A peaceful and stable Pakistan is integral to western efforts to pacify Afghanistan, but Islamabad’s obsessions with its giant eastern neighbor may render such issues moot.
Since partition in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought four armed conflicts, in 1947, 1965, 1971 (which led to the establishment of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan) and the 1999 Kargil clash.
With the exception of the 1971 conflict, which involved rising tensions in East Pakistan, the others have all involved issues arising from control of Kashmir.
But now a rising new element of discord threatens to precipitate a new armed clash between southern Asia’s two nuclear powers – water.
Lahore’s “The Nation’ newspaper on Sunday published an editorial entitled, “War with India inevitable: Nizami,” the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman, Majid Nizami, asked his fellow citizens to prepare for a war with India over water issues. Nizami told those attending the “Pakistan-India relations; Our rulers- new wishes” session at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan, which he chaired, “Indian hostilities and conspiracies against the country will never end until she is taught a lesson.” Full article at: Pakistan and India to go to War over Water?
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Water is part of it, but also realize that a lot of the conflict is driven by sheer stupidity and has no rational basis except ingroup/out group mentality with opportunistic leaders cashing in on it.
Does this mean their military will be too busy fighting India now to tip off Al Queda about drone strikes?
If Pakistan begins hating India more than the US, there might be a silver lining in all of this for us.
From experience in the area, I can tell you that the pakistani's hate indians far more than they hate America. I think the "American hate" you are referring to comes out of a US aid incentive they have to keep Al Queda in arms length.
I also think that the longer Al Queda is strong, the longer the US will stay in Afghanistan. To Pakistan, a bigger power vacuum would be exactly what they were looking for since the Soviets. So i do not think that the Pakistani's necessary hate us as much as they need us to be hated.
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