A Gory Tale of Lies, Greed and Deception

Pakistan`s Army, does go on power trips and believes it is the only organisation that can deliver the goods to the people. While politicians repeatedly agve the Army a taste for political power, through interventions in everything from the census to ghost schools, and constant appeals by civilians asking the COAS to intervene, the decision to assume power and hold onto it was always their own.

Ref: Hamzan
Staff College seems to have some special dialysis machine that filters even the last traces of uprightness, ghairat, zameer and sharram from the blood of its graduates.

Dear, I am very sorry to tell you that Pak Army has ceased to produce men of mettle who have the courage to call spade a spade. There are not many men of integrity left behind who have the spine to defy a traitor. They can beat police constables, they can mint money, they can rape their own daughters, sisters and mothers (East Pakistan, thanks Almighty, yet to start in West Pakistan, I must concede) but NO, they would never endanger their careers by being honest to their uniform and oath.

They can intimidate judges of the superior courts, bank directors, for perpetuating their plunder but they would never dare to utter a word that has any resemblance to truth.

There were times when truck and bus drivers felt pride to display slogans like Pak Fauj ko Salam. Now same very people are saying Na Pak Fauj par Laanat.

Subedar S S (SJ)
16 Punjab

Is this article written to vent anger on the arrest of PML(N) Hashimi ? This bloodsucking politician was trying to cast aspersions on our valiant mujahids of Army.

saminshah #88
Good article.
What Nehru got us in 1947 is 50 years free of Pakistani ruling classes veto on Indians lives. He got us space to talk a little of land reform, of education, of pluralism, and of self government, without being called hatemongers by this class of people, without having to deal with their hangups.

Now 50 years later, the present Pakistani ruling classes are again trying to exert a veto on Indians` lives, by trying to have India partitioned again. They forget that after 50 years, there are now many Indians who have something to fight for.

re:#88 by saminshah
This article that you posted should make Pakis ponder which way the wind is blowing today. Younger generation Indians have no patience with Pakistan and its policy of inflicting damage by low-intensity conflict. The author of the piece is a South Indian, who has probably not met even one Paki in his life. What makes him hate Pakis so much.
The reality is (and this answers Tahmed Sahib`s question as to why South Indians on chowk are so anit-Pak): he does not hate Pakistan. He is being very objective, without personal emotions involved in the thought process, something which older generation North Indians are unable to do as they retain some kind of attachment to Pakistan.
So, that author is right. This is the last chance for peace. May God be merciful.
Sridhar

saminshah #88 this article is a good reminder of why pakistan needs to maintain effective defense against india for the foreseeable future. it is interesting how this article, published in a major indian newspaper, reflects is long on hate and short on facts: while talking grandly of taking over pakistan, it overlooks the fact that all of what he suggests has been tried by the bjp government. there is no mention of the fact that what holds back bjp is not that they are peaceniks, but because the fear of pakistani nukes vaporizing them in delhi.

so, while no doubt we need to get the military to get out of politics once and for all, we unfortunately will need it to keep these nuts at bay as long as this deep seated hatred for pakistan exists in the ruling party in india.

Re: Hamzan

Actually, yes. Some generals have called the military rulers on their actions. After Zia dismissed Junejo`s govt in 1988, he called a meeting at GHQ to explain (justify) why he had done it. He went on and on about the usual nonsense: corruption, how the people had no confidence in the politicians, etc, etc. As usual, all the officers there (colonels, brigs, generals) agreed wholeheartedly with everything Zia said and went on ad nauseum about how right he was. One general, can`t recall his name but I can find out, stood up and said, very boldly, words to the effect that, ``Sir, that is not my understanding of how the people perceive PM Junejo. Why don`t you give the real reason why he was dismissed and why don`t you let the people decide who they want to rule.`` And he went on for a few more minutes. Apparently, officers started backing away from him as if he had the plague.

Anyway, Zia did his famous ``he he he`` and said some more nonsense about how he had information he could not divulge here but that he had the nation`s best interest at heart, etc, etc. Anyway, this general was very quickly retired and, I believe but am not sure about this, his pension was held up and all sorts of other obstacles put in his way (forced to vacate his house immediately, etc). However, the worst thing was when some men broke into his house at night, walked into his bedroom, waked his wife and him up, put a knife to his throat and said, ``Aap ki jawaan baetiyaan haen na?`` and left. The message was unmistakeable.

The officer immediately asked to see Zia, apologized profusely, grovelled like anything and asked for a job. Zia, ever magnanimous, accepted the apology and the grovelling and issued orders for him to be found a job somewhere.

You see, just because the Chief and some three stars decide they want to take over doesn`t mean that everybody wearing a star or two wants to rule the world as well. However, discretion is often the better part of valour. When I was young and very snotty, I asked my father why the Pakistani Army officers didn`t protest about Marital Law and all the other things that Zia was doing, given how I`d heard them talk in private. My father explained to me that in Pakistan, unlike the US, there was no recourse if you were dismissed from service. Furthermore, if the govt (i.e, Zia) did not like you, you couldn`t get a job anywhere. So the vast majority of officers just kept their mouths shut and did as they were told. Not particulary estimable but very understandable.

When I have ceased to beat my wings,
Against the fruitlessness of things,
Life will have shown me the truth
and take from me, in exchange, my youth.

Dear Romair, with reference to your quite in-depth reply I would like to add as follows:

<<<4. Reasons behind why Pakistani youth are more interested in killing and dying than in living never bothered me. (False. Pakistani youth like all other youth are overwhelmingly interested in living)>>>

Do you have any idea how many youngsters are enlisted in all lethal jihadi and sectarian outfits --initially created and till recently actively sponsored by the military. Right? Nighat might have exaggerated here little bit, but she is definitely not off the mark.

<<<7. Pak Army has killed manifold more Pakistanis than those who have hitherto fallen to Indian bullets. (conspiracy theory. Armies themselves never kill anyone. They are ordered into battle by the state to kill. The US Army killed hundreds of thousands in Vietnam. Indian Army has killed tens of thousands in Kashmir. Soviet Army killed 1 million in Afghanistan. The fault of this goes to the state and leadership and the citizens who supported the killings, or did not do anything to stop them. It is too convenient to pass it on the soldiers. >>>

You failed to take in account two fundamental differences. The US Army killed Vietnamese NOT American citizens. The same goes for the soviet army though not for the Indian army going berserk in Occupied Kashmir. Most importantly, in all your examples armies act(ed) as killing machines, on the orders of political/civilian governments. In our case, judge, jury and executioner, all rested in one institution.

<<<20. As someone pointed out the gallantry award holders were getting only cash awards and no plots in any schemes. (False as far as I know. I know that uptil 71 gallantry award winners got land, and quite a bit of it.)>>>

Yes, you are right, till 1971, not anymore. None of Kargil martyrs, including Nishan-e-Haider winners have got any valuable land. In any case absolutely not any prime urban piece.

<<<23. An ammunition depot was set ablaze in the midst of a metropolis of million-plus dwellers. Ojhri Camp. (Conspiracy theory)>>>

Is it enough to term it conspiracy theory? Any refuting proof? Any inquiry report? Any investigation that proves it wrong?

<<<29. and 70 – 80% of the air force and navy are modern day looters in ceremonial dresses – squarely responsible for the meltdown of the institutions. (False. PAF and Navy do not participate in Marial Laws. Even now they have no M. Law posts)>>>

Yaar, though you have used this line of reasoning a lot many times, but, sorry to tell you that this is not an airtight argument either. I explain. Logistically, COAS needs only brigade 111 and technically, approval of five Corps Commanders. Mangla, Gujranwala, Multan Corps Commanders play no significant role in any takeover. Few hundred infantry soldiers in Islamabad and few hundred more in provincial capitals to secure TV/Radio stations, assembly halls, governors houses and of course PM & CM houses, is all what requires. That’s all.

Despite that we all agree that the top command of army is equally responsible whenever they conquer Islamabad – by the virtue of passive complicity, if not active participation. The same liability is applicable even for the top command of PAF and Navy.

See, we have a number of examples even in Pakistan, where judges of superior courts refused to swear allegiance to the junta, refused to validate unconstitutional acts of the sitting PM or president. We have few politicians who resign on principles. Can you enumerate a single example where a star officer (regardless of the arm) had had balls to call spade and spade? A single general who has ever said that no I am obliged to uphold my loyalty to the country and its constitution as per my oath and as it is no more possible, I am going home. See, what a spineless, immoral, coward and filthy generals we have.
Moreover, how do you brush aside loot of Mansoor ul Haq, Anwar Shamim, Khattak etc. Any AVM, rear admiral upwards not crore-patti??

As a result, I would say, IMPRESSING. The housewife is not very inaccurate in his description of the events.

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The number-strong opposition of ours is yet not getting the message, however. With the arrest of Javed Hashmi, they might begin waking up to the real world. This front ranking leader of the opposition alliance and leader of a mainstream party was arrested around two weeks ago. His apparent crime was to read an unsigned letter that sounded seditious to our praetorian masters. He was nabbed like a wanted criminal on the run. Since then, no one really knows the place he has been confined to.

His daughter is an honourable member of the elected and sovereign national assembly of Pakistan as well. She was equally clueless. She and the lawyers are even not provided with official copies of the First Information Report (FIR), filed against her father. As the speaker of an august House, Chaudhry Amir Hussain is clearly empowered to order the production of Hashmi to assembly sittings. He remained reluctant. Superior courts were the alternative door Ms Hashmi and the lawyers could knock. That too would wait until November 13 to make a decision. All this has a very strong message for mortals like you and I.

We must think twice, before tinkering with rebellious ideas against the praetorian rulers of ours. What is the guarantee that our near and dear ones would know where we had been kept, and under what charges, if the authorities discover our flirtation with subversive thoughts? If the front ranking leader like Javed Hashmi can go missing like the persecuted characters of Kafka, what is so special about us? The unprecedented number of the noisy representatives of our indifferent looking public in a parliament does not promise any security or protection. With constant yelling, stretched up to fourteen days and six National Assembly sittings, the number-strong opposition could even not find out the whereabouts of their leader. How can they help an ordinary citizen?

Fulfilling constitutional requirement

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2003-daily/11-11-2003/main/main8.htm

How not to run the Parliament
Senator Farhatullah Babar
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2003-daily/11-11-2003/oped/o3.htm

It is sometimes argued that the opposition participation is important in law making and the Parliament appears non-functional because of their non- participation. This is a self-serving argument. If a document prepared in the GHQ is made to pass as the country?s constitution even without the Parliamentary approval, why can the normal law making under it be not done without the opposition participation? No one has stopped the government from legislating and keeping the House functional even as the opposition boycotts. Basically legislation is the primary responsibility of the government. The government?s inability to maintain quorum and do legislative work is just one reason for the Parliament being non-functional.

But here also the extremely limited space available to Parliamentarians is denied making the already irrelevant parliament even more irrelevant and a laughing stock. For instance last month this scribe submitted some questions and resolutions to the Senate Secretariat under relevant rules. All these were, however, turned down as `inadmissible`.

A simple question whether any inquiry was held in to the Kargil incident and if so whether and when the report would be released was disallowed for being `secret and of sensitive nature`.

Another question whether there was any law on the statute under which intelligence agencies/ISI conducted raids, detained and interrogated suspects and if there was any to place it before the House too was not allowed to be raised for the same reason.

A question whether an inquiry was held into the October 15 incident in Lahore of a car with tinted glasses belonging to a senior military officer was disallowed for being `not of public importance.`

A resolution saying that the exemption granted to serving defence personnel from payment of tax on toll plazas be discontinued and they should also be required to partake in national development by paying toll tax like all other commuters was declared inadmissible even without the fig leaf of assigning any reason or quoting rule.

When even a question to place before the House the law under which intelligence agencies/ISI are regulated is disallowed, how can a member expect to participate in the law making itself?

The Lahore incident generated so intense a public debate that it inspired numerous scores of letters to editors, a dozen columns and half a dozen editorials in leading newspaper of the country. Yet, a simple question asking whether an inquiry had been held into the incident is disallowed being of `no public importance`. By saying that it was of no importance, not the event but the Senate was trivialised.

If the Parliament has been rendered non-functional because of refusal to bring up such questions who is to blame, the government or the opposition? By disallowing these question the government has announced that no inquiry was held into Kargil and there is no need for any. It has also announced that there is no law, which regulates the functioning of intelligence agencies, and they are law unto themselves. Can a Parliament remain functional when such policy announcements are impliedly made without reference to it?

Elusive and Evanescent Indo-Pak Peace

By Rajesh Tembarai Krishnamachari

This is a Guest column from one of the younger generation. We have received many similar messages earlier. This is something the Indian government will have to take note of and find remedial measures- Director.

The ubiquitous propensity in the ruling circles in New Delhi for the last 50+ years has been to forge peace with our western neighbor Pakistan (literally meaning ‘The Land of the Pure’). Our leaders have bent over backwards to achieve this; they yielded to every Pakistani tantrum; they acquiesced to every Pakistani demand; they sacrificed every interest of their own people; they turned an ostrich’s eye to each Pakistani dagger stabbed in our back; still we are at the same position (if not further away) as we are half a century back. The time has come, this author believes, to reevaluate our strategy vis-à-vis our ex-fraternal twin. We have a tryst with destiny to resolve this dispute now and forever relieving posterity with this mental encumbrance.

What is it that draws the Indian establishment to its seemingly illogical infatuation, fatal fondness, deleterious devotion and unrequited love for the Pakistanis? Why does a geriatric group of individuals take candles to the Wagah border every year in a futile attempt to bring about lasting peace in the subcontinent? While the mephistophelean communists and other politicos may be motivated by electoral objectives; what drove the fiercely jingoistic Advani and the nationalistic Vajpayee to struggle to establish peace with Musharraf?

Experts have long debunked the notion of India being held back by any imbroglio with Pakistan. Statistics after statistics point to the trend of India zooming ahead irrespective of any Pakistani mischief factor. Does that not suffice to tell us that peace with an intransigent enemy is not an imperative for India’s continued economic progress? Even the undisputed guru of administration and state craft Kautilya advocates that when peace with a weaker neighbor is not a sine qua non for one’s progress, it makes little or no sense pursuing such an objective. Why then is the Indian administration fixated in its approach towards Pakistan?

First the paterfamilias of modern Indian secularism Jawaharlal Nehru signed away all our rights on 3 rivers in that World Bank promoted Indus valley treaty. Then his equally venerably culpable daughter Mrs. Indira Gandhi released 93000 POWs as a goodwill gesture besides returning their land without recovering our land in return. Did the notions of proletariat and plebian solidarity transcending national boundaries blind them? Were they inspired by a vision of a personal Nobel Peace Prize; Is there something more to all this than meets the eye?

While we despise Ravana in the Ramayana for his deceitful act of abduction of Sita; we still refer admiringly to his Ravana Samhita as an exceptional treatise on Indian astrology. In the same way, while we must rightfully consign the pseudo-secularists to the academic dustbins of JNU; we must appreciate the truth in their clichéd cry of ‘common clothes, common food, common culture’ between India and Pakistan. At the risk of running being labeled as one more emotional fool advocating Indo-Pak peace, this author feels constrained to record his agreement with the above fact.

Due to space constraints, I illustrate this similarity by taking an example of a single city in Pakistan namely Lahore. The name itself derives from Luv, the first son of Lord Rama, who is said to have founded the city. There is also that old Punjabi adage, “One who hasn’t seen Lahore hasn’t been born”. Even a cursory look at the historical profile of Lahore would reveal the extent to which our history was intertwined together. The Mughals, who undoubtedly heralded the Dark Middle Ages in India, are inalienable part and parcel of Indian history. The Diwan-e-am and Diwan-e-khas of Lahore were also Akbar’s creation. Lahore is a city with 13 gates which includes amongst others names like Delhi Gate, Kashmiri Gate, Lahori Gate and Mori Gate: names which would bring nostalgic tears to any Delhi resident’s countenance. One of Lahore’s gates is called Mochi Gate; a corruption of Moti named after Moti Ram, an official who resided there in Akbar’s time. The Lahore museum has endless exhibits of Gandhara, Buddhist and Jain origin. The list is truly endless and any Indian student of Pakistani history cannot escape from the unquantifiable, and inarticulate all-pervasive feeling of oneness between the two states.

After all, that is the land where Panini lived, composed and taught the greatest treatise on linguistics, Ashtadyayi. That is the land where sites like Katasraj relating to the Mahabharata are found. That is the land where archeologists excavated Harappa and Mohenjodaro leading to the discovery of the glorious Saraswati-Sindhu civilization. With such deep connections, which mellow down even a person who has never visited Pakistan, can you perceive the effusive emotions in the hearts of people like Gandhi, Nehru and Advani who have actually been there for many years?

The Mahatma was clearly disconsolate when he declared that India would be divided over his dead body. This fraternal feeling also explains why Jawaharlal hesitated to take strong-arm action against Pakistan. It also ‘rationalizes’ vapid Indian leaders genuflecting at Minar-e-Pakistan. It accounts for Mrs. Gandhi ‘s ‘inexplicable act’ of releasing 93000 POWs as a goodwill gesture.

All our leaders were no different from Arjuna who trembles on the eve of the final Mahabharata war. Arjuna, the valiant warrior, is neither afraid of his opponents nor does he fear death. What stops him, what binds him is the overwhelming feeling of affection he has for his cousins. At this time, it would be appropriate to recall what Lord Krishna had advocated then. Decrying all superficial bondages of brotherhood, he exhorted Arjuna to stand up and fight for righteousness. The rest of the Mahabharata is well known to need reiteration here. The Indian leadership would do well to learn from this incident and apply its lessons in the present context.

The harsh inalienable reality today is that the feeling of ‘common clothes, common food and common culture’ is unrequited in Pakistan. It has interpreted every act of magnanimity by India as a symptom of India ‘s weakness.

While Vajpayee was singing paeans to peace in Lahore (yes, the same Lahore that I described earlier), Musharraf plotted a deadly plan that consumed the blood of many of our young soldiers in Kargil. The famed Sheetla mandir in Lahore (yes, the same Lahore that I described earlier) built before the invasion of Alexander was looted and its idols destroyed by perverted vandals. The elegant Doodhwali Mata Mandir between the Shah Almi and Lahori Gate in Lahore (yes, the same Lahore that I described earlier) survives only in its dilapidated sanctum sanctorum. The holy Prahlad Mandir near Lahore (yes, the same Lahore that I described earlier) bears a melancholy look as it is locked since partition days. An Islamic school is currently held in the compound of the ancient Jain temple near Anarkali in Lahore (yes, the same Lahore that I described earlier).

Reality is indeed stranger than fiction; and it is an unparalleled tragedy to see India and Pakistan at loggerheads. As one peruses through history of Lahore then and now, several questions come to one’s mind. What could have caused the partition of our beloved motherland? Is the verse 5.51 in the Holy Quoran to blame that explicitly asks Muslims not to take polytheists (Zalimun) as friends or helpers (Auliya)? Is it verse 2.191 which exhorts Muslims to kill the unbelievers wherever they find them, verse 9.123 to murder them and treat them harshly, verse 9.5 slay them, verse 8.65 fight with them? Was it all a connived manipulation of the incorrigible British mind as implemented by Lord Mountbatten? Recent research has indicated that he acted more like an agent of the London government than the Indian Governor General that he was. Why did Jinnah buy property in Bombay as late as July 1946? Does that not indicate that he was not serious about Partition?

Did not the British hurry up the whole process fearing that the imminent expiry of an ailing Jinnah would put paid to their hopes of dividing India? Why did the Muslims initially vote for partition and then finally decide not to leave? Unfortunately, we may never know the complete truth behind many questions as our eminent historians (as Arun Shourie calls them in his book “Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud”) ate away the money allocated for research on this topic of vital relevance and instead expended their energies in lampooning Indian culture, Indian religion and Indian nationalism.

Consider the following anecdote based loosely on a similar real life incident in the United States. A man dotes upon his younger brother and repeatedly overlooks his acts of misdemeanor. His younger brother robs a house; and the elder brother pays the fine. His younger brother murders a man; and the elder brother lies under oath to rescue him. Things reach a head when the younger brother in a fit of anger kills their parents. Fraternal love rules paramount as the elder brother refuses to give testimony. A few months later, the younger brother tries to rape his elder brother’s wife. Driven to the wall by his wife’s persistent wails, he importunes with his younger brother to leave his wife. The talk leads to an altercation, a scuffle in which the younger brother tries to kill the elder brother by shooting at him. The bullet grazes his shoulder, injuring him. This opens his eyes and he finally retaliates and shoots his younger intransigent brother.

India and Pakistan have come to the same stage as described below. At this stage where whole generations of Pakistanis are filled with vitriolic and pathological animosity towards India (mainly due to Zia’s post 1971 hatred implantation program in Pakistani textbooks right from Class 3 to Class 12), peace between India and Pakistan has been reduced to a pipe dream. The entire Pakistani psyche is modeled on an anti-Indian perspective. Anti-India venom runs in the veins of the Pakistani army engine.

The Indian leadership has to face this new reality. There is no alternative to adopting an aggressive posture towards Pakistan and treat it in a professional manner bereft of any effusive sentimentality. This transition is going to be difficult especially for our ageing administration as they are still bound by anachronistic and antiquated (obsolete) ties of fraternity to the Pakistanis. Consider another anecdote to understand their behavior.

A man was walking down a dark alley when a key fell out of his pocket. Since he did not have a torch, and it was pitch dark there, he was quite discombobulated for some time. Regaining his composure, he walked some 2 kms till he found a bright spot under a streetlight and started searching there. The local pundit was passing through that way and seeing the distress on the man’s face volunteered to assist him. The man wailed, “Sire, I lost a key in the pitch dark street some 2 kms back. Since I could not see anything there, I came here and started searching where there was more light.” The pundit was stunned and gently remarked, “My dear friend, you make two critical errors in your judgement. Firstly, you must always analyze the root cause of the problem. There is no point searching for a solution elsewhere. You will never find it anywhere. Secondly, you choose this bright spot as searching here will be easier. Sometimes in life the answer comes only by taking the difficult course. You must swallow the bitter pill to get cured of an illness. Similarly, you must strain to look there and not here for a solution.”

Our leaders have made the same two errors of analysis regarding Pakistan. Firstly, they sought an end to Indo-Pak dispute via peace talks. That approach sought more light to them just as the streetlight looked more attractive to our protagonist from the previous story. Secondly, they were essentially seeking an easier way out by not taking on Pakistan head on. Cowering when combat with an enemy is inevitable is no sign of maturity. Peace talks, people-to-people exchanges can and never will lead to the resolution of the dispute. The bitter pill of a confrontation has to be swallowed and a statesman who procrastinates an ineluctable fate (like war) is committing a crime on his country in the Clausewitz-ian sense.

There is a mid-way section in India belonging neither to the pro-Pakistani Marxists and the nationalistic RSS brigade. Many well meaning Indians knowing fully well the adharma being propagated by the vile and the vicious Pakistan still hesitate to take stern steps to handle the Paki menagerie menace. This situation is aptly described in C Rajagopalachari’s rendition of the Valmiki Ramayana. The author describes how both Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana oppose Ravana’s abduction of Sita, yet while Vibhishana steadfast in his support of the truth disassociates himself from the Lankan kingdom, Kumbhakarna unable to rupture fraternal links prefers to sink down along with Ravana. The mid-way group of India is unfortunately simulating Kumbhakarna, while they should ideally be emulating Vibhishana.

The sad part of the whole episode is the unrelenting stand of Pakistan. Its obstinacy has cost its people untold misery and rampant poverty. Musharraf and his equally illustrious predecessors have survived on luck, fluke and the blind benevolence of the Indian demagogues. What Musharraf does not realize is that the new generation of Indians has never seen a unified India. All that they know about Pakistan is its relentless war mongering, perennial corrosive subversive war and pathological pedagogues advocating the murder of non-Muslims. The current Vajpayee dispensation is the last nationalistic government that is likely to negotiate with Pakistan. This is in fact the last chance of establishment peace through talks. The coming generation of Indians would be bereft of any emotion and would deal with Pakistan as a country should ideally deal with a vitriolic and vituperative enemy.

One rule of life is that the pendulum never stops at the middle. Till now the Indians subscribed not merely to ‘forget and forgive’, but ‘forgive and forget’. The pendulum shall swing to a position where we shall neither forget nor shall we forgive. That event will mark the beginning of another era in the Indian history marked by resurgence in every sphere of Indian culture, civilization and thought.

Atrocities can turn even a most peaceful rabbit into a roaring lion. The history of Sikhs illustrates this change. Guru Nanak was the very personification of peace, tranquility and secularism. The indescribable atrocities perpetuated by the Mughals on him and the following Sikh gurus turned the community in to a revolutionary one. Guru Gobind Singh, in whom the whole Hindu Samaj at the time of Aurangzeb’s unparalleled brutality sought refuge, established the Sikh religion. He made carrying the ‘karpan’, sword/knife an integral part of the Sikh attire. The Sikhs who formed the de facto and the de jure kshatriyas of this nation in the post 1650-era came together with a renewed spirit and rescued the soul of India through a series of sanguinary military campaigns. While a neutral historian may accuse the Sikhs of a bloodthirsty nature, a closer introspection reveals that they took recourse to such action only under conditions of extraordinary duress imposed by the intolerant Muslim rulers. The same is true of the Indian populace today. For half a century, they patiently bore the Pakistani actions. Now the time has come for the impertinent adversary to witness the reactions and repercussions of its unwarranted actions and immoral sins.

The conclusion is as harsh as it is ineluctable. The Pakistani mindset is totally prejudiced against us. Their sole aim is the destruction of the Indian nation as an entity and establishment of a Dar-ul-Islam here. The lessons of history have to be learnt and keeping the legendary Guru Gobind Singh as a role model, we must be pro-active rather than reactive in our approach towards Pakistan.

(TK Rajesh is a R&D engineer based in Bangalore and writes on the ‘convergent triumvirate of Indian nationalism, Indian culture and Indian religion’. email- tk_rajesh_iitm@hotmail.com)

#73 by saminshah on
//...two pakistani never agree on anything.not even on defination of islam or kashmir..//

I think pakis of all shades agree on Kashmir - that it should be liberated from hindoos. The most liberal paki would advocate putting Kashmir on ``back burner`` but would still support the ``cause``.

#76 by arjun_m

sorry my means is foreign policy issues

#81 by ahmadzai on November 12, 2003 9:44am PT

my friend just never wake up and don’t break your pledge of sleeping at wheels

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veeresh # 79

[What happened to KHI?]

MQM happened...