated Pakistan's arsenal at 170 warheads in 2024, potentially rising to 200 by 2025, and noted growing defense ties with China, a key supplier for materials and technologies for its weapons of mass destruction programs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacob |first=Jayanth |date=2025-05-25 |title=Pakistan modernising nuclear arsenal; views India as 'existential threat', says US intelligence |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/May/25/pakistan-modernising-nuclear-arsenal-views-india-as-existential-threat-says-us-intelligence |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pak's Mass Destruction Weapons Mention In US Threat Report - And China Link |url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-sees-india-as-an-existential-threat-us-threat-assessment-report-8503035 |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=NDTV |language=en}}</ref>
-Following the Indian defense minister's statement that India may rescind its current promise to only use [[Weapon of mass destruction|strategic weapons]] in response to a nuclear strike, the tensions between India and Pakistan are extremely high.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shamim|first=Syed Jazib|date=2018|title=Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia Towards World War III|url=https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3111513|journal=SSRN Electronic Journal|language=en|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3111513|issn=1556-5068}}</ref> The United States has designated South Asia as a hotbed of terrorism and religious radicalism, and hence has a responsibility in maintaining regional security, avoiding strategic warheads expansion, and averting a nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India. To avoid a nuclear war between Pakistan and India, both countries must communicate openly and discuss the Kashmir problem without threatening each other.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Khan|first=Zafar|date=2019-01-01|title=Balancing and stabilizing South Asia: challenges and opportunities for sustainable peace and stability|url=https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCMA-08-2018-0093|journal=International Journal of Conflict Management|volume=30|issue=5|pages=589–614|doi=10.1108/IJCMA-08-2018-0093|issn=1044-4068}}</ref> Outside of times of conflict, parliamentary hearings should be maintained, and both parties should do better to justify the socioeconomic advantages of reconciliation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ahmed|first=Mutahir|date=July 1998|title=Confidence‐building measures between Pakistan and India: An argument for change|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09584939808719835|journal=Contemporary South Asia|language=en|volume=7|issue=2|pages=137–145|doi=10.1080/09584939808719835|issn=0958-4935}}</ref> India would have to see the value of a larger foreign position in facilitating the peace process and progress in improving people's lives in Kashmir. Pakistan will have to keep its promises to stop assisting militants in Kashmir and to stop terrorizing the ceasefire line.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ahmad|first1=Ishtiaq|last2=Ebert|first2=Hannes|date=2015-01-02|title=Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00927678.2015.999518|journal=Asian Affairs: An American Review|language=en|volume=42|issue=1|pages=46–75|doi=10.1080/00927678.2015.999518|s2cid=153809052|issn=0092-7678}}</ref>
-Due to high tensions between India and Pakistan, countries such as China, Russia, and the United States might need to take severe actions to prevent the nuclear war. If the nuclear war between India and Pakistan is inevitable, the United States should use its [[Interceptor aircraft|interceptors]] and [[bomber]]s to destroy the incoming [[missile]]s crossing the [[India–Pakistan border|India-Pakistan border]] in either direction.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ganguly|first1=Sumit|last2=Wagner|first2=R Harrison|date=September 2004|title=India and Pakistan: Bargaining in the Shadow of Nuclear War|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1362369042000282994|journal=Journal of Strategic Studies|language=en|volume=27|issue=3|pages=479–507|doi=10.1080/1362369042000282994|s2cid=155000054|issn=0140-2390}}</ref> Nuclear warfare between India and Pakistan cannot be allowed to play itself out because of its consequences that go beyond the two countries. With the United States itself being a nuclear superpower, it has more of an influence when it comes to moments of intervention and beyond. The nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan should be stopped because it has far-reaching regional and global consequences.
+In August 2025, Pakistan's army chief Field Marshal [[Asim Munir]] issued a nuclear threat against India during a black-tie dinner in Tampa, [[Florida]], stating that if Pakistan faced an existential threat, "we'll take half the world down with us."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-08-11 |title=India decries 'sabre rattling' after Pakistan army chief's reported nuclear remarks |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-decries-sabre-rattling-after-pakistan-army-chiefs-reported-nuclear-remarks-2025-08-11/ |access-date=2025-08-12 |work=Reuters |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Swami |first=Praveen |date=2025-08-10 |title=ThePrint Exclusive: Asim Munir's India nuke threat from US ballroom—'will take half the world down' |url=https://theprint.in/world/pakistan-army-chief-field-marshal-asim-munir-florida-speech-nuclear-threat-india/2718095/ |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref> India condemned the remarks as "nuclear sabre-rattling," with Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson [[Randhir Jaiswal]] stating that it was "Pakistan's stock-in-trade" and adding that "the international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks."<ref>{{Cite web |title="Nuke Sabre-Rattling Is Pak's Stock-In-Trade": India On Asim Munir Comments |url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-irresponsible-state-with-nukes-sources-on-asim-munir-comments-9061158 |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=NDTV |language=en}}</ref> Pakistan's Foreign Office claimed the remarks were "distorted."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-12 |title=Pakistan denies nuclear threat claims, says India misrepresenting army chief's US remarks |url=https://arab.news/g5m96 |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=Arab News PK |language=en}}</ref>
-==Talks and other confidence building measures==
+== Terrorism charges ==
+{{see also|Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism}}
+=== Border terrorism ===
+Countries including India and the United States have demanded that Pakistan stop using its territory as a base for terrorist groups following multiple terrorist attacks by [[Islamic terrorism in India|Islamic jihadists]] in Kashmir and other parts of India.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 June 2023 |title=Pakistan Rejects US, India Call to Curb Cross-Border Terrorism |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-rejects-us-india-call-to-curb-cross-border-terrorism-/7150753.html |access-date=5 July 2023 |website=VOA}}</ref> The Pakistani government has denied the accusation and accused India of sponsoring so-called "state-backed terror".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Baluch Separatists Call For India To Intervene Like In Bangladesh |url=https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-balochistan-india-bangladesh/27993409.html |access-date=18 December 2024 |website=gandhara.rferl.org|date=18 September 2016 |last1=Kakar |first1=Abdul Hai |last2=Siddique |first2=Abubakar }}</ref>
+=== Fugitives ===
+India has accused some of the most wanted Indian fugitives, such as [[Dawood Ibrahim]], of having a presence in Pakistan. On 11 May 2011, India released a list of 50 "Most Wanted Fugitives" hiding in Pakistan. This was to tactically pressure Pakistan after the [[Killing of Osama bin Laden|killing]] of [[Osama bin Laden]] in his [[Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad|compound in Abbottabad]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-releases-list-of-50-most-wanted-fugitives-in-Pak/articleshow/8243293.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705155413/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-11/india/29532084_1_hafiz-saeed-fugitives-paramjit-singh-panjwar |url-status=live |archive-date=5 July 2012 |title=India releases list of 50 'most wanted fugitives' in Pak |work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref> After two errors in the list received publicity, the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] removed it from their website, pending review.<ref>{{cite news | title =India: 'Most wanted' errors embarrass government | publisher =BBC News | date =20 May 2011 | url =https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13465908 | access-date =20 May 2011 }}</ref> After this incident, the Pakistani interior ministry rejected the list forwarded by India to Islamabad, saying it should first probe if those named in the list were even living in the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan rejects India's list of 50 most wanted |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-rejects-Indias-list-of-50-most-wanted/articleshow/8560151.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603073334/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-rejects-Indias-list-of-50-most-wanted/articleshow/8560151.cms |archive-date=3 June 2011 }}</ref>
+==Talks and other confidence-building measures==
 After the 1971 war, Pakistan and India made slow progress towards the normalisation of relations. In July 1972, Indian Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] and Pakistani President [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] met in the Indian hill station of [[Shimla]]. They signed the [[Simla Agreement|Shimla Agreement]], by which India would return all Pakistani personnel (over 90,000) and captured territory in the west, and the two countries would "settle their differences by peaceful means through bilateral negotiations." Diplomatic and trade relations were also re-established in 1976.
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 Attempts to restart dialogue between the two nations were given a major boost by the February 1999 meeting of both Prime Ministers in [[Lahore]] and their signing of three agreements.
-A subsequent military coup in Pakistan that overturned the democratically elected [[Nawaz Sharif]] government in October of the same year also proved a setback to relations.
 ===2000s===
 In 2001, a summit was called in [[Agra]]; Pakistani [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] turned up to meet Indian [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Atal Behari Vajpayee]]. The talks fell through.
-On 20 June 2004, with a new government in place in India, both countries agreed to extend a [[nuclear testing]] ban and to set up a [[hotline]] between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to a [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/india.pakistan |title=CNN.com - Nuke hotline for India, Pakistan - Jun 20, 2004 |publisher=Edition.cnn.com |date=20 June 2004 |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref>
+On 20 June 2004, with a new government in place in India, both countries agreed to extend a [[nuclear testing]] ban and to set up a [[hotline]] between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to a [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/india.pakistan/ |title= Nuke hotline for India, Pakistan |publisher=CNN |date=20 June 2004 |access-date=27 December 2011}}</ref>
 [[Baglihar Dam]] issue was a new issue raised by Pakistan in 2005.
-After Dr. Manmohan Singh become prime minister of India in May 2004, the [[Government of Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab provincial Government]] declared it would develop [[Gah, Pakistan|Gah]], his place of birth, as a model village in his honour and name a school after him.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/23/stories/2007062355601600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626100250/http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/23/stories/2007062355601600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 June 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|title=Schoolmate wants to meet PM|date=23 June 2007}}</ref> There is also a village in India named [[Pakistan, India|Pakistan]], despite occasional pressure over the years to change its name the villagers have resisted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/this-pakistan-has-no-muslims-37974-2009-01-24|title=This 'Pakistan' has no Muslims|website=India Today}}</ref>[[File:The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh flagging off the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus in Srinagar on April 7, 2005.jpg|thumb|right|150px|<small>The [[Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus|Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus]] service has helped ease tensions between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. Shown here is [[India]]'s [[Prime Minister of India]] [[Manmohan Singh]] flagging off the [[Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus|Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus]] in [[Srinagar]] on April 7, 2005</small>.]] Violent activities in the region declined in 2004. There are two main reasons for this: warming of relations between [[New Delhi]] and [[Islamabad]] which consequently lead to a [[ceasefire]] between the two countries in 2003 and the fencing of the Line of Control being carried out by the [[Indian Army]]. Moreover, coming under intense international pressure, Islamabad was compelled to take action against the militants' training camps on its territory. In 2004, the two countries also agreed upon decreasing the number of troops present in the region.
+After Dr. Manmohan Singh become prime minister of India in May 2004, the [[Government of Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab provincial Government]] declared it would develop [[Gah, Pakistan|Gah]], his place of birth, as a model village in his honour and name a school after him.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/23/stories/2007062355601600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626100250/http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/23/stories/2007062355601600.htm|archive-date=26 June 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|title=Schoolmate wants to meet PM|date=23 June 2007}}</ref> There is also a village in India named [[Pakistan, India|Pakistan]], despite occasional pressure over the years to change its name the villagers have resisted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/this-pakistan-has-no-muslims-37974-2009-01-24|title=This 'Pakistan' has no Muslims|website=India Today|date=24 January 2009 }}</ref>[[File:The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh flagging off the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus in Srinagar on April 7, 2005.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus|Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus]] service has helped ease tensions between India and Pakistan. Shown here is India's [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Manmohan Singh]] flagging off the [[Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus|Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus]] in [[Srinagar]] on 7 April 2005.]] Violent activities in the region declined in 2004. There are two main reasons for this: warming of relations between [[New Delhi]] and [[Islamabad]] which consequently lead to a [[ceasefire]] between the two countries in 2003 and the fencing of the Line of Control being carried out by the [[Indian Army]]. Moreover, coming under intense international pressure, Islamabad was compelled to take action against the militants' training camps on its territory. In 2004, the two countries also agreed upon decreasing the number of troops present in the region.
 Under pressure, Kashmiri militant organisations made an offer for talks and negotiations with New Delhi, which India welcomed.
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 A major clash between [[Indian Army|Indian security forces]] and militants occurred when a group of insurgents tried to infiltrate into Kashmir from Pakistan in July 2005. The same month also saw a Kashmiri militant attack on [[Ayodhya]] and [[Srinagar]]. However, these developments had little impact on the peace process.
-An Indian man held in Pakistani prisons since 1975 as an accused spy walked across the border to freedom 3 March 2008, an unconditional release that Pakistan said was done to improve relations between the two countries.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/india.prison.ap/index.html|title=Freed Indian man arrives back home |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309002707/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/india.prison.ap/index.html |archive-date=9 March 2008 }}</ref>
+An Indian man held in Pakistani prisons since 1975 as an accused spy walked across the border to freedom 3 March 2008, an unconditional release that Pakistan said was done to improve relations between the two countries.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/india.prison.ap/index.html|title=Freed Indian man arrives back home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309002707/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/india.prison.ap/index.html |archive-date=9 March 2008 }}</ref>
-In 2006, a "Friends Without Borders" scheme began with the help of two British tourists. The idea was that Indian and Pakistani children would make pen pals and write friendly letters to each other. The idea was so successful in both countries that the organisation found it "impossible to keep up". The World's Largest Love Letter was recently sent from India to Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.friendswithoutborders.org/index.html|title=Friends Without Borders - international penpal program between India and Pakistan|website=www.friendswithoutborders.org}}</ref>
+In 2006, a "Friends Without Borders" scheme began with the help of two British tourists. The idea was that Indian and Pakistani children would make pen pals and write friendly letters to each other. The idea was so successful in both countries that the organisation found it "impossible to keep up". The World's Largest Love Letter was recently sent from India to Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.friendswithoutborders.org/index.html|title=Friends Without Borders – international penpal program between India and Pakistan|website=friendswithoutborders.org}}</ref>
 ===2010s===
-In December 2010, several Pakistani newspapers published stories about India's leadership and relationship with militants in Pakistan that the papers claimed were found in the [[United States diplomatic cables leak]].  A British newspaper, ''[[The Guardian]]'', which had the Wikileaks cables in its possession reviewed the cables and concluded that the Pakistani claims were "not accurate" and that "WikiLeaks [was] being exploited for propaganda purposes."<ref>Declan Walsh, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/09/pakistani-newspaper-fake-leaks-india Pakistani media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 9 December 2010</ref>
+[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi warmly received by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif, at Lahore, Pakistan on December 25, 2015 (3).jpg | thumb | Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] received by Pakistani Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]] in December 2015, during a visit to Pakistan by Modi.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 December 2015 |title=A hug and high tea: Indian PM makes surprise visit to Pakistan|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pakistan-modi-arrival-idUKKBN0U80MQ20151225 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>]]In December 2010, several Pakistani newspapers published stories about India's leadership and relationship with militants in Pakistan that the papers claimed were found in the [[United States diplomatic cables leak]]. A British newspaper, ''[[The Guardian]]'', which had the Wikileaks cables in its possession reviewed the cables and concluded that the Pakistani claims were "not accurate" and that "WikiLeaks [was] being exploited for propaganda purposes."<ref>Declan Walsh, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/09/pakistani-newspaper-fake-leaks-india Pakistani media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 9 December 2010</ref>
 On 10 February 2011, India agreed to resume talks with Pakistan which were suspended after 26/11 Mumbai Attacks.<ref name="The World Reporter">{{cite web|url=http://www.theworldreporter.com/2011/02/new-turn-in-india-pakistan-ties.html|title=A New Turn in India Pakistan Ties|date=14 February 2011}}</ref> India had put on hold all the diplomatic relations saying it will only continue if Pakistan will act against the accused of Mumbai attacks.
-On 13 April 2012, following a thaw in relations whereby India gained [[Most favoured nation|MFN]] status in the country, India announced the removal of restrictions on [[Foreign direct investment|FDI]] investment from Pakistan to India.<ref>{{cite news|last=Banerji |first=Annie |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/india-pakistan-trade-fdi-investment-idINDEE83C04M20120413 |title=India to allow FDI from Pakistan, open border post &#124; Reuters |publisher=In.reuters.com |date=13 April 2012|access-date=13 April 2012}}</ref>
+On 13 April 2012, following a thaw in relations whereby India gained [[most favoured nation]] status in the country, India announced the removal of [[foreign direct investment]] restrictions from Pakistan to India.<ref>{{cite news |last=Banerji |first=Annie |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/india-pakistan-trade-fdi-investment-idINDEE83C04M20120413 |title=India to allow FDI from Pakistan, open border post |publisher=In.reuters.com |date=13 April 2012 |access-date=13 April 2012 |archive-date=15 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115072653/http://in.reuters.com/article/india-pakistan-trade-fdi-investment-idINDEE83C04M20120413 }}</ref>
-The Foreign Minister of Pakistan on 11 July 2012, stated in [[Phnom Penh]] that her country is willing to resolve some of the disputes like, Sir Creek and [[Siachen Glacier|Siachen]] on the basis of agreements reached in past.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pak-willing-to-resolve-bilateral-disputes-with-india-hina-rabbani-khar/973482/|title=Pak willing to resolve bilateral disputes with India: Hina Rabbani Khar|date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
+The [[Foreign Minister of Pakistan]] [[Hina Rabbani Khar]] on 11 July 2012, stated in [[Phnom Penh]] that her country is willing to resolve some of the disputes, including Sir Creek and [[Siachen Glacier|Siachen]], on the basis of agreements reached in past.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pak-willing-to-resolve-bilateral-disputes-with-india-hina-rabbani-khar/973482/|title=Pak willing to resolve bilateral disputes with India: Hina Rabbani Khar|date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
-On 7 September 2012, Indian External Affairs Minister would pay 3-day visit to Pakistan to review the progress of bilateral dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/krishna-to-undertake-3day-visit-to-pakistan-from-sept-7/978706/ |title=Krishna to undertake 3-day visit to Pakistan from Sept 7 |date=24 July 2012}}</ref>
+On 7 September 2012, [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Indian External Affairs Minister]] [[S. M. Krishna]] would pay a 3-day visit to Pakistan to review the progress of bilateral dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/krishna-to-undertake-3day-visit-to-pakistan-from-sept-7/978706/ |title=Krishna to undertake 3-day visit to Pakistan from Sept 7 |date=24 July 2012}}</ref>
-In August 2019, following the approval of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019|Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill]] in the [[Indian Parliament]], which [[Indian revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status|revoked]] the special status of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 August 2019|title=India strips disputed Kashmir of special status|language=en-GB|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49231619|access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=UN expresses concern over India's move to revoke special status of Kashmir|url=https://www.radio.gov.pk/06-08-2019/un-expresses-concern-over-indias-move-to-revoke-special-status-of-kashmir|access-date=8 August 2019|website=radio.gov.pk|language=en}}</ref> further tension was brought between the two countries, with Pakistan downgrading their diplomatic ties, closing its airspace, and suspending bilateral trade with India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan sends back Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria, suspends bilateral trade|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/pakistan-downscales-diplomatic-relationship-suspends-bilateral-trade-with-india/465213|access-date=8 August 2019|website=timesnownews.com|language=en-GB}}</ref>
+In August 2019, following the approval of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019|Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill]] in the [[Indian Parliament]], which [[Indian revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status|revoked]] the special status of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 August 2019|title=India strips disputed Kashmir of special status|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49231619|access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=UN expresses concern over India's move to revoke special status of Kashmir|url=https://www.radio.gov.pk/06-08-2019/un-expresses-concern-over-indias-move-to-revoke-special-status-of-kashmir|access-date=8 August 2019|website=radio.gov.pk}}</ref> further tension was brought between the two countries, with Pakistan downgrading their diplomatic ties, closing its airspace, and suspending bilateral trade with India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan sends back Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria, suspends bilateral trade|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/pakistan-downscales-diplomatic-relationship-suspends-bilateral-trade-with-india/465213|access-date=8 August 2019|website=timesnownews.com|date=7 August 2019}}</ref>
+The [[Kartarpur Corridor]] was opened in November 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakistan opens visa-free border crossing for India Sikhs |url=https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/pakistan-opens-visa-free-border-crossing-for-india-sikhs-1.1573309104454 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114044412/https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/pakistan-opens-visa-free-border-crossing-for-india-sikhs-1.1573309104454 |archive-date=14 November 2019 |access-date=5 May 2022 |website=gulfnews.com |date=9 November 2019|quote=Kartarpur, Pakistan: The prime ministers of India and Pakistan inaugurated on Saturday a visa-free border crossing for Sikh pilgrims from India, allowing thousands of pilgrims to easily visit a Sikh shrine just inside Pakistan each day.}}</ref>
 ===2020s===
-On 25 February 2021, India and Pakistan issued a joint statement indicating that both sides agreed to stop firing at each other at the disputed Line of Control border in Kashmir.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/en/india-pakistan-agree-to-stop-firing-at-kashmir-border/a-56683894 |title=India, Pakistan agree to stop firing at Kashmir border |website=DW |date=25 February 2021 }}</ref>
+On 25 February 2021, India and Pakistan issued a joint statement indicating that both sides agreed to stop firing at each other at the [[Line of Control]] (LOC, disputed ''de facto'' border) in Kashmir.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/en/india-pakistan-agree-to-stop-firing-at-kashmir-border/a-56683894 |title=India, Pakistan agree to stop firing at Kashmir border |website=[[Deutsche Welle]] |agency=DW |date=25 February 2021}}</ref>
+Despite this, in July 2021 Indian government rejected Pakistan's call for talks, stating that "Peace, prosperity can't coexist with terrorism".<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 July 2021 |title=Peace, prosperity can't coexist with terrorism: Rajnath Singh at SCO meet |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/peace-prosperity-cant-coexist-with-terrorism-rajnath-singh-at-sco-meet-7427511/ |access-date=5 July 2023 |website=The Indian Express}}</ref>
+On 16 October 2024, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to discuss topics at the SCO Summit dinner in Islamabad.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1865367/pm-shehbaz-welcomes-state-dignitaries-to-sco-dinner|title=PM Shehbaz welcomes state dignitaries to SCO dinner|work=Dawn|date=15 October 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sco-day-2-meeting-islamabad/article68759731.ece|title=SCO Summit in Islamabad: Jaishankar attends day 2 meet|work=The Hindu|date=16 October 2024 |last1=Haidar |first1=Suhasini }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/s-jaishankar-sco-summit-pakistan-islamabad-morning-walk-planting-sapling-shehbaz-sharif-2617625-2024-10-16|title=How S Jaishankar started his day in Islamabad ahead of SCO Summit|date=16 October 2024 |publisher=India Today}}</ref>
 ==Response to natural calamities==
 ===2001 Gujarat earthquake in India===
-In response to the [[2001 Gujarat earthquake]], Pakistani President [[Pervez Mushrraf]] sent a plane load of relief supplies from [[Islamabad]] to [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/india.quake.02/ | work=CNN | title=Quake may improve India Pakistan ties | date=2 February 2001 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821221743/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/india.quake.02 | archive-date=21 August 2010 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> They carried 200 tents and more than 2,000 blankets.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1139807.stm | work=BBC News | title=Rival Pakistan offers India help | date=30 January 2001}}</ref> Furthermore, the President called Indian PM to express his 'sympathy' over the loss from the earthquake.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/20010203/ina03028.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004045012/http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/20010203/ina03028.html|url-status=dead|title=Gujarat gets Musharraf to dial PM in New Delhi<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=4 October 2012}}</ref>
+In response to the [[2001 Gujarat earthquake]], Pakistani President [[Pervez Mushrraf]] sent a plane load of relief supplies from [[Islamabad]] to [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/india.quake.02/ | publisher=CNN| title=Quake may improve India Pakistan ties | date=2 February 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821221743/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/india.quake.02 | archive-date=21 August 2010 }}</ref> They carried 200 tents and more than 2,000 blankets.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1139807.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=Rival Pakistan offers India help | date=30 January 2001}}</ref> Furthermore, the President called Indian PM to express his 'sympathy' over the loss from the earthquake.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/20010203/ina03028.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004045012/http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/20010203/ina03028.html|title=Gujarat gets Musharraf to dial PM in New Delhi<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=4 October 2012}}</ref>
 ===2005 earthquake in Pakistan===
-India offered generous aid to Pakistan in response to the [[2005 Kashmir earthquake]] on 8 October. Indian and Pakistani High Commissioners consulted with one another regarding cooperation in relief work. India sent 25 tonnes of relief material to Pakistan including food, blankets and medicine. Large Indian companies such as [[Infosys]] offered aid up to $226,000. On 12 October, an [[Ilyushin Il-76|Ilyushin-76]] cargo plane ferried across seven truckloads (about 82 [[ton]]s) of army medicines, 15,000 blankets and 50 tents and returned to New Delhi. A senior air force official also stated that they had been asked by the Indian government to be ready to fly out another similar consignment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dawn.com/2005/10/13/top9.htm|title=Indian troops cross LoC to back up relief efforts|date=13 October 2005}}</ref> On 14 October, India dispatched the second consignment of relief material to Pakistan, by train through the [[Wagah Border]]. The consignment included 5,000 blankets, 370 tents, 5 tons of plastic sheets and 12 tons of medicine. A third consignment of medicine and relief material was also sent shortly afterwards by train.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1518632,0008.htm |title=Hindustan Times - Archive News |access-date=15 October 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104044231/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1518632%2C0008.htm |archive-date=4 November 2005  }}</ref> India also pledged $25 million as aid to Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4381982.stm|title=BBC NEWS - South Asia - India offers Pakistan $25m in aid|date=27 October 2005}}</ref> India opened the first of three points at Chakan Da Bagh, in [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]], on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan for the [[2005 Kashmir earthquake]] relief work.<ref>{{Cite web|title=White flags at the LoC|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/07nlook.htm|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Rediff|language=en}}</ref> Such generous gestures signalled a new era of confidence, friendliness and cooperation between both India and Pakistan.
+India offered aid to Pakistan in response to the [[2005 Kashmir earthquake]] on 8 October. Indian and Pakistani High Commissioners consulted with one another regarding cooperation in relief work. India sent 25 tonnes of relief material to Pakistan including food, blankets and medicine. Large Indian companies such as [[Infosys]] offered aid up to $226,000. On 12 October, an [[Ilyushin Il-76|Ilyushin-76]] cargo plane ferried across seven truckloads (about 82 [[ton]]s) of army medicines, 15,000 blankets and 50 tents and returned to New Delhi. A senior air force official also stated that they had been asked by the Indian government to be ready to fly out another similar consignment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dawn.com/2005/10/13/top9.htm|title=Indian troops cross LoC to back up relief efforts|date=13 October 2005}}</ref>
+On 14 October, India dispatched the second consignment of relief material to Pakistan, by train through the [[Wagah Border]]. The consignment included 5,000 blankets, 370 tents, 5 tons of plastic sheets and 12 tons of medicine. A third consignment of medicine and relief material was also sent shortly afterwards by train.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1518632,0008.htm |title=Hindustan Times – Archive News |access-date=15 October 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104044231/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1518632%2C0008.htm |archive-date=4 November 2005 }}</ref> India also pledged $25 million as aid to Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4381982.stm|title=BBC NEWS – South Asia – India offers Pakistan $25m in aid|date=27 October 2005}}</ref> India opened the first of three points at Chakan Da Bagh, in [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]], on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan for earthquake relief work.<ref>{{Cite web|title=White flags at the LoC|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/07nlook.htm|access-date=9 May 2021|website=Rediff}}</ref>
+=== 2022 Pakistan floods ===
+Amid the [[2022 Pakistan floods]], Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his "heartfelt condolences to families of the victims".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakistan Floods: India Offers Condolences, Several Countries Extend Help As Monsoon Death Toll Crosses 1,100 |url=https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2022-08-30-india-offers-condolences-as-monsoon-death-toll-crosses-1100-in-pakistan |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=The Weather Channel}}</ref> The Government of India considered sending relief aid to Pakistan, but chose not to.<ref>{{Cite web |title=India Reportedly Discussing Flood Aid As Pak Minister Talks Food Import |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-reportedly-discussing-flood-aid-as-pak-minister-talks-of-food-import-3299328 |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=NDTV.com}}</ref>
-==Fugitives==
+== Economic relations ==
-India has accused some of the most wanted Indian fugitives, such as [[Dawood Ibrahim]], of having a presence in Pakistan. On 11 May 2011, India released a list of 50 "Most Wanted Fugitives" hiding in Pakistan. This was to tactically pressure Pakistan after the [[Death of Osama bin Laden|killing]] of [[Osama bin Laden]] in his [[Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad|compound in Abbottabad]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-11/india/29532084_1_hafiz-saeed-fugitives-paramjit-singh-panjwar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705155413/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-11/india/29532084_1_hafiz-saeed-fugitives-paramjit-singh-panjwar |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 July 2012 |title=India releases list of 50 'most wanted fugitives' in Pak |work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref>
+{{See also|Economy of South Asia}}
+India and Pakistan have curtailed formal trade; South Asia, the region inhabited by the two countries, is the least economically integrated region in the world, with only 5% of its trade conducted internally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Realizing the Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia |url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2018/10/09/realizing-the-promise-of-regional-trade-in-south-asia |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=World Bank |language=en}}</ref> However, there is an informal bilateral trade of around $10 billion, with most of the goods imported by Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sharma |first1=Priyanka |last2=Shankar |first2=Yashraj |title=The $10bn India-Pakistan trade secret hidden by official data |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/1/the-10bn-india-pakistan-trade-secret-hidden-by-official-data |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>
-After two errors in the list received publicity, the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] removed it from their website pending a review.<ref>{{cite news | title =India: 'Most wanted' errors embarrass government | work =BBC News | publisher =BBC | date =20 May 2011 | url =https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13465908 | access-date =20 May 2011 }}</ref> After this incident the Pakistani interior ministry rejected the list of 50 Most Wanted men forwarded by India to Islamabad, saying it should first probe if those named in the list were even living in the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan rejects India's list of 50 most wanted |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-rejects-Indias-list-of-50-most-wanted/articleshow/8560151.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603073334/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-rejects-Indias-list-of-50-most-wanted/articleshow/8560151.cms |archive-date=3 June 2011 }}</ref>
+During the [[2025 India–Pakistan conflict]], bilateral maritime trade was suspended.<ref>{{Cite web |title=India and Pakistan Halt Maritime Trade |url=https://maritime-executive.com/article/india-and-pakistan-halt-maritime-trade |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=The Maritime Executive |language=en}}</ref>
 ==Social relations==
+=== Organisational ties ===
+[[File:The SAARC Car Rally 2007 crossing over to India from Pakistan at Wagah Border (Amritsar) on March 31, 2007.jpg|thumb|The 2007 SAARC Car rally crossing the [[Wagah border]]. The event saw travellers commute throughout the SAARC nations<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kirpalani |first=Renuka |date=2022-02-04 |title=Winding Across Borders Remembering the First-Ever SAARC Car Rally |url=https://www.outlooktraveller.com/explore/adventure/winding-across-borders-remembering-the-first-ever-saarc-rally |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Outlook Traveller |language=en}}</ref>]]
+India and Pakistan both feature in the [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation]] (SAARC) and the [[Commonwealth of Nations]]. SAARC membership initially helped the two countries come to certain agreements, such as simplifying visa access for each other, while in the early years of independence, one of the reasons both countries remained in the Commonwealth was arguably to prevent a British preference towards the other country.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gangal |first=S.C. |date=1966-01-01 |title=The Commonwealth and Indo-Pakistani Relations |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002088176600800107 |journal=International Studies |language=EN |volume=8 |issue=1–2 |pages=134–149 |doi=10.1177/002088176600800107 |issn=0020-8817|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2000-04-01 |title=Pakistan and the Commonwealth |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/750459440 |journal=The Round Table |volume=89 |issue=354 |pages=157–160 |language=EN |doi=10.1080/750459440|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Eventually SAARC became defunct largely due to the impasse between the two nations,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SAARC Is Dead. Long Live Subregional Cooperation |url=https://thediplomat.com/2022/09/saarc-is-dead-long-live-sub-regional-co-operation/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=thediplomat.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and since the [[2025 Pahalgam attack]], India removed SAARC visa privileges for Pakistani nationals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme Suspended For Pak Nationals: What It Means |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pahalgam-attack-saarc-visa-exemption-scheme-suspended-for-pakistan-nationals-what-it-means-8241974 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=www.ndtv.com |language=en}}</ref>
+[[Aman ki Asha]] is a joint venture and campaign between ''[[The Times of India]]'' and the ''[[Jang Group]]'' started in 2010 calling for mutual peace and development of diplomatic and cultural relations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rid |first=Saeed Ahmed |date=2020-01-02 |title=Aman ki Asha (a desire for peace): a case study of a people-to-people contacts peacebuilding initiative between India and Pakistan |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09584935.2019.1666090 |journal=Contemporary South Asia |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=113–125 |doi=10.1080/09584935.2019.1666090 |issn=0958-4935|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
 ===Cultural links===
-India and Pakistan, particularly Northern India and Eastern Pakistan, to some degree have similar cultures, cuisines and languages due to common [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] heritage which span through the two countries and throughout much of the northern subcontinent which also underpin the historical ties between the two. [[Pakistani singers]], musicians, [[List of stand-up comedians#Pakistan|comedians]] and entertainers have enjoyed widespread popularity in India, with many achieving overnight fame in the Indian film industry [[Bollywood]]. Likewise, [[Indian music]] and [[Cinema of India|film]] are very popular in Pakistan. Being located in the northernmost region of the [[South Asia]], Pakistan's culture is somewhat similar to that of [[North India]], especially the northwest.
+{{See also|Culture of South Asia}}{{Multiple images
+| image1            = Entrance of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor (or Nanak Marg) from Dera Baba Nanak side of Indian border 02.jpg
+| image2            = Kartarpur Guru Nanak.jpg
+| total_width       = 300
+| footer            = The [[Kartarpur Corridor]] (left) was launched in 2019 to allow Indian Sikhs to visit [[Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur]] (right), which is 4km across the border<ref>{{Cite web |title=The story of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor in dates |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/the-story-of-the-kartarpur-sahib-corridor-in-dates-774897.html |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref>
+}}
+India and Pakistan, particularly Northern India and Eastern Pakistan, to some degree have similar cultures, cuisines and languages due to common [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] heritage which spans through the two countries and throughout much of the northern subcontinent which also underpin the historical ties between the two. [[Pakistani singers]], musicians, [[List of stand-up comedians#Pakistan|comedians]] and entertainers have enjoyed widespread popularity in India, with many achieving overnight fame in the Indian film industry [[Hindi cinema|Bollywood]]. Likewise, [[Indian music]] and [[Cinema of India|film]] are very popular in Pakistan. Being located in the [[Northwestern South Asia|northernmost region]] of [[South Asia]], Pakistan's culture is somewhat similar to that of [[North India]], especially the [[Northwest India|northwest]].
-The [[Punjab region]] was split into [[Punjab, Pakistan]] and [[Punjab, India]] following the independence and partition of the two countries in 1947. The [[Punjabi people]] are today the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and also an important ethnic group of northern India. The founder of [[Sikhism]] was born in the modern-day Pakistani Punjab province, in the city of [[Nankana Sahib]]. Each year, millions of Indian Sikh pilgrims cross over to visit holy Sikh sites in [[Nankana Sahib]]. The [[Sindhi people]] are the native ethnic group of the Pakistani province of [[Sindh]]. Many Hindu Sindhis migrated to India in 1947, making the country home to a sizeable Sindhi community. In addition, the millions of Muslims who migrated from India to the newly created Pakistan during independence came to be known as the [[Muhajir people]]; they are settled predominantly in Karachi and still maintain family links in India.
+The [[Punjab region]] was split into [[Punjab, Pakistan]] and [[Punjab, India]] following the independence and partition of the two countries in 1947. The [[Punjabi people]] are today the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and also an important ethnic group of northern India. The founder of [[Sikhism]] was born in the modern-day Pakistani Punjab province, in the city of [[Nankana Sahib]]. Each year, millions of Indian Sikh pilgrims cross over to visit holy Sikh sites in [[Nankana Sahib]]. The [[Sindhi people]] are the native ethnic group of the Pakistani province of [[Sindh]]. Many Hindu Sindhis migrated to India in 1947, making the country home to a sizeable Sindhi community. In addition, the millions of Muslims who migrated from India to the newly created Pakistan during independence came to be known as the [[Muhajir (Urdu-speaking people)|Muhajir people]]; they are settled predominantly in Karachi and still maintain family links in India.
-Relations between Pakistan and India have also resumed through platforms such as media and communications. [[Aman ki Asha]] is a joint venture and campaign between ''[[The Times of India]]'' and the ''[[Jang Group]]'' calling for mutual peace and development of diplomatic and cultural relations.
+Relations between Pakistan and India have also resumed through platforms such as media and communications.
 ===Geographic links===
-{{Main|Indo-Pakistani border}}
+{{Main|India–Pakistan border|Maritime history of Pakistan#Contemporary era}}
-[[File:International border at Wagah - evening flag lowering ceremony.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right| The evening flag lowering ceremony at the India-Pakistan [[International Border]] near [[Wagah]].]]
-The Indo-Pakistani border is the official international boundary that demarcates the Indian states of Punjab, [[Rajasthan]] and [[Gujarat]] from the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. The [[Wagah]] border is the only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the famous [[Grand Trunk Road]], connecting [[Lahore]], Pakistan with [[Amritsar]], India. Each evening, the [[Wagah border ceremony]] takes place at the Wagah border in which the flags are lowered and guards on both sides make a pompous military display and exchange handshakes.
+[[File:International border at Wagah - evening flag lowering ceremony.jpg|thumb|right| The [[Attari–Wagah border ceremony|evening flag lowering ceremony]] at the India–Pakistan border near [[Wagah]].]]
+The India–Pakistan border is the official international boundary that demarcates the Indian states of Punjab, [[Rajasthan]] and [[Gujarat]] from the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. The [[Wagah]] border is the only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the [[Grand Trunk Road]], connecting [[Lahore]], Pakistan with [[Amritsar]], India. Each evening, the [[Attari–Wagah border ceremony|Wagah–Attari border ceremony]] takes place, in which the flags are lowered and guards on both sides make a pompous military display and exchange handshakes.
 ===Linguistic ties===
-[[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] is the [[linga franca]] of North India and Pakistan, as well as the official language of both countries, under the standard registers [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]], respectively. Standard Urdu is [[mutually intelligible]] with standard Hindi. Hindustani is also widely understood and used as a lingua franca amongst South Asians including [[Sri Lankans]], [[Nepalis]] and [[Bangladeshis]], and is the language of [[Bollywood]], which is enjoyed throughout much of the subcontinent.
+[[File:HindustaniNames.PNG|thumb|The name Hindustani written in Hindi and Urdu scripts]]
+[[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] is the ''[[lingua franca]]'' of North India and Pakistan, as well as the official language of both countries, under the standard registers [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]], respectively. Standard Urdu is [[mutually intelligible]] with standard Hindi. Hindustani is also widely understood and used as a lingua franca amongst South Asians including [[Sri Lankans]], [[Nepalis]] and [[Bangladeshis]], and is the language of Bollywood, which is enjoyed throughout much of the subcontinent.
 Apart from [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]], India and Pakistan also share a distribution of the [[Punjabi language]] (written in the [[Gurmukhi]] script in Indian Punjab, and the [[Shahmukhi]] script in Pakistani Punjab), [[Kashmiri language]] and [[Sindhi language]], mainly due to population exchange. These languages belong to a common [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan family]] that are spoken in countries across the subcontinent.
 ===Matrimonial ties===
-Some Indian and Pakistani people marry across the border at instances. Many Indians and Pakistanis in the diaspora, especially in the United States, intermarry, as there are large cultural similarities between the two countries respectively.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1334329|title=How Pakistani-Americans are entering interfaith and interracial marriages — and making them work|last=Chaudhry|first=Fahad Naveed {{!}} Hufsa|date=20 May 2017|website=DAWN.COM|language=en|access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
+Some Indian and Pakistani people marry across the border at instances. Many Indians and Pakistanis in the diaspora, especially in the United States, intermarry, as there are large cultural similarities between the two countries respectively.<ref name="PA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1334329|title=How Pakistani-Americans are entering interfaith and interracial marriages – and making them work|last=Chaudhry|first=Fahad Naveed {{!}} Hufsa|date=20 May 2017|work=Dawn|location=Pakistan|access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
-In April 2010 a high-profile Pakistani cricketer, [[Shoaib Malik]] married the Indian tennis star [[Sania Mirza]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/sania-shoaib-wedding/Shoaibs-impressed-by-hospitality-in-India/articleshow/5827685.cms |work=The Times of India |title=Shoaib's family impressed by hospitality in India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421061206/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/sania-shoaib-wedding/Shoaibs-impressed-by-hospitality-in-India/articleshow/5827685.cms |archive-date=21 April 2010 }}</ref> The wedding received much media attention and was said to transfix both India and Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-47624320100412 | work=Reuters | title=Sania Mirza weds Shoaib Malik after divorce row | date=12 April 2010}}</ref>
+In April 2010 a high-profile Pakistani cricketer, [[Shoaib Malik]] married the Indian tennis star [[Sania Mirza]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/sania-shoaib-wedding/Shoaibs-impressed-by-hospitality-in-India/articleshow/5827685.cms |work=The Times of India |title=Shoaib's family impressed by hospitality in India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421061206/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/sania-shoaib-wedding/Shoaibs-impressed-by-hospitality-in-India/articleshow/5827685.cms |archive-date=21 April 2010 }}</ref> The wedding received much media attention and was said to transfix both India and Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-47624320100412 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415064608/http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-47624320100412 | archive-date=15 April 2010 | work=Reuters| title=Sania Mirza weds Shoaib Malik after divorce row | date=12 April 2010}}</ref>
 ===Sporting ties===
-{{Main|Sports diplomacy#Cricket}}
+{{Main|India–Pakistan sports rivalries}}
-{{See also|India versus Pakistan cricket rivalry}}
-Cricket and hockey matches between the two (as well as other sports to a lesser degree such as those of the SAARC games) have often been political in nature. During the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]] General [[Zia-ul Haq]] travelled to India for a bout of "cricket diplomacy" to keep India from supporting the Soviets by opening another front. [[Pervez Musharaff]] also tried to do the same more than a decade later but to no avail.
+{{See also|Sport in South Asia}}
+[[File:India vs pakistan 2023 CWC.jpg|thumb|[[2023 Cricket World Cup]] match]]
+Cricket and hockey matches between the two (as well as other sports to a lesser degree such as those of the SAARC/[[South Asian Games]]) have often been political in nature. During the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]] General [[Zia-ul Haq]] travelled to India for a bout of "[[Cricket diplomacy#India and Pakistan|cricket diplomacy]]" to keep India from supporting the Soviets by opening another front. [[Pervez Musharaff]] also tried to do the same in the aftermath of the [[Kargil War]], which led to some bilateral series between India and Pakistan.
+Following the [[2008 Mumbai Attacks|2008 terror attack]] in [[Mumbai]], India stopped playing bilateral cricket series against Pakistan. Since then, the Indian team has only played against them in [[International Cricket Council|ICC]] and [[Asian Cricket Council]] events such as the [[Cricket World Cup]], [[ICC Men's T20 World Cup|T20 World Cup]], [[Asia Cup]] and [[ICC Champions Trophy]]. In 2017, the then Sports Minister of India, [[Vijay Goel (politician)|Vijay Goel]] opposed further bilateral series due to [[Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism|Pakistan's alleged sponsoring of terrorism]], saying that "there cannot be sports relations between the two countries [while] there is terrorism from the Pakistani side."<ref>{{cite web |title=No cricket with Pakistan until terrorism stops, says sports minister Vijay Goel |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/india-pakistan-cricket-series-terrorism-vijay-goel-979786-2017-05-29 |website=India Today |date=29 May 2017 |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> The [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] (BCCI) also opposed any further series without the permission of the Indian government.<ref>{{cite web |title=Playing Pakistan depends on government – BCCI |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/playing-pakistan-depends-on-government-bcci-1096694 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> The BCCI also did not allow Pakistani players to play in the [[Indian Premier League]] in the aftermath of the 2008 terror attack, although they were part of the inaugural season.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Terrorism and sports can't go along, says Sports Minister Vijay Goel|date=3 May 2017 |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/terrorism-and-sports-cant-go-along-says-sports-minister-vijay-goel/}}</ref>
+The two nations also share some of the same [[Traditional games of South Asia|traditional games]], such as [[kabaddi]] and [[kho kho]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hussain |first1=Umer |last2=Cunningham |first2=George B |date=2021-11-01 |title='These are "our" sports': Kabaddi and Kho-Kho women athletes from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1012690220968111 |journal=International Review for the Sociology of Sport |language=EN |volume=56 |issue=7 |pages=1051–1069 |doi=10.1177/1012690220968111 |issn=1012-6902|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In [[tennis]], [[Rohan Bopanna]] of India and [[Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi]] of Pakistan have formed a successful duo and have been dubbed as the "Indo-Pak Express".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120509210013/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-09-10/news/27599621_1_indo-pak-express-bopanna-and-qureshi-zeballos The Indo-Pak Express rolls on], The Economic Times</ref>
-In [[tennis]], [[Rohan Bopanna]] of India and [[Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi]] of Pakistan have formed a successful duo and have been dubbed as the "Indo-Pak Express."<ref>[http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-09-10/news/27599621_1_indo-pak-express-bopanna-and-qureshi-zeballos The Indo-Pak Express rolls on], The Economic Times</ref>
+Although both the teams have willingly participated in [[International Cricket Council|ICC]] and [[Asian Cricket Council]] events, tensions evolved following the [[2025 Pahalgam attack|Pahalgam terror attack]] in April 2025 by Pakistan based terror group [[The Resistance Front]] and the [[2025 India–Pakistan conflict|military conflict]]. While there were demands to boycott the matches during the [[2025 Asia Cup]], the Government of India gave a go-ahead, and following each India - Pakistan match during the series, the Indian team refused to shake hands with the Pakistan team.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/india-pakistan-asia-cup-cricket-rcna230758|title= Cricket teams from South Asian rivals India and Pakistan are meeting for the first time since their countries fought a deadly armed conflict in May.}}</ref><ref name="Adil_2025">{{Cite web |last1=Adil |first1=Hafsa|last2=Iftikhar Nagi |first2=Ahsan|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/9/14/india-vs-pakistan-asia-cup-match-hit-by-no-handshake-controversy|title=India, Pakistan embroiled in 'no handshake' drama after Asia Cup match |work=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> The policy continued during the [[2026 Men's T20 World Cup]], where at Group Stage, India had defeated Pakistan by 61 runs. <ref>{{cite news |last=Francis |first=Krishan |title=India crushes Pakistan by 61 runs in marquee game in T20 World Cup. No handshakes again |url=https://abcnews.com/Sports/wireStory/pakistan-takes-india-marquee-game-t20-world-cup-130183665 |date=16 February 2026 |access-date=16 February 2026 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |archive-date=16 February 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260216042459/https://abcnews.com/Sports/wireStory/pakistan-takes-india-marquee-game-t20-world-cup-130183665 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ===Diasporic relations===
-The large size of the [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]] and [[Pakistani diaspora]] in many different countries throughout the world has created strong diasporic relations.
+The large size of the [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]] and [[Pakistani diaspora]] in many different countries throughout the world has created strong diasporic relations. It is quite common for a "[[Little India (location)|Little India]]" and a "[[Little Pakistan]]" to co-exist in [[South Asian diaspora|South Asian ethnic enclaves]] in overseas countries.
-[[British Indians]] and [[British Pakistanis]], the largest and second-largest ethnic minorities living in the United Kingdom respectively, are said to have friendly relations with one another.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishasiantrust.org/|title=Home|website=British Asian Trust}}</ref><ref>[http://www.easterneye.eu/ABA%20Brochure%202009.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218083233/http://www.easterneye.eu/ABA%20Brochure%202009.pdf|date=18 December 2009}}</ref> It is quite common for a "[[Little India (location)|Little India]]" and a "[[Little Pakistan]]" to co-exist in South Asian ethnic enclaves in overseas countries. There are various cities such as [[Birmingham]], [[Blackburn]] and [[Manchester]] where [[British Indian]]s and [[British Pakistanis]] live alongside each other in peace and harmony. Both Indians and Pakistanis living in the UK fit under the category of [[British Asian]]. The UK is also home to the Pakistan & India friendship forum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pakindiafriendship.com/Launch.htm|title=Official UK Launch of the Pakistan India Friendship Forum On 8th February 200 7At The House Of Commons|website=www.pakindiafriendship.com}}</ref> In the United States, Indians and Pakistanis are classified under the [[South Asian American]] category and share many cultural traits. In the US, intermarriage between Indians and Pakistanis is common.<ref name=":0" />
+[[British Indians]] and [[British Pakistanis]], the largest and second-largest ethnic minorities living in the United Kingdom respectively, are said to have friendly relations with one another.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishasiantrust.org/|title=Home|website=British Asian Trust}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.easterneye.eu/ABA%20Brochure%202009.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218083233/http://www.easterneye.eu/ABA%20Brochure%202009.pdf|title=Eastern Eye, Your Trusted Source for Breaking News|archive-date=18 December 2009}}</ref> There are various cities such as [[Birmingham]], [[Blackburn]] and [[Manchester]] where [[British Indian]]s and [[British Pakistanis]] live alongside each other in peace and harmony. Both Indians and Pakistanis living in the UK fit under the category of [[British Asian]]. The UK is also home to the Pakistan & India friendship forum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pakindiafriendship.com/Launch.htm|title=Official UK Launch of the Pakistan India Friendship Forum On 8th February 200 7At The House Of Commons|website=www.pakindiafriendship.com}}</ref> In the United States, Indians and Pakistanis are classified under the [[South Asian American]] category and share many cultural traits, with intermarriage being common.<ref name="PA" /> After [[September 11 attacks]] however, in response to reported incidents of discrimination, particularly in public spaces such as airports, several Pakistani Americans started identifying themselves as [[Indian Americans|Indians]] to avoid discrimination and for better business and economic opportunities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pakistanis pose as Indians after NY bomb scare |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-timessquare-backlash/pakistanis-pose-as-indians-after-ny-bomb-scare-idUSTRE64655Y20100507 |website=[[Reuters]] |access-date=23 March 2020 |date=7 May 2010 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114111303/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-timessquare-backlash/pakistanis-pose-as-indians-after-ny-bomb-scare-idUSTRE64655Y20100507 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pakistanis pose as Indians after NY bomb scare |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/11555/pakistanis-pose-as-indians-after-ny-bomb-scare |website=[[The Express Tribune]] |date=May 7, 2010 |access-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107230433/https://tribune.com.pk/story/11555/pakistanis-pose-as-indians-after-ny-bomb-scare |url-status=live }}</ref>
-The British MEP [[Sajjad Karim]] is of Pakistani origin. He is a member of the European Parliament Friends of India Group, Karim was also responsible for opening up Europe to free trade with India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?id=28481&language=EN|title=Search for a Member - MEPs - European Parliament|website=europarl.europa.eu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=EN&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20090325IPR52628|title=EU-India: Free Trade Agreement to be signed by the end of 2010 say MEPs|website=europarl.europa.eu}}</ref> He narrowly escaped the Mumbai attacks at Hotel Taj in November 2008. Despite the atrocity, Karim does not wish the remaining killer [[Ajmal Kasab]] to be sentenced to death. He said: "I believe he had a fair and transparent trial and I support the guilty verdict. But I am not a supporter of capital punishment. I believe he should be given a life sentence, but that life should mean life."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-05-08|title=26/11 case: UK victim doesn't favour death penalty for Kasab|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/26-11-case-uk-victim-doesn-t-favour-death-penalty-for-kasab/story-yI7jdgj7q345YRfcIbonUN.html|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-11-23|title='What closure?' asks Briton who survived 26/11|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-what-closure-asks-briton-who-survived-2611-1768701|access-date=2021-05-09|website=DNA India|language=en}}</ref>
+The British MEP [[Sajjad Karim]] is of Pakistani origin. He is a member of the European Parliament Friends of India Group, Karim was also responsible for opening up Europe to free trade with India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?id=28481&language=EN|title=Search for a Member – MEPs – European Parliament|website=europarl.europa.eu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=EN&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20090325IPR52628|title=EU-India: Free Trade Agreement to be signed by the end of 2010 say MEPs|website=europarl.europa.eu}}</ref> He narrowly escaped the [[2008 Mumbai attacks|Mumbai attacks]] at the [[Taj Mahal Palace Hotel|Taj Hotel]] in November 2008. Despite the atrocity, Karim did not wish the remaining killer [[Ajmal Kasab]] to be sentenced to death. He said: "I believe he had a fair and transparent trial and I support the guilty verdict. But I am not a supporter of capital punishment. I believe he should be given a life sentence, but that life should mean life."<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 May 2010|title=26/11 case: UK victim doesn't favour death penalty for Kasab|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/26-11-case-uk-victim-doesn-t-favour-death-penalty-for-kasab/story-yI7jdgj7q345YRfcIbonUN.html|access-date=9 May 2021|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=23 November 2012|title='What closure?' asks Briton who survived 26/11|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-what-closure-asks-briton-who-survived-2611-1768701|access-date=9 May 2021|website=DNA India}}</ref>
-===Trade links===
+While relations within both the diasporas are largely peaceful, certain tensions between Indian and Pakistani communities have occasionally led to incidents of instability. In some cases, business owners have closed establishments, citing harassment or safety concerns; for instance, in February 2026, Rangrez, an Indian restaurant in London, closed after 16 years, as the owner attributed the decision to disturbances and online harassment he linked to members of the Pakistani community.<ref>{{cite news |last=NDTV |title=Attacks by Pakistanis: Owner shuts down Indian eatery in London after 16 years |url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/attacks-by-pakistanis-owner-harman-singh-kapoor-after-shutting-down-indian-eatery-in-london-after-16-years-11129446|date=2026-02-24}}</ref>
-{{Expand section|date=April 2014}}
-Trade across direct routes has been curtailed formally,<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nisha Taneja (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations)|author2=Shaheen Rafi Khan |author3=Moeed Yusuf |author4=Shahbaz Bokhari |author5=Shoaib Aziz  |title=''Chapter 4: India–Pakistan Trade: The View from the Indian Side'' (p. 72-77) ''Chapter 5: Quantifying Informal Trade Between Pakistan and India'' (p. 87-104) |editor=Zareen Fatima Naqvi and Philip Schuler |website=The Challenges and Potential of Pakistan-India Trade |publisher=(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, June 2007) |access-date=29 August 2012 |url=https://nub.academia.edu/NishaAkter/Papers/910718/The_Challenges_and_Potential_of_Pakistan-India_Trade }}</ref> so the bulk of India-Pakistan trade is routed through Dubai.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ahmed |last2=Ghani |first1=Sadiq |first2=Ejaz |title=''South Asia's Growth and Regional Integration: An Overview'' |page=33 |website=World Bank |access-date=29 August 2012 |url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/Publications/448813-1171648504958/SAR_integration_overview.pdf }}</ref>
+==Head of state visits==
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+ From India to Pakistan
+! Year!! Name
+|-
+! 1953
+| Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
+|-
+! 1960
+| Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
+|-
+! 1964
+| Prime Minister [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
+|-
+! 1988
+| Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] (Funeral of [[Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan]] and [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation|SAARC Summit]])
+|-
+! 1989
+| Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
+|-
+! 1999
+| Prime Minister [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
+|-
+! 2004
+| Prime Minister [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] ([[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation|SAARC Summit]])
+|-
+! 2015
+| Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] (Informal meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]])
+|-
+|}
 ==See also==
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 * [[Foreign relations of India]]
 * [[Foreign relations of Pakistan]]
-* [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation]] (SAARC)
 ===History===
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 * [[History of the Republic of India]]
 * [[History of Pakistan]]
-* [[History of the Kashmir conflict]]
+* [[Kashmir conflict]]
 ===Human rights===
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 ===Cultural issues===
-* [[Hindi-Urdu controversy]]
+* [[Hindi–Urdu controversy]]
 * [[Anti-Pakistan sentiment]]
 * [[Indophobia]]
-===Terrorism and state disputes===
+===Wars and skirmishes===
 * [[Indo-Pakistani Wars]]
-* [[2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
+* [[India–Pakistan border skirmishes (disambiguation)|India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
-* [[2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
-* [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]]
-* [[Peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir]]
-* [[Balochistan conflict]]
-* [[Patriotic hacking]]
-* [[Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts]]
 ===Sports===
-* [[India-Pakistan cricket rivalry]]
+* [[India–Pakistan cricket rivalry]]
-* [[India-Pakistan field hockey rivalry]]
+* [[India–Pakistan field hockey rivalry]]
 ==References==
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 == Bibliography ==
+{{refbegin|30em}}
 * {{citation |doi=10.1080/00927678.2015.999518|title=Breaking the Equilibrium? New Leaders and Old Structures in the India-Pakistan Rivalry|year=2015|last1=Ahmad|first1=Ishtiaq|last2=Ebert|first2=Hannes|journal=Asian Affairs: An American Review|volume=42|pages=46–75|s2cid=153809052}}.
-* {{citation |doi=10.1080/09584939808719835|title=Confidence‐building measures between Pakistan and India: An argument for change|year=1998|last1=Ahmed|first1=Mutahir|journal=Contemporary South Asia|volume=7|issue=2|pages=137–145}}.
+* {{citation |doi=10.1080/09584939808719835|title=Confidence-building measures between Pakistan and India: An argument for change|year=1998|last1=Ahmed|first1=Mutahir|journal=Contemporary South Asia|volume=7|issue=2|pages=137–145}}.
 * {{citation |doi=10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.00453.x|title=The Consequences of an Indo-Pakistani Nuclear War1|year=2004|last1=Batcher|first1=Robert T.|journal=International Studies Review|volume=6|issue=4|pages=135–162}}.
 * {{citation |last=Bisht |first=Rachna |title=1965: Stories from the Second Indo-Pakistan War |date=15 August 2015 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-93-5214-129-6 |page=60 |ref={{sfnref |Rachna Bisht |2015}}}}
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 * {{citation |author=Ganguly, Sumit|title=India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: Civil-Military Relations|location= Oxford|publisher= Oxford University Press|year= 2020}}.
 * {{citation |last=Higgins |first=David R. |title=M48 Patton vs Centurion: Indo-Pakistan War 1965 |date=20 January 2016 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-1094-6 |page=103 |ref={{sfnref |David R. Higgins |2016}}}}
-* {{citation |doi=10.1108/IJCMA-08-2018-0093|title=Balancing and stabilizing South Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable peace and stability|year=2019|last1=Khan|first1=Zafar|journal=International Journal of Conflict Management|volume=30|issue=5|pages=589–614}}.
+* {{citation |doi=10.1108/IJCMA-08-2018-0093|title=Balancing and stabilizing South Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable peace and stability|year=2019|last1=Khan|first1=Zafar|journal=International Journal of Conflict Management|volume=30|issue=5|pages=589–614|s2cid=197710332 }}.
 * {{Citation | last=Lumby | first=E.W.R. | title=The Transfer of Power in India, 1945–1947 | publisher=George Allen and Unwin | place=London | year=1954}}.
 * {{citation |last1=Metcalf|first1=Barbara D.|last2=Metcalf|first2=Thomas R.|title=A Concise History of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGCBNTDv7acC|year=2006|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-68225-1}}
-* {{citation |doi=10.1007/s10584-012-0518-1|title=Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on soybean and maize production in the Midwest United States|year=2013|last1=Özdoğan|first1=Mutlu|last2=Robock|first2=Alan|last3=Kucharik|first3=Christopher J.|journal=Climatic Change|volume=116|issue=2|pages=373–387|s2cid=2837628}}.
+* {{citation |doi=10.1007/s10584-012-0518-1|title=Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on soybean and maize production in the Midwest United States|year=2013|last1=Özdoğan|first1=Mutlu|last2=Robock|first2=Alan|last3=Kucharik|first3=Christopher J.|journal=Climatic Change|volume=116|issue=2|pages=373–387|bibcode=2013ClCh..116..373O|s2cid=2837628}}.
-* {{citation |doi=10.2307/20050024|jstor=20050024|last1=Pye|first1=Lucian W.|title=Reviewed work: Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished War, Victoria Schofield|journal=Foreign Affairs|year=2000|volume=79|issue=6|pages=190–191}}.
+* {{citation |doi=10.2307/20050024|jstor=20050024|last1=Pye|first1=Lucian W.|title=Reviewed work: Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished War, Victoria Schofield|journal=Foreign Affairs|year=2000|volume=79|issue=6|pages=190–191|s2cid=129061164 }}.
 * {{citation |doi=10.2139/ssrn.3111513|title=Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia Towards World War III|year=2018|last1=Shamim|first1=Syed Jazib}}.
 * {{citation |jstor=24905298|title=The India-Pakistan Nuclear Dyad and Regional Nuclear Dynamics|last1=Singh|first1=P. K.|journal=Asia Policy|year=2015|volume=19|issue=19|pages=37–44|doi=10.1353/asp.2015.0019|s2cid=153779296}}.
-* {{citation |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aay5478|title=Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe|year=2019|last1=Toon|first1=Owen B.|last2=Bardeen|first2=Charles G.|last3=Robock|first3=Alan|last4=Xia|first4=Lili|last5=Kristensen|first5=Hans|last6=McKinzie|first6=Matthew|last7=Peterson|first7=R. J.|last8=Harrison|first8=Cheryl S.|last9=Lovenduski|first9=Nicole S.|last10=Turco|first10=Richard P.|journal=Science Advances|volume=5|issue=10|pages=eaay5478|pmid=31616796|pmc=6774726}}.
+* {{citation |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aay5478|title=Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe|year=2019|last1=Toon|first1=Owen B.|last2=Bardeen|first2=Charles G.|last3=Robock|first3=Alan|last4=Xia|first4=Lili|last5=Kristensen|first5=Hans|last6=McKinzie|first6=Matthew|last7=Peterson|first7=R. J.|last8=Harrison|first8=Cheryl S.|last9=Lovenduski|first9=Nicole S.|last10=Turco|first10=Richard P.|journal=Science Advances|volume=5|issue=10|article-number=eaay5478|pmid=31616796|pmc=6774726|bibcode=2019SciA....5.5478T}}.
+{{refend}}
 ==Further reading==
+{{refbegin|30em}}
 * Budania, Rajpal, "India's Pakistan Policy: A Study in the Context of Security," ''South Asian Studies'', Vol.30:2,1995.
 * Burke, S.M.,''Mainsprings of Indian and Pakistani Foreign Policies'', Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1974.
 * Brines Russel, ''The Indo-Pakistan Conflict'', London, Pall Mall Press, 1968.
-* [[Thomas Powers]], "The War without End" (review of [[Steve Coll]], ''Directorate S:  The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan'', Penguin, 2018, 757 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXV, no. 7 (19 April 2018), pp.&nbsp;42–43.  "Forty-plus years after our failure in [[Vietnam]], the [[United States]] is again fighting an endless war in a faraway place against a culture and a people we don't understand for political reasons that make sense in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], but nowhere else."  (p.&nbsp;43.) [[Pakistan]]'s support of [[Afghanistan]]'s [[Taliban]] [[guerrilla]]s, including provision of [[sanctuary]], relates to Pakistan's hope of acquiring India's [[Kashmir]].  (p.&nbsp;42.)
+* Malone, David M., C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan, eds. ''The Oxford handbook of Indian foreign policy (2015)'' [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Indian-Foreign-Policy/dp/0198799063/ excerpt] pp 370–83.
+* [[Thomas Powers]], "The War without End" (review of [[Steve Coll]], ''Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan'', Penguin, 2018, 757 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXV, no. 7 (19 April 2018), pp.&nbsp;42–43. "Forty-plus years after our failure in [[Vietnam]], the [[United States]] is again fighting an endless war in a faraway place against a culture and a people we don't understand for political reasons that make sense in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], but nowhere else." (p.&nbsp;43.) [[Pakistan]]'s support of [[Afghanistan]]'s [[Taliban]] [[guerrilla]]s, including provision of [[sanctuary]], relates to Pakistan's hope of acquiring India's [[Kashmir]]. (p.&nbsp;42.)
-==External links==
+{{refend}}
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140907043651/http://amankiasha.com/ Aman ki Asha - A Peace initiative by Jang Group, Pakistan & Times of India]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422032631/http://indiapakistantrade.org India-Pakistan Trade]
-* [http://ibnlive.in.com/airtel/guest01_rahu.html Building a bridge of friendship]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022052349/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-03-30/india/27772896_1_kashmir-singh-forum-ekta-kapoor A Long Distance Relationship]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514232235/http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552636 Nuclear Proliferation in India and Pakistan] from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160115205405/https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552494 Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives]
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