The very inception of Pakistan is grounded on hatred and envy for India. The ostensible cause of our differences with Pakistan, namely Kashmir, has been exhaustively discussed over the years. At one time, many thought that if India surrendered Kashmir to Pakistan, all would be well between the two countries. Then, there was Kashmir and the Indian Waters dispute. Hardly was the latter problem so solved through the good offices of the World Bank and America—though India, too, had to make a heavy contribution – when another claim, to the Ganga waters, referred to as the Farakka dispute, raised its ugly head.
Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of these disputes, an impartial student of these disputes cannot but realize that the root cause of the trouble between the two countries is psychopathic. The individual problems are incidental. The settlement of one dispute, involving as it does some surrender on the part of India, leads only to the raising of a fresh claim, as it was with Hitler in the thirties. Pakistan will keep the dispute simmering and make a major effort, involving the use of force, try conclusions with India, whenever it feels strong enough with a reasonable chance of success.
The means, Pakistan is likely to adopt, are also clear enough from past experience—nibbling at territories along with borders as part of the terror tactics and infiltration by the population; fanning of communal feelings by raising the cry of genocide or by using the non-Muslim particularly the Hindus, as a whipping boy, and simultaneously building up its military strength directly or through alliances to challenge India directly. Apart from thus harassing India locally, these tactics are intended to discredit India internationally, Pakistan is admittedly a theocracy, determined to strengthen itself by appeals to religious fanaticism and solidarity. Its ambition has been to build upon Islamic bloc, of which it would by a leading member.