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Forty kilometers from Srinagar the summer capital of Kashmir these armed mercenaries were photographed in 1994. It was during this period that the first Afghan militants into Jammu and Kashmir to fight what they call a holy war Jihad against India. Since 1989 terrorism and militancy have ravaged the state of Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, Indian Politician speaks about Kashmir issue. He says, "A low-intensity war, not a proxy war any longer a low-intensity war is being waged against Indian by the military of Pakistan." The history of Jammu and Kashmir has had a crucial bearing in contemporary events Maharaja Hari Singh then ruler of the state formally exceeded Kashmir to the Indian Union the UN became seized of this dispute because the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru complained to it of Pa