NEW DELHI: The disastrous and heart-wrenching floods in Jammu and Kashmir have ironically brought out a sharp contrast in the approaches of India and Pakistan to provide relief and succor to the populations affected respectively by more or less the same intensity.In India, PM Narendra Modi has himself proactively led from the front giving a confident and purposeful sense of direction to the relief operations. No such nodal command and control of the Federal government has been visible in Pakistan. There, instead, the vacuum has once again conveniently been hijacked by the Jihadi organizations, who with brazenly open support from the Pak Army and ISI are involved in the relief operations, with the Nawaz Sharif government remaining a confused and powerless spectator.The entire might, in India, of the Central and State apparatus as well as a united political will cutting across ruling and opposition political alliances have been working in tandem and full swing to provide relief to the affected population in Jammu and Kashmir. It was kickstarted with PM Modi rushing for aerial surveys and stock taking meetings to the state on September 7 and immediately thereafter putting in place an effective follow-up mechanism.Following directions of PM Modi to provide 24 X 7 relief, the Indian Army, Air Force, Navy, para-military forces, civil society groups, state authorities, NGOs and mainstream as well as vernacular media are working in close coordination, despite disruptive activities by Pak-sponsored separatist Kashmiris desperately wanting to steal the thunder and IED explosions by militants killing security personnel, according to sources in Kashmir closely following the developments.Over 150 medical teams working round the clock have treated close to 75,000 affected people. The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway has been reopened in record time to re-instill a vital lifeline for relief measures. Efforts are already underway to put in place medical camps to deal with the next phase of the floods -- spread of disease and illness through water borne elements. Kashmiri youth have lauded the Armed Forces as the biggest heroes of this tragedy, according to sources from the valley. Families irrespective of their religious backgrounds and regional differences have joined hands in the Kashmir valley, to take in homeless affectees and provide support to each other. Even the Golden Temple kitchen in Amritsar has not stopped cooking since last fortnight.Nearly 250 metric tones of ready-to-eat food has been provided for the flood victims through government channels in J&K. Free lodging, boarding, feeding camps, langars and crèches for abandoned children are also being run voluntarily by various religious and social organizations, NGOs and community groups who have rushed to Jammu & Kashmir for this very purpose from different parts of India. A mini ‘incredible India’ is visibly driving this societal effort, encouraged by the spirited response of the Indian government, its leadership and civil-military cohesiveness.Improvised technological aids and alternate communication channels are being swiftly put in place across the flood hit areas on a war footing in J&K. Tech whizzes of leading private corporate giants are chipping in additionally with ideas and support. Wi-Fi spots are being activated at Airports, Army camps, medical clinics and important public places across the state, sources informed. Mobile telephony service providers, including the Government-owned ones, are re-activating their grids for voice and data services bereft of any commercial considerations.The social media discourse emanating out of India is pre-dominantly conveying quodos for the armed forces, central government’s relief coordination mechanism and the relentless flow of timely aid and its distribution as systematically possible given the ground situations. The same social media chatter by Kashmiri youth and intelligentsia is also strongly condemning the attempts to disrupt relief operations by separatist Yasin Malik and other rebels, as an all time low in cross-LoC politics instigated by their handlers in Pakistan. Several eminent hard-liners advocates, human rights activists and otherwise anti-India elements have also distanced themselves vocally with what Malik has done.Cross-section of the mainstream ruling and opposition political parties are unanimously acknowledging that the armed forces and the nationalistic civil society fabric of India needs to be saluted in all aspects.Unfortunately, in Pakistan, there is a totally contrasting approach in dealing with similar calamity. PM Nawaz Sharif did undertake some survey of the affected areas but lacked the charismatic confidence and ability to harness national resources and divert them to areas affected by the floods, unlike his counterpart in India. Consequently, the Pak governmental apparatus is still struggling to get its act together to effectively plan or manage the situation which has already impacted nearly 25 lakh people in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and provinces of Punjab and Sindh, according to reports from Islamabad.The totally inept response of the Pakistan government has also been on account of the failure of the civil-military apparatus in Pakistan to operate on the same page, in unison, on account of the strained relations between the Pak Army and PM Nawaz Sharif’s government, much weakened after the recent ‘soft coup’ sponsored by the GHQ/ISI through the Imran Khan / Tahirul Qadri led Azadi Marches.Moreover, the Pak Army, unable to change its pro-terror and proxy-war mindset against India, has not desisted from allowing even a national calamity like the present one from being exploited by radical Islamists of the JeI and banned Jihadi groups such as the JuD and their front organizations including the Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF) and Falah–e-Insaaniyat Foundation (FIF). These militant groups banned even by the US are being allowed by the Pak Army / ISI to hijack the relief efforts and theatres, by not only working alongside the Army in relief operations but also being permitted to requisition the logistical support, funding and resources of the Pak Armed Forces to run nearly 25 relief, 30 medical and 22 rehabilitation camps, a Pak-based expert who did not wish to be named said. Both Pakistani as well as international electronic media and independent journalists have exposed this through video footage of FIF cadres being ferried to these relief camps in Pak army and Air Force choppers, Naval boats and service vehicles. These photos have gone viral through @servicingthemankind.Ahead of major reshuffle in the Pakistan Army all these ostensible humanitarian measures are being done with the connivance of the Pakistan Army and ISI to allow these Jihadi groups access into these affected areas, win over the population there and create goodwill to be exploited for recruitment and collection of funds for the banned Pakistani militant groups.The Pakistan Armed Forces have been allowed to bank upon and use the Jihadi groups to carry out the relief measures primarily in those areas which provide them areas of indoctrination, recruitment of Jihadi and funding channels, according to reports from Islamabad. The ISI and Army are shamefully exploiting the current national calamity for its own limited self-preservation and anti-India agenda through the proxies of its strategic assets, such as the JuD and LeT.Reports also suggest that the ISI has already provided JuD relief goods worth Rs. 1 Crore, 25 boats, 50 ambulances and 150 vehicles for distribution to flood victims.The JuD and its FIF are as a result of this present all over PoK and major Punjab cities such as Sialkot, Qasimabad, Multan Gujranwala, Jhang, Jalalpur Bhattian, Lahore, Muzaffaragarh and Hafizabad as was the case during the 2010 floods, and are using this occasion too for their Jehadi agenda.“JuD Chief Hafiz Saeed – proscribed as a terrorist by the US State Department and known to have masterminded major terror strikes in India – has been nudged by the Pak ISI to use the floods as an excuse to revive his diatribe against India for indulging in water terrorism and making the preposterous charges of the floods having been caused by India,” an expert pointed out.Even at this time of an unprecedented national disaster in Pakistan, Hafiz Sayeed is being nudged by Pak ISI to arrogantly used the floods as an excuse to make incendiary statements on an almost daily basis against India and incite the passions of his Jihadi tribe.Unlike in India, Pakistan social media chatter lacks any such compliments about the role of its government or Armed Forces for the relief operations. Instead, the twitter chatter particularly is full of the choicest of uncomplimentaries and instances of flood victims looting aid trucks and the Chief Minister of Punjab having vanished without any contact address! PM Nawaz Sharif has been ridiculed for his media stunts of announcing cash doles as sops and booed with ‘Go Nawaz Go’ slogans at the recent public functions addressed by him.It is yet another shocking and sad reminder of the pathetic state of affairs in Pakistan and complete ineffectiveness of its civilian government, besides a reminder of the Pak Army’s continuing mindset to nurture Jihadi and terrorist elements.While, in J&K, the relief measures are being spearheaded with a momentous coordination, commitment and goodwill of all stakeholders as part of a unified nation building process, on the other side of the LoC, a fractured Pakistani polity incapable of providing leadership or governance in time of such an unprecedented crisis is unfortunately only messing things up. The Pak armed forces yet again come out as a defiant extra judicial authority without any moral or other accountability to the Pak government, even as another 110 lives have been lost during the 15th day of the crisis, taking the total toll to nearly 300 in Pakistan.If any of the latest developments are further indicators, it is unlikely that the thick skinned Pakistani polity or its mercenary military-intelligence apparatus will mature. This is so because even as the flood peak has now entered Sindh after leaving behind a trail of large scale devastation from Sialkot to Rahimyar Khan in Punjab, solving 175 human lives and damaging private – public property worth billions of rupees, the politico-military establishment at Islamabad continues to remain preoccupied with preservation of its own parochial power agendas with little regard or respect for the lives of the common Pakistani men, women, children and their livelihoods destroyed by the floods and incompetence of those responsible to deal with it.