As far as lack or excess of Pakistani co-operation is concerned it cannot be decided by you or me but only by Mr. Bush or by General Tommy Frank, the US Commander. He knows that of the 380 terrorists held in Guantanamo, 296 of them were caught by the Pakistanis and flown from Kohat jail to Jacobabad and onwards, even the biggest catch of all the chief architect of these plans was handed over from Lahore raid by FBI. I think that Pakistan has decided to clear this cancer, which is more ideologically rooted than culturally or as theme of habit.
Terrorism sometime is bloodshed and other times a heartless display of callous attitudes towards fellow human beings; both kinds of terrors inflict humanity and we fight against both of them with equal zeal and effort. To prefer one over the other is just a selection of lesser or bigger evils. The crimes of which you accuse Pakistan are deeply entrenched in other nations as well and I invite you to study this in more depth, in a calm and cool manner.
I have over period of 5 year have become too aggressive in highlighting Pakistan’s dilemmas, however this magnanimity is rarely reciprocated by peoples of other races, religions and nationalities. This partisanship disturbs me and in this world of human if we become partisans, we lose the fundamental concepts shared by human beings such as justice and equity. Let us examine the terror in Indian culture of innate inequity of human beings that is enshrined in your beliefs. Like in your culture it is dalit, or complete lack of human equality where you condemn humanity to vagaries of caste and untouchables en- block, if Islamic extremists encourages blood shed of innocents you condone living human beings rejection to lowest of levels of living as a mater of honour both equally detestable.
I have the guts and -alls to condemn my roots and my ideology and evils of my society your blindfolded support of a decaying society that is heading towards a major catastrophe is shocking, that is the fine difference between belligerence and calm rational attitude.
When America attacks Al-Qaeeda, depraved terrorists are the targets, however in the case of India it castigates an entire nation, Pakistan in this case, because of the actions of fringe elements in the nation. USA did not attack Saudi or UAE or Egypt or Arabs in mass. What are you trying to do with my nation, punishing all of us for crimes of few? I have to defend my nation, I will be dishonest ot stay on hte side lines, if people like me who are completely 'neutral' cannot accept your nation accusations and bullying how can others who are not as neutral.
It becomes more funny and unacceptable when you are not even USA, simple as that, poverty stricken poor nations which see humans beings selling their kidneys to rich Arab kidney patients for paltry sum of 500$’s cannot intimidate or send their woman populace in block to work for 100$ a month 24 hours a day as maids have to think twice before they try to cow other minor nations like Pakistan. USA can because they can turn Pakistan into desert overnight, India cannot and hence the best way for India is to realise the reality and try to bridge the problem by working with the moderates in my country. I had the similar message for Arafat, know your trough well and your weakness well and don’t overplay your card, for Pakistan post 11th sept I had the same philosophy, don’t play your card too hard play it nice and cool. That what they did, than terrorists decided that India-Pakistan war that can bring major misery to the world can only be imposed by killing Indian leadership and innocents people, now instead of sympathising with Pakistan you guys are upping the ante and playing in the hands of the terrorists by pushing us as a nation towards that ‘war’ for what I don’t have faintest of idea that after war what is Indian going to gain even if they devastate this so called artificially created entity, you have a problem of this ideological divide that is part of the indo-subcontinent tragedy. Lets kill these extremists together, you in your part we as we are trying, things have changed since 11th sept, world is different, and you have seen the change when Osama and Omar are on the run. Osama and Omar biggest strategy is to let this confrontation grow and Pakistan breaking up will help the Islamic extremism the most and world will become a more insecure place. You should not make world more insecure by playing the hands of these major Islamic extremists misfits that is exactly what you are doing.
Radicalism and zeal exist in every society and they are not unique to a specific nation or culture, India has her fair share of fanatics and what sets our fringe elements apart is their desire to topple the Indian occupation of Kashmir, which has its roots in historical set of events which are strongly disputed.
The reasons of this huge divide in Indo sub continent find its roots in absurdity of ideologies. Islam and Hinduism both can be termed as responsible for the poverty stricken sub-continent, if Islam plays a role of creating millions of subservient Hindus in Indian society but it did promote the concept of egalitarianism that is why more than 400 million people adhere to Islam. The Muslim missionaries and invaders exploited a niche that was created to the total unequal pre-Islamic society of India. Islam introduced some equality but lot of extremism and lot of division that destroyed the peaceful precarious balance between the ruled and the rulers.
We the future generations of the Subcontinent should know the root causes of the evil that has struck us due to our ideological moorings and let us promote solidarity between one another, whilst discarding anachronistic attitudes and promoting equality, a trait sorely needed in Hindu society. No one has a monopoly on truth and as Pakistani, I feel sorry for my nation, its action, its inabilities its faults and try to make amends and promote peace between the two nations. I don’t find ever my broadmindedness being reciprocated, it is always Ike give us more condemnation of Islam and Pakistan but don’t talk about our backyard evils that becomes hard to digest. This post of mine is an invitation to open discussion on Indian sub-continent evils, which are always being hidden under the carpet as greatest democracy credentials are showered on us. My point of view is listened to by most Pakistanis, on the other hand the Indians view their nation within the prism of idealism and fail to acknowledge the pathetic conditions under which humans are surviving under Indian society. Ratna Devi, accused of witchcraft, was forced to drink human faeces and was nearly beaten to death that is the true India. What democracy? 140 million dalit or untouchables know nothing about it, we will gouge the eyes of the person who tried to implicate Zadran bibi, our editorials our fights and our pursuit of equality is legendary, Indians will duck everything under the pretext of greatness of the society.
What improvement to humanity has India pioneered? The time honoured tactic utilised by Indians is to browbeat Pakistan continually and the fact, if we are to discuss facts impartially, the Afghan war undertaken by the United States would not have been victorious so fast had not Pakistan lent her support. Your national strategists believe that you can walk into Pakistan, you show us baby pacifiers when you exploded your bombs, within 17 days the pacifiers were all gone, who started the nuclear race, George Fernandez and Advani, now live with the consequences of nuclear balance or force de-frappe in the hands your arch enemy, if you would have kept nuclear race out of our region we would be nuclear free, but your complex to equate yourselves with bigger nations like China or USA blindfolded you now you have to accept of lower role of bullying a minor inconsequentional nation, a nation is known but the size of its adversity Indian self imposed pursuit of grandiosity.
If you think that you can act the way that Israelis stride into Jenin or you can bombard Pakistan like how Americans did to Kandahar you are sorely mistaken. Your army does not have the presence or the strength and while your MIG2000’s may do substantial damage but it will prise open the door to a regional catastrophe. You may have 600,000 men but we have 500,000 men looking them in the eye. To solve the problem is solution of Kashmir and if India is truly a democracy then the right to a referendum and to a free vote must be extended to Kashmir. What secular pretext can be maintained after Gujarat, the incident only confirmed what Pakistanis have been saying for decades “the two societies can not live together”. Hinduism encourages human degradation both equally detestable reasons. The dreadful conditions, the squalors that we have created like Calcutta and Karachi is manifestations of lost opportunities and both ideologies are equally responsible in historical terms.
Hinduism allowance of calling woman a witch, look at this story Police in the southern Indian state of Karnataka say 10 members of a family have been burned alive in what appears to be an arson attack. The incident took place in a village near the town of Athni in the north of Karnataka. Police say a group of villagers set fire to the house after accusing members of the family of causing the death of a child through witchcraft. Constitutional liberty of sati, in 1987 an eighteen years old widow committed Sati in a village of Rajasthan with the blessing of her family members. In this incidence the villagers took part in the ceremony, praising and supporting the widow for her act. In October 1999 a woman hysterically jumped on her husband's pyre surprising everyone. It is this untouchables, sati, witchcraft and combination of these divisions within humanity that provided the greatest of opportunity to extremists of the north in early part of our history to create the schism that has seen indo-sub continent bled to death.
These were the terrors of inequality from which we ‘untouchables’ escaped and became wrongly the ‘Muslims’ in India who are now the cause of all the evils in India, Gujarat and Kashmir, but hold on can historical realities be eliminated by anger, lets cool down a bit, lets work this thing out, lets give negotiations a chance, lets not try to rule majorities in regions with armies and corps if they don’t won’t to live with you in name of secularism, much as I hate extremism I can see that reason of all this is intransigence on the part of big powers like India not to recognise their vulnerabilities. Yes, you can eliminate Pakistan but the residual mess will be far more bigger and far more difficult to handle, by getting Pakistan destroyed post 11th Sept as we all witnessed it, you would got a bigger Afghanistan like mess 300 miles from Delhi, don’t you realise that ensuing war and making Pakistan a pariah state will not help India all, much as I love your country I love my freedom and equality I don’t have to bow before a Brahmin as I think that most of us find our roots in the untouchable class. Significant terror and crimes against humanity are conducted by ideologies prevalent in east, and we all try to condemn only one part of it, I condemn every facet of it and will not hesitate to let you guys know that war is not going to resolve the issues like 55 years of secular mantra made Gajarati Muslims more fundamentalists, the massacre of Muslims and Hindus in Gujarat is an eye opener that why these two different ideologies live separately and they don’t have a common future for at least next 100 years until we mature.
Scratch the surface bit and you will find that reason of our poverty and ‘Rambo mania’ is due to the fact that we are always slaves of our own surrounding and believes when was the last time we were critical of the reasons of our self inflicted problems that are always considered as rooted in someone else heaping the problems on us not that we do something wrong.
Listen man, get over with this fixation, we all are victims of extremism in one form or the other, these extremists will like to blow the top and let India Pakistan go through a war, unlike Indian movies ‘Rambo mania’ that I have recently seen are laughable, you guys started nuclear brinkmanship in May 1998 and changed single-handedly your huge conventional superiority to nuclear parity with stroke of genius, now with nuclear weapons in sight you need to be more reasonable if you would have not introduced in 1973 the Pokharan explosion you would be better off today to walk into Pakistan and punish them but no more, that huge military superiority was lost overnight instead of removing ills and poverty and 30 million shelter less in Bombay alone your fixation with being a power in class of US or China has destroyed rationality of your strategy.
War is no child thing in Kashmir either move up and attack or make your borders secure from these sick characters, put walls like Berlin but waging war trying to get us and accusing us of all evils that affect India is cruel and when was the last time you ever locked into the sickening poverty that makes living a hell in our part of the world, are we going to eat our weapons and nuclear weapons a croissants!
Every inch will be fought with gallantry that you cannot imagine, you are putting our backs against the wall on one hand the extremists are heaping terror more than 18000 people have been killed in last 10 years by sectarian violence led by Sunni cliché in Pakistan. If this continues the present leadership of the Pakistani Army will turn to the extremists once again that they have recently deserted to fight this oncoming war with India, do you know that what it means! Is Gujarat bloodshed a making of Pakistan? Were Gujarat Indian Muslims were not loyal citizens of Indian?
Now see what happened the mantra of secular equality disappeared overnight, it is a clash of ideology, try to understand that, this clash of ideology has to be fought by the moderates of ideology with you as silent allies otherwise you play in the hands of the extremists. US fought the war in Afghanistan with Northern Alliance and warlords like Dostum and for that matter made the biggest of all evil the evil like ‘Pakistan’ as an ally to use their land air and sea to win this in no time against all odds. This is diplomacy and conduct that makes nations great not threats and humiliatingly unacceptable verbal assaults. Lets not try to re-write the injustices of history on peaceful invaders of north on Indian and Hindus at large I have explained that very clearly not once but several times, these injustices cannot be a cured overnight, you will have to patiently dealing with the root causes, the war of ideology in our region needs very subtle handling and very good set of minds on someone’s shoulders, I am sure Mr. Vajipayee has one and will deal with it., however as am nation you can do what you want, I hope you best of luck.
You will have to fight this war with the help of present Pakistani Army or you will have to fight a final war to destroy Pakistan once for all, in both cases are you going to eliminate the 130 million people out in the country north of yours. This present crisis is a part of a greater rise of extremists tendencies that are growing impatiently from Gujarat to Palestine to Kashmir to Chechnya, Pakistan is not the reason the reason is the lack of education and antiquated ideology that teaches heaven once an infidel is taken out, to fight such an evil one needs to find moderate voices and help them to eliminate this kind of wickedness. |
