Hello, this is Andrew Peach. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. In BBC OS

conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences. And this time, our conversations are on

living in Kashmir. The disputed region borders India, Pakistan and China,

with areas controlled by the three countries. The latest violence followed an attack by militants

in Indian-administered Kashmir last month that killed 26 tourists. India claimed Pakistan was behind

the incident, a charge denied by Islamabad.

Two weeks later, India launched a series of airstrikes against targets in Pakistan,

and Pakistan administered Kashmir.

This prompted days of cross-border military action in which dozens of people died.

In a moment, we'll play you our conversation between two people

living either side of the de facto border, known as the line of control. And later, we'll hear

from three women who all grew up in Kashmir, but now live abroad. Kashmir is a really,

really stunningly beautiful place.

It's like shockingly beautiful.

For example, you wake up in the morning and you look outside your window.

You can imagine, like, seeing trees and mountains and, like, beautiful skies, I feel like it has.

It's incredibly beautiful, but I would say that it's a beautiful prison.

As we record this on Friday lunchtime, we're almost a week into a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

US President Donald Trump made the ceasefire announcement on social media after days of reportedly tense negotiations by US mediators and diplomacy by other countries with interests in the region. Let's not forget that both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed nations,

nor that this is the latest in a series of clashes dating back to the partition of India and the

creation of Pakistan in 1947 following the end of British rule.

Both neighbours claim the whole Kashmir region, but administer only part of it.

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