It will take time my friend just look at European history where England and France had a 100 year war ....
I am not sure 100 years can be counted exactly, but I understand that you want to say "it takes time".
one of the biggest driver for closeness between England and France was the common threat from other countries.
I don't see India and Pakistan looking at external threats as "common".
Instead we are like monkey rajas, who want to exploit the external threats against the other raja.
We instead go sit in the lap of external forces, which England and France have not done in the last 100 or even more years (correct me if I am wrong).
And India being 7 times bigger in numbers, and 16 times bigger in defense budget, is indeed a worst offender in this case.
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Partition is still a sore subject for our people because so many died but time does heal and we have no other option but to get closer, everyone knows it but still some pockets try to prevent us from doing it.
Agreed.
Many Indians do not realize the following facts about partition deaths.
The holocaust of Punjab that followed August 1947 was unmatchable by any other part of India.
Partition impacted mostly one state in the whole of British India. And that state was Punjab.
Before partition
-- East Punjab (Indian side) had 55-65% Muslim Punjabis. (depending on city/village)
-- West Punjab (Pak side) had 35-45% non-Muslim Punjabis (depending on city/village)
After partition
--- Indian Punjab had 0% Muslim punjabis (totally annihilated by Indian mobs)
-- Pak Punjab had 0% non-Muslim punjabis (totally annihilated by Pak mobs)
--- few exceptions were tiny Muslim population in Malir kotla, and tiny sikh population around holy shrines such as: Nankana sahib and Punja sahib
nowhere else in India or Pak, the ethnic cleansing was so absolute so comprehensive.
Around 1947 there were few riots and some uprooting around Delhi area and tiny bit in Kolkatta etc.
So partition should be blamed for the killings and rapes and ethnic cleansing in Punjab only.