Why the existence of Pakistan is not in India’s interest

Why the existence of Pakistan is not in India’s interest

 Pakistan has been a thorn in India’s left side for 65 years, and astonishingly, India has abode its pain and vexation, against most odds of human nature. After four wars and multiple proxy wars waged by Pakistan, it still doesn’t count as much for India – an immensely colossal elephant that is arduous to move. India’s Pakistan policy practices restraint and constraint against an enemy that abhors it, that was born in conflict against India in brutal bloodshed, and even now hopes one day to surmount an impuissant India.

Despite all the difficulties that Pakistan has faced and faces – internal political turmoil and terrorist threats, external issues in Afghanistan, an economy that is on the verge of collapse, and being condemned around theworld for its export of terrorism – Pakistan still has the energy and gumption to promote proxy wars in India via Nepal, Bangladesh, and, of course, Kashmir. Which concept of rationality in the modern world can accept Pakistan’s belligerent and incongruent worldview, at a time when the civilized world wishes placidity and economic prosperity against a threatening climate, growing population, an oncoming oil crisis, and worldwide economic woes?

By all facts and accounts, Pakistan has been sapping India’s productive and psychic energy every day for 65 years. It is scarcely true that Pakistan has been bleeding India by a thousand cuts. Visually examine the billions of hours of productive time and newspaper print and headlines wasted on a Pakistan that is an affliction for India and perhaps the world. None of the energy spent on Pakistan counts towards India’s GDP or ameliorated industrial productivity, nor does it ameliorate the economic position of India. The industrial engenderment of India, ingeniousness of its engineers and ruminators, and ability to gain a foothold in the world has been compromised because a Pakistan subsists that threatens war on the subcontinent, diverts national pursuits for excellence, and thereby diminishes foreign investment and confidence in India. For India to grow and have placidity and confidence, it must dispense the Pakistan that obstructs it in many ways, even standing against it in its quest for a rightful position on the permanent Security Council, and one that endeavored vehemently to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Pakistan is more hazardous as an independent state situated to be surmounted by terrorist elements fortified by a manipulative ISI than under Indian control. In fact, the USA must find merit in the argument that it can more preponderant contain the terrorists and Taliban with India controlling them than they themselves. While the USA realizes that Pakistan is duplicitous with its terrorists, the USA is unable to optically discern through the haze that can only be optically discerned by those who have lived with Pakistan and in Pakistan’s neighborhood forever, such as India. Neither does Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai trust Pakistan, nor do the Iranian Shia’s have much love for Pakistan’s Sunnis, albeit the Iranians acquired nuclear technology from A Q Khan. A Pakistan that doesn’t subsist is safer for the world than a Pakistan that does.