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Pakistan and India are
the typical rivals of each other; this rivalry is very old and started by the
differentiation, which were made by British rule in between Hindu and Muslim. In
1947, when British rule left Hindustan, two new states and countries came into
being that are India and Pakistan. The big dispute between India and Pakistan is
the issue of Kashmir, during partition Hindus were favored by British rule and
they neglected Muslims. Several muslim majority areas given to India due to this
favoritism. Likewise, Kashmir was one of the major state, India and Pakistan
both consider Kashmir as a very important of their country. During partition a
Hindu Maharaja was the ruler of Kashmir while Kashmir is a Muslims majority
area. He decided to join India but Muslims were in favor of Pakistan. India and
Pakistan fought four wars against each other. In 1971, East Pakistan separated
from Pakistan because India supported Bengal in 1971. In 1974, India started an
underground nuclear program and finally in 1998 India became the nuclear power
due to this Pakistan in turn explode nuclear bomb and became nuclear power too.
United states supported Pakistan’s nuclear program because of Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan while Pakistan supported Afghanistan and India favored Soviet Union.
In1988, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and India’s Prime Minister
Rajeev Gandhi decided not to victim each others nuclear program and new
relationship of Pakistan and India developed. In 1997,
India and Pakistan again came together to solve all the issues and both
countries had dialogues with each other but all that discussion and negotiation
ended without fruitful results. India and Pakistan both are the members of South
Asian Association of Regional Corporation. Pakistan insists to resolve Kashmir
issue according to the wishes and demands of Kashmiri people as well as
according to UN resolution as Kashmir’s self- determination while India insists
that Kashmir is an integral part of India.
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