Indian Offensive Tactics and Pakistan Politics
By Rafiq Ebrahim Valjee
Winfield, IL
According to Roman History, when Rome was aflame, Nero was playing a flute. History repeats itself, sometimes in another country. This time it seems to be in Pakistan. India’s aggression in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has caused a number of killings and injuries of civilians and devastation in the territories of Pakistan. It is a clear act of warfare, mastered by the anti-Muslim Prime Minister of India, who has come out in his true colours. And what is the response of Pakistan? The army is responding to the attack in a befitting manner, but what about the political leaders?
Defense minister Khwaja Asif says that he doesn’t want confrontation with India, and the three-time Prime Minister Mr. Nawaz Sharif seems to be largely unconcerned. On the television screen we see him nodding his head or shaking it, or doing both at the same time. Obviously, he does not want to be bothered by any crisis. One wonders if he plays a flute in his ‘palace.’
The country at present is facing external threats, terrorism, pitiable sufferings of the common man, and a possible internal revolution resulting from the successful dharnas of Imran Khan and Táhirul Quadri, who are gaining the support of the people every passing day.
The only supporters of the ruling party are some political parties of little importance, and of course the ex-accidental president, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, who got enormous help from the Pakistan Muslim League(N) when his term was over. Just to be in good books, he is now openly favouring the ruling party – but at the wrong time. He has also dragged his young son Bilawal into politics - again at the wrong time. Bilawal, it seems at this stage, knows very little about politics in Pakistan. His recent declaration in an address to his few supporters was that he would take occupied Kashimir from India. What a naïve promise! Does he think that the Kashmir crisis is a piece of cake? So many futile wars have been fought to get Kashmir.
Continuous efforts are being made to establish friendship with India. We have tried cricket diplomacy, cultural diplomacy; prime ministers ‘shaking hands’ diplomacy, but what did we gain? Unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved to the satisfaction of both countries and the wishes of the Kashmiris, no real friendship can exist between India and Pakistan, and the people of Kashmir are going to live under the oppressive rule of India, now governed by the anti-Muslim Prime Minister, Narinder Modi.
Be wary of India. Narinder Modi hates Muslims and he would do anything possible to destabilize Pakistan. He has even ordered his Education Minister to replace the history books in schools with those written by Dinnanath Batra, who has molded the history of India to suit the right wing Hindu ideology. That means that the glory of Muslim conquerors and past rulers of India will be overshadowed by the unscrupulous victories of Hindu kings and plunderers. This step is only the beginning, and we are going to see many more such actions to humiliate Muslims.
The time has come for the government to wake up from the deep slumber it has been enjoying right from the time it came into power.
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