An Indian chopper strays into Pakistan and they return it along with the senior officials in it without much problems. Pakistan opens up a temple in Peshawar. Pakistan allows their Hindus to celebrate Diwali. Hints were dropped about Pakistan granting India the “most favored nation” treatment (as if our economy depends upon the paki trade!). News like this is catnip to the liberal pseudo secular crowd in India. They along with the south block have already started to chill the champagne. Have these idiots ever thought of why all this is happening? Why are these people who would rather see us roasted alive in a closed train compartment, started to have a change of heart? I will tell you why?This is because the US is putting extraordinary pressure on Pakistan from the western borders with incessant drone attacks, forces build up and diplomatic. Pakistanis are incapable of dealing with pressure from two sides that is why they have decided to keep the Indians at bay by being nice to them. The wily pakis know that the Indian pseudo secular lobby always falls for their pseudo overtures like Pavlovian dogs. The pakis are going to say all the right things and ensure that we are not attacked by their terrorists while they are dealing with the Americans. Of course after that pressure has been dealt with (US forces out of Afghanistan), they will resume bleeding us. We are falling for such obvious tricks for the umpteenth time. Shame on us!!
In fact now is the time to bring some more pressure on the pakis and then negotiate (if at all). But that is a move which requires guts and foresight, somethings our leaders lack sorely. That compounded with votebank politics and an inexplicable love for the pakis, leads us to make disastrous foreign policy decisions. When it comes to pakis, we hope that the problems will go away on their own, somehow the paki army and terrorists will abandon hate for India and we will then descend on a Bollywood movie set and sing “Kumbaya” or “Chammak Challo”. Yes all our foreign policy towards pakis is based on hope and nothing else. At least with China we have a Look East policy even though for the most part we take the cowards way out by sweeping the Chinese transgressions under our collective “khatiyas”.
In an e-conversation with an obviously angry friend of the blog Vidur Sarthi I got the following from him. I am sure that you will agree with him.
There is something in MEA that makes the whole establishment subtly and sometimes overtly anti US as the heritage of NAM and Nehruvian influence of socialist utopia. the real evil lies with the congress party that has of late sees in the Muslim vote bank the key issue of survival. in addition , i have NEVER figured out what is India's foreign policy - we are not friends even with our tiny SAARC neighbours with the Chinese controlling them.... ! sometimes I wonder if it is in our Hindu genes - we never go beyond the four V's - vichar , vimarshan , vishlayshan and vimochan !! our entire pak policy is reactive - with Pakistan always setting the agenda including the latest report of condi rice in which it was the pakis who set the agenda by putting the scare and the rumor of India attacking ! just imagine the entire NATO and the US buying into the Paki fear of encirclement by India and Afghanistan !
Frankly speaking I cannot believe that the Paks have again got away following Mullen outburst ! as my pak friend says , you Hindus are nice guys , you always let us get away even though you catch us pants down just as in Kargil and in 1971 -- we then feared that India would capture certain portion in the west and would vacate if we gave up claims on POK !!
And the BJP is another myopic party that does not know how to capitalize for fear of being called a radical party and losing out on the Muslim votes not realizing that they get nothing anyway! By pretending and presenting as modestly moderate , they lose even those votes that would go to them if they showed some strongly calibrated aggression - but there is no spine - how can there be if it is still letting the 80 plus year man to do their Ratha Yatra !
Clearly and overhaul of our policies is needed. That will not happen on the watch of such Paki-philes as Manmohan Singh.
An excellent article on the subject by Mr. G Parthasarthy can be read at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/edit/15995-pakistan-plays-a-double-game.html
In fact now is the time to bring some more pressure on the pakis and then negotiate (if at all). But that is a move which requires guts and foresight, somethings our leaders lack sorely. That compounded with votebank politics and an inexplicable love for the pakis, leads us to make disastrous foreign policy decisions. When it comes to pakis, we hope that the problems will go away on their own, somehow the paki army and terrorists will abandon hate for India and we will then descend on a Bollywood movie set and sing “Kumbaya” or “Chammak Challo”. Yes all our foreign policy towards pakis is based on hope and nothing else. At least with China we have a Look East policy even though for the most part we take the cowards way out by sweeping the Chinese transgressions under our collective “khatiyas”.
In an e-conversation with an obviously angry friend of the blog Vidur Sarthi I got the following from him. I am sure that you will agree with him.
There is something in MEA that makes the whole establishment subtly and sometimes overtly anti US as the heritage of NAM and Nehruvian influence of socialist utopia. the real evil lies with the congress party that has of late sees in the Muslim vote bank the key issue of survival. in addition , i have NEVER figured out what is India's foreign policy - we are not friends even with our tiny SAARC neighbours with the Chinese controlling them.... ! sometimes I wonder if it is in our Hindu genes - we never go beyond the four V's - vichar , vimarshan , vishlayshan and vimochan !! our entire pak policy is reactive - with Pakistan always setting the agenda including the latest report of condi rice in which it was the pakis who set the agenda by putting the scare and the rumor of India attacking ! just imagine the entire NATO and the US buying into the Paki fear of encirclement by India and Afghanistan !
Frankly speaking I cannot believe that the Paks have again got away following Mullen outburst ! as my pak friend says , you Hindus are nice guys , you always let us get away even though you catch us pants down just as in Kargil and in 1971 -- we then feared that India would capture certain portion in the west and would vacate if we gave up claims on POK !!
And the BJP is another myopic party that does not know how to capitalize for fear of being called a radical party and losing out on the Muslim votes not realizing that they get nothing anyway! By pretending and presenting as modestly moderate , they lose even those votes that would go to them if they showed some strongly calibrated aggression - but there is no spine - how can there be if it is still letting the 80 plus year man to do their Ratha Yatra !
Clearly and overhaul of our policies is needed. That will not happen on the watch of such Paki-philes as Manmohan Singh.
An excellent article on the subject by Mr. G Parthasarthy can be read at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/edit/15995-pakistan-plays-a-double-game.html
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