ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to touch upon various points of divergence and convergence fashioning the bilateralism with a premise that, the common psyche or general mind-frame has largely remained unaltered, although the number of Indo-Pakistani issues have astonishingly decreased in numbers. The flight of the Kashmiris from the Valley into neighboring Azad Kashmir, and Indian allegations of Pakistani military support to the Kashmiri activists, have added both moral and military dimensions to the issue. The general Kashmiri alienation from India has generated considerable emotional heat on both sides of the borders. The Kashmiri frustrations with the government in Srinagar and New Delhi were exacerbated with mounting economic difficulties and an undue interference from the Congress administration. The revolutions in Eastern Europe in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, together with Islamic movements in the neighborhood, greatly enthused the Kashmiri youth who, shunning all the stereotypes about their traditional docility, began a twin-pronged resistance to India's rule.
