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India seeks conventional military parity with China and in the distant future with maybe even USA. Pakistan is sucked into this game on its own accord.
I made no comment regarding this.
Any military operation b/w India and Pakistan will necessitate a response from India which will seek to keep its intensity within check so as not to escalate/ exacerbate the situation and give Pak an excuse to declare nukes are an option.
Whether a military operation is instigate by India or Pakistan, a prosperous Pakistan ensures a conventional deterrent that will not allow any significant advantage to India, as happened in Op. Parakaram, and I would argue that was at one of the heights of conventional disparity between the two.
Pak has nukes, missiles to deliver them, and all its enemies within its missile ranges.. why the need for conventional parity??
Opreration Parakaram - Nukes are a last resort, and their use almost certainly ensures MAD. Much better to also have a conventional deterrent, to prevent even any small scale military operations or threats.
Like most Indians I believe Pak supports cross-border terrorism and Jihadist policy because the ultimate reason is that Pak is not prosperous and neither has right policies.
So it is in India's interest to Help Pak achieve economic growth and have a democratically elected govt. that's why Bhutto was loved by Indians.
Obviously I think that is a ridiculous rationale - sort of instep with the "Muslims are jealous of US freedoms" cockamamie argument.
Its a wonderful argument for the GoI and Indian media to sell to their populace - it dehumanizes Pakistan and Pakistanis, and removes the likelihood of looking at history and events to understand the dynamics between the two nations since Independence that have molded our history and driven our relationship.
I would strongly wager, however, that the GoI and Indian Military are not quite so naive. Prosperity for Pakistan, they realize, makes Pakistan stronger as a nation and as a military - that is not good news for India so long as the India-Pak relationship remains hostile.
Re-Unification??? I believe some ultra-rad Hindu groups with their idea of Akhanda Bharata believe in annexation of areas under the so-called Indosphere and (I don't think they like Muslims so) for them concern is for land not people.
In any case I don't think Indians even those with Pak heritage desire their ancestral homeland. I think what most Indians want to do is bury differences and have a closer relationship(something like Nepal-India, Eu-esque, Canada-US etc) which Pakistanis also want (at least the ones I met last week told me so).
Whether Partition was wrong/right is a thing left to historians, Internet forums and the Older generation, perhaps.
Pakistanis want a friendly relationship with India as well. I don't necessarily see people as an issue.My reference to a "lack of desire to see a stable and prosperous Pakistan" is from the perspective of the GoI and Indian Military.
Also, its not just the "ultra rad Hindu Groups", a lot of "secular" posters implicitly suggest the same, but I will take your word that the majority of Indians have accepted Pakistan's existence as a separate nation.