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China has advised Pakistan toget out of Kashmir-centered India policy

According to Durdana Najam, Pakistan needs to look beyond itself and replace the security state mindset with one based on bilateral economic relations with neighbours and beyond (The Nation, September 10). Economy, and not nuclear capabilities, should be made the deterrent to war. China has advised Pakistan to grow out of the Kashmir centred India policy, and instead of fighting over it, should ‘work’ for its resolution.

Instead of matching India’s economic muscle, Pakistan chose to get into the nuclear race and developed a proclivity to brand India as its archenemy. In the natural consequence, Pakistan became a security state and all its domestic and foreign policies emanated from India-centrism. Huge bulks of resources were shifted from development work to developing garrisons. Moreover, while the military grew in strength and stature, the civilian face of politics, democracy and constitutional rule diminished; resulting in the weakening of institutions and rising corruption.

“Pakistan became a security state and all its domestic and foreign policies emanated from India-centrism. Huge bulks of resources were shifted from development work to developing garrisons. the military grew in strength and stature, the civilian face of politics — democracy and constitutional rule — diminished; resulting in the weakening of institutions”

Indian journalist Shiv Aroor is RAW’s man

Sultan Hali, a retired group captain and author of Defence and Diplomacy, has written that India has tried every Chanakyan trick to malign Pakistan. He insisted that India was defeated in every Indo-Pak war except 1971, when India implemented its cunning schemes and succeeded in its disgusting plan of dismembering Pakistan. According to Hali, India had been preparing for this since 1961. In Agartala, an Indian city located near East Pakistan, the Bengali leader Sheikh Mujib was incited to rebellion. West Pakistani Political leaders, military officers and bureaucrats considered the people of East Pakistan inferior. In a roundabout way he said that Shiv Aroor, Editor at India Today and the author of Operation Jinnah and India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes, was RAW’s man.

“Pakistan became a security state and all its domestic and foreign policies emanated from India-centrism. Huge bulks of resources were shifted from development work to develop garrisons. The military grew in strength and stature, the civilian face of politics — democracy and constitutional rule — diminished; resulting in the weakening of institutions”

According to Wikipedia, Agartala is the capital of the Indian state of Tripura and the second largest city in North-east India after Guwahati, both in municipal area and population. It is one of the fastest developing cities of India.

Hero worship is like idolatry

The columnist Haroonur Rasheed says that living nations depend on themselves, not on leaders and likened hero-worship to idolatry (Dunya, September 14). According to Rasheed, this society has been in a quagmire for centuries. It is not a political crisis. It is an intellectual and moral crisis. He went on to say that no leader is up to the task of fixing all of this country’s problems. There is unrest all around. Some people want Imran Khan to work a miracle. As a result of Imran’s miracle, they want the spring to set in. They want the misery that has been afflicting them for centuries to go away. If not like Medina, the police should start like behaving as they do in Western countries.

Imran Khan greatly impressed the military leadership

During the two detailed briefings at GHQ and the ISI head office, Imran Khan through his attractive personality greatly impressed the military leadership, wrote Mazhar Barlas in Jang (September 14). He received many salutes. After a long time, both civilian and military leaders are on the same page. The military leadership is happy that Pakistan has got a Prime Minister who cares about national security.

Imran Khan’s mandate was achieved through a script

Daily Express (September 10) quoted Lieutenant General Abdul Qayyum (ret), chairman, Senate committee on defense production and a PML-N leader from Chakwal, as saying that that we will cooperate with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in its positive deeds, but from Khyber to Karachi the entire nation knows full well that the mandate of the current rulers is not from the people. It was achieved through a script. However, he added that Imran Khan should implement his slogan of change. It may be added that Nawa-i-Waqt(September 23, 2001) had quoted him as saying that that 9/11 was a conspiracy by Jews and Hindus. However, in Hamid Mir’s talk show Capital Talk, he said on April 3, 2018, that the United States brought 9/11 upon itself through its wrong polices.

Trump committing despicable crimes against Islamic world

Agha Syed Ali Shah Moosavi, head of the Tehreek-i-Nafaz-i-Fiqh-i-Jafaria, has said that the United States and India are plotting sinister conspiracies against the survival and security of Pakistan (Jang, September 8). Their collusion is a great threat. Since coming to power, Trump has been committing despicable crimes against the Islamic world and Pakistan is his special target. He has engendered apprehensions by signing so many agreements with the Modi regime. Jang (September 11) quoted him as saying no solution to the Kashmir issue should be accepted apart from UN. resolutions.

Shakil Chaudhary studied international relations in Islamabad and media in London. He has worked for several English-language newspapers. He has written a book, Handbook of Functional English, for the benefit of those who wish to improve their English skills. He can be reached at shakil.chaudhary@gmail.com

Published in Daily Times, September 17^th 2018.