“Can India and Pakistan Break the British Curse?” That question, posed by EIR 13 years ago to the month, remains relevant today.
EIR wrote at that time:
“There are distinct indications that some forces within India and Pakistan have made headway in improving relations between their two countries. While the intent, and whatever progress has been made by their efforts, are laudable, what both sides must recognize is that a number of external, and some internal, forces will do their best to prevent consolidation of this progress. Well-wishers of both India and Pakistan must train their eyes on those who want the conflict between these two populous South Asian nations to continue.
“First in that list is Britain, which harbors, and has promoted over the years, politicians, bureaucrats, immigrants, and terrorists who spare no efforts to stoke the fires of the Kashmir conflict.… Even if such an effort does not succeed, the British Empire-servers `need’ the conflict in order to exert influence over the area and to prevent India and Pakistan from working together for the development of their respective countries and the nations of the Eurasian landmass.”
Now to today. Three days after the April 22 bloody terror attack near Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir, Dr. Chietigi Bajpaee, Senior Research Fellow in the South Asia, Asia-Pacific Programme at the British Crown’s leading foreign policy think tank, Chatham House (aka, Royal Institute of International Affairs, forecast that “The Kashmir Attack Will Renew Hostilities between India and Pakistan,” and “military escalation is likely.”
