That is typical of many countries and more so of third world nations like India and us as well.
Unlike nations in Europe which have existed as "nations" for a while and gone through much hell to unite, both India and Pakistan ..but India more so are essentially upstarts who are akin to a man with torn clothes and sticky body odur making a lot of money by working hard but yet to advance to that cultural level of chewing with his mouth closed.
So when someone points a finger at him, he goes on an automatic inferiority defensive mode and switches to the offensive trying to keep you from uttering anything about his fly being open. Now apply that scenario to two similar tattered and torn men, with one driving a high end Honda and the other a Lexus.. and you have India and Pakistan. Each thinking that the other is still the same piece of crap they knew from childhood.. and each out to prove themselves better than the other.
just to explain myself
in the recent times I decided to put my patriotism and godly status of our security and military aside while trying to get the sense of things happening within my country and around it. because both blocked free thinking and logic.
that said I always asked myself if it was possible that our agencies did exactly they were accused of?
maybe, maybe not. but not Impossible. but I also had a contradicting thought.
the logic of self preservation
let me explain this.
I believe that any evil or benign or benign organisation that comes into being as a going concern doesn't follow a path of self destruction on the continuous bases. ok it might do it once or twice but if its on a suicidal course then it ceases to exist like any death cult. because such course defies logic of its going concern and longevity.
enter Pakistan army & security agency, what I see is that both want to persist, stay strong and powerful and avoid the 1980s B movie villain plot. the Indian argument is the opposite. the Indian thinking is that both Pakistan army and its agency want to do exactly what the Indian forces are hoping for. start a conflict and give Indians an east Pakistan style excuse to intervene when the Pakistan military is bogged down in dealing with an insurgency that has tentacles at the world wide scale.
so, would the Pakistan military and ISI on purpose antagonise India while a sizeable chunk of its forces is deployed in the west? this is like dream of Indian commanders come true who have been twisting the arms of their past and present governments NOT to give any relief to Pakistan on Kashmir, Siachin or Sir-creek issue.
since the start of war on terror. its Indian forces that have conducted aggressive exercises along Pakistan borders, introduced cold start doctrine , openly celebrate and boast their links with BLA farari camps to teach us a lesson and are operating field hospitals for retreating TTP... starting borer hostilities on the international border.... list goes on
that all said.. does it make ISI entirely innocent? of course not. maybe , just maybe Pathankot like attacks are planned under the tacit approval of the PA/ISI leadership but such approach like I said is detrimental to their own grip to power which can be compromised if the country is devastated due to opening of hostilities with India. what about rouge elements then? YES that is possible.. but then again such rouge elements should have a continuous source and stream of new comers to keep such conspiracy going.. the personnel don't stay employed forever and if they recruit someone within organisation they cant keep it secret forever either.
so why should ISI/ PA hand over the freehand and a justification to its rival agency? well I wont . so what if RAW decides to help itself? ok maybe NOT this attack .. but has it never done such thing before? or would never do such a thing?
or what about a third force, that has singled out both nations as its enemy and would only thrive and go unchallenged once its worse enemies i.e. security forces of two countries are fighting each other?
again, self preservation, the art of war.. what did ISI gain from this? oh it sabotaged a names worth peace initiative.
peace between who? Modi just dressed down Pakistan during his visit in Afghanistan before coming and hugging Sherif in Lahore. so if for argument sake it is behind it then it has antagonised India and just increased troubles for itself from east and west many fold.
funny part is, even the yardstick of logic and arguments are not the same. when explaining the blame on ISI , a very simplistic and strawman argument is made but rules are changed when say RAW is questioned by us mere mortals..
anyway the show is over and lets see what is the outcome.
