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by mercy_dude 1401 days ago
I don’t think you understand geopolitics in that part of the world. Shia dominated Iran has very little influence on Sunni Pakistan. As far as I can recall, Pakistan always had their entire existence centred around anti-India perspective, the war they fought with India over Kashmir in 65 and then over Bangladesh in 71 predates the shah movement. Soms of their most fanatic military leaders were actually before the 71 war.

Every country plays games but not in a self destructive manner. If Pakistani leadership had any sense and if their people were not always fooled by thinking that their leaders are leading a jihad and protecting Islam, they would have realized focusing your entire foreign and economic policy based on the geopolitical rivalry over a piece of land that has less than 1% of total GDP is not a good cause.

Just wait till they have a balance of payment problem. Their reserves are drying up too all because of these stupid economic policies. Instead of doing trade deals with your closest neighbour and one of the largest economic powers, they actively sabotage any economic influence. These people are really stupid.

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Control of Kashmir was never about its economic output.

the water from that region is life for more 1-2 billion people in Indian subcontinent, east Asia and china.

Wars this century will be fought over water over in the Himalayas between three nuclear powers no less .

Climate change is not going to just impact the environment, it is going to displace a lot of people , people with guns ands bombs and badly affected by changing environments.

Dude what are you talking about? Fresh water supply in India mainly comes from twelve river system that are to be interlinked. Not from Kashmir.
Punjab in Pakistan depends on the Indus River system and that gets a good chunk of its water from glacial melt in the Himalayas in Kashmir.

From the time of partition and standstill agreement the water disputes from Kashmir is deeply entwined in the conflict.

Hydrological importance of Himalayas for all three countries and others in the region cannot be overstated .