Intro- The antagonism b/w India - Pakistan, the two nuclear rivals remains one of the greatest tragedies of Asian politics. While India is contend with the status-quo by accepting Pakistan’s existence, Pakistan on the other hand, seeks to revise the status-quo as it sees India as an existential threat to its survival Trying to reconcile India and Pakistan is like trying to treat two patients whose only disease is an allergy to each other.-G Parthasarthy views of scholars: Stephen P Cohen Dilip Hiro- the longest august- partition is banquo's ghost whose shadow hangs over the Asian sub continent. Uses social constructivism to say India - Pakistan relationship is a result of misconceptions, antagonisms and mutual paranoia of elites that have created a view of the other as a security threat. Hussain Haqqani- Pakistan' reductive nationalism that comprises 95% hate for India and 5% love for Pak. A relationship which has not been resolved for last seven decades, it can no...