The Aksai Chin region in the northeast of the region ... Separatist groups like the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, founded by Maqbool Bhat, rose. India’s claims of democracy in Kashmir faltered ...

Jammu and Kashmir, a former princely state claimed ... when it solidified the partial control it had exercised over Aksai Chin in the previous decade. A year later, Pakistan ceded the Shaksgam ...

1962 - China defeats India in a brief war in a dispute over the Aksai Chin border area. 1965 - Second Indo-Pakistan war over Kashmir ends in a ceasefire. Rise of Kashmiri nationalism: Jammu ...

India, Pakistan and China all claim partial or complete ownership of the region, but how did that become the case?

Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.

Jammu and Ladakh; Islamic Pakistan,which controls Azad Kashmir ("Free Kashmir") and the NorthernAreas; and China, which holds the Aksai Chin region. Indian-administered Kashmir has a population of ...

China-controlled: One area called Aksai Chin in the northernmost part of ... declares a unilateral ceasefire for three months in Jammu and Kashmir. August 8, 2000 – Hizbul Mujahedeen calls ...