Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....
Division of British India culminated into two new states of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.However, both Pakistan and India remained hostile since their inception.Multiple factors are responsible for their rivalry, such as the disputed Kashmir, water issues, communal riots, and assets distribution, etc. This affected the South Asian politics and invited the major powers to play their political game by influencing Indian and Pakistan's positions. The paper analyzes the bilateral conflict of India and Pakistan, their techniques to maintain the balance of power, and the role of major powers. The study also examines the foreign policies of India and Pakistan and their due positions since independence. The theory of balance of power has been applied to this study to explore the various aspects and prerequisites of BOP. The paper relies on qualitative methods of research to describe the positions of India and Pakistan in their strategies of the balance of power.
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Indo-Pak Rivalry, Balance of Power, Politics of Alliances, Foreign Policy, Cold War Politics, Major Powers Role
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(1) Uroosa Ishfaq
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
(2) Kashif Ashfaq
MPhil. Scholar, Department of Pakistan Studies, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Zainab Ahmad
Graduate Scholar, Department of IR % Politics (Girls Campus), IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan
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APA : Ishfaq, U., Ashfaq, K., & Ahmad, Z. (2021). Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power..... Global Political Review, VI(II), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).05
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CHICAGO : Ishfaq, Uroosa, Kashif Ashfaq, and Zainab Ahmad. 2021. "Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....." Global Political Review, VI (II): 33-44 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).05
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HARVARD : ISHFAQ, U., ASHFAQ, K. & AHMAD, Z. 2021. Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power..... Global Political Review, VI, 33-44.
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MHRA : Ishfaq, Uroosa, Kashif Ashfaq, and Zainab Ahmad. 2021. "Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....." Global Political Review, VI: 33-44
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MLA : Ishfaq, Uroosa, Kashif Ashfaq, and Zainab Ahmad. "Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....." Global Political Review, VI.II (2021): 33-44 Print.
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OXFORD : Ishfaq, Uroosa, Ashfaq, Kashif, and Ahmad, Zainab (2021), "Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....", Global Political Review, VI (II), 33-44
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TURABIAN : Ishfaq, Uroosa, Kashif Ashfaq, and Zainab Ahmad. "Pakistan-India Rivalry: An Analytical Perspective of Balance of Power....." Global Political Review VI, no. II (2021): 33-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).05