From a thoughtful netfriend:

In the case of Pakistan, I don't think there's much hope. It's been a deliberate policy of successive Pakistani governments to train terrorists on their home ground, for use against Kashmir, India and against the Soviets in Afghanistan, as well as further afield in other Islamic sponsored terrorism. The Americans were willing to use them in Afghanistan for their own purposes. Had the Americans followed up in Afghanistan with a much greater aid program after the Soviet exit, they might have been able to avoid a lot of the problems which have ensued. Now they're tied down on two frustrating fronts.

What you sow, you reap. I've had a suspicion for years that if there is a fundamentalist takeover of Pakistan, one of the things that will rapidly follow will be a nuclear war, probably started by India. I don't see India waiting to see what the hotheads do with their new nuclear stockpile.

The following quote came from this site. It is from an article on Moslem violence in India when Hindu India was ruled by Moslems (the Moghul Empire and before). Hinduism is a fairly peaceful religion. Islam is not. If Moslems can't find a common enemy to fight, they then seem to turn on each other, since violence is part of their creed. Again you sow what you reap. To quote somebody I know, "The legacy of Moslem violence in India is burned deeply into the Indian consciousness".

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID={401C6222-3668-4E4B-9824-D85A9D2B4B6A}

"These massacres perpetrated by Moslems in India are unparalleled in history. In sheer numbers, they are bigger than the Jewish Holocaust, the Soviet Terror, the Japanese massacres of the Chinese during WWII, Mao's devastations of the Chinese peasantry, the massacres of the Armenians by the Turks, or any of the other famous crimes against humanity of the 20th Century. But sadly, they are almost unknown outside India."

January 2008