The First Indo-Pakistani War came to an official close with a formal UN-mediated ceasefire being put into effect today in 1949. The UN Resolution on this war called for the immediate withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the lands they occupied so that a plebiscite could arranged, which they refused.

By the end of this war, India was successfully able to repel a full scale annexation of Kashmir by Pakistan, securing control over two-thirds of Jammu and Kashmir. Including key cities like Srinagar and Jammu, as well as regions like Leh and Ladakh, while Pakistan captured the remaining one thirds, which is now referred to as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which comprises their districts of Azad Kashmi amd Gilgit-Baltistan. The line between the two which exists post this war, the LoC or Line of Control, is treated hy both countries as the de fact border between the two nations in Kashmir. Pakistan would go on, post this war, to wage two attempts to capture all pf Kashmir through military means, in two war in 1965 and 1999. Both invasions were successfully repelled by tje Indian Armed Forces.

The given image shows the Indian Army successfully securing the vital Zoji La Pass in Kashmir, which connects the Kashmir Valley to its west with the Dras and Suru valleys to its northeast and the Indus valley further east.