They're lucky it wasn't near India or both sides might have had another pretext to go to war--again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_confli

They're lucky it wasn't near India or both sides might have had another pretext to go to war--again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflicts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflic... Islands are huge prizes, if they're inhabited they also get some 200 miles of sea around it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone