http://www.dawn.com/news/1078953/will-p ... pakistan/1
Tahir Mehdi
Who is this Tahir Mehdi? Read the farticle carefully. His Pakistaniyat is in full display.
Will Prime Minister Modi make peace with Pakistan?
So, it is Indian PM who should make all the efforts for peace with Pakistan because Pakistan PM is busy arranging funds for terrorist campaigns against India.
On May 20, 2002 Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said India would go ahead with a full scale war with Pakistan and “win the proxy war like we did in 1971”. Two days later, Prime Minister Vajpayee visited the front lines in Jammu delivering a chilling message to the troops that “the time has come for a decisive battle, and we will have a sure victory in this battle.”
If that is the best Vajpayee can do giving a "chilling" message, he needs to be ashamed and take a cue from various PMs of Pakistan who have delivered messages like "Pakistan is ready for 1000 year jihad against India". How's that for a chilling message you kuffrs?
The two armies had already lined up at the borders with finger on trigger; they could feel each other’s breath on their faces. That was the peak of the crisis triggered by a terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament building in Delhi in December 2001. India ordered a full scale mobilisation of its combat troops. 9/11 had happened just weeks ago, war was in the air.
Terrorists were from Mars or Venus?
With both countries now officially nuclear and considered at par, PM Vajpayee crossed the Wagha border in a bus in February 1999 and signed a peace declaration in Lahore. A seemingly strong government in Pakistan and a welcoming one in Delhi made peace a possibility like never before.
So peace = "strong government" in Pakistan and a "welcoming government" in India. Here again, an indication that it is India which should make peace with Pakistan which is India giving Kashmir to Pakistan which is why "welcoming government".
But war broke out at Kargil in Kashmir in May 1999, just three months after the Lahore Declaration and the two countries went back to the same old war-mongering.
And the war broke out at Kargil because? Oh and how unwelcoming Indians were. Instead of welcoming terrorists from Mars, they went into "war mongering" mode which of course forced Pakistan to do the same which otherwise wanted peaceful co-existence and nothing else.
And that's it. Two full lines about Kargil in the whole farticle about BJP govt and Indo Pak peace.
Later, in December the same year, a militant group hijacked an Indian plane which landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan then being ruled by the Taliban.
Buddhist militants from Russia, right?
The {post Indian Parliament attack} military mobilisation was costly. According to some estimates, it cost India US$ 3.3 billion and Pakistan US$ 1.4 billion (or a full US$ 4.7 billion to the poor of the two countries) and this was only a run up to the war.
There was also debate about Pakistan’s state-actors-vs-non-state-actors paradox. If state actors are punished for the deeds of non-state actors, who will be strengthened within Pakistan? Is the act then worth the risks, given the fact that the two countries possess nuclear weapons as well?
How small the hearts of Yindoos should be that they punish state actors for just giving support in all forms to the deeds of non state actors? Why can't they be more welcoming of the non state actors?
No war is good news. But that’s only half of the India-Pakistan story. The whole region has waiting since ages for the other half. Can BJP make peace with Pakistan?
Modi has faced a range of charges from plotting and abetting the riots to not doing enough to prevent them. The courts have, however, not been able to pin him down
"not able to pin him down".
The Gujrat pogrom is used by militant groups in Pakistan, like Jamaat-ud-Dawa, to whip up anti-India, anti-Hindu sentiments among their cadres and sympathisers. They present it is the latest and undeniable proof of Hindu cruelty towards Muslims. Pictures of charred bodies ostensibly of Muslim victims of Gujrat adorn their banners. Modi makes a perfect Hindu effigy that is burnt at the end of each of their rallies.
So India itself is responsible for all the deeds of the non state actors.
So, can Modi ride a bus to cross Wagha to meet Sharif at his Raiwind palace?
Expectation is that an Indian PM should go to Pakistan PM and hand over keys to Kashmir. Also a veiled threat in the same statement.
I am afraid Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will find it a bit difficult to shake hands with Modi even if he comes clad in a green kurta, instead of a saffron one. Sharif might put too much at stake if he dares to do so, or so it seems at the moment, given the current balance of power among and within various state and non-state actors in Pakistan.
Warning to Nawaz Shariff.
And that's the end of dissection of the farticle where I wasted 15 mins of my life.