When I was a student at Science Education Center some twenty to eighteen years ago, I read foreign news papers and journals and this is what I learnt in those days and from the internet these past few years...
In the late 1970's when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan the cold war saw a new turn around...The United States gave military and covert technology to Pakistan in order to repel the Soviet forces fighting the Mujaheddin of Afghanistan...The USA trained Pakistani military and covert officers...Pakistan's intervention in Afghanistan seriously caused a lot of casualties for the Soviet forces...Being a mountain country and from the intervention of Pakistan's intelligence service the ISI, the Soviet Union was unable to defeat the Mujaheddin...
The USA has give a fleet of advanced fighters of F-16's to Pakistan in order to repel a strike by the Soviet Union...The Pakistan was ready using these fighters to defend a strike by neighboring rivals India...
Now beginning in the 1980's Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons but the USA was not able to hinder the development...Even Israel's Mossad was unable to mount an operation in Pakistani soil because ISI was very vigilant in their internal security counter measures...
I read around 1994 the story of a book by two US authors about to be published...It was called "Critical Mass" and it was about a Pakistani India nuclear conflict...The book details an Indian nuclear strike in the operation stages against Pakistan and Pakistan's response after a little moment...National Security Agency or NSA of the United States noted a movements inside Pakistan using their spy satellites which completely similar to the order an movement followed by the USA when preparing for a nuclear strike...The USA immediately telephoned the Pakistani policy makers saying that even though they are technologically advanced they couldn't with hold an India strike and will loose the strike due to the massive air force of India...The Pakistani policy makers and prime minister called off the strike and India did the same...
Now both India and Pakistan are nuclear states in the world due to their tit for tat nuclear tests in 1998...The USA is now becoming a close ally of India while China is a close ally of Pakistan...However India still relies on Russia for it's military hardware and the USA is unwilling to give military hardware and technology to India...But the USA is considering to give nuclear technology to India...
The Sino war comes next...India was unable to defeat the LTTE in Sri Lanka...But the intervention of China and Pakistan made the Sri Lankan military to defeat LTTE in a few years...Pakistani F-16 fighters had bombed the LTTE build ups after flying through Chinese borders...The Sri Lankan army used technology and weapons given to them by China and their intelligence officers were trained by Pakistan...
However the mostly likely country to win in armed conflict between India and Pakistan is still India but China would not stand if India takes the lead...This is because India's military is more massive than Pakistan....
The above article is for pure academic consideration and not for other purposes....