On 13-May-06, at 1:47 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
perhaps, ... and the purpose of pakistan was to be a muslim country. which partly explains the fight over kashmir: if pakistan was founded as the country encompassing the muslim parts of british india, it needs to include kashmir. india, on the other hand, needs kashmir, its only muslim-majority state, to "prove" its secular, multi-religious identity. or so runs the argument.
I've heard the real dispute is over water: several rivers that flow through Pakistan originate in Kashmir, so it is important they control the source.
-- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://www.pobox.com/~jace
