I know you are a well meaning person but let's just look at facts as facts and not as personal rebukes.
And India being 7 times bigger in numbers, and 16 times bigger in defense budget, is indeed a worst offender in this case.
Not necessarily. Many of your own generals say that all wars were started by Pakistan. They openly say that they are an India specific force.
We have no territorial interest in anything you hold. The reverse is not true.
For India, Pakistan is an increasingly small part of our security calculus. It is an annoyance, yes, but we are looking beyond it already.
Over a period, this will reflect more and more in our deployments and force structure.
Agreed.
Many Indians do not realize the following facts about partition deaths.
The holocaust of Punjab that followed August 1947 was unmatchable by any other part of India.
Partition impacted mostly one state in the whole of British India. And that state was Punjab.
Before partition
-- East Punjab (Indian side) had 55-65% Muslim Punjabis. (depending on city/village)
-- West Punjab (Pak side) had 35-45% non-Muslim Punjabis (depending on city/village)
After partition
--- Indian Punjab had 0% Muslim punjabis (totally annihilated by Indian mobs)
-- Pak Punjab had 0% non-Muslim punjabis (totally annihilated by Pak mobs)
--- few exceptions were tiny Muslim population in Malir kotla, and tiny sikh population around holy shrines such as: Nankana sahib and Punja sahib
nowhere else in India or Pak, the ethnic cleansing was so absolute so comprehensive.
Around 1947 there were few riots and some uprooting around Delhi area and tiny bit in Kolkatta etc.
So partition should be blamed for the killings and rapes and ethnic cleansing in Punjab only.
Many informed Indians know all of this.
Most partition deaths occurred in the border (and partitioned) states of Punjab and Bengal.
West Pakistan as a whole (not just Punjab) experienced widespread ethnic cleansing. Hindus and Sikhs were reduced from 15%-20% of the population to less than 2% now.
In India, the violence was mainly restricted to the former united Punjab and Delhi and Bengal and Bihar (a part of Bengal at that time).
And the trajectory of the minority populations in these two countries after partition shows how different we have each treated them.
Let's not create a false equivalence here. I know you mean well but facts are facts.