evidence: The mountainous region of Kashmir has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for more than 50 years. BBC News Online provides a step-by-step guide to the dispute. [...] The territory of Kashmir was hotly contested even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Britain in August 1947. [...] Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated that Kashmir's borders cannot be redrawn, but they can be made "irrelevant".