AHC: Pakistan as the Dominant Military power on the indian subcontinent

Balkanize India.
Pakistan doesn't have a hope of even matching, let alone surpassing a united India.

Balkanized India that falls apart soon after independence would do it.

Another possibility is an India where a coup in the early years results in an almost comically inept, buffoonish government with shitty economics, incompetent military and a hated political regime. Think Idi Amin levels of buffoonery, Saddam's military incompetence and mixed with Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution levels of economic mismanagement and instability. In such a scenario, it is easy to visualize Pakistan in the 50s and 60s pulling ahead militarily and economically and staying there.

Of course, with a POD of 1947, this is very hard to imagine, but these two (Indian Balkanization or extreme incompetence) are the only two (slim) possibilities of how we can get a dominant Pakistan.
 
Balkanized India that falls apart soon after independence would do it.

Another possibility is an India where a coup in the early years results in an almost comically inept, buffoonish government with shitty economics, incompetent military and a hated political regime. Think Idi Amin levels of buffoonery, Saddam's military incompetence and mixed with Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution levels of economic mismanagement and instability. In such a scenario, it is easy to visualize Pakistan in the 50s and 60s pulling ahead militarily and economically and staying there.

Of course, with a POD of 1947, this is very hard to imagine, but these two (Indian Balkanization or extreme incompetence) are the only two (slim) possibilities of how we can get a dominant Pakistan.
Sounds about right
 
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