What will be the political meaning of ending article 370? How will this change be taken in Jammu and in Kashmir? This article covers all such questions

 What will be the political meaning of ending article 370? How will this change be taken in Jammu and in Kashmir? This article covers all such questions.

 Kashmir, the region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent and an integral part of the nation and country of India. It is surrounded by the Uygar Autonomous Region of northeast Xinjiang and the Tibet Autonomous Region in the east (both occupied by China), to the south by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, to the west by Pakistan, and to the northwest by Afghanistan. The region, with a total area of ​​approximately 85,800 sq mi (2,22,200 sq km), has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western parts are occupied by Pakistan and include three regions: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan, the last two of which are parts of the area called the Northern Territory. The southern and southeastern parts constitute the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian and Pakistani administered portions were divided by a "Line of Control" by mutual consent in 1972, although neither country recognizes it as an international border. In addition, China became active in the eastern part of Kashmir in the 1950s and has been controlling the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost part of the region) since 1962.

 Land and people

 The Kashmir region is predominantly hilly, with deep, narrow valleys and high, barren plateaus. Located at a relatively low elevation in the southwest, the plains of Jammu and Poonch in the southwest are separated from the larger, more fertile, and more heavily populated Kashmir by the dense forests in the foothills of the Himalayas and the Pir Panjal range of the miniature Himalayas. Located at an altitude of about 5,300 feet (1,600 m), this valley forms the basin of the Upper Jhelum River and includes the city of Srinagar. Jammu and Valley are in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, while Poonch Terai is largely in Azad Kashmir.

 The northeastern part of the valley is the western part of the Great Himalayas, whose peaks are 20,000 feet (6,100 m) or higher. Further to the north-east is the high, mountainous plateau of Ladakh, which cuts through the rugged valley of the Indus River flowing northwest. Spanning approximately northwest from the Himalayas are the lofty peaks of the Karakoram range, including K2, which is the second highest peak in the world after Mount Everest at 28,251 ft (8,611 m).

 The region lies along the northernmost end of the Indo-Australian geographic plate. The construction of that plate under the Eurasian Plate - the process that has been forming the Himalayas for nearly 50 million years - caused heavy seismic activity in Kashmir. A particularly powerful earthquake in 2005 devastated Muzaffarabad, the administrative center of Azad Kashmir, and in nearby areas including parts of Jammu and Kashmir state of India and the northwest border province of Pakistan. Caused havoc