Uri’s grim story has hurt 130 crore people of India and the country
collectively realised that days of dialogue and diplomacy with Pakistan
are over. The RSS, Jan Sangh and later the BJP have never been
unambiguous in their reading of Pakistan. Its very creation was based on
the narrative of deconstruction of democracy, secularism, and
indivisible civilisational history of India. Therefore, its primary
source of existence has been perennial hatred for India. Rulers and
generations of Pakistan have changed but their collective conscience
against India remains unchanged.
The formation of the BJP-led NDA government in 2014 was a message of
“Akhand Bharat”. The Pandavas, before entering the final battle of
Mahabharata, made one last attempt to buy peace and demanded only five
villages from the Kauravas but the latter refused. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi made the most sincere effort to convince Pakistan that
mutual trust and dialogue was the path for resolving disputes. Pakistan,
however, responded with terrorism that exposed it. The world has
acknowledged the genuineness of Mr Modi’s preventive diplomacy.
A New York Times editorial on May 12, 2016, urged the US government
“to put the squeeze on Pakistan” for its double game dealing with
Afghanistan. However, the US can’t escape from its own responsibility
for milking Pakistan’s tryst with terrorism.
In Pakistan, there has never been any pro-peace or pro-India
sentiment. There is division of labour between Army, jihadis,
politicians and press. They collectively disown terrorist actions
emanating from their land be it 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Pathankot
or now Uri. The reaction of Pakistani so-called liberal English press on
Uri incident grimly unravel that they are legitimising tools of
terrorism.
While Uri is a lesson for war-like alertness even during peacetime,
it also finally resurrected our original perspective that it is
institutionalisation of jihad masked by nationality. As democracies
largely don’t engage in war, a democratic-secular state can’t expect
constructive dialogue and critical solution from a theocratic and rouge
state. Sooner we realise our moral and military responsibility to undo
the idea of Pakistan it would be precursor for peace in the region.
There is no iota of doubt that every Pakistani terrorist considers his
“sacrifice” as a service to the idea of Pakistan and Islam and none in
Pakistan disavow them. Therefore, those who disclaim idea of
disintegration of Pakistan as hawkish are, ipso facto, still guided by
Nehruvian policy of mendicancy to buy peace.
Sometimes peace is born only from the barrels of guns. It was
vindicated in 1971 and now time is ripe to change the map of the region.
There is no demand in Pakistan for dialogue with India but there are
some like CPI(M) and a microscopic but powerful lovers of Pakistan
scattered from academia to art gallery and media, who beat their chests
not for unprovoked attacks by Pakistanis but for dialogue with
unprovoked aggressors.
Moreover, when the country has been facing the difficult choice to
deal with a state which is a bunker of terrorists armed with nuclear
arsenal, the Congress is engaged in taking political revenge with BJP
and Mr Modi for its humiliating defeat in the last elections. The
mandate of the people of India is to deal firmly be it the separatists
in the Kashmir Valley or Pakistan.
By Rakesh Sinha,
chief editor of Pakistan Watch and honorary director of India Policy Foundation
Courtesy: Deccan Chronicle
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