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Number of soldier deaths in Jammu and Kashmir insurgencies 2014-2018
The northern-most state had been at the center of a prolonged dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, owing to border tensions and religion-based ideological differences. This led military insurgencies and terrorist activities of local separatists.