AN OVERVIEW OF PAKISTAN’S KASHMIR POLICY DURING PERVAIZ MUSHARRAF REGIME: FROM HOSTILITY TO NORMALIZATION
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Pakistan and India remained hostile neighbours with strained bilateral relationship right after getting independence in 1947. Multi factors contributed for this hostility, but however the ‘Kashmir dispute’ between the two state is main bone of contention. This dispute is considered a parameter of their mutual relations as both states went to war on this issue several times and caused surliness between the two countries. Both states remained uncompromised in their stands on their official policies from 1947 to 2001. The events of September 11, 2001, drastically changed the world order and also disturbed the framework in which Pakistan’s Kashmir policy had run since 1989. The 9/11 attacks set off a hasty downslide in Indo-Pak relations. India tried to use the ‘war on terror’ to its advantage, by trying to equate freedom frighters with global terrorism as she pictured the Kashmir problem purely as a matter of combating terrorism. This research paper seeks to present an overview and nalysis of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy during the Musharraf regime with special focus on its impact on the factors demanding a change in earlier policy of non-compromise. Further, between the two states in their mutual relations.
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