Regional Stability and Pakistan

South Asia is a region of diverse peoples, assorted cultures, but multiple conflicts. We have an example of Europe before us that how it transformed itself from a warring region to a unified region of vast potential. We gaze at Europe having single visa, one currency (euro), stronger than dollar, and one parliament to reflect on the decisions taken by individual parliaments. It is painful for South Asia which is nowhere near normalization, much less cohesion. It is wracked by internal conflicts and outer dangers. The two main countries, India and Pakistan, are not even on speaking terms. Kashmir is the major bone of contention between them. Regional stability is hostage to this decades-old territorial feud. Trade and economic ties are well nigh absent between them. Thus, mindsets rooted in the past have overcome modern realities of contemporary, globalized era.

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