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We're just up though.

Hostilities flared up between India and Pakistan this week as both countries launched

tit for tat air strikes. Yesterday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan warned of the possible

consequences of further clashes between the two nuclear-armed powers.

In a Tel Aviv speech, he asked, can we afford any miscalculations?

The conflict burst into life after a terrorist bombing two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian

troops in the divided territory of Kashmir, the site of many unresolved arguments about

territorial control and a focus of religious disputes.

The first war between India and Pakistan began in 1947, just after the British-led partition

that divided them. Pakistan was created as a separate heavily Muslim state. It wanted control

of the Muslim majority area of Kashmir.

After more than a year of conflict, Kashmir was split between India and Pakistan,

divided by what's called the line of control. But tensions have never really calmed.

A major insurgency unfolded in the 1980s and 1990s with a bloody three-month conflict in 1999.

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