why does India and Pakistan fight over Kashira?
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Both the Hindu and the Muslim religions hold fresh water to be sacred. Kashmir is the place where all five major rivers that flow through both Pakistan and India originate. Both countries feel they have the right to be the protector of this sacred and vital region.\n\nBoth countries have agreed that, while they will occasionally fight over the region, they will not attack the water projects which make the rivers more effective. This is one of the few limited war tactics that both combatants have kept faith with.\n\nIt is true, as stated above, that originally the leader of Kashmir had opted to be part of India rather than part of Pakistan.\n\nThe military precedent for this sort of behavior is the Crimean War of 1854, when Russia and France quarreled over who would be the recognized protector of the Christians in Jerusalem and the Nattivity Scene in Bethlehem. The Russians felt it should be tended by Orthodox monks, the French felt it should be tended by Catholic monks. Naturally, if you are quarreling over Palestine you fight in Rumania and in Sevastopol; everybody knows that!
93311
Its purely political. India is a relative friend of ours, if we supply them with nuclear power it evens the playing field with Iran and Pakistan.
457762
India seeks to play a global role to match it;s growing economic stature.\n\nIt's bidding for a permanent seat in the UN security council.\n\nInterestingly, India was offered a permanent UN security council seat which it gave to China as show of friendship(bad decision) as china is now opposing India's bid.\n\nPakistan at this moment is trying to figure out whether it should support the jehadis fighting against US or it should support US and keep getting the aid on whcih it has survived for so many years.\n\nIndia is way ahead of Pakistan in all respects.
676659
I think certain Pakistani's are just grown up with this mentality because their parents believed it was the right thing to dislike the opposite country, and their parents and their parents and so on. And yes, because of muslims vs. hindus. This isn't necessarily always the case though. I am the daughter of 2 Pakistani parents and my husband is the son of 2 Indian parents and neither of our parents have ever had any problems with that. It has never been an issue, no one has even brought up the topic.
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i belong to india,theres a lot of gossip about ww3 over here,\ngenerally people say here that it will start bcoz of india and pakistan and then all the major powers taking the two sides,china ofcourse will take the side of pakistan,as it seems india as a major threat to itself,russia is seen to support india bocz of its good relations,and usa though has good relations with india is seen to support pakistan bcoz russia will naturallly support india so as go to do reverse.
27280
As every one know the terrorists were created by Pakistan, atlease the ones which are active in India. This was done by the government which was in power previously. Now that the present government is trying to build up the gaps between the two nations are trying to come closer to each other, the terrorists are afraid they might loose their job so they are turning against Pak now.\n\nI think it will take a while to eliminate all the terrorists if the same procedure continue.
375475
Well, just so that you get your facts straight:\n\n1. During the partition, it was ruled that all the princely states(Kashmir was one) could decide whether they wanted to join India or Pakistan. The ruler of Kashmir remained undecided till Pakistani backed tribal invasion in 1947-48. the ruler decided to accede to India following which India sent it's troop to Kashmir for it's defence.\n\n2. The tribal invasion succeeded in occupying some protion of kashmir which is not the 'Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(PoK)'. Pakistan, however does not agree and calls it Azad Kashmir(Free Kashmir) and has coined a similar term 'Indian Occupied Kashmir(IoK)' for the indian territory in Kashmir.\n\n3. In 1965, pakistan crossed the ceasefire line in kashmir to try and capture kashmir, which was thwarted by the Indian action towards Lahore.\n\nPakistani history books(and consequently those who have grown up reading these) however proclaim  that India was the aggressor.\n\n4. Starting 1989 pakistan established terrorist training camps(the same are used for militants operating in Iraq) in PoK to to train extremist elements to disrupt peace in Kashmir.\n\nInitially the local muslims were also involved, a group called JKLF(Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front) being the leading one. During this time hindus were driven out of Kashmir. The economy collapsed and it resulted in a snowball effect of unemployment->unease->terrorism.\n\nHowever, over a period a time, the locals have joined politics and have come for dialogue while ISI(Inter services Intelligence, Pakistani secret service) backe elements have continued to send foreign elements to continue the unrest.\n\n5. In 1999 these militants crossed into Indian territory and lodged themselves in barracks location at mountain tops, vacated by the Indian Army during the winters. Army was called in to dislodge these insurgents, with air force also being used.\n\nUpon recapture, amongst those killed were regulars of the pakistani army, especially notable being regulars of their special forces whose bodies pakistan refused to accept. They had their disposal official arsenal of the pakistani military, even anti-aircraft missiles which were used to shoot down vehicles plying on the road connecting the valley to the rest of the nation.\n\nPakistan continues to harbour and train terrorists whose activities target even the innocent civilians.\n\nCrux of the matter is that terrorism in Kashmir is Pakistan sponsored and India is trying to defend it's soil.
640120
There is  no  militancy in kashmir its only the hold of indian media that has made it militancey they are the freedom fighters which are compelled to do this India which is being a hindu country took over by force in 1947 a muslim state with the help of then maharaja of kahmir a sikh in reality hari Singh and entered her armies and confiscated the area.in return the muslims of Jammu and Kashmir Asked from help from a muslim state pakistan which also attacked on indian confiscated kashmir and freed some of it but the problem was taken to Un vich passed a resolution to solve the  issue with talks and the will of kahmiris but india has not yet been able to do it so both kasmirs devided and now in Indian held kashmir Freedom fighters are fighting their own war to get it freed whwre  as in opakistan held kashmir there is no such problem
1050186
Hey, folks.  You need to know that India and Pakistan have subs.  Very important distinction, they also have nukes.\n\nPakistan have several French Agnosta class subs with torp tubes.  The tubes may be retrofit-able to "dry" launch cruise type missiles, which Pakistan also has.  (Dry launch is launching the missile from the chamber before the rocket fires).\n\nSleep tight, everyone.  \n\n(May I recommend Guiness and Jameson?)
486372
Although I'm an Indian I think that both India and Pakistan are responsible for the Kashmir problem. Normally Indians blame Pakistan and Pakistanis blame India. It's not that simple. We must know what people of Kashmir want. Most of the Kashmiris want independence. However if India loses Kashmir it would be easier for terrorists to attack India. This is the reason why India can't let go of Kashmir
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The Indian subcontinent is an area of great political and religous strife.  India is still a relatively stable democracy but that is not the reason for disputes.  Post-colonialism has wreaked havoc on numerous areas throughout the world and this is the most populated one.  Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India were all one under British rule until 1947.  Forcing three distinct people (there are hundreds more different people between the three countries but they can loosely align themselves with the overall nation) to share resources/power/wealth is a recipe for disaster once the strong outside force is removed.  Hence the three countries were formed laregly on religous borders.  \nSince the UK left, and Pakistan and India split, one shared area has been the source of constant fighting.  This area China also has a claim to leading to its dispute with India.  India and China are working together now even though India suspects China gave Pakistan nuclear secrets.  Nepal appears to be isolated from all countries in the region due to ongoing political strife due to Maoists and guerilla fighters within the country, so I am unsure as to there specific relationship to India.  Other areas within the world where you can see this post colonial struggle taking place is in Africa in almost every country there.\nI am curious to know why you question India, do you see India as the agressor in all instances?  \nPakistan, China, and India all are operating under dangerous circumstances.  All three want to be major world powers but are not exactly sure how to go about it.  China and India are the two most populous countries in the world and thus are trying to exert their economic might and becoming the dominant player within the region.
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In conventional warfare, India is superior to Pakistan just by sheer number, here is a list from Jane's defense weekly a 2005 update:\n\nIndian Army statistics: Active Troops 1,400,000, Reserve Troops 900,000, Territorial Army 200,000, Main Battle Tanks 5600, Artillery 3800, Support Aircraft 9 squadrons of helicopters, Surface-to-air missiles 1900.\n\nPakistan Army statistics: Active Troops 800,000, Reserve Troops 200,000, Territorial Army 150,000, Main Battle Tanks 2900, Artillery 1700, Support Aircraft 11 squadrons of helicopters, Surface-to-air missiles 700.\n\nBut you can be rest assured that a war between India and pak will not remain conventional for long. Probably China will take their side and Russia will take India's side, USA will remain neutral and sell arms to both...\n\nIn a worst situation, God forbid, if nuclear weapons comes into play, and probably Pakistan makes a first strike,(India will never strike first) it will annihilate about 70% of west India, with India's counterattack wiping off about 90% of Pakistan, because India has 4.5 megaton NW's while Pakistan has 2.3 megaton.\n\nLets just hope nothing as above happens, conventional war or proxy war restricted to the borders are a far better option. Moreover, neither country can afford either a full fledged war, the Pakistani economy will crash in less than 7 days on a full fledged war, while India will go bankrupt in 30 days time.
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If you want to label Pakistan as a terrorist state, please also include the US for their support to the Mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and their support for Israel in Palestine. Please also include India for their support to East Pakistan (Bangladesh) during the 1971 crises. An irony of history is that the winning side is always the one to decide who the terrorists are. In Pakistan's case, that question has not been decided as yet so lets not get hasty with our conclusions!\n\nIf you are comparing the leadership of Pakistan with Saddam Hussain's leadership, I am sorry, but either you are trying to exaggerate an issue out of proportion or you have no idea what you are talking about. Its because of thinking like this why peace can never be achieved. Why not engage your time constructively rather than by trying (and failing miserably) to create rifts?
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Kashmir is a funny issue. It was an independent state with a Hindu ruler and a largely Muslim population. During the partition, the ruler decided to stay independent of both, India and Pakistan. When Pakistan illegally tried invading the State, the ruler signed the instrument with assession to India. He was legally empowered to do so and so legally, Kashmir is Indian territory. To be fair, if the subjects were given a choice, they just may have chosen Pakistan... but now that is hypothetical.\nEver since, much blood has been spilt needlessly over Kashmir. Since neither side will back down, the only solution now is to maintain status quo and convert the Line of Control (the de facto current border) as the official International Border.
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Theyre two different government systems. To the best of my knowledge india isnt a militant goverment, where as iran is. \n\nIndia's nuclear program is monitored by the UN and other neighboring countries, they remain peaceful towards the rest of the world, and do not harbor or fund terrorists, nor have they ever threatend to attack any other country without just provocation.\n\nIran refuses to comply with world goverment sanctions and continues to violate treaties and rules which allow the UN to come in and keep tabs on the growing nuclear program. \n\nfron one side of irans mouth they say that the unrainum they are enriching is strictly for peaceful domestic uses, for creating power and improving the quality of life for the peoples of the nation. but from the other side they threaten to attack israel and/or america if anyone messes with them or their program. \n\nThey have not proven to be a trustworthy government by any stretch of the imagination, and people who refuse to play nice cannot be trusted with the ingrediants for mass distruction. the rest of the world would suffer at their mistakes, and the leading nations cannot stand by and let that happen.
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Yes, India is more powerful than Pakistan in terms of military might. India has almost double the manpower and combat equipment as a previous poster has pointed out. But as another poster mentions, today, military might cannot be solely measured in terms of numbers. There are more factors that come into play.\nFor eg: Though India has a very large military, they have 3 hostile borders to defend (Pakistan, China and Bangladesh). So its large army's resources are stretched. Even if there's a conflict with Pakistan, India just cannot afford to dedicate its entire army to the conflict, it still has to maintain reasonable force levels at the Chinese and Bangla borders. Pakistan on the other hand, can dedicate almost all resources to the conflict with India. Iran and Afghanistan are not about to invade them from the other side and the Chinese are their best pals. They even share nuclear weapons technology clandestinely. So you see how..... though India's military is larger, Pakistan can match them almost equally if you consider the above.\nNow lets look at another angle.... the economies! Here, India wins hands down. Their economy can sustain a war for much longer than Pakistan. Pakistan just does not have the resources to withstand and sustain a war effort for long. If the Indian Navy were to blockade Karachi harbour, Pakistan would probably run out of oil within a month.\nAnyways, there are just too many such factors. If you look at the overall picture, India will still win any conflict with Pakistan... but eventually... as in, it may not be a cake-walk.
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You are aksing to many questions at one time..\n--Burkha is traditional cloth in Afghanistan, has nothing to do with Islam.\n--Muslim woman don't carry any sign when they are married.\n--JIHAD is fight against enemies attacking Muslim land.\n--In India the fight between Muslims and Hindus has a political background . Please study the dates when British forces  left India. \n--Muslim women are allowed to go to mosques.\n--You can't find physical form of God in jewish and muslim\nbelieves. \n--Shias and sunnis are sects of Islam. The fight between them ,again, has nothing to do with religion. purely political.\n--Again this is just  a traditon in some countries. \n--It should be done at young age.Otherwise it is a critical operation for health.\n--Muslims are human beings like all over the world.They are as peculiar as other people, not more, not less.