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Pakistan and India has long standing border and river water conflicts which led the two
nuclear powers to engage in two wars in 1965 and 1971. Pakistan has been supporting people of
Kashmir for its independence and self rule. It was until musharraf’s regime, Pakistan came up
with the added point of demilitarizing Kashmir and reported various incidents of human rights
violation.
Pakistan backed Taliban for long time to fight U.S proxy war with Russia in Afghanistan. The
attack on World trade center in 2001 changed the regional security and diplomacy. The same
Taliban U.S supported decade ago was called terrorist and Pakistan was called upon to be part of
this war on terror. Pakistan supported U.S in war on terror to not lose its strategic goal of
Kashmir independence. If Pakistan would have decided otherwise, the U.S would have folded its
support for India and Pakistan would not be able to support Kashmir cause internationally.
Although Pakistan continued its support to separatist movement in Kashmir in response to the
India lobbied against the fighter groups and pressured United States to declare them
terrorist after attack 2008 Mumbai attack. U.S put Lashkar-e-taiba and Jaish-e-muhammad in
terror groups and forced Pakistan to ban these Organizations. Pakistan being frontline ally had
to abide to U.S orders and change its national policy of supporting freedom fighters in Kashmir.
(Margalla papers, 2015). Despite cutting support for Kashmir, Pakistan policy on Kashmir
remain intact of self Independence or free and fair elections which would let chose kashmiris
To counter Pakistan support for Kashmir, India has started its support for exploited baloch
nationals in Pakistan. India lobbied on different forums to get support of European Union and
U.S against Pakistan (CNN news-18). While Pakistan call it national security problem and
blames India for negative propaganda against Pakistan. China, who have invested heavily in
Gawadar, coastal area of Balochistan want Pakistan to handle the problem with peacefully.
Pakistan blames India for providing military support to locals and waging war against their
State.
India and Pakistan trade goods worth $2.3 billion as reported in 2013 (Huma sattar). India
granted Pakistan with MFN status in 1996 and seek same from Pakistan. Pakistan granted India
with NDMA (Non discriminatory market access) under pressure from Indian government
despite having other trade agreements such as SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade agreement)
(Ranjan Mishra).
United States have dictated many policies for Pakistan. In 2015, it called Pakistan to ban the
media coverage of terrorist outfits. As a result, Pakistan Electronic Media regulatory authority
(PEMRA) issued notices to all satellite Tv channels and FM radio for any type of coverage to the
Pakistan call it s nuclear program for peacekeeping and counter balance to India. It has come
under immense pressure from U.N and the Western powers to halt the production of ballistic
missiles and nuclear weapons which could misbalance regional security. Pakistan was forced to
sign CTBT (Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty) alongside India (Anwar Iqbal).