By Sikander Hayat
I don’t usually laugh while reading newspapers but there are some gems which you just cant resist and one of these was the assertion by the a part of Indian establishment that India should “do a Gaza” on Pakistan.
To those very few of you who don’t know what that means; India should take similar action against Pakistan what Israel is doing against the Palestinians.
I could not stop myself from smiling for few moment and here is why?
If Israel knew that there will be no Israel to speak of if it attacked Gaza, there would not have been any action of any kind.
Heck, Pakistan is not even Lebanon, where Israel suffered a humiliation recently.
India has attacked Pakistan three times before and not even able to get an inch of this land eventually. ( Even Bangladesh decided to remain independent and not part of India ).
India is still the same wounded beast that it was in 1947, trying to right the perceived wrongs that it suffered then. Still not able to accept the sovereignty of any nation around it, be it Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives or Pakistan. Pakistan is the only country in the previously mentioned names that has never accepted Indian bullying and that hurts the Indian psyche deeply.
Never in its history has India dominated the present day Pakistan and Pakistanis intend to keep that record intact by one way or another. Theory of surgical strikes is fiendishly flawed as India is not Israel and Pakistan is not Gaza.
Pakistan has fought many times with India on equal footing, how many times has a similar war happened between the Palestinians and Israelis.
I believe that there will be no war between India and Pakistan, small scale or large scale, which can end in a decisive result. In a war both countries will be destroyed completely and may be that’s what nature is deciding to with the people of the subcontinent eventually.
Apart from two Pakistan India wars, one in 1948 when Pakistan was able to defeat India and capture one third of the Kashmiri territory and in 1971 when India succeeded in Bangladesh, all other wars have ended in a status quo situation. Be it 1965 when India attacked Lahore on 6th of September or 1998 Kargil conflict, the war ended without even coming close to decisiveness.
I bet even Indians know in their hearts the consequences of “doing a Gaza” on Pakistan.
I don’t usually laugh while reading newspapers but there are some gems which you just cant resist and one of these was the assertion by the a part of Indian establishment that India should “do a Gaza” on Pakistan.
To those very few of you who don’t know what that means; India should take similar action against Pakistan what Israel is doing against the Palestinians.
I could not stop myself from smiling for few moment and here is why?
If Israel knew that there will be no Israel to speak of if it attacked Gaza, there would not have been any action of any kind.
Heck, Pakistan is not even Lebanon, where Israel suffered a humiliation recently.
India has attacked Pakistan three times before and not even able to get an inch of this land eventually. ( Even Bangladesh decided to remain independent and not part of India ).
India is still the same wounded beast that it was in 1947, trying to right the perceived wrongs that it suffered then. Still not able to accept the sovereignty of any nation around it, be it Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives or Pakistan. Pakistan is the only country in the previously mentioned names that has never accepted Indian bullying and that hurts the Indian psyche deeply.
Never in its history has India dominated the present day Pakistan and Pakistanis intend to keep that record intact by one way or another. Theory of surgical strikes is fiendishly flawed as India is not Israel and Pakistan is not Gaza.
Pakistan has fought many times with India on equal footing, how many times has a similar war happened between the Palestinians and Israelis.
I believe that there will be no war between India and Pakistan, small scale or large scale, which can end in a decisive result. In a war both countries will be destroyed completely and may be that’s what nature is deciding to with the people of the subcontinent eventually.
Apart from two Pakistan India wars, one in 1948 when Pakistan was able to defeat India and capture one third of the Kashmiri territory and in 1971 when India succeeded in Bangladesh, all other wars have ended in a status quo situation. Be it 1965 when India attacked Lahore on 6th of September or 1998 Kargil conflict, the war ended without even coming close to decisiveness.
I bet even Indians know in their hearts the consequences of “doing a Gaza” on Pakistan.
Sikander you are so ignorant of the facts, how could you think India cannot do a Gaza ?
ReplyDeleteIndia will not attack a failed state.
Pakistan was never able to defeat India in any war. In 1948 and 2001, india kicked out pakistan out of kashmir and in 1965 both countries capture a lot of territory of their counterparts which was returned back after ceasefire.
But the biggest act of cowardiness came in bangladesh, when your 93000 Army surrendered to India. India was in position of bargaining for Pakistan occupied kashmir in 1971 but she didn't, Thanks to Mrs. Ghandhi who thought pakis are neighbours and we should not blackmail them (How wrong she was on this issue)
We always wanted a Bangladesh out of pakistan, we did not attacked pakistan for territorial causes. The reason was we wanted to create a new nation out of pak and we did it. You attacked kashmir for territorial reasons and thats why you are administrating it till date. Your policy is not clear on kashmir.
If you can blow up yourself with a waist bomb we can also give sacrifice for your country. But we know war is not a good option because you will be definately defeated in conventional warfare and nuke us, After you nuke us there will be no pakistan afterwards.
On the other hand pakistan is breaking and losing everything to fundamentalists. It will break in parts and USA will snatch the nukes from you. Why should india care abt pak in that case and whats the need of war.
So be careful when you write these article.
If you have any dignity and honour, dont delete this comment, I will be waiting for your reply.
Dear Sir,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments; it would have been great to know your name.
I believe in free speech and as you can see from my previous articles, I do not delete comments which happen to present opposing point of view.
As famous French poet Voltaire once said to one of his adversaries, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.
It is suffise to say that I have made my argument and you have made yours, now it is for the readers to decide who they want to believe.
By Sikander Hayat
Respected Sir,
ReplyDeleteI simply can't help myself smiling after reading your article. I am sorry to say but you simply act like an ignorant pakistani. Can you name the Indian establishment who made these claims. There were none. just a debate raised where Israeli ambassador to India said to his Indian counterparts to learn from them and do a gaza for pakistan. Visit timesnow.tv to view the clippings of that debate.
Pakistan is in itself a Failed State and there is no point in attacking a failed state. Why should people of Pakistan suffer for illogical decision’s taken by its government and its Army. how can you claim that pakistani army is brave when its unable to save SWAT VALLEY to fall into the hands of Taliban?When you make comments like “India has attacked Pakistan three times before and not even able to get an inch of this land eventually. ( Even Bangladesh decided to remain independent and not part of India ).” You are not been rational. I don’t remember India ever attacked Pakistan. It was Pakistan who attacked India and our brave Indian Army made the coward Pakistani soldier’s to run with the boots on their head. You must also remember the surrender of 93,000 pakistani soldier in 1971 war with India. Brave soldiers become martry and cowards surrender. Such was the act of cowardness of Pakistani army. In 1948 Pakistan occupied the entire Kashmir, it took Indian army just six months to regain the 2/3rd of Kashmir again. Had it not been ceasefire imposed by UN the entire Kashmir would have been in India today. So it was not Pakistani Army who got 1/3rd Kashmir but the ceasefire imposed by UN and this is the only reason why the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is living in extreme destitution as compared the Indian Kashmir. If you don’t believe me then read the archives of United Nations. Besides talking about 1998 Kargil Conflict. The Army in Chief then Pervez Musharraf categorically denied to take the dead bodies of its own Soldiers. He even went on to say that Pakistan army was not involved in Kargil Infiltration then how come you had written 1998 as a conflict between Indian and Pakistan Army. If I am wrong then that means Infiltrators were from Pakistani Army. Infiltrators is synonymous to Terrorist. So if you consider 1998 as a war then Pakistani terrorist which were the part of Pakistani army Infiltrated Indian territory. Then its Pakistan that attacked India. The result of 1998 war is well known. Indian army not only occupied the Indian Territory but was able to kill most of the Infiltrators while some of them managed to flew back in Pakistan. Had it not been the words of our great prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajyapayee Indian Army would have easily freed the rest of the Kashmir from the Pakistani army.But we in India have a policy “Defend ourself and don’t attack others”. If you consider this policy as India’s cowardness or India’s Impotency then you are seriously mistaken. If time comes we will be Israel. So I would suggest you to think twice before writing something provocating against India.
Indian have far more patience than anyone else in this world. That’s the reason why we still believe that Pakistan would introspect and do something about the cross border terrorism. Remember bamboo can be made to bend to its extreme limits but once its broken then its broken. You cannot stick the pieces together.
Besides you are correct while writing the last statement “I bet even Indians know in their hearts the consequences of “doing a Gaza” on Pakistan.”. I know what it means.Pakistan will loose conventional warfare with India and will nuke India eventually. by the time first Pakistani Nuclear bomb lands on any Indian city the Pakistan would be eradicated from the Earth.
After that we Indians have to take responsibility to run an already wrecked stone age Pakistan in which even I am not interested forget about my government. Who wants to rule a failed state like Pakistan. “NO ONE, ATLEAST IN INDIA”.
Also your reply to punjabiyaar indicates that you consider Indian’s as an adversary. But let me tell you as an Indian I don’t consider you as my enemy. I consider you as a Pakistani who knows everything happening infront of him is wrong and still he say “I am Blind. I cannot see”.
Please if you can respond to some of the question’s raised in my comment then I would be obliged.
I honestly think Indians - most of them anyway - need to read up on what actually is a failed state.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
- Monkey.
Sikander bhai
ReplyDeleteBeing proud of one's country(is laudable) is different from trying to look at things from tinted rosy glasses and having ostrich attitude
(is recipe for mess your country is in these days)
Stay in your wishing well….India does not have to do anything..why should we waste any money on war etc. India knows the real way to influence and power is not to just send soldiers, but to shape the world opinion which is already showing you the way. Frankenstein monster Jihadis that was created for cutting India, will eat its own master and it is doing daily..with all the suicide attacks et al in your country-then what is the need for a war!
Its even laughable you should compare Pak with India or draw China/Japan parallel(you will make a start on road to Japan-like when the mullahs will at least allow modern education!)
By the way how many Pakistani companies are listed in LSE or NYSE? Oh I forgot,there is no point in listing on the Karachi Stock Exchange too-because it can’t stay open! For India, 45 countries in Nuclear Suppliers Group BENT the rules to allow India to freely trade nuclear technologies. How many countries backed Pakistan in UN security council when discussing banning LeT/Jamaat..? NOT even China!
India has forex reserves of $350bn, whereas I think Pak’s reserves are down to less than 3 billion- it had to borrow from IMF on strict conditions. India did not have to surrender to any outside agency’s terms and conditions- what you call as foreign debt is the worldwide companies pouring money into India.
Indians are interested in progress, getting educated and make a life of hard work, with govt taking responsibility for internal security. They do not have time or money for war with countries like Pakistan. It is better that Pakistanis also understand that and focus on generating jobs and education for their growing population.