Thursday, November 11, 2010

With love from Pakistan.

In the neighbouring country, it seems that every individual, from Ex president to an ordinary citizen, is obsessed with a single though for last 60 years. Even an Indian living far in Kanyakumari can feel that rotten, pungent smell of anger, frustration, hate, envy from the winds blowing from North West of India.
Sometimes often I wish to thank Pakistan for their promise to themselves to bleed India till death. It is kind of situation for us; you keep your things inaccessible from the rats at your home and house remains in order. As I said, Pakistan must be thanked for there relentless efforts to keep us in alert situations. Be it the border or the sponsored terrorism in India, we are forced to be vigilant round the clock.
That is the reasons for no love lost between two countries who had a common past but; future is certainly a distinguished one. The fools must be living in paradise who advocate for the friendship between us and they. They are living their Utopian dreams. One such prominent name is ‘Times of India along with “Jung” group who believe in friendship between the people across the borders. God knows how they must be generating revenues with this ‘Aman Ki Asha”?? The caption itself sounds funny; appears me as a marriage between some groom Aman with bride Asha!!
A common Pakistani won’t ask for friendship nor would a true Indian step forward until unless they forget Kashmir and terrorism respectively.
As I said earlier they shared a common past but futures have altogether going to be a different story. Within one year you would further listen the news thousand bomb blasts in Pakistan executed by some home grown fanatic groups and you may listen thousand Billion Dollar investments in India and who knows a UNSC seat!
Going through the newspapers from Pakistan, it was an amusing experience for me how the society has been radicalized there with only one aim common: Bashing India, demonized India, destroy India; At every possible opportunity!
I thought they have lost sense behaving like an ostrich buried his head in the sand pretending the Sun is not outside! They know India has risen as suggest US president Barack Obama also; armed with all the facts and figures he narrated in our own Lok Sabha; ours being capable enough to have a well deserved UNSC seat. Whereas Pakistan always in a constant state of denial of all those figures reiterating themselves “ We are corrupt, ruined so what ? India too is not healthy”.
Whole the world knows the relative figures and ratios between India and Pakistan except the Pakistan itself.  Anyway, recently one article appeared in a Pakistani newspaper which suggests that nevertheless someone is there who did not loose mind and who thinks. So the exact article/news is hereby for your ready reference.
  ISLAMABAD: The symbolism, trade deals and fine words of Barack Obama’s courtship of India should be Pakistan’s wake-up call to fix its economy and eradicate militancy to ward off isolation, analysts say.
The US president declared India a world power, the India-US alliance “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century” and unveiled deals worth 10 billion dollars designed to create 50,000 American jobs in an ailing economy.
Going further than any US president before, he backed India’s quest for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, although with no immediate prospect of reform and likely strong Chinese opposition, it was a largely symbolic move.
Just weeks after Pakistan’s latest round of “strategic dialogue” with the US in a bid to overcome mistrust, the warm embrace between Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood in stark contrast.
“Pakistanis have to be more realistic on understanding India’s growing international role,” political analyst Hasan Askari told AFP.
“India is investing in the United States while our economy is in bad shape. There is no Pakistani investment in the West, very little in the Middle East. We ask for money from the United States, while India does not.”
Indian deals will funnel 10 billion dollars into the US economy, while under a US Congress bill American taxpayers fork out 1.5 billion a year for development in Pakistan with promises of another two billion dollars in military assistance.
While Obama’s visit reflects the shift in power to emerging nations since the financial crisis, Pakistan is a considered client state with a Taliban and al Qaeda presence plotting to kill US soldiers and fanning the war in Afghanistan.
Pakistan, whose status as a nuclear power still alarms the West, has been stifled by decades of military rule, recession and religious extremism.
Its security forces are fighting a Taliban insurgency in the northwest.
Bomb attacks have killed thousands nationwide and its tribal belt is considered an al Qaeda headquarters subject to a covert US drone war.
Writing in The News daily, public policy consultant Mosharraf Zaidi said the only lesson to draw from Obama’s visit was “the deals being made”.
“While we drown in the inanities of this country’s infinite and perpetual search for identity, we are deepening our current bankruptcy, and ensuring a future of mostly begging for handouts.”
With Obama visiting Indonesia, APEC in Japan and the G20 in South Korea, Zaidi said: “The reason he is not visiting Pakistan is obvious. Pakistan does not belong on that list of countries and that is not India’s fault.”
Analysts say Islamabad should soften its foreign policy, dominated by the anti-Indian military, to avoid isolation as the United States looks to end the war against the Afghan Taliban.
“Pakistan can sort out this crisis through self-correction.”
But there was also gratitude; unlike British Prime Minister David Cameron — who sparked a diplomatic crisis when he accused Pakistan of exporting terror while in India — Obama refused to be drawn into fresh criticism of Islamabad.
He urged India and Pakistan to resolve their differences and called on Islamabad to do more against militants, but acknowledged the country was making progress against what he called the “cancer” of extremism.
Askari said in what was a nod to the US realisation that the country is indispensable to forging peace in Afghanistan, Obama did not sideline Pakistan.
“What he said about terrorist havens in the tribal areas is what the Americans have been saying before his visit…he avoided any criticism of Pakistan which the Indians were expecting,” said Askari.
Former lieutenant general-turned-security analyst Talat Masood said Pakistan was obviously concerned by US-India ties, and would remain apprehensive about India unless relations with Pakistan are normalised.
“But there is not much it can do. Pakistan has to adjust itself to the existing reality. It should improve its own domestic situation,” Masood said.

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