Af-Pak and the Indian sub continent

One has said this before....the entire Indian sub continent, from Afghanistan to Myanmar to Thailand is one all encompassing civilization with a shared 5000 year old history. The only option available to this place is to be held together somewhat on the lines of the European Union and essentially the way this entire region was bound culturally aeons ago but independent politically. Since this cannot happen overnight, the process is likely to continue for another 100 years if not more. Of the entire subcontinent, the division of India into India and Pakistan is the most unnatural. As such this would be and should be the first to glue itself back together. While politically this might be harakiri at the moment, it is the only natural state for these two political entities. The two are like mercury and are bound to get together sooner rather than later.I foresee an era perhaps 50 years from now where there would be a redrawing of the subcontinental map and perhaps Pakistan as we know of it today will not exist. Some of the western parts would go to Afghanistan, some of it will remain independent, some of the north eastern parts would get merged with India / Kashmir while some of the central parts would continue to remain hubs of terrorism and under siege from the US, Israel, India and Iran.

Smaller States

i think that very dispassionately the Indian and the US government, along with the rest of the powers that be, should also start promoting the idea of Pakistan being broken up into smaller countries.
I mean come on, what is the problem with that? And in any case it would be better to manage smaller countries than one big country which is anyway not manageable! No one seems to be presiding over anything in that country since the last 60 years. So what better than to have smaller countries where at least there would be some countries which could be better governed. The ones that are not, probably, NWFP or Baluchistan would have their own ethnic chiefs presiding over and it would be better to control them rather than someone sitting in Islamabad and trying to exert control where none can be.