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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
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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