The three-year Korean War was the single most traumatic event in modern Korean history. It came to a halt in a truce 70 years ago, after millions had been killed. The guns fell silent along the ...

But all these years after the trauma of Partition, they have not agreed a border, nor their history -- Pakistan marks independence on August 14 each year, India one day later. And the killing goes on.

India's independence from British colonial rule coincided with the partition of the subcontinent into two separate countries, setting off unprecedented communal carnage on both sides of the ...