Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Our PM showed his guts to speak out the truth' that was published in Newsband

Our PM showed his guts to speak out the truth
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dared to declare in Pakistan itself that Pakistanis had lost the ability to fight a conventional war, but continued to engage in the proxy war of terrorism. What he said was right considering the fact that the ISI had unleashed militant groups against India. His critics say that making deliberately provocative statements is not a good way to kick off. But we had even Pakistan President Nawaz Sharif admitting that his country did not have good ties with India and that it was time to work towards achieving that.
Because Sharif is a honest man and speaks the truth Pakistan military does not love him and distrusts him particularly because he wants good relations with India. The Pak military feels that Sharif is bending over backwards to please New Delhi. But don’t forget that Sharif was the same man who when he was espousing friendship and warmth with former Indian PM Vajpayee, he and his army were planning Kargil. In Pakistan, the Prime Minister of that country will go to any extent to please the army in order not to be another ‘Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’ who was hanged by military man Zia ul Haq for defying the military. You can’t shift the PM from its Army in Pakistan and so stop giving its polity the benefit of doubt as Politicians and Army are one over there.
Modi has merely stated the facts as they are. It is a well known fact that Pakistan is excellent in double standards and that there are multiple power centres in that beleaguered country. India should not be too bothered about offending a problematic neighbour that always keeps its fists clenched towards us.
India has always been taking the initiative of confidence building with Pakistan because India is bigger and stronger. India tried to keep engaged the Pakistan political and military leadership about coexistence and mutual respect with ultimate aim of mutual peace and economic prosperity as our primary goals. When engaging with the Pakistan political leadership, it always included both the one in the government and those in the opposition. But it is Pakistan which failed to offer adequate cooperation.
Normalization cannot be expected when one side is doing its best to break rules of diplomacy and ground level attacks all the time. Do you expect PM to stand with a bouquet all the time till Pak's army and political wings unite and wage another war against India?

Our PM was thinking about men at the borders constantly facing attack from the Pakistani side while making that statement and warned Pakistan that it will not be tolerated. Why media has problem with that? It looks like media wants Manmohan Singh back.

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