La Pissarreta d'en Partal: Pakistan, India, Kashmir and a Poorly Drawn Border

There is an old diplomatic saying that if there is a geopolitical conflict anywhere in the world, it is always possible that a Britisher will arrive armed with a map and a pen and complicate it even more. A particularly significant case in this regard is the partition of the former Indian Union between India and Pakistan, which still drags on the difficult problem of Kashmir, the tension over which has intensified in recent days. In La Pissarret…