The implications of the Pahalgam attack

KASHMIR’S ONGOING STRUGGLE

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General Munir reiterated the longstanding Pakistani position that Kashmir was integral to Pakistan’s identity. Prior to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, he invoked the words of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, stating that “Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan”.

He emphasised that severing this “jugular vein” would be akin to ending Pakistan’s life, highlighting the strategic and emotional significance of the region to the nation.

Seventy-five years later, India is a global power with a GDP of 3.9 trillion USD as compared to Pakistan’s GDP of USD 330 billion.

As of 2024-2025, the economic gap between India and Pakistan has widened significantly, driven by structural reforms, global integration and internal stability in India versus political turmoil and economic crisis in Pakistan, together with the arrest of a number of political party leaders.

Pakistan’s economic challenges, which were on the brink of default in 2023, has depended on IMF bailouts and GCC (Gulf operation countries) loans, as it faces chronic trade and current account deficits, high inflation, political instability, and low investor confidence underscore the economy of a country in life support.

Juxtapose this with the geopolitical and strategic impacts that have seen India positioning itself as a major global power with influence in the G20, BRICS, and QUAD (Australia, India, Japan, and the USA) whereas Pakistan remains geopolitically relevant as, ironically, as a counterterrorism proxy (especially for China and the duplicitous USA), but economically fragile.

This sums up the history of a failed Pakistan and its 2 nation theory based on partitioning India on religious lines, conceived by Islamists and birthed by the nefarious British, which resulted in the loss of millions of lives, to date.

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