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The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved. A third war between these countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan seceding and becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. A dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998.
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Reuters - Top U.S. and Pakistani military
officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the
Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in
Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on
Thursday.
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