India and Pakistan were born 75 years ago out of a bloody division of the Indian subcontinent by the colonial British. India and Pakistan were born 75 years ago out of a bloody division of the subcontinent by the colonial British, an event commonly referred to as partition. Today, the two nuclear powers are deeply troubled neighbours, at odds mainly over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Here are key dates in the fraught relations of the nuclear-armed rivals: 1947: Partition of India Overnight on August 14-15, 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten,…
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