After a long night of interviews mediated by the United States, I am happy to announce thatand India and Pakistan have reached an agreement for a full and immediate fire ceased. Congratulations to both countries for their common sense and great intelligence ». Donald Trump writes it on profile X.
The leading role that Trump claims in the mediation of the truce between India and Pakistan arrives while both countries are negotiating with Washington on economic issues. Yesterday Pakistan obtained from the International Monetary Fund the extension of a vital loan of the value of billions of dollars And the United States play a crucial role in making such decisions. India, on the other hand, is negotiating a commercial agreement with the White House after the threat of the US President to impose punitive duties.
Agreement for the ceased the fire between India and Pakistan with an agreement that, immediately, asks for the abandonment of weapons, at a time when the world feared the worst: the use of nuclear power.
The crisis between India and Pakistan in the night between 6 and 7 May had rekindled after the attack a few weeks ago in the Kashmir. A story that repeats itself between the two nuclear powers, close-to-the-nemath from the independence of 1947, and which in 70 years have seen, between wars and ceased fire, a succession of conflicts and tensions.
The fuse of the night raids of India on defined objectives “terrorist” in Pakistan was the attack of April 22 on the tourist site of Pahalgam, in Indian Kashmir controlled by India: twenty -six civil victims, the heaviest budget for over 20 years in the region. The last episode of a long tragedy wake.
– The bloody division of 1947
In the night between 14 and 15 August 1947 the viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten, uncle of Prince Filippo who would soon marry Queen Elizabeth II, declares the end of two centuries of British domination on the Indian subcontinent. The former colony is divided into two domains: Indu, an Hindu majority, and Pakistan, with a Muslim majority, which also included the eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) at the time, several thousand kilometers away.
The partition forces almost 15 million people to move: Muslims towards the Pakistani territory, the Hindus and Sikhs in the opposite direction. Not without consequences: millions of people die in revolts and massacres.
– The First Indo-Pakistani war
In the autumn of 1947, on October 22, the First Indo-Pakistani war broke out for the control of Kashmir, which is annexed to India.
In 1948, an UN resolution asked that a referendum on the self -determination of Kashmir is held, but remains a dead letter due to the refusal of New Delhi.
On January 1, 1949, a fire was declared along a 770 km “control line” (loc) that divides the Kashmir into two parts: 37% belong to Pakistan – Azad Kashmir – and 63% to India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Despite this agreement, both states continued to claim sovereignty on the whole territory.