lamayuru
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I think eventually, Pakistan would have to abandon the goal of achieving near-parity with India in military terms. Perhaps settle for protection from the PLA as a substitute.
Yup that will be like a replay of China-Taiwan-US. US has Taiwan under a defence umbrella, against a powerful China. But why and this is just a hypothesis, this may not happen is China is not so far out ahead of India. Pakistan is not too far back (militarily) from India. In any case Pakistan never sought parity with India, otherwise they would not be sleeping with China/CENTO/NATO etc. rather doing something on their own.
I guess they are just frightened of being swallowed up, esp post '71. They lost their leading light within a year of their formation. Having forgotten their raison de'etre, they have relied on Islam and India as the foundations to keep 170 million of them together, Shias and Sunnis who as it is dont get along too well. If the intolerance from religion was not bad enough they are psyching their peoples into believing India is out to get them.
They still believe they won 1965 and Kargil! I guess it is all fine so long as it is in the name of "successfully internationalizing Kashmir"!
In a much larger context though it has to do with the fact that Muslims ruled India for a thousand years. You just have to see Zaid Hamid rub his hands in glee at the thought of the green and white flag on Red Fort. They have books as a part of school curricula in which the authorities teach them Hindus aint no good for them. That may be the largest scale trolling you ever came across!
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