East Asia connected to west Asia well through Central Asia, India and South Asia are connected to West and Central Asia through waters and both in turn are integrated to Southeast Asia. Pakistan connects to middle east through Iran and East Asia through China but doesn't produce anything significant.
And as far as I know, Pakistan has put far more harsh and stricter tariffs and bans on Indian goods except essential things like medicines than India has ever done. Nor Indian sanctions ever affected Pak as Pakistani exports to India were significant. Pak doesn't produce any high-end products capable of budging Indian markets. India can flood Pakistani markets and even can wipe out Chinese and Japanese firms in manufacturing of boilers, power plants, automobiles, basic electronics like headesets and chargers and 4G internet services.
Undue importance given to Kashmir quagmire is the mother of all problems. Territorial disputes take decades for resolution, prioritising them in speeches simply states that this statement is just a mouthjob. Probably because India became a net creditor like China, Germany and Japan last month from being an indebted economy like US, France & UK earlier and may invest.
Or probably economic and military gap between India and Pak is larger than ever before or probably because India was included in Afghan peace talks and US forced Pakistan to give such a statement.
Pak made it India vs Pak. When India had grown too big and was expanding to a position where it could ignore Pak, Pakistani establishment started to make its believe that India was some sort Nazi Germany type country and started to call upon "international community" to "play their role".
Article from Mowed Yusuf.
Ties with India must be rejigged.
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And next day, this statement for burying past comes.
There is no reason not to believe that India's foreign ministry considers Pakistani diplomats as hell of a joke who have to eat their own words in discussion cause Pakistani establishment changes stances swifter than clothes.
Both Indian and international diplomats understand the vanity of such statements very well. Indian government brutally ignores and doesn't even respond to Pakistani statements, no matter if Pakistan speaks in favour of or against India. Kashmir isn't a simple dispute to be solved in an year or two.
It's better that Pakistani fanboys stop jumping about their own illusion of righteousness. They just passed on a vain statement which doesn't mean anything. Optics before Afghan dialogue.
Republic of India doesn't regard Indian Kashmir as a a part of dispute. For government, it's an Indian Union territory now like Andaman islands since 370 abrogation and any status change will come only in 2031 when Indians from other parts would have settled in Kashmir and Kashmiris would have been sent to other parts of India to live in. It will become a normal state like Haryana and Punjab with own CM and legislation then.
Cold war wasn't really catastrophic. It brought lot of technology to world.
Not really others. Rest in South Asia are growing very fast. Except Pak and Afghan, none of South Asian countries are classified as underdeveloped and have high growth rates of human development indicators.
Doesn't mean anything either since all South Asian countries don't share border. So called South Asia is just a broken India where all pieces share border with the remaining giant fossil of that old India called Republic of India. This fossil has 81% of South Asian economy and most of industrial and technological output. Rest of countries are nil and don't have any significance in world of their own.
Not really, except Pak, all other countries in region have quite low defence budgets with respect to their economies.
Pakistan was left behind and never involved in race because didn't have money, technology or research, not because of any goodwill. It was always a self appointed competitor to India who had shifted to focus to becoming like west and China after getting rid of Pak in 1971. Pak was never a major military threat to India after 1971 war.
India's aim isn't to maintain status quo but change it in its own favour.
Unless Pakistan accepts that trade talks and territorial disputes shouldn't be intervined, there wouldn't be any trade. Per capita income of Pakistani people is just half of Indians and Bangladeshis and per adult wealth is less than 1/4th. And since Pakistanis are likely to boycott Indian products, it isn't something to be bothered with.
Pakistan is a fragile economy with no certainties. India may be somewhat useful for Pakistan but vice versa isn't true.
South block isn't stupid enough to axe its own foot for no reason.
Having good relations with Pakistan isn't a necessary thing for India. Having Pakistan on Indian side or against India in a world war doesn't make that much of difference. Pak is a pawn, not a player.
State sponsored terrorism from Pakistan is the reason for most of conflicts. Everything India did thereafter was a response to it.
