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ravager: Korea, Vietnam and India were occupied by foreign imperialist powers (Japanese, French and British). All three of the Imperialist powers were downright brutal in their treatment of their colonies).

Ravager -- you cannot compare the actions of the British with the Japanese or even the French.

British interest in India was trade-based. The French tried to make their colonies 'France overseas' and japan made slave colonies.

A vast difference

India's division was not a "forcibly done by the British" -- one can argue that British policies over a century of divide and rule had led to this, but the intent and the PUSH was purely by the Jinnah Moslem league.

Moslems clearly stated that they feared living in a Hindu dominated India

the Indo-Pak wars were not due to the USA-USSR rivalries, rather it is the centuries old attack of Islam that predates communism by millenia.

There is zero parallel between india and Vietnam or Korea.

“India's division was not a “forcibly done by the British” — one can argue that British policies over a century of divide and rule had led to this, but the intent and the PUSH was purely by the Jinnah Moslem league.”

A vast majority of people in the subcontinent (even Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh) believe that the Partition was forced upon India by the British. Volumes of books and articles have been written by many famous personalities very knowledgeable about the subject who have very clearly articulated that the Partition of India was purely a British design.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a nobody. He didn't even win the elections, he didnt have the popularity vote even among Muslims at the time.

“Moslems clearly stated that they feared living in a Hindu dominated India”

It wasn't Muslims who said that. It was Jinnah.

“Moslems clearly stated that they feared living in a Hindu dominated India”

Those were all baloney created by the British. The Muslims in Punjab, Sindh and Bengal who supported the idea of Partition were basically promised a booty of land and property that would be left behind by Hindus and Sikhs who would have no place in Islamic Pakistan.

“the Indo-Pak wars were not due to the USA-USSR rivalries, rather it is the centuries old attack of Islam that predates communism by millenia.

There is zero parallel between india and Vietnam or Korea.”

The parallels I made between India and Vietnam /Korea have nothing to do with India-Pakistan wars. I have very crealy articulated the connection, please read my posts again.

If Islam alone was the reason for India-Pak war then India would have been at war with Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Iran/Uzbekistan as well. India does not go around picking fights with Islamic countries because India feels the need to settle historical scores.

Pakistan's bellicosity and military belligerence was(and still is) fed by US military and financial largess not by Islam.