What led to the First Kashmir War ?
In a 2001 report titled " Pakistan 's Role in the Kashmir Insurgency " from the American RAND Corporation , the think tank noted that " the nature of the Kashmir conflict has been transformed from what was originally a secular , locally based struggle ( conducted via the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – JKLF ) to one that is now largely carried out by foreign militants and rationalized in pan-Islamic religious terms . "