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Is there a chance of a limited war between India & Pakistan? Lets take a look at the history of both the countries. The subcontinent under the British rule got partitioned into two independent countries India with Hindu majority and Pakistan with Muslim majority, based on the differences which lied in their culture, religion and society. The Hindu leaders, since the birth of Pakistan, have never accepted Pakistan as a separate country but as a part of united India, and have always tried to harm or destroy Pakistan in whatever way they can in order to materialize their dream of Akhand Bharat (united India). Both the countries have fought four wars. Three were on the still standing issue of Jammu & Kashmir while 1 was to cut Pakistan into half (the war of 1971). The Hindu leaders were so obsessed with their dream that they threw the region into a never ending arms race including nuclear weapons; the 1st test performed in 1974 followed by five more in 1998 when the terrorist extremist party BJP tested nuclear weapons and threatened the very existence of Pakistan, against which Pakistan had no answer but to test its own nuclear weapons resulting in a nuclear arms race in South Asia. The Indian government changed from time to time but one thing remained the same in their policy which was to harm Pakistan in any way possible sometimes by war and sometimes by insurgencies. Not only did they try to achieve their objectives by war but also by supporting terrorist organizations e.g. militants in Balochistan in order to weaken Pakistan internally, the massive troop deployment on the Pakistani border in 2002 attributing it to the so called accusation of bomb blast on the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001 although no evidence was ever found to conclude any Pakistani involvement in it and was a self created drama by RAW ( Indian secret agency designated with special assignments for doing terrorist activities in the neighboring countries ) just to pressurize Pakistan and sabotage the freedom struggle of the kashmiris and make it look like terrorists sponsored by Pakistan. The Indian leaders have had a natural tendency of blaming Pakistan for the on going freedom struggle in Kashmir. The Kargil conflict was between the Kashmiri freedom fighters and the occupied force i.e. the Indian army, and as usual the Indian government blamed Pakistan; threatened it with war; dragging Pakistan in the conflict and thus started a bloody skirmish between the two countries. A recent incident of Samjhauta express was also caused by the secret agency of India in which twenty-seven innocent Pakistanis lost their lives and the Indian government did not share any information of the so called on going investigation with there Pakistani counterparts, despite of repeated attempts made by Pakistan for the information exchange. The Farkhor base of the IAF in Tajikistan to surround Pakistan is just another example of what Indias ambitions about Pakistan really are. Pakistans president Pervez Musharraf has raised his concerns over this base with the Tajik government on the fact that Indian planes can reach Pakistan within minutes.
It has not just been Pakistan which has been dealing with these problems since existence, but India also has terrorized its smaller neighbors in the past e.g. by supporting the Tamil Tigers (A terrorist organization) which received a variety of support from the Indian government from time to time. The Indian government has been upset about PAF helping the Sri Lankan air force to bomb the positions of the Tamils. India is concerned about the influence of Pakistan extended to these countries and is trying to do everything to counter that influence either by putting pressure over the Sri Lankan government and by allowing the Tamils to smuggle weapons through the sea route which India has been supposedly guarding to protect against Tamils from smuggling weapons into the country.
Indias ambitions to project power in South Asia and for that reason expanding its current stock pile of weapons has put the region into instability while Pakistan on the other hand has to maintain the minimum deterrence to counter Indias growing military power in the region which has not only posed threats to Pakistan alone but to other nations too. The test of Agni 3 to strike China represents quite clearly how possessed the Indian leaders really are to project power in the region.
A peace process is now being going on between Indian & Pakistan. Since both countries are now nuclear powers and have come to an understanding to resolve there disputes by talks and therefore there have been several rounds of talks and back channel diplomacy between the two sides to help built confidence measures between the two countries and also enhance bilateral cooperation. The president of Pakistan has come forward with many suggestions to his Indian counterpart to help resolve the Kashmir issue which has been the route cause of conflicts between the two sides and now its the Indian side that needs to give a positive response. So in the light of what has happened in the past and what is going on between the two sides at present, what may then be the likely factors that may start a limited conflict or even a full scale war in the future between the two countries and may turn this war into a nuclear conflict?
I would request the senior members from both the sides to express their views and thoughts over this issue and my request to other members from both sides is to please post positive thoughts and criticism on the thread and not to turn it into a flame war as has happened with previous threads of this kind.
Regards
IceCold
It has not just been Pakistan which has been dealing with these problems since existence, but India also has terrorized its smaller neighbors in the past e.g. by supporting the Tamil Tigers (A terrorist organization) which received a variety of support from the Indian government from time to time. The Indian government has been upset about PAF helping the Sri Lankan air force to bomb the positions of the Tamils. India is concerned about the influence of Pakistan extended to these countries and is trying to do everything to counter that influence either by putting pressure over the Sri Lankan government and by allowing the Tamils to smuggle weapons through the sea route which India has been supposedly guarding to protect against Tamils from smuggling weapons into the country.
Indias ambitions to project power in South Asia and for that reason expanding its current stock pile of weapons has put the region into instability while Pakistan on the other hand has to maintain the minimum deterrence to counter Indias growing military power in the region which has not only posed threats to Pakistan alone but to other nations too. The test of Agni 3 to strike China represents quite clearly how possessed the Indian leaders really are to project power in the region.
A peace process is now being going on between Indian & Pakistan. Since both countries are now nuclear powers and have come to an understanding to resolve there disputes by talks and therefore there have been several rounds of talks and back channel diplomacy between the two sides to help built confidence measures between the two countries and also enhance bilateral cooperation. The president of Pakistan has come forward with many suggestions to his Indian counterpart to help resolve the Kashmir issue which has been the route cause of conflicts between the two sides and now its the Indian side that needs to give a positive response. So in the light of what has happened in the past and what is going on between the two sides at present, what may then be the likely factors that may start a limited conflict or even a full scale war in the future between the two countries and may turn this war into a nuclear conflict?
I would request the senior members from both the sides to express their views and thoughts over this issue and my request to other members from both sides is to please post positive thoughts and criticism on the thread and not to turn it into a flame war as has happened with previous threads of this kind.
Regards
IceCold