Fireurimagination
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Replying to several of your postings collectively:
1. Pakistan and India together have important natural resources, starting with Pakistan controlling major/key water flow/sources.
Nopes India control the flow/sources, which again are in Kashmir
2. The Governor of Pakistan has repeatedly admitted terrorists infiltrating from Pak side to Indian side, in Kashmir but also elsewhere, to include the Bombay (old name I still like to use personally) suicide attack.
They admitted the same only in case of 26/11 cause they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar by the whole planet
Otherwise the official line is we provide only moral and diplomatic support and we don't know where they bring their ammo from and why there are 40+ terrorist training camps in Pakistan and why terror outfits like LeT, Jaish, Hizbul operate from our soil and why head of all these dreaded terror outfits are state guests in Pakistan
3. It has become very imporant to think "outside the box" and move away from long held anomosities and cliches.
Agreed but there are more than one power centers in Pakistan and it's not clear who wants what etc
4. If we older generation folks cannot move away from hostile attitude then the idea of more in common basic public education of what India and Pakistan do have in common might help younger generations to communicate better.
Bitterness and historic resentments are not easy to get around, but get around them everyone must for the sake of future generations there. You are our "world neighbors" in an ever shrinking world.
Reference to saving on national defense applies both to Pakistan and India if better bi-lateral relations can ever be achieved.
Trade refers to national trade between India and Pakistan, but it also refers to trying to revamp and pump up the almost non-existant economy of all parts of Kashmir, PAK, IAK, CAK. Right now simply being a youth from any part of Kashmir "marks" one horribly as perhaps being an unstable or a dangerous risk to be hired and/or trained into the business and economic world of the main nation, be it Pakistan or India, or China for that matter.
Economic progress has begun in that planned oil and gas pipelines will exist ere long from the Stans into Pakistan via Iran and if the crazies ever get in line with sane life also through Afghanistan via Pakistan to both India, other parts of Pakistan, but especially to the new Port of Gwadar.
It is the job of all three major governments, Pakistan, India, and China to lead the way in overcoming past obstances...it is not the job of individuals who harbor hatred or animosities to expect to singularly prevent or hinder such sorely needed progress.
We in the West literally hated wartime Japan, Germany, and Italy, and later the USSR. We and the rest of the world in the main long ago got over these bad events and memories. You all for your own national sake must learn to do the same thing, get over it.
I am only a well wisher and certainly not "the Emperor of the World." But at least I have served there.
And yes, I was treated well in then West Paksitan from 1963-1965. When the 1965 War broke out, and I was there then, things pretty much "collapsed" and all of sudden instead of being allies we were looked on as "spies" and "the enemy" which was ridiculous and absurd. But here again immature attitudies quickly surfaced, incited by in partiular Z. A. Bhutto, who had his own agenda and who lead the way into radical Islamic government actions such as his amended Pakistani Constitution and his rush to befriend a then worldwide hostile to all Western interests rabid old style Communist China.
India wants friendly relations with all it's neighbors, it's in India's interest but territorial integrity is uncompromisable, using of terrorism is unacceptable in the civilized world or else we could have seen US negotiating with Al-Qaeda and Osama