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Abid Hussain

Pahalgam attack: A simple guide to the Kashmir conflict

Pakistan and India have fought three wars over the contested region of Kashmir since gaining independence in August 1947 [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan and India continue to engage in war rhetoric and have exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in Kashmir, days after the Pahalgam attack, in which 26 civilians were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22.

Since then, senior members of Pakistan’s government and military officials have held multiple news conferences in which they have claimed to have “credible information” that an Indian military response is imminent.

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