Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for India’s Muslims; but, until recently (as Pakistan’s population continues to grow at a higher rate than India’s), more Muslims remained in India than lived in Pakistan. Bilateral relations have been bedeviled ever since by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state (but home to only 3% of India’s Muslims, who are scattered in larger numbers throughout the country).
1947年英国撤离时硬生生地将巴基斯坦从卑躬屈膝的印度剥离开去，成为印度穆斯林人口的家园；但直到不久前（因为巴基斯坦人口增长速度持续超过印度），多数穆斯林仍然居住在在印度，而并未生活在巴基斯坦。自此之后的双边关系一直饱受不断恶化的克什米尔地区领土纷争的困扰，克什米尔是印度唯一一个以穆斯林为主的省份（但那里只居住着3%的印度穆斯林人口，其余绝大部分都分散在印度全国的各个省份）。