Actually I pointed out that even a castigation of India for supporting terrorism would likely be stymied much as the US covers up for Israel's crimes - sanctions tau door ki baat hai.
No sir, not if you show the 'irrefutable' evidence you have. The news craving channels will cry about it from the rooftops. Your diplomats can draw blood. But your people won't do it. Why?!
Just to make a comparison here - the fact that India, or for that matter any nation, has not been able to make a case with strong evidence showing Pakistan supports terrorism in the UN therefore means that all this rhetoric in the Indian and US media, and by Indian and US leadership, against Pakistan is exactly what you imply Pakistan's rhetoric is - bullocks.
Yes, India cannot prove that Pakista 'supports' terror. But the fact that Pakistan at the very least, once did, or for that matter Mumbai can turn the world's attention what Pakistan could be doing and what they
are doing according to the Indians.
Only one half of what you said is true. India's rhetoric carries the huge weight of all history.
From a tactical point of view whether it is ullcks or not is immaterial as long as people are convinced. You just show your 'evidence' and get India 'red-handed'.
Somehow all these arguments escape Americans and Indians when they are blaming Pakistan and come to the fore when they themselves are accused of supporting terrorism.
Thats the easy way out to make someone fall on back foot. Not everyone will fall for it.
I know that Pakistan likely has no evidence that would stand up in a court of law,
Exactly why they should put it before people. At least sceptic lPakistanis should be able to believe the story right?
but for that matter neither does any other nation have evidence against Pakistan, yet that doesn't stop the idiots in the White House, Pentagon and the GoI from yapping their mouths off does it? So why complain about Pakistan doing it when your own people refuse to stop barking?
Of course there is no evidence against Pakistan's state institutions. Again history judges Pakistan here. If you feel it is unfair, nobody can help.
No conditions have been forgotten - read through my last discussion with Toxic on this issue, the UNSC resolutions clearly indicate that all withdrawals, of regular forces and irregular forces, would be subject to negotiations between India, Pakistan and the UN. So this excuse that Indians love to throw about that plebiscite was not carried out was because Pakistan violated conditions is nothing but a canard.
The Indians, however, unilaterally decided in the fifties that they were not going to negotiate anymore and used the lack of progress (partly due to their own intransigence) in negotiations to violate their commitment to the resolutions and Nehru started arguing for the ceasefire line to be the final solution.
I have no clue what you are rambling about there ...
Firstly you are easily forgetting that cease fire line to be final solution is not what India wanted in the first place. So India did(actually it might be only Nehru with his aura of a stateman) come down by giving signals that cease fire could be negotiated as IB. That is the real middle line. THe things that would have happened if this was accepted are only a subject of my dreams. Again, even today, this middle line is not that popular among Indians. THe fact that decades of terrorism and uncertainty led many to settle for this solution should be noted.
If I had to think for a Kashmiri then I would have taken Nehru's action with indifference but I would have accepted it because uncertainty will only cause more problems for the people. Especially because both sides are being a-holes and not going to move on this. How long are people going to wait?
When India had a chance to push Pak from p o k , they did not.
Today decades later, with both countries fielding their nuclear weapons, the possibility of changes in borders is even more unlikely, impossible if I can be forgiven for the precieness.
India may still settle for the same formula if you try(irrespective of what people think I think some government at least some years from now will make them accept it). It is a middle line for both Indians and Pakistanis.
But NO!! you would not agree for that because you think you can extract more. Just because India made the first concession wrt border, you are trying to take advantage of it. More you say more. You fail to recognize that they need not relent because they showed 'weakness' in settling for a less than what they wanted.
Did the summarize the problem and your views?
You can make people believe that things will change and make them rot in hell waiting for it. Generations can be made convinced about it. THey can become animals not knowing where they started and why they strarted. THe fact that there are more people led to belief of the cause will not always make a difference to the sensible approach. It will only effect their lives. You know who I am talking about.
All this, sadly, when there is not much difference in what side of the border they are on.
Thanks,
Ruby.