PAK crumbling under pressure

The tension between the two nuclear weapon states which have fought four wars with each other is escalating day by day. Even though both the sides are refuting the claim that they are getting ready for the war, the relationship between them is at the worst and both the nations seem to be equiping themselves for the war.

It makes no logic when Pakistan claims that the name of the terrorist captured by India is not in the national registered list and hence he is not a Pakistani. With a population of more than 160 million people, when the list consists of only 60 million people, there is more possibility that the terrorist name would have been in the majority of those whose names were not registered. When the father of the captured terrorist claims that his son is being captured by India, what else is needed to confirm the identity of the terrorist?

US bombings in the Pakistan region near to Afghanistan border, which is suspected to be the place for many Taliban hideouts, have increased in the past two months. With intense pressure on Pakistan, Pakistan is trying to divert the attention of the international community by all possible ways. First with accusation that the president received a hoax call from an Indian minister and then making of false statements that Indian planes intruded into Pakistan region, which the President himself clarified as unintentional “technical error” and later associating India with the bomb blast in Lahore, which proved futile when a Taliban organization in Pakistan claimed responsibility for that blast. All the steps which Pakistan took to divert the attention backfired ultimately, thereby creating further pressure on them.

Pakistan sports secretary made a statement that India is not a safe place to stay and refused to give permission to the Pakistan squash team to tour India which is seen as a revenge for India’s decision to cancel its cricket tour to Pakistan. He cited the Mumbai blasts as the reason for such a decision. If he feels Pakistan players can’t be safe in India because of terrorist attacks in India which is carried out by Pakistan (the whole world believes so), then is it not that their safety in Pakistan(from where the terrorists originate) itself is a big question. Logically speaking, those players may feel safe in India than in Pakistan.

There is no denying fact that Pakistan is also a victim of terror. Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and frequent bomb blasts there give us enough evidence that Pakistan administration’s inability to control the stateless factors operating in their country. But neither the mere statements “we Pakistan people are committed to wipe out the terrorist from our ground” nor the house arresting of Jamaat-ud-dawa’s chief going to bear any fruits unless Pakistan really walks the talk.

Just expressing sympathy for India is not going to help; the international community must put intense pressure on Pakistan to take concrete steps and to produce appreciable results in its so called war on terror. External affairs ministry’s advice not to travel to Pakistan and the verbal accusations on both the sides add fuel to the fire. Only positive note is the continuation of the Lahore Delhi bus services and the exchange of goods across Loc amidst tensions.

Pakistan’s proxy war on India is not going to end unless they are pushed to act. When US have the right to attack Afghanistan when Taliban refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden, why not India follows the same step when Pakistan refuses to hand over the suspects to India? Well, we are not aggressors of war and we look forward for a diplomatic solution though such solution seems to elude.