Joe Shearer
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This snow ball game with shit instead of snow won't take us anywhere .. India throw their shit on us and we do the same . with this attitude how on earth both countries even think to start any dialog ???
@Joe Shearer there must be a better way moving forward than this ..
There is a verse in holy Quran where it says to jews and Christian to let's come together and talk on things that are common between you and us .. Can't we ( India&Pakistan )can together on common ground to initiate a process that could lead a better future for next generations .. Cause there is always room for more proxy and wars .
That is precisely why many Indians came to this forum and started trying to build bridges. Sadly, when Pakistanis went to Indian forums, they were received with hostility and contempt. Equally sadly, many Indians came here with the express purpose of disrupting proceedings. These latter have never participated in any single discussion on defence; never participated in any positive way in any other discussions; never had anything positive to say about Pakistan or Pakistanis; and never gave up trying to disrupt proceedings, right through multiple bans.
In miniature, that also reflects relations on the broader front between Indians and Pakistanis. Until the recent change of government (I had started using a completely different set of words and then thought of the consequences in real life; what you read is written with an eye cast over my shoulder), there was some effort on the Indian side to continue a dialogue. The hope was that sooner or later there would be a liberal constituency to speak to.
Fate ruled otherwise; on the one hand, the liberal constituency, or rather, opposition to the old rabid, bigoted and violent outlook on the Pakistani side made headway. Those who promoted the bloody old ways found more and more resistance. You can see it on PDF itself; there are reasonable and rational members now to support those who were always there to fight a brave fight, but also to extend their hands for a just peace. But sadly, on the Indian side, a variety of reasons - anger and fury at the extended corruption displayed by the Congress, their seeming unending appeasement of the conservatives among Muslims, a cynical approach anchored in their hope of creating a Muslim vote bank, a constituency that would vote in unison on the call of their clergy, thwarted hopes of economic growth and prosperity, an increasing demand for opportunities - all combined with the ridiculous lack of leadership among other parties and a monomaniacal pursuit of power by one party led to the unexpected victory of the BJP and its allies.
We are now faced with a segment of Pakistani opinion that is ready to look at long-term solutions, or at least to overlook short-term adventurism (this is not the slavish political voice fearful of the 'boys' that we heard at the UN, but other, independent voices), but have nothing in our larder to offer instead. We have only the lowest level of demagoguery, shifted from the local hustings to the international plane.
I believe that we have to bide our time patiently, and wait for the swings in each other's political orientation to synchronise, to the time when sincere efforts at finding common ground take the place of this mutually assured self-humiliation in the eyes of the world. Until then, there seems to be no solution but to hunker down and wait for better days - the true achhe din - to come to us, once again.