[chilepepper]

not only what you say, pakistan is *really* just part of the morass that was india...

[SunkenCiv]

Not by coincidence, either. The British laid out the borders. General Sir John Hackett, writing circa 1980 in his "The Third World War" work of fiction (very much fiction), expressed the sour-grapes British view that the Indian union would fall to pieces in no time. The former East Pakistan split off to form Bangladesh, and there have been violent movements (like the Sikh rebellion) that made it look as if India would fly apart at any minute. I doubt that it will happen, even as the Moslem terrorism widens across the country.