Care to detail how the US and Russia are to blame for the Kashmir conflict? The rigidity and unreasonableness of Pakistan continues it; the Indian opposition to the idea of Pakistan created it. Frankly, the world outside of South Asia cares little about Kashmir.
As to the article, is this surprising? Pakistan is at war and India is trying to keep pace as best it can with China's military build-up. Is the US/Russia/France responsible for the Chinese build-up as well in your view?
You speak as if the Indian and Pakistan economies are in the same position. One is rapidly growing and projected to become a superpower in 30-40 years; the other is stagnant and the nation facing the threat of disintegration. India has tons of foreign investment, Pakistan almost none because it is so unstable and has a large number of people opposed to any kind of relations with so-called "kafirs." The question Pakistanis need to ask is what did India do that Pakistan didn't? They both started from the same economic point, come out of the same colonial experience, have the same history, have basically the same culture (with the significant difference being religion), etc. There is no excuse for India to be rising and Pakistan to be where it is today.
I think you are one of the reasons of the hostility between the two..
Countries had conflicts in the past and the will have them in future as well, but few are to mention having stretched this much in the post WWII era.
Kashmir Conflict has became a Unique selling point for Russia and USA. These countries will never allow India and Pakistan to sit and re-solve this issue on the table, they will come up with a conspiracy every time there is any serious effort to solve it. The motive is obvious, who want to sabotage their arms market? nor Russia neither USA, so the conflicts still stand, will continue to stand, as much as we blame the western power for the conflict, more credit goes to our incompetent political leadership, these leaders just feed hate and war-mongering emotions on the both sides of the border. They have made it habit to have it as their winning edge in elections and to gain cheap publicity.
If you think India is rising star, then please tell this to many workers you are busting their back-side working on lowest possible wages in Gulf Countries, they are not in thousands but millions, every day news papers have stories of Indians being raped or killed or not being paid their wages. Undoubtedly the so-called rising India has scored 135th rank when it comes to human development.
Hiding your head in sand won't help, but i see that there is nothing else you have learned so far, no wonder India is where it is today.
Anyway the thread is not about India and Pakistan, it is about the on the spending priorities of both countries not to mention the kick-backs and commissions these political leadership get from these kind of deals