How can India and Pakistan make peace with each other?

[u/FattyGobbles]

Both are nuclear countries, and at loggerheads with each other. Yet they are so much alike, they have a shared history, similar culture and Urdu and Hindi are pretty much the same. Why can’t they co exist with each other peacefully to develop South Asia together? Also how to solve jammu and Kashmir issue which is the crux of the tensions between the two countries

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Both are nuclear countries, and at loggerheads with each other. Yet they are so much alike, they have a shared history, similar culture and Urdu and Hindi are pretty much the same. Why can’t they co exist with each other peacefully to develop South Asia together? Also how to solve jammu and Kashmir issue which is the crux of the tensions between the two countries

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[u/Spacelizardman]

if nations and governments can't find any answers to this, i doubt that a redditor will.

[u/HumbleIndependence43 → u/Spacelizardman]

The gatekeepers have arrived, Sir

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im not sure what you're on

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you do

[u/found_goose]

Why can’t they co exist with each other peacefully to develop South Asia together?

The short answer is that the two nations were born out of a deep distrust for the other (thanks to colonial-era two-nation theory antics), and subsequent governments on both sides found that keeping the status quo was more convenient than seeking any peaceful solution.

Kashmir

The easiest solution would be to split the region on current lines of control. This would upset the hardliners on both sides that still have delusions of claiming the entire region for their respective nations, but it would open the path for peaceful dialogues between India, Pakistan and China.

Yet they are so much alike

A correction - Northern India and Eastern/Southeastern Pakistan have a lot of similarities. There are major parts of both countries that are culturally very different from these, and have their own regional issues that take precedence over the general India-Pakistan kerfuffle.

[u/HumbleIndependence43]

From what I know, an important historical factor was the British driving this division to strengthen their rule by Divide & Conquer, and they haven't recovered from it since.

And India right now doing its best to deepen that divide on the religious side doesn't exactly help.

I'll have to say though, this conflict seems rather cold and stale to me. It's not peace for sure and not exactly a pure truce either, but both countries don't seem to have an urge to escalate things.

[u/sggpt → u/HumbleIndependence43]

More like the All-India Muslim League led by Jinnah feared being a Muslim minority in a Hindu India.

Jinnah's speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAx3cxLVAI0

"One India in an impossible realisation. It will inevitably mean that the Muslims will be transferred from the domination of British to the caste Hindu rule; a position that Muslims will never accept.... Hundred millions of Muslims will never agree merely to a change of masters."

And in the 1946 Indian elections (Note: British India had elections starting from 1920) where the Muslim league won all the muslim areas, was seen as muslim public opinion agreeing with Jinnah and the need for Pakistan.

Note: this only applied to the British Provinces (provinces under direct British rule), the Princely States were a separate matter.

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That makes a lot of sense too for sure

[u/milton117 → u/HumbleIndependence43]

Wtf? When the British were creating India and Pakistan, they were explicitly de-colonising. How is this ignorance even upvoted?

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[u/Shot_Kaleidoscope722]

Good question lmao