In light of recent revelations from my present country Norway, its been revealed from the capital Oslo that
Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 went to 17-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi for their work promoting children’s rights. Despite usual rants from local norwegians calling this year's winners for being selectively chosen for political purposes,
many people internationally are actually applauding the decision taken by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Both winners are invited to collect their respected prizes here in Oslo at a grand ceremony which is due to be held on 10th December 2014, sharing at least 1 million dollar worth of cash.
I therefore invite both Indians and Pakistanis lurking around this great forum to share their thoughts on how we two extremely proud nations can move forward despite our deep rooted ideological conflicts? If leader of the free capitalist world US can approach state communist China in the 1970's, jumpstarting revival of the Chinese economy, thus turning it into an economic giant decades later. Then why can't we Pakistanis and Indians try the same realpolitikal rational approach instead of finding new arenas for humiliating each other? Once Pakistan and India are interconnected through our mutual economic interests, like a union such as EU, we would soon forget why we became such bitter enemies in the first place! Fortune recently revealed that Indian Subcontinent during Mughal Era produced at least 25 % of world global output during its peak in 1700's:
Fortune 5: The most powerful economic empires of all time - Fortune
We can of course quarrel for the next millennia on WHO did WHAT in the past while rest of the world moves along leaving us behind. Isn't it time that our honourable leaders sit together, finalize a strategy based on rationalism, that is common issues both our nations are facing since independence like hunger, poverty, homelessness etc etc. These eternal issues cannot be resolved independently because we have historically been one unit sharing this region's vast natural resources equally until British came along and colonized us. So my point being is that instead of wasting billion of RS annually on defense spending, we should instead invest it on cross border trade. When our economies are linked again as it has been in the past, progress and prosperity will follow for both our people's best interest.
Europe learned this historical lesson the hard way after massacring at least 60 million of their own people during WW2. Could we learn from their mistakes instead of repeating our own?