I agree with M J Akbar that India and Pakistan are not neighbors, just two geographically contiguous states. I differ with him on the cause. It is not the '65 war that brought about the division - if there was camaraderie before, why did that war happen at all? Or the one before it? The truth is that India and Pakistan are built on totally different civilizational values. The totally divergent trajectory in which the military leaders of both nations led their organizations and the countries attest to this fact. Remember, these people where trained by the same British, often they sat on the same bench. While India inherited the democratic spirit of the National Movement, Pakistan chose to throw it away, out of its own volition.
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