1998-1999: nuclear weapons and Kargil conflict
Pakistan carried out its first public tests of nuclear weapons in 1998, following India, which carried out tests for the first time in 1974.
Activists supported by Pakistan cross the cashmere administered by the Indians in 1999, entering military posts in the icy summits of the Kargil mountains.
Raja Mohammad Zafarul Haq, an eminent member of the Pakistan ruling party, said his country will not refrain from using nuclear weapons to protect his security if necessary.
Pakistan gives serious pressures from Washington, alarmed by intelligence reports showing that Islamabad had deployed part of its nuclear arsenal closer to the conflict, after.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, blames the army leader Pervez Musharraf for having triggered the conflict, who killed at least 1,000 people over 10 weeks, without his knowledge or his approval. Musharraf overturns Sharif in a coup in months later.
2008-present: Mumbai attacks and modes
Islamist armed men attack the Indian Mumbai financial center in 2008, killing 166 people.
India blames Pakistan's intelligence service for assault and suspends peace talks. Contacts resumed in 2011, but the situation is marred by sporadic fights.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a surprise visit to Pakistan in 2015, but the diplomatic thaw is short -lived.
A suicide attack in 2019 killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in cashmere and encourages Modi to order air strikes inside Pakistan.
The resulting display between the two nations is quickly defused and Modi is re -elected month later, partly on a wave of nationalist fervor stimulated by the military response.
Later, the government of Modi cancels the partial autonomy of the cashmere, a sudden decision accompanied by mass arrests and a one -month communication power failure.
In 2021, the two nations reaffirmed a 2003 ceasefire, but Pakistan insisted that peace talks can only resume if India reintegrates the autonomous status before 2019 of cashmere.
