INDIA’S POLICY

TOWARDS
PAKISTAN

NIDA HAYAT
Foreign policy
 India is the second most populous country
 world's most-populous democracy
 and recently has one of the fastest economic growth
rates in the world.
 With the world's tenth largest military expenditures
and eleventh largest economy
 India has a long history of collaboration with several
countries and is considered a leader of the
developing world
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o India's foreign policy has always regarded the concept of neighborhood,

around a central axis of historical and cultural commonalities.

 The guiding principles of India's Foreign Policy have been founded on

pragmatism and pursuit of national interest.

 protecting India's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

 India's foreign policy is a forward-looking engagement with the rest of

the world, based on a rigorous, realistic and contemporary assessment
of the bilateral, regional and global geo-political and economic milieu.
Policy with Pakistan..
 In the 1990s, India's economic problems and the demise of
the bipolar world political system forced India to reassess
its foreign policy and adjust its foreign relations.

 Inthe mid-1990s, India attracted the world attention

towards the alleged Pakistan-backed terrorism in Kashmir.

 The Kargil the mid-1990s, India attracted the world

attention towards the alleged Pakistan-backed terrorism in
Kashmir.
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 After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Indian
intelligence agencies provided the U.S. with
significant information on Al-Qaeda and related
groups' activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

 India'sextensive contribution to the War on

Terrorism, coupled with a surge in its economy,
has helped India's diplomatic relations with several
countries
Development since 2004..
 Violent activities in the region declined in 2004. There are two main reasons for
this:

 warming of relations between New Delhi and Islamabad which consequently

lead to a ceasefire between the two countries in 2003

 and the fencing of the LOC being carried out by the Indian Army.

 Moreover, coming under intense international pressure, Islamabad was

compelled to take actions against the militants' training camps on its territory.

 In 2004, the two countries also agreed upon decreasing the number of troops
present in the region.
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 Since the initiation of peace process, several confidence-
building-measures (CBMs) between India and Pakistan have
taken shape.

 The Samjhauta Express and Delhi–Lahore Bus service are one of

these successful measures which have played a crucial role in
expanding people to people contact between the two countries.

 The initiation of Srinagar– Muzaffarabad Bus service in 2005

and opening of a historic trade route across the Line of Control.
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 In the Kashmir earthquake in 2005, India sent aid to
affected areas in Pakistani Kashmir & Punjab as well as
Indian Kashmir

 in2008 further reflects increasing eagerness among the

two sides to improve relations

 Though bilateral trade between India and Pakistan was a

modest US$1.7 billion in March 2007, it is expected to
cross US$10 billion by 2010.
Present relations..
 The recent terror attacks in Mumbai, however, have seriously
undermined the relations between the two countries.

 India is alleging Pakistan of harboring militants on their soil, while

Pakistan vehemently denies such claims.

 Relations are currently hampered since India has sent a list of 40

alleged fugitive in various terror strikes to Pakistan, expecting the
handover of the said 40 people to the Indian Government.

 Pakistan, on the other hand, has openly declared to be having no

intentions whatsoever of doing the above said extradition.
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 There is no change in India’s policy towards
Pakistan since the November 2008 terrorist attacks
in Mumbai.

 Terrorismwas, is and will continue to remain the

major concern for India.
Indian hostility towards Pakistan…
 South Asia expert Stephen Cohen of Washington’s
Brookings Institution recently told his audience:
 “Not a few Indian generals and strategists have
told me that if only America would strip Pakistan
of its nuclear weapons then the Indian army could
destroy the Pakistan army and the whole thing
would be over.”
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