Conflicto india- pakistan

TIMELINE-Flashpoints and flare-ups in India-Pakistan ties 25 Feb 2010 05:41:38 GMT Source: Reuters | E-mail this Page |
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Feb 25 (Reuters) - The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Thursday, marking the resumption of official contacts which India broke off after militants attacked Mumbai in late 2008. [ID:nLDE61M1JU] Following aresome of the highs and lows in relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours: 1947 - Britain divides its Indian empire into secular but mainly Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, triggering one of the greatest and bloodiest migrations of modern history. 1947/48 - India and Pakistan go to war over Kashmir. The war ends with a U.N.-ordered ceasefire and resolution seeking a plebiscite for the peopleof Jammu and Kashmir to decide whether to become part of India or Pakistan. 1965 - India and Pakistan fight their second war over Kashmir. Fighting ends after United Nations calls for ceasefire. 1971 - Pakistan and India go to war a third time, this time over East Pakistan, which becomes independent Bangladesh. 1972 - Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister IndiraGandhi sign agreement in Indian town of Simla to lay principles meant to govern relations.1974 - India detonates its first nuclear device. 1989 - Separatist revolt starts in Indian Kashmir. India accuses Pakistan of arming and sending Islamist militants into Indian Kashmir, which Pakistan denies. 1998 - India carries out nuclear tests. Pakistan carries out its own tests in response. Feb. 1999 -Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee holds summit with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore. 1999 - India and Pakistan fight a brief but intense conflict in the mountains above Kargil on the Line of Control, the ceasefire line dividing the former kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir. July 2001 - Summit between Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf and Vajpayee in Agra in India ends infailure. Dec. 2001 - Militants attack Indian parliament. India blames Pakistan-based Kashmiri separatist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad. Close to one million troops are mobilised on either side of the border; war only averted months later in June 2002. 2003 - Pakistan and India agree a ceasefire on the Line of Control. 2004 - The two countries launch a formal peace process. July2008 - India blames Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency for a bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. Nov. 2008 - Ten gunmen launch multiple attacks in Mumbai, killing 166 people. India blames Pakistan-based militants and breaks off talks with Pakistan. Feb. 2009 - India cautiously welcomes Pakistan's investigation into the Mumbai attack. Pakistan admit,s for the first time, that the attack waslaunched and partly planned from Pakistan. March 2009 - India's home minister says Pakistan is threatening to become a failed state and it was not clear who was in control of the country. May 2009 - India's new coalition government says it is up to Pakistan to take the first step towards better ties by cracking down on militants on its soil. June 2009 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and PakistaniPresident Asif Ali Zardari meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Russia. Singh tells Zardari he wants him to ensure militants can not operate from Pakistan. July 2009 - India and Pakistan agree to work together to fight terrorism and order their top diplomats to meet as often as needed. But Prime Minister Singh, after talks with his Pakistani counterpart YusufRaza Gilani in Egypt, rules out a resumption of formal peace talks, known as the "composite dialogue", that Islamabad had been seeking. Aug. 2009 - India gives Pakistan a new dossier of evidence to investigate the Mumbai attacks and prosecute Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the suspected mastermind of the three-day carnage. Jan. 2010 - Pakistani and Indian forces exchange fire across their border, the latest...