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I thought Nixon called Indira a witch, and not a bitch? Or perhaps he called her both a witch and a bitch? A witch bitch? :D Indira was India's best PM and Nixon was possibly America's worst president. It's ironic that they ruled their respective countries at the same time.

Obviously, the future cannot be predicted, and a million things could go wrong with balkanization, as they have with other cases of balkanization around the world. The one certain thing, however, is that Pakistan in its current form cannot last. Something has to change. We are living in...

Both. India is a secular democracy, and Indian law, flawed though it may be, is based on these principles. But many Pakistanis want rule under Shar'ia, Islamic law, and a quasi-fundamentalist government. This is especially true for the less priveliged Pakistanis, who happen to make up the...

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will be reunited with Indian Kashmir, but Sindh and especially Punjab will be liabilities more than anything. It's best to let those states become independent, albeit with a pro-Indian government in charge.

The threat of Pakistani nuclear profileration following a political collapse of some sort is extremely overrated, mainly because Pakistan itself is exaggerating it to obtain concessions from the West. It is FAR easier to obtain nukes from one of the former Soviet republics. There were over...

There are some analysts who say that one of the goals of the current war in Afghanistan is to encourage a civil war and balkanization of Pakistan, to facilitiate Western control of the Indian Ocean trade routes (particularly the Central Asia-Arabian Sea lines, which pass through Pakistan's...

Before the 2000s India was considered an "unfriendly" country in U.S. foreign policy; it was also viewed as relatively unimportant, and not unrightfully so. India's pre-reform economy was dismal by any definition of the word, trade between India and the international community was virtually...