What I would like to see are more Indians, critical of Pakistan's support for 'terrorists/insurgents', recognize that their nation did the same in East Pakistan. In fact I started a thread specifically on that issue, and the only thing I got back was myriad excuses justifying that Indian support for 'terrorism' in 1971.
Within the Indian media and intelligentsia, the events of 1971 and India's role continue to be glorified, not critically analyzed. Contrast that with the commentary in the Pakistani press, where the commentators critical of Pakistan's Afghan and Kashmir policy are a dime a dozen.
What I see on the Pakistani side, that I do not see on the Indian side, is introspection. So long as India, and this does not have to be the GoI alone, rather its people, media and intelligentsia, cannot be honest with themselves about the events of 1971, and engage in critical discourse on them, I cannot view India as being sincere.
Pakistan alone is not responsible for Faisal Shazad, a confluence of geo-political events, religious extremism, and wars in Afghanistan and FATA is what led to an educated and well-off young man committing such crimes. One cannot merely cherry pick Pakistan out of all the actors involved in the many events in Afghanistan and Pakistan specifically, and the Middle East in general, and then blame her. The regional dynamics we see today, and the events that led to them, did not occur in a vacuum with solely Pakistan responsible.
Why not blame the Soviets, or even better the Afghans? For setting in play a series of events that continue to have repercussions till this day.
Thank you, that was my major beef with the argument put forward by S Dhume and various other Indian commentators over the years, that it in essence implied that all Pakistanis were terrorists and evil, since the nature of the State and its identity was 'evil' and needed to be changed.
There is a war going on, and there are lands in chaos, and there is an extremist religious ideology in the mix that has proven to be a very potent motivator of individuals committing acts of mass murder.
All of that lends itself to the situation in Pakistan, and some of that is absent in India. There are after all terrorists just as brutal in the CAR's, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia (the author forgot the Bali bombings and the Islamic terrorist networks that exist there while extolling its virtues - yet another flaw in his analysis), Turkey, the Arab world, Europe etc. Pakistan is not responsible for them all, which means that the fault here is not the nature of the State, but geo-political events and various socio-economic-ideological confluences.