Kashmir part one - AZADI
In 1989 a widespread armed insurgency started in Kashmir, which continues to this day.
India contends that this was largely stared by the large number of Afghan mujahideen who entered the Kashmir valley by the end of the Soviet Afghan war.
India claims local insurgents are Islamic terrorist group from Pakistan – administered Kashmir and Afghanistan fighting to make Jammu and Kashmir part of Pakistan. It believes Pakistan is giving armed help to terrorists and training them in Pakistan.
The Pakistani government calls these insurgents Kashmiri freedom fighters and claims that it gives only moral and diplomatic support to these insurgents, though India believes they are Pakistan supported terrorists from Pakistan administered Kashmir.
20 years of conflict between militants and Indian armed forces have cost more than 40,000 lives since 1989, and as many as 10,000 people have disappeared.
