<P> Transport between India and Pakistan has been developed for tourism and commercial purposes and bears much historical and political significance for both countries, which have possessed few transport links since the partition of India in 1947 . </P> <P> The partition of India in 1947 led to the termination of most transport links between the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan after the cross-migration of people was completed by the 1950s . The First Kashmir War had similarly divided the Himalayan region of Kashmir between the two rivals, causing termination of road links in the region . Kashmir and the international border in the divided region of Punjab were major theatres of war during the Indo - Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971 . The train connecting the Indian city of Jaipur with the Pakistani city of Karachi across the Thar Desert was destroyed when the Pakistani Air Force bombed the tracks during the 1965 war . In the 1990s, the Line of Control (LoC) demarcating the informal boundary between Indian - administered Kashmir and Pakistan - administered Kashmir was the scene of exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Indian forces and infiltration of militants into Indian Kashmir . The Kargil War of 1999 broke out when Indian force sought to repel militants and Pakistani soldiers who had infiltrated across the LoC . </P>

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