Delusion of Military War Since Independence

To wage a war against an enemy state the state must have intellectual power, military might and morale to fight a war but along with that a state must have the capability to decide the place and time of the war these two things ensures the strategic, tactical and operational superiority of a state. Choosing the right time and right place/terrain enables the state to win over their enemy.

            Pakistan and India are in direct confrontation with each other since independence, it has been 7 decades of continuous confrontation in which four full-fledged wars have been fought. In 1971, Indian armed forces infiltrated in East Pakistan and lead the way towards the disintegration of Pakistan and resultingly Bangladesh war formed, several military standoffs and skirmishes have happened between Pakistan and India, continuous deployment of military forces on the Line of Control and in the world’s highest battleground that is Siachen where billions of dollars are being spent each year of both countries, thus resultingly India has engaged Pakistan in continuous war since independence.

It is misunderstood on the part of Pakistani policymakers that India never chose physical fighting of war with Pakistan and will never will in the future. India from the very beginning chose to fight a war against Pakistan on economic terrain by blocking Pakistan’s due share of finances in the Reserve Bank of India, by blocking Pakistan’s water and hurting its economy, by engaging Pakistan in full-fledged wars and pushing Pakistan into a security dilemma by building its arms and nuclear programme, and thus Pakistan en route its economic resources in the arms buildup and excessive military developments rather than to invest in the development of human capital and enhance its huge chunk of youth human capital.

On contrary India fulfilled its military needs by building its international relations with the world powers and building military and civil alliances with the rest of the world and in the meanwhile, India invested its indigenous resources on the development of its human capital which is paying back now to India as India’s bilateral trade with China is more than 100 billion dollars and the IT sector of the world is dependent on the Indian IT sector.

After the Second World War, the world has changed from physical annexation to economic influence. In terms of Pakistan and Indian rivalry, India chose economic terrain to wage a war against Pakistan and has hit Pakistan hard diplomatically, economically by the huge development of its international network of its relations and due to these Pakistan is slowly being isolated economically, diplomatically, and politically and this is the reason why Pakistan’s policymakers are slow in making their minds to decide in favor of Kashmir especially in the current situation after the renouncement of article 370 and 35(a).

            All of this will continue until and unless Pakistan start to take decisions proactively and Pakistan needs to avoid a reactionary approach in decision making process.

Pakistan Zindabaad

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Ashiq e Rasool
Research Scholar of NDU, Islamabad

India Is Troubling Itself

India is soothing grounds for freedom fighters and providing them an immediate cause to align with their selves with the so-called Taliban and other militias of the world. India is being played in the hands of political baboons who just to ensure their position in the struggle of the possession of political power at the center and the states of the Republic of India and nothing more, these people who are the ruling elites of the Republic of India or so-called world biggest democracy is failing in determining its interest at international and the regional level. India is the sixth nuclear state in the world, to achieve this status India has signed neither the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and being an adverse rivalry in the neighbors of India, China is the first and another one is Pakistan, talking about Pakistan, India and Pakistan have never been on a good cordial relationship in history since independence and the chronological events occurred with the passage of time worsened the relation of the two neighbors on all levels from trade to the Indus Water Basin, from religious terms to the military relations the militaries of both of the countries are never been backed off from the LOC and the recognized border between them, both countries never trusted each other on any occasion. These all lead to the recent situation of hypertension over Kashmir issue between both countries and now again it can be witnessed that both countries are confronting each other at the highest levels.

Why India is so confident in violating the Human Rights, United Nation's resolutions, and the established norms and traditions in the preservation and protection of the fundamental rights of Human Beings of Kashmir? The question is to be asked by the political elites of Pakistan and should be raised at the forum of the UN General Assembly. The situation is being in Kashmir is being replicated by the Indian Authorities just like in Palestine by Israel and was in Chechnya and Bosnia as the Muslim population was targeted. When NATO can go for Peace Keeping then why not in Kashmir the NATO forces can go for keeping peace in the Valley?

This seems that there are some hidden alliances between India and Israel and other non-Muslim states to try to eradicate Muslim majority from different states of the world  as it happened in 2003 in which thousands of Muslims were killed, burned and drowned by the state lead persecution and migration for the safety of their selves. same is the situation in the Palestine West Bank and Gaza Strip where each day many are being killed by the Israeli Military Forces by direct gunfire shots and the exact situation is being created in the Kashmir especially Kashmir Valley where every day a young Boy, Women, Children, Elders of the house and unarmed civilians of the valley are being targeted by the Indian Military Forces and their religiously motivated participants of Bhartiya Janata party and other orthodox religious extremist groups.

Recently the repealing of the article 370 and 35(a) became the immediate cause of the escalation in the relationship of the India and Pakistan. Military forces of both states are in emergency and both states are having a severe military standoff on the Line of Control. the repealing of the article 370 and 35(a) soothed the grounds for the derailment of the international political order if the situation will be not handled responsibly by the major powers of the world and the Super Power the United States of America by exerting influence over India to revoke the recent constitutional amendments and  bring back the extra troops of the Indian military from Kashmir and remove section 144 and remove the curfew from the Kashmir Valley.

Right now, India is preventing people from their fundamental rights that are right to life which is against Human rights and United Nations Resolutions. Pakistan and other neighboring countries as well as the rest of the major power should reach out for the protection of the human rights of the Kashmiri people.

Pakistan Zindabaad

Published by

Ashiq e Rasool
Research Scholar of NDU, Islamabad

Biggest Lies of Western Democracy

Definition of Democracy suggests that it is a system of government in which the common people rule their self by exercising their right to vote for their representation that is being exercised by certain people in the political arena.

Now here are the pertinent questions that we know that democracy is the rule of people, by the people, for the people but still the most relevant question is un-answered that, are the people really being represented by the chosen ones by the people? Are the people getting what they are being promised for? Even, are the people getting their political rights being a citizen of the state? Now, answering this question is difficult as the first and foremost fundamental right that is the right is also the political right of a citizen is freedom of expression and freedom of speech such that to critically evaluate the performance of the state-run institutions whose main purpose is the development of the state. But here we are, people are denied their freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and we call this democracy.

Democracy is no different than dictatorship or monarchy especially nowadays if we look at the situation in the country, we will be able to find out that there is no difference than a time duration of government between dictatorship a democracy. Even comparing political government with the cricket match is  like one team bats and the other one bowls until the conclusion of the match or the event, the same is happening in the politics of Pakistan one political party rules and the others do the opposition and it keeps on going since independence it is happening again and again since the independence of Pakistan from the British Empire.

People in Pakistan is now denied their political rights, people are just fulfilling the formality of filing the bags of election commission on the days' election and then forget everything till the next term election. Voters should be keeping an eye on the policymakers and keeps on auditing them on their actions while during their tenure of the government is also the part of the job for the common people but still, unfortunately, nobody is trying to understand that we can do anything while these politicians hold these public offices.

Political elites are putting down the voices of the people even those who are being heard by the large chunks of people across the country and still in the age of information in 21^st century people are living in the fog of disinformation and many have been not let to hear anything and also not being heard by anyone else.

Published by
Ashiq e Rasool
Research Scholar of NDU, Islamabad