Ballots and Battles: How India’s Elections Feed on Conflict with Pakistan
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By Florence G. Rusconi (*) The end of English colonial rule over India in 1947 originated three new states: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which became independent of Pakistan in 1971. It also provoked the largest migratory movement in the history of humanity and an unresolved territorial conflict. Hence, Asia [...] The post India and Pakistan: a dangerous and invisible conflict appeared first on Trade and Justice.
Ballots and Battles: How India’s Elections Feed on Conflict with Pakistan
By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal India, the world’s largest democracy, has held regular elections since gaining independence on 15 August 1947. With over 900 million eligible voters today, Indian elections are often hailed as monumental democratic exercises. However, a critical examination of India’s electoral history reveals a disturbing pattern; the deliberate creation of external threats—primarily through engineered tensions with Pakistan—to secure e…
By Jorge Robles Mella, Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and Aerospace Studies of the Chilean Air Force. Historical contextNo doubt that the historic conflict between India and Pakistan is one of the oldest and most complex in the recent world, where its origins date back to the partition of India in 1947. We must remember that, during the British colonial era, India was united under a single government, however, religious and cultu…
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