Forgive me for smiling at this very selective narrative.
You have started the story from the 26th of March; I beg you to consider the cumulative burden of doubt and suspicion you carry in any ordinary Indian's mind. It is not now, not this year, but 72 years ago that we had to face a ruthless attempt to seize power, clothed and masked by denial after denial. If today even a straightforward claim by Pakistan is suspect in Indian eyes, it is due to the legacy of repeated prevarications followed finally by admission. Consider the following:
- The raiders in Kashmir, their true character and antecedents, and what was conveyed to the world by a nascent country;
- Operation Gibraltar, and the cold-blooded decision to clothe highly-trained military people as civilians, to lend credence to a story of native revolt against intolerable tyranny;
- Operation Grand Slam, and an attack with armour and artillery on a principal town, the second capital of the state;
- The encouragement of Mizos in rebellion, and their housing in camps within East Pakistan;
- The bland refusal to acknowledge aggression in 1999, and the assertion that freedom-loving mujahedin had taken independent action without consulting the authorities, to be followed, at long last, with the outing of the NLI;
- A continuous financial investment in the Hurriyet leadership, and in subsidies to the daily demonstrations organised through large investments of money, all of which are totally denied as having happened;
- The statements by organisations committed to fomenting trouble in J&K, and their bland denial by the military authorities in Pakistan;
How much more do you want?
Sir, do consider this strange situation:
@Hellfire reports some internal conversations and is met with howls of disbelief; we are told, by you, that the present PM is different.
So should we be as sceptical towards
@Hellfire as before?
How does one deal with this on a larger time-frame? Where was Pakistan's response, when it was India pushing for peace and begging for talks? The only arrogant reply we got was that there could be no talks without discussing the future of Kashmir. As far as I can make out, this meant one thing, and only one, to Pakistani diplomats: the immediate withdrawal of Indian troops from Indian Kashmir and handing over the administration to Pakistan, with or without the dubious interval of a shambolic referendum guided by the Hurriyet and armed elements within the population imported from Pakistan. Should I remind you of the assassination of the present Mirwaiz's father, and the prompt conversion of the son to the Azadi camp? or of Abdul Ghani Lone, whose killing drove his three children into each of the three political factions prevalent in Kashmir today?
Forget about an obscure Indian writing all this on PDF; when a former general and head of ISI revealed the naked truth, all those things that do not come into consideration on the 26th or after, he lost his pension.
Who is to blame for that? Do you know that each and every one of the journalists who were professional employees, and not owners or part owners, who in earlier years had argued for peace is today discredited, without a job, and unemployable, because they are seen as sycophants who backed a reconciliation with Pakistan even in the teeth of the Bombay massacre?
If only you had made that clear earlier than 2014, when there were people waiting anxiously for a hint in this direction.
i was thinking he must hide feel ashamed but bravo he proved he is one true indian no such word in his vocabulary.After 27th feb slaps another ""sho sha "of indian we are going to this and that but in words of Sq Ldr Hassan Siddiqui"""we neither know nor care what they will do next matters we know what we gonna do ......again ""
