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Two things have happened constantly at the same time like evil twins in our history and we, it seems, have never found the connection: Firstly, India making overtures and giving us hope for better ties in the future; secondly, doing something vitally against our interests.
Right now India is making signs of better future ties with us and it is also about to start construction of another dam on Chenab River which will generate a thousand megawatts of electricity. Pakistan will then not even get the water it gets during floods in this river.
And while it is true that Pakistan has many times expressed genuine desire to improve its relations with the big neighbour, we have been doped by that very country into a false hope of establishing a lasting friendship while New Delhi went on with projects which were mostly detrimental to the interests of Pakistan. India blackmailed us. It manipulated us using our desire for peace as leverage.
We should not forget our history: Gen Ayub Khan became forgetful of the country's interests and signed a deal with India and sold its rivers. What ruler will sell the rivers of his country. But Ayub Khan did because the then Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, feigned to treat him as his equal and give legitimacy to his dictatorial rule .
Of course, Ayub was so intoxicated by the Indian leadership that he, also, woke up very late to the Indian efforts of bifurcating Pakistan. Remember East Pakistan; India as a dignified and neighbourly nation should have helped patch up things, or at least remained aloof and neutral observer of events but instead, it conspired with and encouraged and helped the separatist in then East Pakistan not secretly but openly with its army in the last days of the tragedy crossing the boarder to help the Mukthi Bahni and tear apart our country. Remember, when the very secular minded Indira Ghandi, the then prime minister of India with all her western education openly confessed to the glee she felt at the tragedy as did all extremist and biased Hindus and how she said that it was the defeat of the two-nation theory. No right minded politicians, let alone the head of a large democracy like India, would celebrate the break-up of a sovereign state, but in our case Mrs Ghandhi did.
Musharraf, who was almost lulled by India when it came to the interests of Pakistan, was given the lollipop of the solution of Kashmir and a name for himself in the history books if the issue between the two nation was resolved. In the meantime India was building Baglihar Dam non-stop. While the walls of the dam went up, Musharraf was mum all the time hoping to get his name marked in history as the man who established the basis of permanent friendship between the two countries. The Kashmir issue was never resolved but in the meantime India completed the Baglihar Dam. In its heart India knows that what harmful actions it intends to take against us in the future can never, in the end, result in durable relations with Pakistan. That country has half a dozen or so, so called trade posts lined on Pakistan's western boarder in Afghanistan. Everybody knows that these are Indian spy centres used by the agents of that country to hop in and out of Pakistan and streamline terrorist and separatist activities in this country. There are visible signs of India trying to negate Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan to its own advantage. Yet nobody in this country wants to debate the issue as to why would that country want to have rival and antagonistic strategy against the interest of a country (Pakistan) with which it professes to want to be on friendly terms?
If India wants to be friendly with us why would it want to build dams which could result in Pakistan become barren and infested with famines? Why would it want to be friendly and assist individuals and groups which want to dismember Pakistan? Why would that country want to instil anti-Pakistan emotions in Afghanistan. Why can it not India just promote a pro-Indian feelings among the Afghans instead of encouraging anti-Pakistan emotions as well. Surely, the two are not inclusive. We should be beware of India, especially, when it makes friendly overture towards us, for that is the time when India is making efforts to harm our interests.
With all its secular rhetoric, India's extremely religiously biased interior should not be out of our mind. It will not be partner in the gas pipeline projects from Iran and Central Asia simply because it knows that it will be going against our vital interests in the future and as such the relations between the two countries will sour which will result in stopping the gas supply. As such it can not base its industries on a fuel sources which will be stopped. Beware of India when it is at its best behaviour with us. Our history tells us that.
Indias 1000MW dam on Chenab
Right now India is making signs of better future ties with us and it is also about to start construction of another dam on Chenab River which will generate a thousand megawatts of electricity. Pakistan will then not even get the water it gets during floods in this river.
And while it is true that Pakistan has many times expressed genuine desire to improve its relations with the big neighbour, we have been doped by that very country into a false hope of establishing a lasting friendship while New Delhi went on with projects which were mostly detrimental to the interests of Pakistan. India blackmailed us. It manipulated us using our desire for peace as leverage.
We should not forget our history: Gen Ayub Khan became forgetful of the country's interests and signed a deal with India and sold its rivers. What ruler will sell the rivers of his country. But Ayub Khan did because the then Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, feigned to treat him as his equal and give legitimacy to his dictatorial rule .
Of course, Ayub was so intoxicated by the Indian leadership that he, also, woke up very late to the Indian efforts of bifurcating Pakistan. Remember East Pakistan; India as a dignified and neighbourly nation should have helped patch up things, or at least remained aloof and neutral observer of events but instead, it conspired with and encouraged and helped the separatist in then East Pakistan not secretly but openly with its army in the last days of the tragedy crossing the boarder to help the Mukthi Bahni and tear apart our country. Remember, when the very secular minded Indira Ghandi, the then prime minister of India with all her western education openly confessed to the glee she felt at the tragedy as did all extremist and biased Hindus and how she said that it was the defeat of the two-nation theory. No right minded politicians, let alone the head of a large democracy like India, would celebrate the break-up of a sovereign state, but in our case Mrs Ghandhi did.
Musharraf, who was almost lulled by India when it came to the interests of Pakistan, was given the lollipop of the solution of Kashmir and a name for himself in the history books if the issue between the two nation was resolved. In the meantime India was building Baglihar Dam non-stop. While the walls of the dam went up, Musharraf was mum all the time hoping to get his name marked in history as the man who established the basis of permanent friendship between the two countries. The Kashmir issue was never resolved but in the meantime India completed the Baglihar Dam. In its heart India knows that what harmful actions it intends to take against us in the future can never, in the end, result in durable relations with Pakistan. That country has half a dozen or so, so called trade posts lined on Pakistan's western boarder in Afghanistan. Everybody knows that these are Indian spy centres used by the agents of that country to hop in and out of Pakistan and streamline terrorist and separatist activities in this country. There are visible signs of India trying to negate Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan to its own advantage. Yet nobody in this country wants to debate the issue as to why would that country want to have rival and antagonistic strategy against the interest of a country (Pakistan) with which it professes to want to be on friendly terms?
If India wants to be friendly with us why would it want to build dams which could result in Pakistan become barren and infested with famines? Why would it want to be friendly and assist individuals and groups which want to dismember Pakistan? Why would that country want to instil anti-Pakistan emotions in Afghanistan. Why can it not India just promote a pro-Indian feelings among the Afghans instead of encouraging anti-Pakistan emotions as well. Surely, the two are not inclusive. We should be beware of India, especially, when it makes friendly overture towards us, for that is the time when India is making efforts to harm our interests.
With all its secular rhetoric, India's extremely religiously biased interior should not be out of our mind. It will not be partner in the gas pipeline projects from Iran and Central Asia simply because it knows that it will be going against our vital interests in the future and as such the relations between the two countries will sour which will result in stopping the gas supply. As such it can not base its industries on a fuel sources which will be stopped. Beware of India when it is at its best behaviour with us. Our history tells us that.
Indias 1000MW dam on Chenab