Tensions between India and Pakistan remain high days after Delhi launched airstrikes at its neighbor, sparking tit-for-tat military action from both sides and widespread confusion as competing claims and disinformation spread online.

Even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Britain in August 1947, the area was hotly contested. Under the partition plan provided by the Indian Independence Act,

The neighbors have been in conflict over the disputed border region since their independence and partition in 1947.