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2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff: The terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament on 13 December 2001, which India blamed on the Pakistan-based terrorist organisations, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, prompted the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff and brought both sides close to war.
When India and Pakistan became independent in 1947 through the partition of India, all the territories that had been part of British India were transferred to the two new countries. The prevailing boundaries of British India were inherited. [48] Maps of the period showed the McMahon Line as the boundary of India in the northeast.
The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the ultimate responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2) of territory with 88 million people.
1947, August — The Partition of India as India and Pakistan are given independence from Britain; 1948 — The State of Israel is created after the 1947 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The resolution is accepted by the Jews in ...
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [b] into two independent dominion states, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. [3] The Union of India is today the Republic of India and Dominion of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
3 June 1947 (): Mountbatten proposed the partition plan to divide British India into independent dominions of India and Pakistan. 13 June 1947 ( 1947-06-13 ) : At the Joint Defence Council meeting, Jinnah and Nehru disagreed on the accession of princely states , Jinnah asserting that it was for the rulers to decide and Nehru insisting that it ...
India in 1947, before the partition, included the modern Republic of India, along with the land that became Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People's Republic of Bangladesh. [ 1 ] Indian reunification refers to the potential reunification of India (the Republic of India) with Pakistan and Bangladesh , which were partitioned from British India ...
The India–Pakistan, Indo–Pakistani is the international boundary that separates the nations of the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.At its northern end is the Line of Control, which separates Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistani-administered Kashmir; and at its southern end is Sir Creek, a tidal estuary in the Rann of Kutch between the Indian state of Gujarat ...