In days of petty crimes getting reported on the national
news channel, all the news channels have given lot of space of these important
developments. We all recently celebrated our independence day or can I say, we
just enjoyed a Holiday. We have really lost the true meaning of Independence
day celebrations where day used to start with seeing the parade on National
Television. I was never the one who will wake up early and go to school for
flag hoisting so watching TV parade was my start of Independence Day. Now days,
it has now become just another holiday.
As you have gone through the naughty start of the previous
blog, not for this as its going to be on a serious subject. We all are consumed
by the news of the continuous ceasefire violations on the LOC. This continuous
firing on the border reminds me of the days a decade back. When we used to hear
the news of these firing on daily basis. We used to wonder if there was a
silence even for one day.
After very long peace at the LOC, guns have again started to
make the noise. Again the news are getting started with LOC violation update
and soldiers injuries. MMS as always is silent, BJP as always making noises.
But what has happened in last few days which have contributed to this
situation. I mean it was hunky dory in Indo-Pak relationship but again the LOC
has become a red hot issue. I know we all want to forget this not so happy news
but do we have any other way. We can change anything but not our neighbor so we
got to live with this.
India and Pakistan has logger head with each other in past
decade but never been so many violation on the border. Credit has to be given
to both the parties. I know Pakistan is busy on its western front due to war on
terror but still they have resources to keep instigating us on the east of
their border. Many of us wonder why there are fight us with even know that they
would never beat us in the war.
Many of us might be thinking about the Kashmir being the
core issue but I think it is not. Pakistani’s don’t gain much from it as they
already have the strategically important piece of land with them. Much of it
they have given to china so we have forget that part too. Their actions are
mostly comes from the insecurities about themselves. We have to understand that
Pakistan is as divided as we are here. Every state is fighting with each other
for each other. Pakistan itself is fighting with itself so I think Kashmir is
just the reason to hide their insecurities.
Real reason is the division of the Pakistan, they have real
bad memories of it. They have experienced it twice so it’s quite hard for them
to forget it. We had helped the creation of Bangladesh and thus gave the severe
wounds to them. After that event they have swore to not to stop wounding us.
Whatever we do after that, we are not going to pacify them but we surely can
try to handle this in better way.
One way of handling Pakistan is by becoming stronger
ourselves. We can always think about the problems they face and waiting for
their breakup which is not happening anytime soon. As any other country
Pakistan is a diverse country with normal people like us. We cannot have a
confrontational approach with them.
We need to make them comfortable about our intentions, we
have to have single strategy where we speak with them in one voice. Opposition
party plays an important part while carving out the strategy of handling the
Pakistan. Right now both the political parties are at war with each other over
different conditions and the element in Pakistan surely making use of it. We
need to have a different approach with Pakistan where we have to remove their
insecurities and talk with them.
I used to blame everything to Pakistan as everybody else in
India but then I started to follow the news in that country after 26/11 attacks
in Mumbai. It came to my notice that Pakistan people in Pakistan are no
different than us. They also have the same issue like us or worse these days so
we have to look bit differently. It is not the country which attacked use 2-3
in past history.
As we and Pakistan both cannot afford the war and war has
never yielded the peace. I think everyone has to accept that even though with
great size and resources, we are a weak country. ‘Sare jahan se achha’ is for
us, now we have to prove to others too. We have to be strong internally to
handle the external threats.
At the end I will say just one thing that Pakistan is a very
complex issue and I am no expert on it. We have to compromise more because of
our stature and stop blaming Pakistan for everything happening bad here. We
have to sort out our internal issues and have bit patience approach with
Pakistan but till then, our future is going to be tense for sure.
