After years of bonhomie, Americans are now coming to terms with the colluder that Pakistan has been. In the garb of being victims of home grown wolves who turned rouge, it has continued with its malevolent histrionics. The problem is that neither does Pakistan's interests coincide with those of its immediate neighbours, nor are they congenial with the western world. Today, it stands battered, bleeding and bruised and it only has its own misadventures to blame for it.
Not contented with their demarcated boundaries, combined with rumours of the Hindu ruler of the Muslim dominated Kashmir leaning towards India, Pakistan, immediately after independence, hurtled an invasion from Muslim revolutionaries and Pakistani tribesmen into Kashmir(though the Hindu ruler was flirting with the idea of staying independent). Fearing servitude in the hands of the bestial Pakistan establishment, the Kashmiri czar acceded to India, which sent its troops and stopped the illegal occupation of its neighbour over the restive state.
At a time when India was still smarting from the wounds inflicted in 1965 by China, Pakistan, seeing India at its weakest, infiltrated its troops into the Indian administered Kashmir. Indians, oblivious as they were, were caught napping. They were alerted of this mischief by the local Kashmiris, and the Indian army sprung into action and dragged the Pakistanis back into the Western Punjab and Sindh.
For the initial years after independence, not only was the movement of people across the borders free, but the two countries also shared the same currency. But it was here, after this incident, when India realised it had had enough of putting faith in Pakistan and that from here on, it shall not trust its western neighbour again.
India's support for Bangladesh's war of independence is a classic example of the fact that if you keep incessantly throwing stones at others, you would not receive flowers in return. Since 1947, it was not possible for Western Pakistan to have supported its eastern counterpart militarily, in case of an armed conflict with India. But India never interfered with Pakistan's internal matters despite widespread exodus of Bangladeshis into India caused due to extreme cruelty and indignation by Punjabi and Sindhi rulers towards their Bengali counterparts, until in 1971, when India had had enough and the trust between the two countries was at its lowest ebb.
Pakistan's fortunes changed for the better when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Americans were clearly unhappy with the development as they saw this as an abatement of their influence in the region. It was perhaps for this day that Pakistan, since independence, had been fed on American payroll and cheques. With the help of Pakistan, CIA created the 'Son of the soil', Osama Bin Laden and its protege, to fight its war in Afghanistan, against the Soviets. The Americans eventually won and the Soviets were ousted from Afghanistan. Pakistan was buoyed by this success. If jihad can compel the mighty Soviets out of Afghanistan, it would certainly coerce the Indians to give up its claim on Kashmir. Pakistan, thus, inconspicuously, developed itself into a sanctuary where religiously fervent men from Central Asia, Western Asia and similar regions were indoctrinated and trained for the hallowed war against what they considered as Zionists occupation of Muslim lands all over the world, which included Kashmir. What thus followed, was an unleashing of unprecedented killings and blood spillage in state of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere in India, which included Kargil infiltration and Indian Airlines flight, IC 814 high jacking, the most recent one being the Mumbai 26//11 attacks in 2008, which the whole world viewed live on their television sets.
A lot of people argue that it is the Americans which are to be blamed for what Osama eventually turned out to be. Yes, Americans did create Osama, but it was Pakistan which raised, fed and nurtured him, Taliban and their ideology, motivated to suit their own unholy desires.
Today, Pakistan, has luridly, turned into an abattoir, where the society is on the verge of a complete crumple, the source of its virtue is great bitterness and malice, sectarian violence is reaching its pinnacle and attacks of the magnitude of 9/11 are being perpetrated 24x7. It talks about being the biggest victim of terror, but in reality, its own history of indulgence in preposterous activities are now turning up on its face. Like how US Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton had very rightly put Pakistan's case, ' You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect it to only bite neighbours' (sic)
Matters of public importance, in Pakistan, unfortunately, have been disillusioned with those of the administration's and the army's. I hope situation in Pakistan improves and they realize that societies are build on affection and endearment and not on bile and resentment. But its difficult to see that happening in a country, where children aren't still raised on lullabies, but on misinterpreted verses of the holy Quran.
Not contented with their demarcated boundaries, combined with rumours of the Hindu ruler of the Muslim dominated Kashmir leaning towards India, Pakistan, immediately after independence, hurtled an invasion from Muslim revolutionaries and Pakistani tribesmen into Kashmir(though the Hindu ruler was flirting with the idea of staying independent). Fearing servitude in the hands of the bestial Pakistan establishment, the Kashmiri czar acceded to India, which sent its troops and stopped the illegal occupation of its neighbour over the restive state.
At a time when India was still smarting from the wounds inflicted in 1965 by China, Pakistan, seeing India at its weakest, infiltrated its troops into the Indian administered Kashmir. Indians, oblivious as they were, were caught napping. They were alerted of this mischief by the local Kashmiris, and the Indian army sprung into action and dragged the Pakistanis back into the Western Punjab and Sindh.
For the initial years after independence, not only was the movement of people across the borders free, but the two countries also shared the same currency. But it was here, after this incident, when India realised it had had enough of putting faith in Pakistan and that from here on, it shall not trust its western neighbour again.
India's support for Bangladesh's war of independence is a classic example of the fact that if you keep incessantly throwing stones at others, you would not receive flowers in return. Since 1947, it was not possible for Western Pakistan to have supported its eastern counterpart militarily, in case of an armed conflict with India. But India never interfered with Pakistan's internal matters despite widespread exodus of Bangladeshis into India caused due to extreme cruelty and indignation by Punjabi and Sindhi rulers towards their Bengali counterparts, until in 1971, when India had had enough and the trust between the two countries was at its lowest ebb.
Pakistan's fortunes changed for the better when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Americans were clearly unhappy with the development as they saw this as an abatement of their influence in the region. It was perhaps for this day that Pakistan, since independence, had been fed on American payroll and cheques. With the help of Pakistan, CIA created the 'Son of the soil', Osama Bin Laden and its protege, to fight its war in Afghanistan, against the Soviets. The Americans eventually won and the Soviets were ousted from Afghanistan. Pakistan was buoyed by this success. If jihad can compel the mighty Soviets out of Afghanistan, it would certainly coerce the Indians to give up its claim on Kashmir. Pakistan, thus, inconspicuously, developed itself into a sanctuary where religiously fervent men from Central Asia, Western Asia and similar regions were indoctrinated and trained for the hallowed war against what they considered as Zionists occupation of Muslim lands all over the world, which included Kashmir. What thus followed, was an unleashing of unprecedented killings and blood spillage in state of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere in India, which included Kargil infiltration and Indian Airlines flight, IC 814 high jacking, the most recent one being the Mumbai 26//11 attacks in 2008, which the whole world viewed live on their television sets.
A lot of people argue that it is the Americans which are to be blamed for what Osama eventually turned out to be. Yes, Americans did create Osama, but it was Pakistan which raised, fed and nurtured him, Taliban and their ideology, motivated to suit their own unholy desires.
Today, Pakistan, has luridly, turned into an abattoir, where the society is on the verge of a complete crumple, the source of its virtue is great bitterness and malice, sectarian violence is reaching its pinnacle and attacks of the magnitude of 9/11 are being perpetrated 24x7. It talks about being the biggest victim of terror, but in reality, its own history of indulgence in preposterous activities are now turning up on its face. Like how US Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton had very rightly put Pakistan's case, ' You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect it to only bite neighbours' (sic)
Matters of public importance, in Pakistan, unfortunately, have been disillusioned with those of the administration's and the army's. I hope situation in Pakistan improves and they realize that societies are build on affection and endearment and not on bile and resentment. But its difficult to see that happening in a country, where children aren't still raised on lullabies, but on misinterpreted verses of the holy Quran.
