“The Pakistani state’s oppression on its own people is a reality, which becomes into an cowardly irony whenever they face off against their avowed enemy, India.” A THROWBACK IN TIME The partition of India was not just a political division; it separated millions of people who had once fought together for freedom. It was based largely on religious demographics, creating Pakistan as a separate homeland for Muslims, while the rest became India. The real challenge was not drawing

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 did not merely divide territory but set in motion a prolonged geopolitical contest over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Cover by The Geostrata Although the Instrument of Accession legally integrated Jammu and Kashmir into the Indian Union but Pakistan’s invasion and continued occupation of parts of the erstwhile state gave rise to what are now referred to as Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan, and s