WI: South Asian Union after partition?

There are probably dozens of What Ifs about a unified India that avoids partition, but what possibility could there have seriously been for some sort of political union between Pakistan (West and East) and India in the decades that followed? I know it sounds like a stretch considering how severely traumatic partition was for all those who experienced it, but just give this idea some thought.
 
NO CHANCE! The identity of Pakistan is its hatred towards India and the foundation of Pak state rests on its enmity to India.
 
Such a scenario is only viable is both states are partitioned into smaller entities.

Pakistan's very raison d'etre is being independent of India, so as long as such a state exist, unification is pretty much impossible.
 
NO CHANCE! The identity of Pakistan is its hatred towards India and the foundation of Pak state rests on its enmity to India.
No pakistan identity is islam unless thats anti indian now, that arguement can be used to india as the only reason all these people are united is the boogeyman of pakistan.
 
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Pakistan's very raison d'etre is being independent of India, so as long as such a state exist, unification is pretty much impossible.

He isn't talking about unification, he's talking about an EU-style union. Come to think of it such a union would have a small number of countries unless you include Burma and Sri Lanka, and have the former collapse into numerous ethnic states (Rohingya, Karen, Mon etc.) while the latter loses its Tamil areas.
 
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