Released: September 10, 2012 Deepening Economic Doubts in India
Chapter 2. India and Pakistan 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. This is the lowest percentage approval of
Pakistan among the nine countries where this question was asked.
About six-in-ten Indians (59%) see Pakistan as a very 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’s northeastern frontier. Despite their
generally unfavorable sentiment toward their northwestern
neighbor, Indi