How Pakistan Hurts Its People By Blaming India

[nik141991]

I'm gonna ask this who ever supporting this scum bag. To all indians who know the existence of TSD and it's shenanigans in Pakistan. Why the fook are you playing dumb and acting all innocent and hiding behind this dumb writer who doesn't have an iota about what IA MI TSD did in Pakistan ?

I mean is it your hobby or is it in your nature to play dumb and innocent and when it comes to blaming pakistan, you all began acting like you have all the proofs ?

What did TSD did plz explain, I am sure you don't even know a iota about what you blabbering about

 

[AHAM BRIHMASMI]

Infact india blames pakistan for covering it,s own sinful activities inside pakistan. It,s time to strike deep inside india and destroy all the terrorist training camps overthere. It,s no surprise in 2009 the attack on sri lankan team was sponsored by india and the terrorists also came from india.

Seriously brother , why dont you try your luck as fiction writer ?? Had you tried, you might have got one or two Pulitzers.

 

[Neutron]

On Wednesday, Jundullah, a Pakistan-based affiliate of the Islamic State (IS)claimed responsibility for the killing of more than forty members of the Ismaili Shia community in Karachi. The underground Sunni extremist group has threatened to carry out more such attacks on Shias and other non-Muslim religious minorities. Since Pakistan has offered rich soil to Islamic extremists, both local and international, for at least three decades, it was not unexpected to see a new nexus between the militant groups in Pakistan and the Islamic State.

Despite Jundullah's acceptance of its involvement in the Karachi massacre, the country's foreign secretary,Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, immediately raised fingers on India and blamed its intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for its alleged involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan. The foreign secretary's statement was consistent with the stance of the Pakistani army that also recentlynamed the Indian spymasters for the first time in the public for "whipping up terrorism in Pakistan".

Blaming India for bad governance inside Pakistan is as old as the country's creation in 1947. With the passage of time, this practice (of blaming India) has worked so well in the country's politics that the civilian, military and religious leaders all use it to hide their failures and externalize the blame. However, this is approach is tremendously hurting the ordinary people in Pakistan. As extremist violence increases in mainland Pakistan and innocent citizens lose their lives in suicide attacks, bomb blasts, mass shootings and attacks on religious and educational institutions are resulting in the death of hundreds and thousands of people. Despite this, the military, civilian leadership and the clergy have a perturbing nexus to blame the Indians instead of taking action against the domestic terrorist groups that not only blatantly carry out these acts of terror but also immediately call newspaper offices to brazenly accept responsibility for masterminding these attacks. They are confident that nobody is going to come after them.

By not taking action against the homegrown terrorists, dismantling their huge infrastructure and putting the blame on foreign entities, the Pakistani authorities are indeed becoming complicit in the loss of precious human lives. Citizens who are killed in these terrorist attacks will unfortunately not get justice only because someone somewhere in the country's power circles benefits from such instability and blame game. In Pakistan's case, the army, which receives a substantial chunk of the national budget, survives and thrives by perpetuating the Indian threat. The army uses religious leaders and right-wing journalists to promote anti-Indianism. This hatred is systematically inculcated in the minds of the young Pakistanis through hateful textbooks, jingoistic television talks-shows and anti-India literature distributed by Jihadist groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Pakistan has done itself an extraordinary disservice by intentionally selling India as an enemy to its people. So much has changed in our world because of the Internet and social media but sadly the breakthrough has not occurred for the people of India and Pakistan to connect with each other. Actual first-hand interactions are such a powerful agent of shattering the status quo that those, who benefit from keeping the people of the two countries away from each other, will never let the gates of public interaction open.

In 2005 when I visited India as an exchange student through a very rare opportunity at the age of twenty-three, I went there with a heavy baggage of prior indoctrination against India and its people. I was certainly not to be blamed for my skepticism and preconceived notions about my host country. After all, I was, like millions of other young Pakistani students, only a product of the official textbooks that preached hatred toward India and the non-Muslims, particularly the Hindus.

Think about a young man meeting the first Hindu in his life at the age of twenty-three. That was me. And then imagine his dilemma if he had been brainwashed, again through the official textbooks, that it was not okay to be friends with the Hindus, shake hands or eat meals with them, worse if it is cooked by the non-Muslims? Of course, India was not as glamorous as Bollywood but neither the country nor its people were as abominable as the Pakistani textbooks and conservative Urdu language newspapers had (mis)informed us. Reluctant but gradual and consistent interactions with the Indian students helped me unlearn many lessons from the Pakistani communal education system and learn new lessons to appreciate and embrace diversity and pluralism.

But how many Pakistani students are lucky to go to India or vice versa? Very very few. Unfortunately, the scholarship that enabled me to go to India had to be disbanded after a few years because students from both sides of the border were never issued visas because of incessant political tensions and diplomatic mistrust. Students from the two countries normally get to meet and know each other in the international universities instead of being able to attend the universities in the region. When one of my classmates from India met me in Harvard, she exclaimed that it was the first time in her life that she had ever met someone from Pakistan. She was stunned that we spoke the same language and enjoyed the identical food. She and Icoauthored an op-ed calling for more interactions among the people of the two countries. I believe there needs to be more noise on the part of us, the internationally educated youth of the two countries who have also had the extraordinary opportunity of making friendships and learning from each other inside international classrooms and amid intense yet respectful discussions on politics, religion and other controversial topics.

Pakistan and India should learn from the US-China model. Although Washington and Beijing are fierce competitors in almost all walks of life, the United States has opened the doors of its top universities and colleges for the Chinese students. An American education does not make the Chinese students less patriotic but it certainly helps in broadening these students' understanding of the life in the United States and cultivating true friendships. When these returning students assume top government positions, they certainly will not encourage their government to bomb a country where they made lifelong friendships and obtained valuable degrees.

Kishore Mahbubani,one of Asia's top thinkers, rightly described this partnershipbetween the U.S. and China.

"What is one thing that will surprise the future generations of historians when China will overtake the United States as the world's number one power?" It is American generosity to open the doors of its prestigious educational institutions for the students from all over the world, including China, America's main competitor."

Similarly, if hundreds or thousands of Indian and Pakistani students attend each other's universities every year, we will witness an unbelievable change in the perceptions, attitude, public opinion and even government policies of the two countries within a few years. This has to happen so that the younger generation of the Pakistanis will take over the policy world in Islamabad and refuses to subscribe to the world vision and the mindset that is espoused by the generation of the current foreign secretary.

In 2009, I was invited to speak in a track-II Pakistan-India conference in Singapore. The two-day conference brought together retired top army generals, federal ministers, diplomats, politicians and journalists from both the countries. As the youngest among all the delegates, I was astonished to see former Indian and Pakistani generals and diplomats sitting in the hotel bar, drinking whisky, sharing sexist Urdu/Hindi jokes and then laughing merrily and loudly as if they were high school buddies. They recited romantic poetry from Mirza Ghalib, the legendary Urdu poet from the eighteenth century, and lavishly admired each other's Adabi Zoq or poetic flavor. There was no animosity among these powerful men. They gave each other high fives.

For a moment, I wondered if these guys would ever wage a war against each other. I also found it hard to believe that these generals and diplomats actually hated each other as much as they encouraged the ordinary people in their countries to do so. This is precisely what happens when men in power prevent the people from interacting and shut down all avenues of cultural and academic exchange. This duplicity should stop because more than a billion Indians and Pakistanis deserve better. Our children even deserve better than us.

How Pakistan Hurts Its People By Blaming India | Malik Siraj Akbar

Stupid kind of article. Writer know nothing about hard fact or ground realities or the article is intentionally written to misguide many people. It is faild kind of propaganda material.

 

[I M Sikander]

ISIS has made inroads in pakistan with the collaboration of talibs and pakistan still blaming India, this crybaby attitude of pakistan is killing its own people.

Isis has no significant presence.
Raw involvement is an open secret, from multi bahni till ttp, raw has always been there.

 

[I M Sikander]

Mumbai was a terrorist attack which had been reciprocated accordingly.

So you are confirming it yourself that raw is doing terrorism inside Pakistan

 

[Ajai Ghale]

So you are confirming it yourself that raw is doing terrorism inside Pakistan

Do you feel proud of Hafeez Saeed ?

FYI many innocent Muslims died in Mumbai attack.

 

[kakathiya]

 

[Mujahid Memon]

How India Hurts Its People By Blaming Pakistan

 

[Spring Onion]

Lets see who Mr. Malik Siraj Akbar is...

Malik Siraj Akbar is an Edward Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). He is the Vice President Communications in the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG) and the Web Editor of student newspaper, The Citizen.
Akbar is an exiled Pakistani journalist, South Asia analyst, blogger and newspaper editor. He is the editor-in-chief of The Baloch Hal, the first online English newspaper of Balochistan. He was a 2012 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and, a 2010-11 Fulbright Hubert. H. Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University. Akbar is the author of Pakistan: A Broken Democracy (2015) and the Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement. In 2006-2010, Akbar served as the Bureau Chief of Pakistan's liberal English language publications, Daily Times, and The Friday Times in the country's largest province of Balochistan.
Akbar's struggle for press freedom in his native Balochistan has been profiled by CNN,BBC World and the Washington Post.
Newsweek Pakistan called Akbar "the star Baloch reporter of his generation" while Huffington Post Live termed him a "real mouthpiece for the oppressed."


Hence what he says can't be taken seriously.

PS: He might be a RAW agent as well.

EXILED ? my foot. We all know him.

he is no exiled but cashed the Balcohistan issue for own self-interests and got foreign fellowships.

Good for him.

 

[Mujahid Memon]

good indian kids watching toons

 

[kakathiya]

good indian kids watching toons

it hurts when truth is spoken

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Any Pakistani calling for friendship with India is a traitor to Pakistan. I am not being sarcastic.

 

[Nicky G]

Its all about parity for Pak. They can't stand not being seen as equal to India.

In this context, since Pak is seen as a hotbed for terrorists and the 'glorious' reputation of their agencies shielding known terrorists, they are trying to ramp a narrative of India being the same.

Its child level propaganda, then again, that's all they are really capable of at this stage.

I'm gonna ask this who ever supporting this scum bag. To all indians who know the existence of TSD and it's shenanigans in Pakistan. Why the fook are you playing dumb and acting all innocent and hiding behind this dumb writer who doesn't have an iota about what IA MI TSD did in Pakistan ?

I mean is it your hobby or is it in your nature to play dumb and innocent and when it comes to blaming pakistan, you all began acting like you have all the proofs ?

Are you serious? No secret agency or intelligence group worth anything is going to openly admit to its covert actions, why is it incumbent upon Indians to accept what our agencies may or may not have done, I'll never know save for inherent double standards since you might have been the victims.

Its takes brains to play dumb, only morons shout out about their accomplishments in this context.

As for shouting without proof, just look at the number of RAW blame threads that spring up every time your security apparatus fails to prevent an attack on your soil.

Actually, its no bother to us if you guys keep blaming India for your short comings and do little to take corrective actions. Blaming some external is the easiest thing to do.

 

[Optimos Prime IA]

Lets see who Mr. Malik Siraj Akbar is...

Malik Siraj Akbar is an Edward Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). He is the Vice President Communications in the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG) and the Web Editor of student newspaper, The Citizen.
Akbar is an exiled Pakistani journalist, South Asia analyst, blogger and newspaper editor. He is the editor-in-chief of The Baloch Hal, the first online English newspaper of Balochistan. He was a 2012 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and, a 2010-11 Fulbright Hubert. H. Humphrey Fellow at Arizona State University. Akbar is the author of Pakistan: A Broken Democracy (2015) and the Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement. In 2006-2010, Akbar served as the Bureau Chief of Pakistan's liberal English language publications, Daily Times, and The Friday Times in the country's largest province of Balochistan.
Akbar's struggle for press freedom in his native Balochistan has been profiled by CNN,BBC World and the Washington Post.
Newsweek Pakistan called Akbar "the star Baloch reporter of his generation" while Huffington Post Live termed him a "real mouthpiece for the oppressed."


Hence what he says can't be taken seriously.

PS: He might be a RAW agent as well.

What ever But he copied my points :
Anti India propaganda -To hide establishment failure , political brownies ,people seeing thru so now pressure is on Pakistan establishment to save general public of Pakistan which is top most priority of all Author is from PDF

 

[jaatram]

What ever But he copied my points :
Anti India propaganda -To hide establishment failure , political brownies ,people seeing thru so now pressure is on Pakistan establishment to save general public of Pakistan which is top most priority of all Author is from PDF

author is from PDF?