What is the conflict over Kashmir all about?
After early Buddhist and Hindu rule, Jammu and Kashmir State became part of the Moghul empire in 1587 and most of its people were forcibly converted to Islam. It came under British domination in 1846. On independence and partition in 1947 its Hindu Maharajah hesitated and refrained from joining India or Pakistan for some time. Pakistan made an unprovoked attack and seized thousands of square miles. It was then the Majarajah threw in his lot with India, which action was later ratified by the Kashmir Assembly. At Leh about five hundred innocent Buddhists were murdered and many monasteries were looted and desecrated. The secular army of India contained numbers of Muslim officers some of whom passed information on to Pakistan. Under the cover of darkness Muslim Kashmiri troops murdered their Hindu comrades while they slept. The Pakistan army was accompanied by Muslim tribesmen. At Baramula they raped and robbed the kafir women including the nuns of the local mission hospital. A month later
