Towering some 550 metres (1,800 ft) above the Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah to the west, and the Kashmiri city of Muzaffarabad to the east, Dub Gali looks serene on a cool October morning.

Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the chaotic end of British rule in 1947, and both countries claim the territory in full.

After the end of British rule in 1947, the predominantly Muslim region of Kashmir joined Hindu-dominant India. But Muslim-majority Pakistan claimed the area as part of its territory.

On January 4, 1948, less than four weeks before he was shot, Gandhi held a prayer meeting. He had Kashmir on his mind. A few months earlier, tribal raiders rumoured to be backed by the Pakistan ...

SRINAGAR: The war veteran Havaldar Baldev Singh (retd), who participated in three wars with Pakistan and the 1962 war with ...