Jammu & Kashmir is divided between Pakistan and India by a Line of Control (LoC), with the Pakistani part known as "Azad" (Free) Kashmir. At the end of the 1980s, as the Afghan jihad was ending, a large number of youth from Indian Kashmir were recruited by Pakistani intelligence agencies to join a new Afghan-like jihad against Indian security forces in Kashmir valley. Thousands of Kashmiri youth crossed over the LoC into Pakistani Kashmir to join an array of jihadist organizations, supported by the Pakistani intelligence....
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