Pakistan attack

Inset: History of India-Pakistan Key Conflicts

1947 Partition of India: British India separated into Pakistan and India: intercommunal violence among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs leads to up to 1m casualties

1947 First Kashmir War established line of control splitting region between India and Pakistan

1965 Indo-Pakistani War: India responds to Pakistani infiltration of Kashmir with full scale military attack -thousands of casualties

1971 Indo-Pakistani War: Pakistan launches attack on India following Indian intervention in the Bangladeshi (East Pakistan) independence movement

1999 Kargil War: limited conflict between India and Pakistan across the line of control involving Pakistani occupation of territories across the line of control