India and Pakistan’s Relationship Over time

 It has proven to be difficult for India and Pakistan to maintain a constructive and or peaceful relationship as time progressed into present day. India and Pakistan’s pugnacious history makes them current enemies. Combatants from the start, they have fought in many wars and disputes between each other regarding the age-old hatred linking Hinduism and Islam. Many disagreements have sprung out of border disputes in Jammu and Kashmir states currently occupied in India, but during the Hindu-Muslim partition could have concurred with either country. In 1966, after the Pak-India War over Kashmir, the Pakistani President and Indian prime minister agreed on a peace settlement between the two countries, (along with no interferences between any other countries and no armed forces in preparation of war.) The diplomats also arranged plans for economic/trade relations and communication. However, this fell apart in 1971 during a Pakistan civil war when India attacked Pakistan. India was able to obtain power of the eastern half of Pakistan, which was then given it’s independence and is now known as Bangladesh. Pakistan was defeated and lost this territory. Then again war almost broke out in 1990 over these same territories. With the three wars that occurred at the border, this is a very dangerous spot for all civilians. Developing from the border disputes is the issue of terrorist movements in those regions bordering Pakistan. Rivalry between the two countries has led Pakistan to foster Islamist terrorism whose purpose is to attack India. India has been a target for al Qaeda and the global jihadist movement for over a decade. One of the most recent tragedies being the 2008 Mumbai attacks, where organized terrorist attacks at popular tourist sites resulted in dozens killed by machine gun and grenade assaults. Future disagreements prove to be very dangerous because today both countries are armed with nuclear weapons. Presently, Pakistani Militants seem more eager than ever to prove they will survive in order to show that Islamic terrorism will be able to survive in considering of the recent assassination of Osama bin Laden. This constant threat of nuclear warfare has made the border between India and Pakistan the most dangerous border in the world.