Kashmir between India Pakistan: The Unfinished Agenda

India and Pakistan has fought four wars over Kashmir and has held rounds of talks without resolving the 72-year-old issue. The Indian government's revocation of the special status of Kashmir sets the stage for new clashes in the disputed region. Using documentary sources. surveys, and other writings, this study analyses the genesis of the conflict in Kashmir, bringing in historical facets together with discursive elements of the contemporary political crisis in Kashmir. The study found that the Kashmir dispute has multiple causes the major one being the religious difference, a conflict between India, a predominately Hindu state, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. In the early phase, the conflict was between religion and secularism, embodied in Pakistan and India, respectively both needing Muslim majority Kashmir to prove their basic political ideology right. Currently, the conflict has assumed purely the religious colour: India aiming at integrating Kashmir into the Hindu polity and Pakistan claiming Kashmir for its having a Muslim majority. Thus, the unfinished agenda of partition continues.