Lahore, 15th June: In 1947, as the devastation caused by World War II changed the global dynamics, borders were drawn in the Indian subcontinent and two states were carved as a legacy of British colonialism. India and Pakistan, despite gaining independence in the same year, took different paths from then onwards. At another end, from the ashes of World War II, a new bipolar world order emerged. The US camp, dispensing democracy and liberalism, and the Soviet camp, spreading communism based on socialist thought. As a result, countries began gravitating towards their respective orbits. Pakistan, owing to the immediate crisis … Continue reading Indian Neutrality during the Cold War and Lessons for Pakistan