On
26th February, 2019 nearly at 3:30 AM in the morning, whatever
happened was before us as soon as we switched on our television sets. The whole India was celebrating Diwali in the
month of February-the month of “love”.
Crackers were all around and sweets were being distributed. Why?
Well, we know very well, Indian Air Force had destroyed the shelters of
Jaish on that day. Several terrorists
were killed and their deaths were in respond to the deaths of 42 Indian Army
Men.
Whatever
Indian Air Force did was truly commendable not only because they finally
avenged themselves upon Pak but also because in the process no commoner in Pak
was harmed, but only the terrorists. I
am also very happy as an Indian but is it the same way with each one of
us? Was everybody happy on destruction
of shelters of Jaish or people were happy for the “revenge” taken by Indians
from Pakistan?
These
two nations are always at daggers drawn with each other but what is the cause
behind it?
Let
us go back a little bit back in the history.
We as Hindus suffered severe tyranny at the hand of Muslim rulers like
Tipu Sultan and Aurangzeb who forcefully converted many of the Hindus to Islam,
they plundered our temples, they massacred us by leaps and bounds, they
destroyed us totally long back. Then at
the time of freedom from the British as well they separated from the Indian
National Congress proclaiming that it was a mere group of Hindus
(Jammat-E-Hindu). It means that for more
than a hundred years we are facing that kind of trouble between us. Hindus and Muslims can simply not see eye to
eye with each other till date. Moreover,
these terrorist forces paint Islam black further by killing numerous people in
the name of Islam. Eventually, today we
have got a new problem in name of “Islamophobia”.
But
is it worth being like that?
Of
course not! No Hindu is against a Muslim
and No Muslim is against a Hindu either and not even in the past the things
were like that. The cause of separation
in my eyes simply was that both the party leaders wanted to become the Prime
Minister and obviously it was not possible to have two prime ministers in one
single country rest the readers are wise enough to understand what I am trying
to convey.
The
same mechanism is used even today by the politicians in the present date and
time. How quickly we made our opinion
against Pakistan that they must be attacked with an Atom Bomb without being
concerned about the common men there.
The killing of our 42 CRPF Jawans was not undertaken by the commons of
Pakistan but by the terrorists who unfortunately stay there. How quick we were to speak ill about Imran
Khan, without being concerned that he had just assumed the office as the PM of
Pakistan. Hardly 06-07 months had passed
by since Imran became the PM and the Pulwama tragedy happened. We criticised Imran government.
Now,
you see I am not a supporter of Imran government and I am not even against the
Indian government but let us just think like a politician. Let us once step into the shoes of both Imran
as well as Mr. Modi and reconsider all that happened.
Pulwama
attack came into being, Indian Air Strike took place, Pakistan made an effort
to retaliate (though failed), Pakistan blamed India and India blamed
Pakistan-the blame game began!
Now
let us discuss its aftermath. Imran
pleaded dialogue with the Modi government which was not granted. Why? Because India was already sick of
trusting Pakistan, the past is the reason behind. Now Imran government decided to retaliate,
however they failed and after that Imran received a severe criticism in India. But just wait a minute, consider yourself as
Imran Khan a politician who has been struggling to get into power for past
19-20 years and finally after a long period of toil came in power. Had he not taken any measures, he would have
suffered severe hostility in his own country just the same way Modi government
had to suffer in India if no strict action was taken against Pakistan. Public was against any discourse. We saw them making an effort to retaliate but
we forgot they released Abhinandan without fighting any further which actually
was a sign of “co-operation” on the part of Imran Khan.
I,
once again would like to go back in the history and discuss a little about the
history of Pakistan. Pakistan got
freedom from us as soon as we got freedom from the British. Though it was considered to be a democratic
country but since then it dwindled between democracy and bureaucracy for
years. Even today they have tensions
between their so called organs of the government. Civil government in Pakistan and the Military
are usually competing each other for political power. They have a war within the country to be
fought against such anti-national forces.
Things are not easy there. It is
the military or army there that violates cease fire time and again because they
are competing for power and they want us to feel their presence. Also, one more point to be noted here is that
it is possible that Pakistan does not give shelter to the terrorists willingly
but, may be, they are threatened by them.
A yet another possibility is that the terrorist attack in India was a
conspiracy against both India as well as Pakistan to create tensions between
the new democratic Imran government and the Modi government so that the
popularity of Imran government could be
brought down and we never reconcile. Similarly, in India the Modi government has a battle with the opposition to be fought within where the opposition is allegedly calling the whole Pulwama tragedy a political publicity stunt.
Air
strike I commend but since now we have already avenged ourselves upon the
terrorists (in Pak and not avenges upon Pak), I feel that now we must talk to each other. We need to listen each other’s pangs as
neighbors. Peace is the only solution
and to achieve that we need to talk and empathize with each other. Terrorism has no religion and it is not a
problem of India alone but it is a shocking fact that Pakistan has been hit by
terrorist attacks more than India has-it is a fact and Pakistan also witnessed
several terrorist attacks during 2018, then we witnessed Pulwama and also the
Jammu-Kashmir Bus Station case in 2019 and now recently even New Zealand has
witnessed an anti-Muslim attack in 2019 and seriously, something to be noted is
that 2018 in Pakistan and 2019 in India were the election years and also 2020 is
going to be an election year in New Zeal Land.
Isn’t it intriguing? How I opine
is that it is not Imran khan and it is not the Modi government either involved
in any dirty game of politics as often proclaimed by various party leaders
including opposition both in India as well as in Pak. Now we are in a severe
want to sit together and talk.
The question now is-What next? Well, I feel that Imran being new, being a fresh face in Pak, on humanitarian grounds should now be given a chance. We gave chance to the previous leaders though we were betrayed but at that time Imran was not in the scene at all. He must be given his chance. What India and Pak now require is to talk. They need to clear the air about the air strike, India needs to convey them that the strike was not against them but against terror which is a common problem between us, Pak needs to understand that and should confide in us. The hatred which is flourishing between us cannot be overthrown in a single day, a months or even a few years, it would take time and hiccups would be there on the way but patience is the cure at present. We need to introspect and also to interact.