By Robert D. Kaplan
What would a terminally diseased Pakistani state come to look like?
It
might see more feisty regionalism in the southern provinces of
Balochistan and Sind, whose leaders told me on a trip through the area
some years ago that they would prefer over time a closer relationship
with New Delhi than with Islamabad. These are people who never accepted a
strong Pakistani state to begin with and always advocated more
federalism. With Balochistan and Sind moving closer to India, and the
Afghanistan-Pakistan Pashtun border area in permanent disarray because
of turmoil inside Afghanistan according to such a scenario, then a rump
state of Greater Punjab might begin to emerge — again, denied for years
by officials up until the point that it is undeniable.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stratfor/2014/12/24/rearranging-the-subcontinent/
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