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Stability in South Asia

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Posted: November 9th, 2015

It’s one of, if not the most, dangerous border in the world.  Nuclear-armed powers, India and Pakistan, have a history of strained relations since their independence from Great Britain in 1947, fighting three wars and regularly exchanging fire across their heavily militarized border.

Two of the wars were over their competing claims to the Kashmir region.  Islamabad and New Delhi agreed to a ceasefire along that border in 2003, but cross-border skirmishes have persisted. This summer, nine civilians were killed after gunfire was exchanged between security forces.  Cross-border firing continued to escalate until the heads of India’s Border Security Force and the Pakistani Rangers met in September and agreed, “not to immediately retaliate against firing from either side and to contact the other side to know the cause of firing,” according to an Indian interior ministry official.

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