Indo-Pakistani Conflict Topic Background: As World War II came to an end, many new nations began to emerge. In the Middle East, of course, the State of Israel was created; in Southeast Asia, two emerging countries were born, India and Pakistan. In 1947, Britain drafted a partition plan separating British India into the two countries we know today as India and Pakistan. In conjunction there was the Indian Independence Act, which formally gave both countries their sovereign right to rule and also set out plans for the princely states that surrounded India and Pakistan. One of these princely states, known as the Jammu/Kashmir region, was and continues to be the casus belli of violence and conflict between India and Pakistan. The region was 90% Muslim, but ruled by a Hindu Maharaja, leading to disagreement over which nation it would join. In 1947, a war, known as the First Kashmir War, broke out between India and Pakistan with the aim of conquering the territory of their respective nations. Fearing for his safety and that of the region, the Maharaja quickly signed the Instrument of Ascension, formally granting jurisdiction and government to India. Pakistan denied the legitimacy of this rise and so the war progressed. It ended in January 1949 after a UN-brokered ceasefire. In 1962, India, apparently wanting Kashmir entirely under its domain, clashed with the Chinese over the northeastern areas of the Jammu/Kashmir territory known as Aksai Chin. The Chinese won a quick and complete victory over India, which maintained its control over the region; Furthermore, as a gesture of good faith towards China's continued support, Pakistan officially gave China the rights to the Trans-Karakor...... middle of paper ...... sure of the lasting peace of the ceasefire implemented as well as and was particularly interested in the creation of the new nation of Bangladesh. Since 1948, the UN Security Council has adopted 27 resolutions regarding the Kashmir issue, the latest being Resolution 307 of 1971. Landmark resolutions include Resolution 47, which established the basis for a plebiscite free and impartial, and Resolution 91, which implemented and deployed UNMOGIP. Since then, all previous and current UN secretaries-general have emphasized that UNMOGIP remains in the region because no resolution has been adopted to end it, as well as the fact that no clear future for Jammu/Kashmir had not been decided, and until then, a clear peace in the region is very skeptical. To date, no concrete agreement or plebiscite has surfaced to determine the future of the state of Kashmir..