Pakistan, Oct. 17 -- Post partition of 1947, eight decades down the road, no major international politician or head of state has ever officially called for India's disintegration. Predictions of fragmentation have surfaced periodically in journalism, intelligence analyses, and activists' rhetoric. Around the partition, some British commentators did predict that India would eventually break apart, while during the Cold War, certain Western strategists and intelligence analysts described India as a "fragile federation" that might collapse under internal pressures. During the 1960s-70s, China labelled India as an "unnatural construct" destined to fragment, but it was more of a political messaging than a policy statement. After the Soviet and...