India asks U.N. team on Kashmir to leave Delhi premises (Kashmir is heating up)

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Where is Kashmir?

BY SANJEEV MIGLANI

NEW DELHI

Wed Jul 9, 2014

(Reuters) - India has asked a United Nations military observer group on Kashmir to vacate a government-provided bungalow in New Delhi, in a toughening stance against a mission that Indians have long opposed.

New Delhi considers the whole of Kashmir as an integral part of the country and has bristled against external involvement in the region including the U.N. Military Observers Group on India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) that was set up in 1949 after their first war.

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The small U.N. mission has its main offices in the Kashmir capital Srinagar on the Indian side and in the Pakistani capital Islamabad as part of a U.N. Security Council resolution to supervise the ceasefire in the divided region.

New Delhi has argued that the U.N. had little role to play after India and Pakistan signed the Simla Pact in 1972 under which the two countries agreed to resolve all disputes including Kashmir bilaterally.

Pakistan, however, has frequently called for third-party involvement to settle the dispute in Kashmir.

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The military authorities of Pakistan have continued to lodge complaints with UNMOGIP about ceasefire violations in Kashmir.

The military authorities of India have lodged no complaints since January 1972 and have restricted the activities of the U.N. observers on the Indian side of the Line of Control. They have, however, continued to provide accommodation, transport and other facilities to the observers.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/08/uk-india-un-idINKBN0FD1CX20140708