Editorial

Back to the Drawing Board with Pakistan

By the Editor

So, things are back to square one with Pakistan. After inviting them to oath taking, extending a friendly hand and making all the good gestures, prime minister is reciprocated for his goodwill by shelling of civilian areas in Kashmir and heavy firing on our jawans along the LOC. Fortunately, our leadership had a common sense of a strongly retorting in same terms but the bottom line is for how long this has to go on like this.

As far as peaceful coexistence is concerned our western neighbours don’t believe in any such thing. Their jealousy is fueled by India’s rapid economic growth and their own deteriorating household, further add to this mixture the election of a conservative candidate like Modi with a huge majority, whose rise to power is giving gastric troubles to Islamabad. Earlier governments in New Delhi use to keep mum on Pakistani transgressions on the border but tough stance from Modi government might not sit well with their strategic goals. The problem for us is that there is hardly anyone in Pakistan political circles to have the charisma and capability to put a lid on its military and intelligence services that fosters groups like Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Right from the moments of its birth, the very foundations that formed Pakistan sowed the seeds for its future. It’s goal of exclusion to people of other religion, never worked out for both Muslims and Non-Muslims. Country is anything but stable and power jumps between military coups and public elections. We can’t deal with a velvet glove with such a neighbour who’s responsible for attacks on India parliament, Taj hotel – 26/11 and countless other acts of terrorism on Indian soil. They bomb the very people of Kashmir they proclaim to sympathize with and had Taliban succeeded in silencing Malala, the world might have never heard her powerful voice and courageous tale. Instead of encouraging youth like this our neighbours chose to shake hands with the likes of Bin-Laden.

But nonetheless, India is not responsible of troubles in someone else’s home and this is what Indian leadership has to understand. It cannot go both ways that one day we are sitting at the dinner table and the next day we are at each other throats. It’s making us look fools by trusting someone that had the history of back stabbing their benefactors. Just because Pakistan has nuclear weapon doesn’t give them the authority to draw lines at their will.

And the world community has to learn a lesson here too. UN, United States, NATO, Afghanistan, China, Japan, North & South Korea all have an interest in this part of the world. World cannot live at peace until guns are silent in this geographic location. The stakes are too high for everyone to sit at the sidelines in India-Pakistan conflict.

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