Relationship Between Pakistan & India

Good Relationship of Indo-Pak

During the later 1950, India and Pakistan seemed to be crawling towards some form of accommodation, eventually leading to the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 but all this came to a screeching halt after the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. since then things just kept getting worse. Indian help in breaking up Pakistan, Azad Kashmir which was only stopped because US president the USSR president and told him to tell Indira Gandhi that would not be acceptable, did not help.

During the last decade, things took a turn for the worse every time an attempt was made by the two sides to arrive at some sorts of rapprochement. The long and the short of it is that it was also great fun to watch new medical residents just off the boat from India assimilate into the US melting pot. The most interesting cultural confrontation was always with the food available in the hospital cafeterias and in local restaurants. This is about a time almost 40 years ago, when Indian or Pakistan restaurants and grocery stores were hard to come, by from personal experience.

Perhaps there existed an ephemeral connection between those of us that had our roots in the same part of India. One of the most interesting conversations have ever had was about a decade ago with a young Sikh surgical resident.

The relationship between Pakistan and India as it has evolved over the last six decades is that of a school yard bully and the pesky runt that refuses to accept the bully as his superior even after being beaten up with considerable regularity, and now that the runt has achieved nuclear parity, the runt expects some respect which the bully finds hard to dish out. Considering the bomb, situation the bully cannot just beat up the runt at will and is now reduced to temper tantrums.

The best we can hope for is to get over the bully and the runt relationship. Grow up as countries and pursue relationships based sane, visa regime between the two countries would be an important beginning.