jamahir
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The best shot was the Simla Agreement when a borderless Canada USA Federation was possible. Kashmir wouldn't have mattered because it would have been borderless too. Pakistan and India would still be sovereign independent autonomous countries with no territorial claims.
Bangladesh on account of its extreme linguistic identity and because West Bengal was reluctant for a merger with India would be an outlier. Pakistan after 1971 was, and is, far more important to India from the security and strategic point of view.
India can't annex Pakistan or even Pakistan administered Kashmir, After Indira Gandhi's death Indian hostility towards Pakistan has only resulted in an extreme nuclear threat compounded by the threat already posed by China .
Once again, India is realistic that optics and rhetoric aside there is nothing even the friendliest and most pro-Indian government in Bangladesh can do to help India fight Pakistan, Militarily Bangladesh makes a poor ally. With religious affinity fast transcending nationalism, any government in Bangladesh colluding with India against Pakistan is unlikely to survive. India realizes this fully well. Post-1971 Pakistan's pivot to China has brought it dividends far beyond anything imagined in the last week of December 1971.
You mention three prominent items : India-Pakistan antagonism, Kashmir issue and Bangladesh's equation with India and Pakistan.
About the first two, Musharraf with his four-point-formula would have begun to resolve, leaving the third ( BD ) to be eventually resolved.
In this thread ( maybe you have read it ) I present a solution for the India-Pakistan antagonism which will also solve Kashmir. Any issue with Bangladesh will be solved subsequently.