Both India and Pakistan share one of the most dangerous limits in the world

Live on the control line (LOC) – a flying actual border that separates India and Pakistan – must constantly exist on the border of razor between the gentle world and the open conflict.

Recent escalation after Attack of the Murg He brought India and Pakistan to the border again. The sinks walked down on both sides, turning the houses to rubble and living into statistics. At least 16 people were reportedly killed on the Indian side, while Pakistan claims that 40 civil death cases remain unclear how much was caused directly by the shelling.

“Families on LOC are subjected to Indian and Pakapris and are confronted with the basic heated tension,” said Anam Zakari, a Pakistani writer based in Canada.

“Whenever the shooting is restored, many are drawn into the hopper, animals and livelihoods are lost, the infrastructure – houses, hospitals, schools – are damaged. The vulnerability and volatility, which are experienced, have serious consequences for their daily reality,” said it is said in everyday reality.

India and Pakistan share the border 3.323 km (2064 miles), including 740 km long; and the international border (IB), which covers approximately 2400 km. Loc began as a ceasefire line in 1949 after the first war in India-Pakistan and was renamed in 1972. Agreement Simla.

LOC, which is cut through Kashmir – is stated in full and introduction in the part of India and Pakistan – remains one of the most militarized boundaries in the world. The conflict never lags behind, and the ceasefire is only strong as subsequent provocation.

Disorders of ceasefire here may vary from “shooting low to large land Surgical blows“According to Happymon Jacob, foreign policy expert at Delhi at the University of Jawharlal -Neer (JNU).

Many experts that consider is a classic example of “the border depicted in the blood, fake through conflict.” It is also a line, according to Ms Zakarari, “cut out by India and Pakistan, and militarized and weapons, not considering Kashmir.”

Such wartime boundaries are not characteristic of South Asia. Cumulated Boss, Professor of the International and Comparative Policy of the London School of Economics, says that the most famous is “Green line” – The ceasefire line of 1949 is a generally recognized boundary between Israel and the western shore.

Not surprisingly, the preliminary rest along the lacquer, which survived the 2021 ceasefire between the two nuclear armed neighbors, was easily scattered after the last hostilities.

“The current Escalation on Loc and the International Border (IB) is important because it stems from the four-year relative peace period,” said the BBC Surya Valliappan Krishna of Carnegie India.

The violence along the Indian -Pakistan border is not new – before the 2003 ceasefire, India reported 4134 violations in 2001 and 5 767 in 2002.

Initially, the 2003 ceasefire occurred with minor violations from 2004 to 2007, but the tension emerged in 2008 and increased dramatically in 2013.

Between 2013 and the beginning of 2021, Loc and IB witnessed a sustainable high level of conflict. The updated ceasefire in February 2021 led to an immediate and sustainable decrease in violations by March 2025.

“During the periods of intensive cross-border firing, we saw that border populations in many thousands were moved for months,” says Mr. Krishna. In late September and early December 2016, more than 27,000 people were moved from border areas due to ceasefire and cross-border firing violations.

Now it looks increasingly hairy and uncertain.

The tension broke out after the mushroom attack, with India suspended a key water distribution contract between India and Pakistan known as The Treaty on waters Indo (IWT). Pakistan replied, threatening to withdraw from the 1972 Simla Agreement, which officially issued LOC – although it has not yet passed.

“This is important because the SIMLA agreement is the basis of the current LOC, which both sides agreed not to change unilaterally, despite their political differences,” Mr. Krishna says.

Mr. Jacob says that for some “interesting reason” the violation of the ceasefire along the LOC was absent in the discussions and discussions about the escalation of conflicts between the two countries.

“It itself is amazing as regular use of weapons with high caliber, such as 105 mm mortars, 130 and 155 mm artillery guns and anti-tank missiles with two nuclear countries that led to civilian and military victims, deprived of the speakers and political attention,” His book: in lines: firefields and India-pical.

Mr. Jacob defines two major triggers for violations: Pakistan often uses fire for flight to ease the infiltration of the militants in Kashmir, who heads India, who witnessed an armed uprising against Indian government for three decades. Pakistan, in turn, accuses India of unverified firing in civil areas.

He claims that ceasefire violations along the border of India-Pakistan-less high-level political strategy and more as a result of local military dynamics.

Medium actions are often initiated by field commanders – sometimes with, but often without central approval. He also disputes that only the Pakistani army manages violations, showing instead of a complex combination of local military imperatives and autonomy provided by the border forces on both sides.

Some experts believe that it is time to review the idea delayed almost two decades ago: turning LOC into an official, worldly recognized border. Others insist that the opportunity has never been realistic – and still not.

“The idea is quite impossible, a dead end. For decades, Indian maps have shown the entire territory of the former princely state and Kashmir as part of India,” said the boss.

“For Pakistan, which has been part of the international border, it will mean a settlement of Kashmir dispute – which is the equivalent of Pakistan’s Holy Grail – on the prevailing terms of India. Each Pakistani government and leader, civil or military, have rejected it over the past seven decades.”

In his 2003 book, “Kashmir: Conflict Roots”, “Ways to Peace”, prof. The boss writes: “The Kashmir settlement requires the location to be converted – from the iron curtain of barbed wire, bins, trenches and hostile fighters to laundry. Real -political dictates that the border will be constant (but probably under a different name), but it must be transferred.”

“I emphasized, however, that such a transformation LOC should be laid in a wider settlement of Kashmir as one pillar of a multi-large settlement,” he said BBC.

Between 2004 and 2007, the transformation of Loc into a soft border was the main for the young peace process of India -Pakistan in Kashmir – the process that eventually fell apart.

Today, the border returned, returning a cycle of violence and uncertainty for those who live in the shadows.

“You never know what’s next. Nobody wants to sleep before the control line tonight,” said a hotel officer in Kashmir, BBC URDU said during recent hostilities.

It was a quiet reminder of how gentle peace is when your window opens on the battlefield.