Question: What led to the First Kashmir War?
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Nawab Muhammad Farid Khan sent an army of 1,500 Amb State soldiers under the leadership of Subedar Major Shah Zaman Khan to take part in the Kashmir Liberation Movement from 1947 to 1948 (Kashmir Conflict).
The Amb State force carried its own artillery to the battle.
They fought bravely alongside other frontier tribesmen and came under fire by the Indian Air Force just three kilometres from Baramulla sector.
Around 200 Amb State soldiers lost their lives in the battle.
Amb State Force again accompanied the Pakistan Army, when Pakistan disputed that the accession of Kashmir to India was lawful, and sent regular forces to Kashmir and the first war over Kashmir broke out.
On 1 January 1949, a ceasefire between Indian and Pakistani forces left Pakistan in control of part of Kashmir, including what Pakistan calls "Azad" Kashmir and Northern territories, while India terms the territory as POK. 
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Dogra  Jammu  Kashmir region  Kashmiriyat - a socio-cultural ethos of religious harmony and Kashmiri consciousness.
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Amarnath is one of the most famous and holiest of Hindu temples, dedicated to Lord Shiva, located in Kashmir, India.
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The partition of India in 1947 led to the termination of most transport links between the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan after the cross-migration of people was completed by the 1950s.
The First Kashmir War had similarly divided the Himalayan region of Kashmir between the two rivals, causing termination of road links in the region.
Kashmir and the international border in the divided region of Punjab were major theatres of war during the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971.
The train connecting the Indian city of Jaipur with the Pakistani city of Karachi across the Thar Desert was destroyed when the Pakistani Air Force bombed the tracks during the 1965 war. 
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India continues to assert their sovereignty or rights over the entire region of Kashmir, while Pakistan maintains that it is a disputed territory.
Pakistan argues that the status quo cannot be considered as a solution.
Pakistan insists on a UN-sponsored plebiscite.
Unofficially, the Pakistani leadership has indicated that they would be willing to accept alternatives such as a demilitarised Kashmir, if sovereignty of Azad Kashmir was to be extended over the Kashmir valley, or the "Chenab" formula, by which India would retain parts of Kashmir on its side of the Chenab river, and Pakistan the other side – effectively re-partitioning Kashmir on communal lines.
The problem is that the population of the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir is for the most part ethnically, linguistically, and culturally different from the Valley of Kashmir, a part of Indian-administered Kashmir.
A partition on the Chenab formula is opposed by some Kashmiri politicians, though some, such as Sajjad Lone, have suggested that the non-Muslim part of Jammu and Kashmir be separated from Kashmir and handed to India.
Some political analysts say that the Pakistan state policy shift and mellowing of its aggressive stance may have to do with its total failure in the Kargil War and the subsequent 9/11 attacks.
These events put pressure on Pakistan to alter its position on terrorism.
Many neutral parties to the dispute have noted that the UN resolution on Kashmir is no longer relevant.
The European Union has viewed that the plebiscite is not in Kashmiris' interest.
The report notes that the UN conditions for such a plebiscite have not been, and can no longer be, met byPakistan.
The Hurriyat Conference observed in 2003 that a "plebiscite no longer an option".
Besides the popular factions that support either parties, there is a third faction which supports independence and withdrawal of both India and Pakistan.
These have been the respective stands of the parties for long, and there have been no significant changes over the years.
As a result, all efforts to solve the conflict have been futile so far.
In the recent revelations on 24 September 2013 made by the former Indian army chief General V. K. Singh said that, the state politicians of Jammu and Kashmir are being funded by the army secret service to keep the general public at calm and this activity is there since the partition.
He also stated that the secret service paid a bribe to a politician to topple the state government which was pushing for AFSPA repeal in 2010.
In a 2001 report titled "Pakistan's Role in the Kashmir Insurgency" from the American RAND Corporation, the think tank noted that "the nature of the Kashmir conflict has been transformed from what was originally a secular, locally based struggle (conducted via the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – JKLF) to one that is now largely carried out by foreign militants and rationalized in pan-Islamic religious terms."
Most of the militant organisations are composed of foreign mercenaries, mostly from the Pakistani Punjab.
In 2010, with the support of its intelligence agencies, Pakistan has again been 'boosting' Kashmir militants, and recruitment of mujahideen in the Pakistani state of Punjab has increased.
In 2011, the FBI revealed that Pakistan's spy agency ISI paid millions of dollars into a United States-based non-governmental organisation to influence politicians and opinion-makers on the Kashmir issue and arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai.
The Freedom in the World 2006 report categorised Indian-administered Kashmir as "partly free", and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, as well as the country of Pakistan, as "not free".
India claims that contrary to popular belief, a large proportion of the Jammu and Kashmir populace wishes to remain with India.
A MORI survey found that within Indian-administered Kashmir, 61% of respondents said they felt they would be better off as Indian citizens, with 33% saying that they did not know, and the remaining 6% favouring Pakistani citizenship.
However, this support for India was mainly in Ladakh and Jammu regions, not the Kashmir Valley, as only 9% of the respondents from the Kashmir Valley said that they would be better off with India.
According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, 87% of respondents in the Kashmir Valley prefer independence over union with India or Pakistan.
However, a survey by the Chatham House in both Indian and Pakistani administered Kashmir found that support of independence was at 43% and 44% respectively.
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake, which killed over 80,000 people, led to India and Pakistan finalising negotiations for the opening of a road for disaster relief through Kashmir.