No, Mr Trump, the Kashmir dispute is not ‘1,500 years old’

Apr 29, 2025 | 21:51 IST

Army jawans in action during the India-Pakistan War of 1965 (TOI archives)

The real story is complicated enough without the weight of invented history

It is one of the world’s longest unresolved disputes, but when US president Donald Trump says that the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir has been on for “1,000 years, probably longer than that” and that “there have been tensions on that border for 1,500 years”, he is off by more than a few hundred years.

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No, Mr Trump, the Kashmir dispute is not ‘1,500 years old’

The real story is complicated enough without the weight of invented history

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No, Mr Trump, the Kashmir dispute is not ‘1,500 years old’

The real story is complicated enough without the weight of invented history

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