Postby shiv » 13 Jan 2013 06:54

Dear Manmohan Singhji, Soniaji, Advaniji and other netas,



If Indians were being killed in bomb blasts every day; if 125 people got killed on one day in a series of blasts, would you not respond by at least talking about bringing in increased policing in your country? Would you not call out the army to help with security? Did you hear Zardari, Kayani and Hina Rabbani express regret over the murderous bomb blasts in their own country? Do you understand that Pakistani leaders are not responding to crises in Pakistan the way you would be expected to do in India? Or in any other civilized nation?



Do you know why Pakistani leaders do not respond the way we would expect? If you know, you not revealing to us, the Indian public, that you understand what we can see very clearly. Pakistan is not a normal country. Pakistan is no longer under government control. The civilian leadership have no control. The military does not even conduct a coup as happened earlier in Pakistan because they too are no longer confident of controlling the whole country. The Pakistan army's morale is in a shambles. Ten years ago, the Pakistani army had about 30% of its personnel who were Pashtuns. The Pakistan army are now fighting those very Pashtuns and there have been desertions in the Pakistan army.



You are our leaders in India. You know very well why you, and our armed forces who answer to you are not using tanks and aircraft to attack Maoists. We do not use those weapons of war against our own people. But the Pakistani army is actually using those weapons against its own people. Do you really believe that Pakistani political leaders and you have something in common? Do you really believe that our armed forces and the Pakistani armed forces have something in common? But why do you keep saying that the Indian and Pakistani people have something in common? 66 years after partition, Indians and Pakistanis do not have much in common and please do not treat us Indians as if we are so stupid that we cannot see the deep differences that have developed between India and Pakistan.



Dear leaders. It was not your fault that Pakistan was created as a separate country. You know very well that if people wanted a land exclusively for Muslims. they got it and we wish them well. We have always wished them happiness in their land. It is their choice as to how they want to practice Islam. They have made no promise to be secular. Pakistani behavior is communal by choice. We are secular by law and pluralist by nature. What is there in common between India and Pakistan other than the fact that we are all humans. Remember, Kasab too was human. But what do we have in common with Kasab? Why do you leaders insist that there is much in common between India and Pakistan?



It is not your fault that Bangladesh was created. It is not your fault that West Pakistanis like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Yahya Khan responded to an election defeat in Pakistan by trying to kill Bengalis. It was not your fault that ten million refugees came to India out of fear of their own army. Are you going to ask the Indian army to shoot people if you lose an election? Do you think the Indian armed forces will even listen to you if you did that? Then why do you insist that Pakistan and India have a lot in common? Are you leaders really unaware, or do you believe that the Indian public can be fooled forever?



Shri Mani Shankar Aiyer understood decades ago and wrote a book stating that to be Pakistani was to be "not Indian". The late JN Dixit wrote of how Pakistani children referred to him as "Hindu kutta" (Hindu dog). Now we have Pakistani cricketers openly referring to "Hinduon ka zehniyat" -stereotyping all Hindus. And those cricketers are invited to India. Would you allow an Indian cricketer to live as a free man in India if he criticizes all Muslims? Why then do we have these double standards of inviting a Pakistani cricketer who insults all Hindus? Do you think we the Indian public do not feel hurt and insulted when we hear Pakistani minister Hina Rabbani Khar speak of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and demand that India should forget about it and let "bygones be bygones"? Why should we swallow such insults?



Pakistan is an Islamic country by choice. Pakistan is anti-India by choice. No one in India is being fooled by this pretence of Aman ki Asha. Wy do you insist on that? The Pakistani government is not in control in Pakistan. They cannot control their army. The army cannot control their terrorists. What do we gain by talking to any of these groups? Why do we believe that we have no option other than to talk?



Dear leaders. There is no one to talk to in Pakistan. There is nothing to talk. No entity in Pakistan has the power to implement agreements. No one is in control other than terrorists and even they are not in full control. And the terrorists will not talk. Have you tried approaching Hafiz Saeed for talks> Have you approached Dawood Ibrahim for talks? These people have more influence than Gen Kayani or Zardari. But it is Indian policy not to talk to terrorists isn't it?



I write this letter hoping that someone will read it. I hope that someone in the Indian government will realize that many educated Indians have studied Pakistan and understood some things. I would like to say that peace may not be possible without war. There is no one in Pakistan who will talk to us who also has the power to enforce friendship and peace. That means that a time may come, sooner or later when we have to wage war against Pakistan and bring that area under control. But if you wish that there should be no war, please do not try and fool us and say that we Indians have much in common with Pakistan. You are trying to fool us. We should not deal with Pakistan at all. No visas. No cricket and death to any armed Pakistani who tries to force his way in. Pakistanis want rule by devout Muslims. They want sharia. The Taliban represent both values. Indians, who respect all religions should respect Pakistan's right to allow only Sunni Muslims to live in Pakistan and practise sharia. But please don't say that this is a value that all Indians share and that Indians and Pakistan can be friends. How can there be friendship with very little in common.



Pakistan is undergoing gradual failure as a state. Please acknowledge that and stop pretending that things can be normal between India and Pakistan. Please stop pretending that India and Pakistan can have normal state to state relations like we have between Sri Lanka or with the US.



Many Indians who have studied Pakistan feel that we need to change our policies towards that failed country. But we now worry that you, our leaders are in denial. We worry that you have no policy to deal with Pakistan because you simply believe that Pakistan is a normal country like India and that Pakistanis are normal people like Indians. This is not true. I hope you the leaders of India will be able to understand that and start dealing with Pakistan as a failed state, in a state of religious and ideological war with India. In a war, we may have to get ready to fight and protect what we value. Do you, my dear leaders value what I value?



Respectfully yours



shiv