{"id":31815,"date":"2012-09-10T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/09\/10\/chapter-2-india-and-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T01:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:11:37","slug":"chapter-2-india-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2012\/09\/10\/chapter-2-india-and-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2. India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani relationship has been fraught with tension, manifesting itself in several wars, ongoing border disputes and terrorist incidents.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 13% of all Indians have a favorable view of Pakistan; 59% have an unfavorable opinion of their Muslim neighbor. This is the lowest percentage approval of Pakistan among the nine countries where this question was asked.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img data-dominant-color=\"f0eeef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f0eeef;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22859 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/INDIA0011.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"193\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About six-in-ten Indians (59%) see Pakistan as a <em>very <\/em>serious threat to India. Pakistan is viewed as a far greater menace than Lashkar-e-Taiba, an extremist organization, the Naxalite Maoist domestic insurgency (which in 2011 was blamed for about 600 deaths) or the security challenge posed by China, which fought a war with India in 1962 and in recent years has periodically massed troops on India\u2019s northeastern frontier.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite their generally unfavorable sentiment toward their northwestern neighbor, Indians are strongly supportive of improving relations with their long-time adversary. Seven-in-ten Indians think it is important to improve ties with Pakistan and nearly two-thirds (64%) back increased Indo-Pakistani trade. An overwhelming 77% think it is important to resolve the Kashmir dispute and 58% favor further talks to reduce India-Pakistan tensions.<\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;views-of-each-other&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"views-of-each-other\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Views of Each Other<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indians and Pakistanis see their often fractious relationship in a similarly negative light. But both want their bilateral relations to improve.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each has an unfavorable view of the other, but Pakistani sentiment is more intense: 72% of Pakistanis see India unfavorably, with more than half (55%) viewing their neighbor <em>very <\/em>unfavorably. And 57% of Pakistanis see India as a <em>very <\/em>serious threat.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img data-dominant-color=\"f1f4f3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f1f4f3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22860 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/INDIA0010.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"191\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But majorities in both countries want to see their governments pursue efforts to better cross-border ties. Seven-in-ten Indians and roughly six-in-ten Pakistanis (62%) think it is important to improve relations. Nearly two-thirds of both Indians and Pakistanis say that increased trade between the two countries would be a good thing. But, while supportive, Indians are less-intensely focused than Pakistanis on resolving the Kashmir dispute. About six-in-ten Indians (59%) say it is <em>very<\/em> important to resolve Indo-Pakistani differences over that region, compared with roughly eight-in-ten Pakistanis (79%) who hold such strong sentiments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani relationship has been fraught with tension, manifesting itself in several wars, ongoing border disputes and terrorist incidents. Only 13% of all Indians have a favorable view of Pakistan; 59% have an unfavorable opinion of their Muslim neighbor. 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