Lives on the Line

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, CIA World Factbook, last updated June 10, 2013, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_pk.html. 2. “India-Kashmir,” Ploughshares, March 2012, http://ploughshares.ca/pl_armedconflict/india-kashmir-1947-first-combat-deaths/. 3. See competing claims in, for example, “Pak crosses LoC, beheads one jawan, slits another's throat,” The Hindustan Times, January 8, 2013, http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Jammu%20Sec/Pak-crosses-LoC-beheads-one-jawan-slits-another-s-throat/Article1-986762.aspx; “Pakistan accuses India of 12 Kashmir beheadings since 1998: report,” The Dawn, January 30, 2103. http://dawn.com/2013/01/30/pakistan-accuses-india-of-12-kashmir-beheadings-report/. 4. Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 5. In recent years, a controversy has emerged over the borders of Kashmir at the time of partition. For an excellent distillation of competing arguments and a summary judgment see Shereen Ilahi, “The Radcliffe Award and…