United States’s involvement in the India and Pakistan Conflicts

United States’s involvement in the India and Pakistan Conflicts

The intervention between India and Pakistan has always been a rocky one ever since the initial separation of Pakistan from India. Both of these nations have allies are strong independent countries, and have a strong armed forces, perhaps that might be the catalyst for conflict despite the many attempts made by each one to ease their apprehensions. The historic tension and antipathy between the two countries has been tedious. In addition, since Pakistan’s division from India, their hatred towards each other has been utterly prominent, and there are a few factors that have ushered this. Many other countries have tried to appease their conflict, the U.S being a principal one, has played a fundamental role in the India-Pakistan conflict. Despite India and Pakistan have recently agreed to reduce tension, the US has not been very effective at ameliorating the matters between the two, including the nuclear tension, the Kashmir war, and the general Hindu-Muslim conflict

U.S. Concerned About Nuclear Tensions in India and Pakistan.

With problems that involve serious matters like the possibility of a nuclear war, the U.S. fears that this hostility could lead to very harsh outcomes. “And now both countries are armed with nuclear weapons” (The World’s Most Dangerous Border). The unpredictable relations between India and Pakistan are very capricious and dicey, and this situation worsens even more with both countries having access to nuclear weapons. Many times in the India-Pakistan history, the U.S. has made attempts to try to cajole each country to avoid the use of nuclear weapons. For example, after the suicide bomber attacks in the Indian parliament in 2001, killing many of In...

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... U.S. has been successful at easing tensions and conflicts between India and Pakistan, there have been no legitimate, prolong-efficient solutions and, therefore, no long term solutions can be conceived yet. In spite of the fact that the U.S is typically known as being allied with Pakistan, it has tried to resolve many of the problems the two countries face, without being biased towards either one. Albeit the many strong efforts made by the U.S., strong tension still remains between these two potent countries. The recent reunion in New York City between the Prime Ministers, Sharif and Singh, where the two agreed to minimize tension, is fundamentally a step towards solving this crucial predicament. Finally, this immense pressure, which ushers each country to berate and criticize the other one, establishes an unpredictable scenario for the world to grasp and conceive.