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Say that the border guard shootout in '83 doesn't escalate into a full-blown war and cooler heads prevailed. What would the subcontinent be like today if the worst of the Indo-Pakistani wars was averted? Would India and Pakistan eventually get along? Was the war inevitable so as long as Gandhi and/or Zia-ul-Haq were in power? And how would the absence of a bloody 2 year long conflict in South Asia affect the Cold War?