He is right: India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, most recently in 1999.
ECONOMIST: The peace process is still on track, but it's a slow one
Since India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons, this may be the highest-risk strategy of all.
Then last year, India and Pakistan went ahead and exploded a series of nuclear bombs.
India and Pakistan declared themselves nuclear weapon states when they tested atomic bombs in 1998.
The Indus Water Treaty has withstood the test of two wars between India and Pakistan.
At any rate, Kashmiris have seen few benefits from the confidence-building process between India and Pakistan.
ECONOMIST: What peace process? Kashmiris are entitled to ask
There was some rare politeness along with pledges of support last month between India and Pakistan.
He has asked Congress, however, for authority to lift the restrictions placed on India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan share a long history of distrust and enmity, marked by sporadic military conflict.
Both India and Pakistan would do well to take a leaf from East Asia's book.
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over Kashmir.
"Well, everybody expected India and Pakistan to go for each other, " she told Asiaweek.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars and numerous near-wars in the past 60 years.
Thursday's remarks by Mr Malik follow two months of rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
Of the three wars India and Pakistan have fought, two have been over Kashmir.
Picking on Israel makes the silence and hypocrisy that surrounds nuclear-armed India and Pakistan all the stranger.
Many of the more impenetrable problems Cyprus, India and Pakistan, Western Sahara are hardy perennials, resisting change.
In truth, the U.S. can't alter the balance of power between India and Pakistan.
By one estimate, without barriers trade between India and Pakistan would grow nearly tenfold.
In the case of India and Pakistan the bitterness of the dispute is particularly alarming.
Senior diplomats from India and Pakistan are due to meet in Delhi on February 25th.
The Indian prime minister said he hoped for a "new course" in relations between India and Pakistan.
The Kashmir dispute has been the cause of major tension between India and Pakistan for six decades.
But now we need governments like the United States, Russia, India and Pakistan to come on board.
Undaunted, India and Pakistan this week agreed on a second bus-route, as well as one for lorries.
ECONOMIST: What peace process? Kashmiris are entitled to ask
Kashmir was split between India and Pakistan in 1948, but both countries claim it in its entirety.
International attention was riveted on Kashmir last May after India and Pakistan both set off nuclear bombs.
The last series between India and Pakistan in either country was in 2007-2008 when Pakistan visited India.
Violence in Kashmir has plunged India and Pakistan into the worst crisis since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir dominated Mr Hoon's talks with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Wednesday.
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