Unequal Division of Resources
Resources were not divided proportionally between India and Pakistan.
India argues that they only have access to 18% of the waters of the Indus Basin, which was decided back during the Indus Rivers Treaty, a treaty that attempted to resolve the problem of how to split the resource of water between the newly formed nations of Pakistan and India. When the partition happened, India received the three eastern rivers in the Indus River System while Pakistan received the three western rivers in the Indus River System. This partition allotted a greater amount of water to Pakistan, even though India had a significantly larger population size, showing how the resources were not proportionally divided between the two newly established nations.
India's claims on its limited water usage from the Indus Basin
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The division of the army between India and Pakistan
{Independence and Partition, 1947}
Indus Basin
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260,000 personnel from the army went to India while 140,000 personnel went to Pakistan. The once unified army was split when the partition into India and Pakistan occurred. Even though India had a significantly larger population than Pakistan’s at the time, it only received about two thirds of the personnel in the army, while Pakistan got about one thirds of the personnel in the army. Because India had a much larger population at the time, the partition of the army shows how resources were not proportionally divided between the two nations.