ramana wrote:Still not a good idea to discuss US politics in this thread.
BTW Pak releasing the video of Abhinandan shows some resistance to the ceasefire in the Pak military.
For all, we know they will be like that scorpion and the duck and break the agreement.
YashG, Please use the strat forum where there are a couple of threads.
Already the usual suspects (Ezaj Hidehere etc) are crowing about how India capitulated because of a two front situation and signed a peace agreement. I wouldnt wipe my musharraf with the paper their opinions are printed on, because usually it goes along the lines of
"POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN AL-BAKISTAN, ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES, FOREIGN POLICY IS A DISASTER BECAUSE SOMEHOW WE PISSED OFF SAUDIS, US, *AND* CHINA ...... IS INDIA GOING TO SURRENDER CASHMERE BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID HOW TFTA WE ARE?!!!!"
They cannot stomach the cognitive dissonance of being all TFTA and regularly getting their musharraf handed to them by SDREs next door. I think celebrating the Abhinandan episode is an attempt to use a fig leaf to cover up the fact that Pakistan realized permanent enmity at this juncture does not suit their national interest.
When has Pakistan every come out and said "We didnt have a choice, this is the best deal we could get". Even after "with us or against us" speech and brown-panting followed by a swift GUBO, Pakistanis called themselves "Front line Al-lie against terror that even massa depends on".
SDREs shouldn't take the bait and dhoti shiver about Pakistan's bravado. AD was involved in this ceasefire and he is the SDRE of all SDREs. And I suspect he knows a thing or two about pakistan, being a Pakistani and having lived there for a long time
5-10 years of economic growth and domestic defense industry complex -- and Pakistan will cease to be a major issue. I think that is inevitable and has been the case for the past 15 years. Pakistan as an emotional issue is just being sustained by the old fogies who have fond memories of growing up in Lahore.
I am not exaggerating, but even simple statistics about Pakistan amaze me. Suraj posted in the other thread about how the budgets of 4 Indian states each were bigger than Pakistan's budget. Remember that significant percentage of taxes collected in the state goes to the center, so going by actual GDP, 6 Indian states are probably bigger economies than all of Bakistan. In ten years, Kerala will have a bigger GDP than Bakistan, so Bangalore in Kerala will be as important city as Karachi. They do not have a single company capable of manufacturing vaccines! I am not even talking about inventing them, I am talking about manufacturing them! So much so that Pakistan's actual strategy (read TFT) is not to import vaccines, but to petition the UN for donations!
If the old fogies with fond memories of growing up in lahore were around, we'd be sending our first batches to Pakistan as a "good will gesture". But they are dying off now....