Asian powers in Kashmir Z.G. MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS Some 18 years back British historian Alastair Lamb, in his second book “Birth of Tragedy” raised some important questions about the birth of the “Kashmir Dispute”. In the questions posed, he looked for the attributes for the cause and perpetuation of this dispute.  One of the questions that he raised is about the geographical location of the state: “Had the State of Jammu and Kashmir been situated almost anywhere else in the Subcontinent and had it embraced a lesser area, India-Pakistan argument over its future might not have been conducted with particular intensity. The State, however, lay not only adjacent to both India and Pakistan but also on a key frontier region which gave access to Central Asia, a part of the world which … Read entire article »