For those Indians who are not jingoistic I appologise if I offend you.
For those of you Indians that are jingoistic. Those that insist all of Kashmir is written in blood as part of India and that in 60 years plus we are this and that and we should not China and this and that let me tell you this:
India has been claiming all of Kashmir for over 60 years. We Pakistan have and control about a third. You are a country that is six times the size of Pakistan in population a super power in the making as some of you like to tell us. Why do you not take what you claim is yours??
Because we are a status quo power. We do not invite trouble, we do not wage war on our neighbours. What happened in 1962 was an aberration; our political leadership believed that dealing with the Chinese was all about an extremely intellectual game of GO; they did not realize that China was prepared to go to war to enforce its boundary claims. If you look at all the armed conflict that India has been involved in other than that, you will see what I mean. The previous two incidents prior to 1962 were called police actions; nobody really wanted to be associated with anything that smacked of military belligerency.
Look at what being a pacifist power gets you. Sneers, crude, tasteless remarks about our being ruled by banias, and a whole chorus line of Pakistani (and other) fanboys doing high kicks about our not being warlike.
You know something funny?
We aren't warlike. You are. We don't plot the downfall of our neighbours; you do. We don't have funny people coming on TV explaining why a holy war against the neighbour is inevitable; you do. Our religious fanatics are people who shame and embarrass large sections of our society, sections that are committed to secularism; not for you.
That's why we didn't move in and take over the rest of Kashmir, when there were times we could have. But like those two great pacifiers, Inder Gujral and Manmohan Singh, even our most war-like Prime Minister took a chance, hoped against hope, that a magnanimous approach would bring peace.
We still try, even though we know the other side is high on macho jingoism. Just don't think we don't know.
We know, but we still want peace.
Funny lot of buggers, aren't we?