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Decoding the complexities of Indo-Pak relations

Does India want to dominate Pakistan? Pakistan’s oldest rival, India, conducts firing on the LoC (Line of Control) over and over, which always ends up suffering persecution and death of our young soldiers. This was not enough, and India began a zero-sum game over Kashmir by taking it under threat and brutally attacking the unarmed Kashmiris. These merciless strikes and direct firings against the country, which earlier remained a part of the subcontinent and where Hindus and Muslims were a union before the British conquest, are somewhat not new but part of Indians and Pakistanis daily lives. These hostilities are the result of untouched wounds originated after the redrawing of boundaries between the two regions—India and Pakistan. If we go into a little history, it helps in understanding the roots of contentions. In the earlier centuries, when the subcontinent was free from foreign interference, the shape of the social and economic system was different in its own way. There were soc...