The argument can be made that historically there was quite a bit of animus within the Indian ruling classes for Pakistan. Certainly idiotic utterances by Indira Gandhi added to this. Those days are gone.
The centre in India is no longer in the North. For South Indians, like me, Pakistan is as foreign as Sudan. We have nothing in common. We don’t eat the same foods, don’t wear the same clothes, don’t speak a common language,or have a common prevalent Punjabi culture. If you add to this the younger generation of Indian leaders born after partition, some after 1971 even, Pakistan has never been anything but a sovereign country and a source of terrorism in India.
I can say unequivocally, and speaking for most South Indians, if it were up to me, Pakistan would be a secure, stable, prosperous country. But that is not what we have.
Pakistan, barring speculation by conspiracy theorists, cannot provide a single shred of evidence of Indian sponsored terrorism in Pakistan. As Collen Powell stated in 2001, Pakistan is the global hub of terrorism. As much as Pakistanis want to see an Indian hand in it, it’s the result of Pakistan’s shortsighted foreign policy.
For sure, India has lots of problems. We have a huge portion of our population in poverty. Most Indians live on less than one dollar a day. Most Indians are illiterate. Our baby girls are being killed because of notions of inferiority and being sold and kidnapped into the sex trade. We have armed political insurgencies because the fruits of our rapid development aren’t being shared by our landless and disenfranchised. India has more problems than can me enumerated in an internet message board. The last thing India wants or needs is a country committing acts of terrorism within India’s borders.
Development and modernization is moving in India bottom up. Kerala, the southern most state in India, has a literacy rate of 100%. Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai are the epicenters of the Indian revolution.
But the broader context is that India does not have a partner in peace in Pakistan. Pakistani governments and leaders are caught in a perpetual cycle of exile and coup d’état. Successive governments make deals, are exiled, and the next government passes of it’s failures as nefarious Indian activity.