How has Pakistan managed to continuously be a "truly formidable rival" to its neighbor India(plz read details)?
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Since the partition of India in 1947, there is one country India has been genuinely wary of: Pakistan. I am not in any way implying Pakistan is better than India, but Pakistan has pretty much equaled what India has achieved. Both Pakistan and India's armed forces are one of the best in the world. India became a nuclear power first, and then Pakistan did the same to match India. Besides the 1971 war, all the other wars between Pakistan have been closely contested (1948, 1965 and 1999). In 1948, Pakistan managed to capture part of Kashmir from India. In 1971, Pakistan lost badly. In 1965, Pakistan was successfully able to defend itself from India; the casualties on both sides were about the same. In 1999, Pakistan captured huge parts of Kashmir; but had to retreat due to international pressure. India suffered more casualties than Pakistan in 1999 (wikipedia). India complains to the West constantly about Pakistan, whether its about Kashmiri fighters or terrorism within India; coming from Pakistan. India does not really care about countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Nepal as they have not retaliated to India: Pakistan has been a formidable enemy to India.
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I'm Half-Indian-Half-Paki :D Well, when England came in, they split India into India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. And because of the differnt religons. (India- Hindu, Pakistan- Islam)
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I hope you have seen WWF (now may be renamed as WWE) games where sometimes there are lopsided contestants fighting each others badly. We know that some of these are for the TV audience's consumption, but who wants to lose the game. Pakistan and India are also fighting each others in above mentioned fashion, where the audience is their own people who would applaud when their respective wrestler is beating opponents. You would sometimes find that the opponent is so much bloodied in the fight that stretcher is sent to carry him out of the wrestling arena. In this case, Pakistan is waiting for the stretcher to come and take it to hospital since the war in all fronts (at border, at diplomatic level, at intellectual level, at the ratio of GNP & GDP etc) are being won singularly by the Indians. I'm not a fan of India as such since its successive politicians has cowed down my country Bangladesh under this or that pretext. But the fact is that, India remained at very high level of respect among the community of nations than what Pakistan could achieve with its belligerent attitude. So what is the point of being a "truly formidable rival" when you have to live your life under constant insecurity, as that has been happening in present days Pakistan? Btw, as a Muslim it should have been my pride to see Pakistan shinning better than India, but we had been brutally treated by the Pakistanis when we were part of Pakistan till 1971.
~slsmhu
you trying to stir trouble? edit @ farrah: india-hindu, pakistan-muslim? india was never really declared to be 'hindutva', and the hindus never really demanded a seperate nation so id rather say india-secular, pakistan-islamic
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