ABSTRACT
India and Pakistan are on the brink, once again. Ever since their first Kashmir war in 1947 they have seen so many wars, war-like situations, and cross-border fire exchanges that they have probably lost the count. The Kashmir question has been analysed so comprehensively over the decades that nothing new can be said in this short article. Professor Rasul Bakhsh Rais of the Lahore University of Manage-ment Studies (LUMS) calls it a ‘stable instability’. The Kashmir question has been analysed so comprehensively over the decades that nothing new can be said in this short article. Professor Rasul Bakhsh Rais of the Lahore University of Manage-ment Studies (LUMS) calls it a ‘stable instability’. The most ridiculous thing happened when an army jeep tied up a Kashmiri boy on its bonnet to use him as a human shield to protect the soldiers from the young stone throwers.
