Pakistan, our Neighbour

Since yesterday, the television news channels in India have been full of visuals of the return of five Indian soldiers from Kashmir, massacred by Pakistani troops. One can see throngs of people who went to receive them, and to accompany them on their final journey. There is a real anger among Indians that is directed at the Pakistanis for their unending, relentless and unprovoked killings of Indian soldiers, as well as at our own pro-Pak government for continuing to take this nonsense from a rogue, despicable, and terrorist country.

Pakistan is a failed state, and given its past conduct vis-à-vis India during the last sixty years, there is absolutely no reason for India to engage with Pakistan. In fact, it is most surprising that India should even wish for improved relations with Pakistan.

As everybody knows, Pakistan has been waging a proxy war against India ever since Independence. Its war against India is not based on any principle or a justifiable belief in something higher—such as democracy vs. dictatorship, liberal vs. reactionary, or free market vs. communist. In fact, Pakistan itself is the epitome of all that is evil and abhorrent. Instead of being thankful or grateful to India for having had the opportunity of being exposed to a higher culture and ancient civilization, it just wants to continue to belittle India, kill as many Indians as it can without any provocation, foment trouble between India and its minorities, and grab whatever land it can by its regular military incursions. At best, Pakistan’s conduct can only be described as disgusting.

It suits Pakistan perfectly well to wage a proxy war against India. Proxies are the acts of cowards, it enables them to breach borders surreptitiously, attack from behind, kill and kidnap, and escape under the cover of darkness. According to government figures, this has happened more that 180 times in the last three years.

Like a true coward, Pakistan denies any involvement in these crimes when protests are lodged by the Indian government. It is not possible to win against an enemy when it is waging a proxy war, and when the enemy state has given a free reign to its armed forces to bomb, kill or kidnap without being accountable to anybody. If the Indian government is serious about defending its territory and people it must give a free hand to its military to respond in whatever way it sees fit. We cannot defeat terrorism by ignoring terrorist acts. We cannot wish it away.

Antony should be tried for treason

Yet again, the Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control in Kashmir today and butchered five Indian soldiers manning a border post, well within Indian territory.  This follows another incident on 8 January, when Pakistani troops attacked and beheaded one Indian soldier, and killed another. What is the Indian government doing about it?

Hours after this incident, the Defense Minister of India made a statement to the Parliament that “the ambush was carried out by approximately 20 heavily-armed terrorists along with persons dressed in Pakistan army uniform”, while an Army spokesman had earlier said, “soldiers from Pakistan Army” were involved.  We should ‘salute’ our Defense Minister for absolving the Pakis of this heinous crime by pointing a finger at the Pakistan-based terrorists. The Parliament was justifiably furious, and saw through the game being played by the government (of appeasing Pakistan), and at which it (the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty) has over a half century of experience.



Our Defense Minister’s utterances truly reflect the wishes of his master (or rather, mistress). Back in March he had also made a statement in Parliament regarding the facts surrounding the beheading of an Indian soldier by intruding Pak troops on 8 January, that "terrorists affiliated to LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad were involved in the attack".  At that time too, he did not name the Pakistan Army.

Mr. A.K. Antony is either a Paki agent in the Indian Government or he is a traitor. In either case, he deserves to be tried for treason and, if found guilty, appropriately punished.