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122758
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114628
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2012.
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The politics of the Southern Asia region is mainly influenced by
the political developments that take place in the two neighbouring
Southern Asian countries, India and Pakistan. However, IndoPak relations have never been stable; rather, they have fluctuated
from acrimony to cooperation and vice versa. Since the partition of
the Indian subcontinent, relations between the two neighbouring
countries have been defined by a host of post-partition political
problems and crises like the border dispute, Kashmir dispute, water
dispute, etc. The emergence of the Cold War politics in the Indian
subcontinent further aggravated the acrimonious relations between
India and Pakistan. The Pakistani leaders have never reconciled the
grievances of the post-partition political problems, especially on
the Kashmir issue; thus, they consider India as the 'biggest threat'
to their existence.
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Because of this fear psychosis, they joined hands
with the US-led Western military alliance Southeast Asia Treaty
Organisation (SEATO) and Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO),
and manoeuvred Pakistan's policy towards the Muslim countries
to develop 'power parity' with India, if not in economic terms, then
through military technology
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ID:
094640
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ID:
118122
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ID:
114446
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2012.
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Afghanistan is India's most important neighbouring country, with
which India has shared strategic, economic and political interests for
centuries. However, India-Afghanistan relations officially began only
after India's independence, more specifically after the signing of the
Treaty of Friendship between the two countries on January 4, 1950. As
early as March 22, 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
India, emphasising the geo-political importance of India's neighbouring
countries (including Afghanistan) for India's foreign policy, remarked
during his lecture at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA),
New Delhi, "[T]he nearby countries always have a special interest in one another and India must, inevitably, think in terms of her relations
with the countries bordering her by land and sea…I would also include
Afghanistan, although it does not touch India's borders; Tibet and
China, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and Ceylon [Sri Lanka]."
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then, successive Indian leaders have taken great interest in the political
developments in Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries, because a
political crisis in the region, directly or indirectly, spills over to India and
affects its strategic and security interests.
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119658
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111272
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