<Li> 2014--15 </Li> <Li> 2016--present confrontation </Li> <P> The Indo - Pakistani War of 1947--1948, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu from 1947 to 1948 . It was the first of four Indo - Pakistan Wars fought between the two newly independent nations . Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after independence by launching tribal lashkar (militia) from Waziristan, in an effort to secure Kashmir, the future of which hung in the balance . The inconclusive result of the war still affects the geopolitics of both countries . </P> <P> The Maharaja faced an uprising by his Muslim subjects in Poonch, and lost control of the western districts of his kingdom . On 22 October 1947, Pakistan's Pashtun tribal militias crossed the border of the state . These local tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces moved to take Srinagar, but on reaching Baramulla, they took to plunder and stalled . Hari Singh made a plea to India for assistance, and help was offered, but it was subject to his signing an Instrument of Accession to India . </P>

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