Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A-, University of California, Los Angeles, course: India and Pakistan, language: English, abstract: This paper goes into the background covering the differences leading up to the breakup of Pakistan, the civil war that broke out when West Pakistani troops tried to subdue the East, the regional war that broke out when India intervened, and the Cold War context that it was a part of at the time.