India's conflict with Pakistan is over strategic issues like :

(1) Import natural gas from Afghanistan

(2) Role of non-regional powers in South Asia

(3) India's demand for a permanent seat in Security Council

(4) Control of the Siachen glacier

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India’s conflict with Pakistan is also over strategic issues like the control of the Siachen glacier and over acquisition of arms. The arms race between the two countries assumed a new character with both states acquiring nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver such arms against each other in the 1990s.