Lol. With that perpetual war statement I had a flash of ziad Hamid in my mind.
Jk. But do u think we should take up Baluchistan? I'm not convinced. Samjh ni a ra ki kya hei.
Zaid Hamid is someone who got carried away by rhetoric a long time back, he has foundations which got overshadowed by a strange mix of rhetoric-logic-paranoia-knowledge albeit incomplete.
What I have said, is a simplified version of what
Kautilya or
Sun Tzu have also said in their treatises. You have to fight every minute, every hour and every day to defend your way of life, your thought and the foundation of your nation. It maybe externally, maybe internally, but it is a continuous process.
On Internal front, India, as a nation, has many challenges. Poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, fractured societal hierarchical structure, rampant gender inequality, religious disharmony, education, infrastructure, governance shortfall etc etc. These provide for a plethora of challenges to the Indian State as a Democratic, Secular nation where the citizen enjoys a right to life equitably. I am sure this shall suffice for what I aimed to convey and you may indeed agree on the same being a cause for the unrest in India, be it Maoism, Bodo, NSCN or even J&K.
On external front, you are all too aware, needs no elaboration. Hence, my statement of being perpetually at war.
Having said that, now specific to Kashmir.
1. Accession of Kashmir and of Baluchistan had the same conditions of accession with two unique distinctions: The principality of Kalat, the largest of the principality comprising 85% or thereabouts of area, was given an assurance of independence by MA Jinnah, something which was reaffirmed by the legislative assembly voting against merger to Pakistan. In contravention to own assurances, Jinnah simply sent the army in. In case of J&K the instrument was signed while an invasion of the state was being enabled by another state. The constituent assembly drafted the constitution of J&K dissolved itself and paved the way for formation of a government which again accepted the accession to India. It never challenged nor rejected the same.
2. Both accessions are covered under Indian Independence Act of 1947 Para 3a and b. The same law is the clause under which Dominion of Pakistan came into being. By challenging the accession of J&K under the said clauses, automatically the accession of Baluchistan is under challenge and by logic so is the formation of Dominion of Pakistan itself by breaking Indian Dominion of UK.
3. The present government has done exactly this. You may recall my raising these points long back. Somehow GoI seems to have reached the same conclusion and decided to up the ante and force Pakistan to back off from interfering in Kashmir. By publicly taking a stand on it, the GoI has signaled the willingness to question legitimacy of Pakistan next. That Pakistan is reneging on every treaty it has entered into as a sovereign legal republic, has not exactly helped its credibility either.
4. Parrikar has made a statement, which many of our members are calling foolish, merely highlighting the duplicity of Pakistan in using terror as a state policy while playing a victim. By drawing an analogy to their sending 10 men into India and loosing 70, he has simply highlighted this aspect of Pakistani policy which has majorly undermined its own internal security.
5. I have been saying, for us a destabilized Pakistan is not a great option. A Pakistan where the army remains busy is something that we aim for. We need PA distracted from interfering in Foreign Policy in order to make any progress politically on our differences with Pakistan
6. While I do talk of raining fire on our neighbours when in a good troll mode, I am very sure that war is neither on the horizon nor an option.
7. What I am yet to find, is a Pakistani member actually analyzing why PM of India has so clearly and publicly made a statement on Baluchistan and P0K. This move can only occur if US, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan are on board. If that is the case, then I think Pakistan needs to wake up and 'smell the coffee'.
