Actually to understand Pakistan, we tend to look for complicated answers. If one starts dumbing down all the reasons, one would see that the dumbest, simplest of the reasons would fit Pakistan best.
The big question in the Indian Subcontinent has always been
"What religion should the Subcontinental people follow? Which religion is the better one?"
This is the core question.
We Indics, we Indians would differ. We would say, "No, that is not the core question. One can follow whatever religion one wants, as long as .....!" But then again, we are seeing the issue from our eyes, and not theirs. Indians have adopted "sarva-dharma sambhava" as a social motto and secularism as our political system.
But for the Subcontinental Muslims, especially the Pakistanis, and even Bangladeshis, that remains the key question.
What we see is that Pakistan needs to be assured all the time that they are just as good if not better, just as wanted if not more as India. It wants equality with India, because the Pakistani Elite needs to convince its flock, the millions and millions of Subcontinental Indics who converted to Islam, that their choice to convert to Islam was the right choice.
With India zooming past Pakistan, and with Pakistan fast losing all pretensions of being a modern state, the stability of India, the growing prosperity in India is causing extreme panic among the Pakistani Elite. So they keep on repeating for the consumption of the flock, stories about how in India there are no toilets, and how the Dalits are made to suffer, etc. All this is baloney, but in this age of limitless information, they are having a hard time showing that they are not losing.
Islamics thrive in war, Indics thrive in peace. India is not giving them war despite several provocations. Even if they get war, they are not convinced that they would win. But considering that they thrive on war, that is what they have to keep on preparing for, leading to an arms race, which leaves nothing more for anything else. For this reason, they have to keep on doing this or that superpower's bidding and then reaping the consequences.
chetak wrote:Cannot match India’s military might: Pak Def Minister
"If we only try to match them (India) militarily and buy the sort of armament which they have, we will probably not be able to afford it," Mukhtar said.
Explaining his contention, he noted that India's economy is "six to seven times bigger than" Pakistan's and its trade volumes were "five to six times greater".
"The capacity of India and Pakistan to fight was for 20 to 22 days. Now India has inducted a lot of armaments, may be they can last for 45 days, we will not be able to do so," Mukhtar said in an interview to BBC Urdu.
Now even their defense minister is saying they cannot compete.
As the appeal of India grows, the Islamics think, the converted masses would start asking, why did they convert. If they are the Muslims, why is Allah Tallah more generous to the Kaffir who did not convert, but stayed Indics.
So for them, the only way to prevent people from posing that question is the full Islamization of Pakistani society. If they do that, they are just digging a deeper hole for themselves, but they hope that if the hole is deep enough, no Indic would be able to pull the Muslim out of it, and the Muslim's world view would remain limited to that hole. So at least they will be able to "save the souls" of their flock, even if they couldn't secure that flock's future. Because they have few heroes of their own, the Pakistanis try to keep the spirits of their flock high, by telling them stories of their supposed ideological fathers to their West - in Arabic, Turkish and Persian lands.
So the fear of Pakistani and Subcontinental Islamic Elite is once India attains a developed status, an unassailable military might, and all-round acknowledged super-power status, the Subcontinental Muslims could go back to their original Indic belief systems.
We should note that the Indian Subcontinent is one place where Islam went up against a Kufr belief system and failed to secure domination. So they fear the strength of the ideology that spurned them and they fear the lure of such an ideology to attract back all those who went over back into its own fold, for the fold was never the pure one - one of the Muslim Master Races.
Those Indics who, in fear of the Pakistanis, want to isolate the mango Abduls from the winds of Indic influence, do not get it that the competition is not over yet. Those who converted, are still people whose ideological loyalty has not been sealed yet. The competition is over when one side wins and the other loses. When all of one ideology adopt the other ideology. Then the competition between the two belief systems would be over. Not before that.
We still have to make strategies on how to weaken the hold and appeal of the Islamics over the Subcontinental flock! This cannot be done through isolationism or nuking the others into extinction, but by playing the game, and by playing the game better than the others. Direct confrontation strengthens the others; whereas
Prosperity,
Soft Power and
Better Defense strengthens us.
In the end, we may or may not win the Muslims into the Indic fold. But one thing is sure: the Islamics fear they will lose and that they would.
, and not like Dutt and Bhatt sahibs.
