Disconnected subjects
After a few lost wars and many strategic blunders, Kashmir may look like a lost cause but why negate the position we have held for the last fiftyeight years? We may not be able to do much for the people of Kashmir and indeed if they want a change in the status quo, the impulse and the effort for that should come from them. But at the same time, we have no right to betray them or say and do things damaging to their cause and playing to India’s advantage.
If a civilian leader had said a tenth of what Musharraf has said on Kashmir, there would have been dark mutterings in Pakistan’s cantonments while in Army Headquarters, now more a centre of politics than defence or war, plans would be in place for another takeover.
Even retired generals, whose courage comes into its own only when a civilian leader is in command, would have joined in the outcry. But over this tribe at the moment rules the calm and quiet of the graveyard.
There is bearded hypocrisy and there is uniformed hypocrisy and it is hard to decide which has had the more serious consequences.
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