Elnur Enveroğlu is a professional individual possessing knowledge of contemporary mass media technologies. He has accrued over ten years of experience in newspaper and television journalism. Furthermore, he serves as a political analyst.

For over 70 years, the Jammu and Kashmir conflict has served as a fault line for serial wars in South Asia. Now, it is attracting a new cast of geopolitical players, reinvigorating an unresolved crisis with global implications. At its core, the roots of the conflict are deceptively simple. Following the collapse of British colonial rule, a newly independent India struggled to define its identity within the region. In doing so, it projected instability outward, adversely affecting its neighbors. The first war between India and Pakistan broke out in 1947–48 over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Though the fighting eventually ceased, the underlying issue was never resolved, setting the stage for decades of confrontation.

The conflict is fundamentally fueled by religious and ethnic fault lines. Its origins predate even independence, simmering under colonial rule. But after partition, the Indian state began implementing policies that exacerbated these divides. Because Jammu and Kashmir holds both strategic and touristic value, India launched a campaign to suppress the region’s Pakistani-leaning population, beginning with the marginalization of the local Muslim community. Over time, these policies evolved into more systematic social engineering, fragmenting Muslim communities through caste-based segregation.

The situation has reached such a critical point that today, the wealthy constitute merely 1% of the population in the region, yet they........

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