This is a special edition of the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, and in this episode we'll be exploring the relationship between India and Pakistan,

as tensions flare between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

I'll be joined by Arunad Mukhujahad in Mazafrabad in Pakistani administered Kashmir,

and our chief international correspondent, Lee Doucette.

So we'll start with you, Arunaday.

Why is there so much tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir? Well, that's a question that,

you know, we really need to go back a few decades to understand where it all began. And it all

began in 1947 when Britain, which ruled over this territory, divided up the region. It ruled

over into a Hindu majority, India and a Muslim majority, Pakistan.

Now at that time, Kashmir was essentially left to decide on its own where it wanted to join.

Now, initially, Kashmir wanted independence, but then later on, the local ruler of Kashmir at that time, a Hindu,

decided to accede to India at a time when a Pakistani tribal army invaded

the region. So since then, the conflict really began. Now, both countries, India and Pakistan,

claim the territory in full but control only in part. They fought two wars over Kashmir.

They've also fought a limited conflict as well

in 1999. But essentially, what has happened is this entire region has seen an armed separatist

insurgency for decades now against Indian rule, which has claimed the lives of thousands of

civilians as well as security personnel. India, for all these decades, has maintained one allegation

that all these separatist groups operating in Indian-administered Kashmir

have the backing of Pakistan because of this bloody history

that goes back to 1947 and those wars and conflicts that were fought over Kashmir for.

...