Should India break Diplomatic Ties with Pakistan?

This is a hot topic and can have people getting emotional and speaking in favour of the idea right from the start. However there are a lot of points that one can put forward against the idea of scrapping all diplomatic ties with Pakistan and these points can actually help a candidate get some good brownie points for thinking practically and not emotionally.

First the obvious reasons for scrapping diplomatic ties with Pakistan.

Pakistan has fought four wars with India and has been consistently sponsoring terrorist organisations to spread hatred between communities through terrorist activities in India.

Since the time of independence Pakistan has back stabbed India on numerous counts " funding terrorist activities, violating ceasefire norms. The recent beheading of Indian soldiers is one such example, countless others can be given for this point.

Pakistan has also held for over 60 years what is rightfully Indian territory " Pakistan occupied Kashmir. India has been a sizeable amount of defence funds every year to safeguard its territory and prevent any further intrusion by Pakistan.

Pakistan has taken India for granted and inspite of all efforts to maintain cordial diplomatic ties Pakistan has been the initiator of aggression.

Pakistan is a fragmented state and its governance and administration is in tatters. It does not make sense for India to make efforts for diplomatic ties with Pakistan when it might not gain anything out of it.

Pakistan has always opposed India in international forums and has always made sure to keep the lip service going.

Scrapping all diplomatic ties with Pakistan also has a lot of disadvantages.

Trade and Commerce: Pakistan is a major trade partner for India and imports a lot of Indian manufactured goods. Scrapping of diplomatic ties would hence mean loss of trade for India (no matter how small).

This would also mean that the situation between India and Pakistan would become increasingly tense in the future. This means that any situation can potentially spark of aggression from either side and India would always have to be on the guard and spruce up its defences.

Regional stability: Pakistan is a strong neighbour of India and maintaining cordial ties with Pakistan is very important for India to preserve regional peace. Any kind of aggression, conflict, battle can lead to disturbance in the region of Southeast Asia affecting investment and trade and commerce in both the countries.

Since Pakistan is a fragmented state now, it is quite a possibility that certain forces in Pakistan might be trying to sabotage the peace process and derailment of the peace process with only serve the vested interest is these forces.

Hence it is important to keep the peace process for various reasons. At the same time it can very well be argued that India should take a strong stand and let go of its image of being a soft state.

Truly speaking, not only India but the world even cannot believe Pakistani rulers. Public may not be that much bad. But looking at the past and browsing history regarding Pakistani rulers, they have always been treacherous and deceivers. While dealing with Pakistan, India must analyse the history of Bharat since the rule of invader devil Babur.

In Bharat, the Mughals have never been humans and Pakistani being their offspring and fellow beings can not in any matter or front be believed or relied. There are many things negative and devilish in Pakistan coincided in the above facts, but cannot be narrated here. Once one will analyse the above facts, he will get the answer of the question being raised.

Diplomacy in the modern era is the only way to go forward. War at this time not a far game. Even though there is a strong feeling that one party is benefiting than the other. If you are not supporting peaceful resolutions what can be the alternative.

What would be its implications to the majority of the people. Taking example of what is happening in Israel - Palestinian war thousands of people if not millions are displaced.

Truly speaking, not only India but the world even cannot believe Pakistani rulers. Public may not be that much bad. But looking at the past and browsing history regarding Pakistani rulers, they have always been treacherous and deceivers. While dealing with Pakistan, India must analyse the history of Bharat since the rule of invader devil Babur.

In Bharat, the Mughals have never been humans and Pakistani being their offspring and fellow beings can not in any matter or front be believed or relied. There are many things negative and devilish in Pakistan coincided in the above facts, but cannot be narrated here. Once one will analyse the above facts, he will get the answer of the question being raised.

Pakistan has fought four wars with India and has been consistently sponsoring terrorist organisations to spread hatred between communities through terrorist activities in India. Pakistan has always opposed India in international forums and has always made sure to keep the lip service going.

The experience of India in the last 67 years with Pakistan has amply made it very clear to every one that any effort by India to build good neighborly relations, is not going to work. We have been doing it since beginning and the result is known to all of us. The basic reason behind this is that the ruling elite in Pakistan including primarily its military, has a very deep rooted hatred for India and any thing Indian, for historical reasons. Their polices with respect to India are based on this.

They would never stop their games even if, Kashmir issue is settled in their favor, since the basic cause that is, their hatred for India and its success story will still remain. In spite of all the terror they have unleashed on India in the last more than 20 years and four wars, breaking diplomatic relations with them is not the answer. We need to have a presence in Islamabad to continue to know what all new games they are planning against us and what all is happening in that country.

Hello everyone.

According to my point of view we should break the diplomatic ties with Pakistan they always cheat us. Whenever we put the friendship hand towards the Pakistan they always provide the irrespective to our country. In 1999 we offers the friendship & piece for Pakistan at that time, what they gave us? Nothing only cheat.

I don't think India should break Diplomatic ties with Pakistan. We already know that both the nations have some serious problems between them. So by having diplomatic ties we could improve the relationship between the two countries.

No. India should open the door for Pak and vice versa, Pak people should about their development not to think about only revenge of Bangladesh and destroy its future. Pak is running from the USA to China for revenge from India by taking Kashmir out. But reversely is true.

Breaking diplomatic ties with Pakistan is not the solution. We should make the world around us about the terrorist activities. Even their friendly Muslim nations should be made against them and align Pakistan at world level. If any national aggression is done by Pakistan in future, we should give proper reply even military aggression.

Breaking diplomatic ties will achieve what?

What is the objective?

I believe that we would like to get back POK! Also, have an issue free Kashmir valley.

Breaking off diplomatic ties could reach our doors of war, generally, the main objective of war is to achieve a forced peace.

So suppose we go to a conventional war, Pakistan would be annihilated. Suppose if it becomes a nuclear catastrophe, India will survive but will become 30 years behind. However, we still will have a disgruntled group in Kashmir. So is any war achieving us the objective? I guess no.

We can take Pakistan out of the equation but does the problem go? No, it does not vanish.

So the question is how do we get peace in Kashmir?

Eliminating Terrorism is the solution, if that happens, we can call back the army to barracks, this will end the collateral damage. Then over a time as peace prevails, the disgruntled shall no longer have any support. The matter would be solved.

For this, we need talks, diplomatic maneuvers. Not breaking diplomatic ties.