You just dont accept good ol' plain facts now, do you?
Thanks for once again not answering the question and engaging in ever more hyperbole.
It is not I who cannot accept facts (not sure what 'facts' I am supposedly denying anyway), but you who cannot comprehend and answer a simple question.
Try again won't you?
What exactly does this 'lopsided' India-Pakistan relationship look like to you?
This is how I see it. Pakistan is in a weaker position and conversely India is definitely stronger.
Yes we know that, for the sake of discussion I even told lamayuru to consider that a given so we can move on without the two of you regurgitating the same thing over and over again, yet you can't resis. Are you guys so insecure that you like to hear yourselves drone this 'India is stronger than Pakistan' mantra incessantly? Otherwise can we move ahead and actually answer the question?
Of course India will bully the weaker, for its nature of any beast to do so. You did that in Afghanistan and in your ertswhile East Pakistan.
OK, so we might finally be getting somewhere in terms of some sort of an answer -so are you saying that a 'lop sided relationship' suggests that India should be allowed to bully Pakistan by supporting terrorism in Pakistan ala East Pakistan and Baluchistan? Is there more to this bullying, less, or is that it?
But your ego and arrogance which comes with ego does not let you accept that India is far ahead of your league.
So wait - you are suggesting that under this lop sided relationship we shoudl let India support insurgents and terrorists ala East Pakistan and Baluchistan in Pakistan, and any attempt to counter that is 'ego and arrogance' - did I get that right?
You always try to bring in China vis-a-vis Indo-Pak relations hoping, in vain, that China will come to your aid should a crisis arise. Aint happening.
Too much at stake for both India and China. (here's a pointer, Indians hate, in a healthy way, the Chinese and vice-versa because we see them as very strong competition).
So Pakistan (non-state actors -whatever that stupid term means) is pretty much on her own and now when many a nefarious activities are exposed and accepted by the whole world over as the source of Taliban menace (not to mention the source of terrorist attacks in India), finds itself with its back to the wall.
If you were to actually read the posts, you would find that I argued that China will not come to Pakistan's aid in case of a military confrontation - that was in response to one of your compatriots who suggested that the PA would take PLA sanctuary. SO what next, since this assertion of yours has been shown a strawman and a canard. AFAIK, Pakistan is not banking on China to come to its rescue in any military confrontation, though the Chinese reportedly have banked on Pakistan opening another front against India - so that is in fact quite the other way around.
Our dependence upon China is strictly business - we have a fair degree of faith in their ability to fulfill military and strategic contracts, that obviously are essential to maintaining a credible deterrent against India.
And again, what exactly does this have to do with defining this 'lop-sided Indo-Pak relationship'? I though we were getting somewhere with the last point you made about Pakistan being 'egotistical and arrogant' by daring to stand up to Indian bullying ...
When once you were the darling of cocktail parties in the US congress, this recent fall from grace has hurt the collective pride of Pakistanis and cannot come to terms with failed policies of the alternative military and civilian govts. You still think in terms of what could have been, instead of whats presently happening. And that my friend, holds you back from giving up giving 'moral' support to terrorist activities in India or Afghanistan, and which in turn stymes the growth potential in the sub-continent.
rant, rant, rant ... What could have been? Really?
As I see it, its the Indians who can't quite let go of partition and the lies demonizing Jinnah, with the two major political parties in India falling over themselves in trying to act the more 'patriotic' - one by expelling a veteran leader who dared to pen the truth, and the other slandering the other party for possessing such leaders.
I really see no such thing as you describe, not any more than other nations that introspect and look at history to learn lessons. In fact I find your comments here a rather crude and hate-filled caricature of Pakistan, perhaps straight out of a Hindutva or South Block training manual.
Ironic that our self-proclaimed peace-nick sought to thank such venomous bile.
But again, please, do get around to further explaining with specificity what exactly this 'lop sided' Indo-Pak relationship should look like?
P.S: Lamayuru, is the question still a bit hazy for you? It might be, because I have probably asked both you and Gubbi that question about more times than I had to ask in this single post, only to have you wondering what the question was.
