India Accuses Pakistan of Supporting Terrorism. Here’s What We Know.

After 26 people, most of them tourists, were killed last week in the admired back of Kashmir, the Indian government described the massacre as a terrorist attack and cited “cross -border links” to Pakistan.

A group that called himself the resistance front arose on social networks to say he was behind laughter. Indian officials say that the group is a Lashkar-E-Taiba proxy, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization.

But India, citing national conerns security, has publicly tried little evidence to link the attack with Pakistan, which denies participation and says that Lashkar-E-Taiba does not work largely. Pakistan has also requested international investigation into the episode.

As India seems to present a case to carry out a military strike over Pakistan in retaliation for the attack of Kashmir, he pointed out what calls Pakistan’s support pattern for militant groups aimed at India.

What are the origins of the dispute?

The roots of the Kashmir conflict date back to the 1947 partition of British India, which led to the creation of a predominantly Hindu India and a predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

In October of that year, the Hindu monarch of the Muslim majority, the princesco of Kashmiro accessed India, but Pakistan claimed the territory and tried to take it by military force. An agreement not negotiated in 1949 established a line of high fire, dividing to Kashmir.

After the wars in 1965 and 1971, the high line of fire became the control line, and India had about two thirds of Kashmir and Pakistan the rest. But the dispute remains unsolved.

How has the militancy supported Pakistan?

An insurgency in the part administered by the India of Kashmira begged in the 1980s, mainly driven by local complaints, with Pakistan any Vally group, experts say.

Local elections in 1987 were widely received as manipulated, disadvantanding a coalition of Muslim parties. “That led to Kashmir’s political activists to conclude that they never achieve their political demands at the polls,” said Christopher Clary, associate professor of political science at the University of Albany.

“A mostly indigenous insurgency emerged,” he said, “but in the coming years he was co -opted by Pakistan -based groups.”

Among the insurgents centered in Kashmir that arose, some supported the independence of the region, while others wanted the Indian back of Kashmir to be tasks by Pakistan.

In the 1990s, Pakistan tried training and other support for several militant groups operating in Kashmir and inside Pakistan. This participation was then recognized by several senior Pakistani officials, including former military ruler Pervez Mushraf.

The insurgency suggested relieving around 2002, while Pakistan prohibited Lashkar-E-Taiba and Jaish-E-Muhammad, another important militant group, although Lashkar-E-Taiba continued to operate under alias. The fire was declared a stop and a peace began with India, a change that some were linked to the pressure from the United States after their speech after September 11 in Afghanistan.

The peace process collapsed after the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008, which killed 166 people and were attributed to Lashkar-E-Taiba.

What evidence has India presented?

After Mumbai’s attacks, India tried detailed files that included intercepted communications between the attackers and their managers in Pakistan.

Tariq Khosa, who directed Pakistan’s investigation in the case, publicly confirmed that the investigation had revealed the Pakistani nationality of the only surviving attacker and that the militants of Lashkar-E-Taiba had trained in Pakistan.

After a 2016 mortal attack at the Pathkot air base in India, the country accused Jaish-E-Muhammad of orchestrating the assault, citing intercepted phone calls and statements of captured people.

Pakistan formed a research team that visited the air base, and arrested several members of Jaish-E-Muhammad.

However, Pakistan did not grant India’s request to interrogate the head of the militant group. The investigation produced in conclusive results, and important convictions were not achieved.

Until now, India has not provided similar evidence to support its claims or Pakistani participation in the attack last week in Kashmir.

What is happening today?

Pakistan denies that he provides state support to the militancy in Kashmir, although their leaders often express solidarity with the puppy who want the independence of India. And Pakistan acknowledges that it provides financing and training for militant groups in the 1990s.

After the attack last week in Kashmira, Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, said groups such as Lashkar-E-Taiba were missing.

Majid Nizami, an expert in jihadist groups who is based in Lahore, Pakistan, said that the successful scrutiny of the Financial Action Task Force, a global financial control body based in Paris, had pressed to Pakistan the objective restrictional assets.

Border controls adjusted by India have also infiltrated the “almost impossible,” said Nizami.

The complaint that feeds the militancy deepened after the decision of India in 2019 to revoke the special autonomy granted for a long time to its background part.

Despite Pakistan’s denials, Western observers say that it continues to provide some support for militants against India, including safe shelters.

“There are my own harvesting member militants,” said Albany’s professor. “But most observers evaluate that the groups supported by the Pakistani are more important than any their own harvest militant.”