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For more than fifty years, the dispute over Kashmir's territory has dominated Indo-Pak connections. The conflict has evolved a convoluted mix of intertwining reasons, ranging from religion to material resources to ethno-linguistic groupings, from its origins before India and Pakistan's independence to the contemporary insurgency that developed in 1990. These and other elements of the Kashmir conflict are covered extensively in the extensive literature on the topic. This approach, on the other hand, employs repositioning theory to shift the discussion away from the conflict and toward the narratives that surround it. The research explains how specific discourses and discourse can sustain a conflict past its logical limit by examining the precise history and utilisation of the self-determination concept. The 'self-determination movement' in Kashmir revived in the years following 1988. Within this movement, a relatively secular element emphasizes the concept of Kashmiriyat, a common shared orientation shared by people of many denominations. The early 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley appears to be a setback to secular nationalist assertions as well as the underlying premise of 'Kashmiriyat.'