What to know about the India-Pakistan conflict: India strikes and Kashmir attack follow long history of tension and war

Pakistan has vowed to retaliate after India launched missiles at it early Wednesday, as tensions escalated dramatically between the nuclear-armed neighbors. nuclear-armed neighbors.

Pakistan has vowed to retaliate after India launched missiles at it early Wednesday, as tensions escalated dramatically between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

India said the deadly strikes had targeted “terrorist camps” and were in response to the massacre last month of 26 people, most of them Indian tourists, in Indian-administered Kashmir.

New Delhi has long accused Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism and blamed Islamabad for the Kashmir attack, the latest in a long history of conflict between the two countries.

Here’s a look at that history:

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into what became Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. A territory then called East Pakistan is now known as Bangladesh.