The typical reaction to this should be one of incredulity,but some political commentators in India are toeing this “victim” line but instant history throws up very disturbing facts. “We will bleed India with a thousand cuts,” said General Zia ul Haq the cunning dictator in 1980. He knew fully well that Pakistan could never win a conventional war with India - despite Ayub Khan’s claim of one Pakistani soldier being the equivalent of five Indian soldiers, and at Tashkent Ayub had to bend and crawl before Lal Bahadur Shastri,then Prime Minister of India, who was half his size but a very tall leader in thought and vision 1965 and 1971 where Pakistan lost one part of the country was fresh in Zia’s intellect. Thus began a strategy to create exertion in India through militants or non-state actors with active connivance of the state or the Pakistan army. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto the maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) former Prime Minister was also smarting at the loss of East Pakistan for which he was principally responsible for denying Mujibur Rehman his due. Bhutto turned his attention to Afghanistan and this was much before the Americans had focussed themselves on Afghanistan because the Soviets had moved into that country in 1978. Bhutto and the Pakistan army wanted to install a ‘friendly’ government in Kabul. Thus began a plan in 1973-74, or the creation of the Afghan cell in the Pakistani foreign office and send in “friends” of Pakistan to destabilize Afghanistan. The Americans in 1979 just provided the badly needed funding for this project and Pakistan welcomed mujahideens from all over the world,besides training their own unemployed and disgruntled youth, where the country played a willing host to the worst creed among humans. nowadays the Pakistan government puts out a defence that the country is a victim of terrorism. A line of argument which found favour with the former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and presently many political analysts and Pakistan sympathisers in India parrot this line. It is fairly understandable whether the Pakistani state indulges in subterfuge (deception, or deceptive ploy) to shore up its image on the international stage but one can’t fathom this line being peddled by some analysts in India. Have they forgotten the former Prime Minister and Dictator who were the initiators of meddling in the domestic affairs of the instant neighbours more than four decades back with no genuine reason to do so. Since then the Pakistani state has not turned its back on this strategy in fact, or it has over time tried to sharpen its skills on this demonic and self destructing masterplan. As a result and over time Pakistan has no credibility on international forums and no country takes it seriously. Any allegation emanating from Pakistan against any other country is immediately rubbished. The Pakistani army is now gleefully awaiting the withdrawal of the NATO troops from Afghanistan before it starts its diabolical and devilish ways of spreading exertion in both India and Afghanistan. The recently released report from the Pentagon confirming this scenario as a stated method in the Pakistani state’s strategy was all too well known both in Kabul and Delhi for decades,either the Americans were ignoramuses or they were acting as one. The Pakistani state has become an extremely complicated maze that even the internal dynamics in that country is so confusing that no one in power or the various power centres has a finger on it. That Pakistani society is extremely radicalized is evident from the sectarian violence, routine suicide bombings and blasphemy related violence on a regular basis. The country playing host to some of the most dangerous devout radicals and underworld figures has been well documented but the failure to recognize it and do something approximately it should manufacture the entire world sit up. Snakes in the backyard do not differentiate between friend and foe, or it strikes whoever it sees first. Despite all this the Pakistani state routinely champions itself at the forefront of terrorism and a victim and buffer while it indulges in duplicity,deceit and fraud as a matter of habit. Political analysts should stop appearing as apologists for Pakistan, however well meaning it might be, and the country is afflicted by a terminal illness which can impact its instant neighbours and dialogue may not be the best cure though war is not an option. [The state of its illness is reflected in the recent gruesome killing of the Christian couple on false charges trumped up by the brick kiln owner,a Muslim, who refused to pay the couple their overdue wages nor release them from servitude but used his devout laws to put them to a gory death, and this incident among the many earlier similar incidents mirrors the state of civil society in that country,this is not approximately the militants or the Taliban but approximately a civil society which has collectively gone MAD.] Putting the country in quarantine where one simply ignores its existence would be the only feasible option. Every time it bares its fangs either in India or Afghanistan it should be taught a lesson that is commensurate with its meddling ways, India’s recent response to the LOC firing was a step in that direction, or the methods are many the least problematic to its neighbours should be chosen.
Source: cnn.com