“Status-quo was unacceptable to India.”
The status-quo ante I am referring to was simply the status-quo ante of the essential balance of power on the subcontinent; that neither Pakistan or India would think itself so all-powerful (and the other so terribly weak) as to attempt to initiate all-out war with the other.
The refugee issue during the East Pakistan-West Pakistan conflict, and even the Kashmir issue, were flash-points that could (and were) contained or resolved, even if some conflict was involved, without the general balance of power being undone.
the problem is that you make sense in a MAD world - a world driven by logic and common sense like between the US and USSR.
however pakistan, and every other islamic state is not driven by common sense,rather by madness
Pakis believed that they had the right to rule over the "pagan hindoos" and as I've said above, their entire philosophy of who they are is based on a negative "we are NOT india" so their entire existence is defined by constantly opposing India
Pakistan realised in 1971 that it could not oppose india in a direct war, so it started its jihadi training activities -- which led to 9/11 etc. etc.