India and Pakistan have a tense history of how wars started before

The two countries that emerged from the bloody division of British India, Pakistan, in majority Muslim and Hindu India, claim Kashmir completely and, months after becoming independent, carried out their first three - time struggle for this territory.

Here's a quick summary:

1947: India and Pakistan gain independence from Great Britain. Kashmir's ruler initially decides to remain independent, choosing neither Pakistan nor India. After militants from Pakistan invade, he signed a letter joining India. Pakistan does not recognise the letter as a legal document, causing war. In 1949 the two countries agreed to withdraw all troops after a mutually agreed ceasefire line, later known as the Control Line.

1965: India and Pakistan go to war again for Kashmir. The crash did not settle the territorial dispute.

1971: This was the biggest war fought between the two countries, which led to a humiliating loss for Pakistan and the creation of the Bangladesh state from the region previously known as East Pakistan.

1999: India and Pakistan battle a limited border conflict in Kasmir, as armed invaders from Pakistan cross the Control Line in the town of Kargil. /Periscope/