The Tension Between Pakistan And India

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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” Ghandi once said about the tension between Pakistan and India. India and Pakistan have had a long complicated history with one another. They both became independent from Britain’s rule. In 1947, they created their own empire and separated the religions; Islam and Hindu, into two different countries. The Hindus live in India, while the Muslims reside in Pakistan, ever since then they had become arch rivals.
Pakistan and India had three main wars against each other. The first war was in August 1947, when The Republic of India and The Islamic Republic of Pakistan had conflicts with each other when British’s rule ended in 1947, which led to the first India- Pakistan War. Each country wanted Kashmir, but Kashmir choose to join the Republic of India. This caused the Pakistani Government to become angry and they believe that the Muslim state rightfully belonged to Pakistan (“Wars and Conflicts Between India and Pakistan”). The second war between India and Pakistan resumed in 1965. The two countries began fighting each other for Kashmir and Jammu once again. Kashmir is located in the Himalayan Mountains. Pakistani army was going to take Kashmir away from India, but failed (‘The India-Pakistan War Milestones – Office of the Historian”). The third war between the two countries arisen in 1971, it is known as the Indo Pakistani War. Due to East Pakistan having an excess number of ferocious natural disasters, they tried to steal land from India. Instead of India being suitable with that idea, they were very extremely repulsed. This war engendered eight million refugees. Ghandi supported the Bengali freedom fighters. Pakistan began to attack Muki...

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...n avoiding outside inventions with trying to rest the conflict between the two countries (“U.S. Aims to Ease India-Pakistan Tension.”). Indian and U.S. officials said that Obama administration has made a few orders of New Delhi. The only specific request has been to discourage India from getting involved with training Afghanistan’s military, so Pakistan does not have to worry about getting squeezed by India on two borders.
India has been avoiding outside involvement in its differences with Pakistan. Pakistani government presented a 56 page dossier to the Obama administration about being against the Indian government. The dossier stated that India never accepted Pakistan as an independent state and rerouting the Indus River out of India and into Pakistan. Hilary Clinton stated that Washington is not interested on trying to help India and Pakistan’s water conflicts.

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