India Pakistan heating up.

[xenon]

The Pakistan line was drawn through Punjab. Punjab was the location of the last independent Indian empire that fell to the British.

About 12-20 million people were displaced and some estimate up to 2 million deaths from resulting violence and deprivation.

The line was so ineptly drawn that the founding temple of the Sikh faith ended up in Pakistan. (Sikhism comes from Punjab).

The apocryphal story is that Lord Mountbatten couldn't take the Indian summer heat and just drew a line through villages and cities as fast as he could.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

“ISIS with a formal government”

[taiwan_girl]

I thought a good book about the "partition" was Freedom at Midnight.

It has been few years since I have read it, but I remember that it seemed to give a good overlook of the events.

[89th]

Great top comment. "Ziplining while staring into your device. The faint sounds of bombs going off in the distance. This is 2025."

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1k9v7dj/tourists_zipline_footage_captures_ongoing_terror/

[jon-nyc]

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[89th]

Hahaha I laughed, that is sadly good.

[jon-nyc]

This seems like kind of a big deal.

[Mik]

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

So, what we know for sure is that Pakistan wanted the world to think they have received confirmed intelligence that India will strike within 24 to 36 hours.

[Mik]

The consensus on that thread is India will crush them. Swell.

Islam just keeps making trouble in the world.