What’s Behind the Enduring India-Pakistan Conflict?

The most serious military confrontation between India and Pakistan in half a century appeared to be over by mid-May after the nuclear-armed neighbors agreed to a ceasefire, though tensions remained high.

The crisis, sparked by a deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir on April 22, came as little surprise to anyone familiar with events since their violent and bloody partition into two nations following independence from Britain in 1947.