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The India-Pakistan rivalry has endured since 1947 but the nature of the troubled relationship is changing. This paper examines academic discourse, political speeches and media reports, and concludes that the relationship is becoming increasingly asymmetric as India responds better to regional geopolitics and has stronger economic drivers than Pakistan. The paper examines the modern rivalry through regional level analysis. The regional level, where still on-going conflict and chaos in Afghanistan prevails, is providing the opportunity for the rivalry to be played out in proxy and the Sino-Indian narrative is increasingly superseding the traditional India-Pakistan one.