Pakistan- A little bit of history

Pakistan, has been involved directly or indirectly in wars ever since its birth.

When the british decided to give independence to India, at first, the idea was to create one single country, for both muslims, hindus and all other religions.
But, the muslims didnt want to be a minority in a Hindu country, fearing that they would always be in disadvantage when the time would come for important decisions. Therefore they lobbied and managed for the british to concede and create a separate country for them. All the governors of each province (that sometimes were kings, princes, marajas, or whatever) were asked to which country they wanted to belong, according to the composition of their population. Two major areas for muslims existed, and therefore it was created East Pakistan and West Pakistan (East Pakistan came to become Bangladesh after a brief civil war agains west pakistan, where India helped the soon to be bangladesh army).

After the borders were defined, the biggest migration of people in modern times took place. Muslims moved west towards pakistan and hindus moved east to India. In this migration, riots and killings took place, beeing murdered over 500 000 people.

WHere does Kashmir enters the equation?

The "sultan" of kashmir was a hindu, but the majority of people were muslims. So he was kind of in a indecision. To "help" him make up his mind, an army made up of people from the tribal areas of paquistan (pastun people, the same from where the taliban come from) invaded Kashmir, to prevent the chance of the maraja would decide to stay in India. The sultan, in face of this invasion asked for the help of the Indian army. And, just a few months after the independence of the two countries they were at war. India captured great part of Kashmir, till a cease fire was signed...since then a few small wars were fought but the stand still remains since then.

International community wants that a referendum be held in the territory so that people from Kashmir can decide for themselves. Probably, as the majority is Muslim, they would vote for a Pakistan integration. Other people think they would vote to be an independent country, since Pakistan is not a safe, stable or rich country that they are eager to join with. Anyhow, India is not interested in holding this referendum, as the loss of this territory would be a major political defeat that no government could resist.