If India starts war???

India’s hostility towards its neighbours especially Pakistan is not a new phenomenon. We have been informed about countless incidents of cross border firing with light and heavy weapons on our border inflicting casualties of civilian and soldiers alike. But the recent streak of its oppression in Kashmir and along the boundary represents a new hysteria. After 9/11 attack, the world has taken a collective position of fighting against Terrorism and extremism has been rightly painted as the root cause of it. Since then, we have witnessed numerous campaigns to associates the extremism to Islam and Muslims were demonised around the world mainly by the western media and the world is not the same place for Muslims as it used to be. We can surely conclude that this campaign is by design as it conveniently ignores the extremist elements belonging to other religious or ethnic groups and the result is indispensable loss of tolerance and objectivity in great democracies and the election of radicals like Narendra Modi in India and Donald Trump in USA.
The world is changing but this time it’s changing for worst. After WW2 there was a general consensus of all the nations to de escalate the venom and vengeance against each other’s and exercise maximum restraint in the events that could lead to wars and the United Nations emerged as a platform to launch the grievances. Although UN has been quite effective in the past but its inability to take action against its powerful members or their pet countries has undermined its importance and it has become nothing more than a debating club.

The world is going back to its historical position and this notion represents imminent threat of a conflict that would make WW1 and WW2 look like a picnic and it might start with a Pakistan – India war.
We hear the term that “If India Starts War it will be destroyed” several times in a day from politicians and people who represents our armed forces and my question to all those living in a fool’s paradise is “are we not in war with India yet”.

The world has changed and so is the methodology of war. In the modern time of espionage and covert operations the wars are fought on perceptions and India has imposed that war on us since a very long time. It’s a full fledged war of narratives where perceptions are deemed more important than reality, the most recent example of this was “Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction”.

India has always been our enemy but recently it has been successful in building the narrative that Pakistan is a nuclear nation with rogue army and our politicians and some elements of our society which are being financed and funded heavily by the Indian lobbyists, have been instrumental in sealing the stamp on its rhetoric. Media, NGOs and politicians have been working together to frame this gloomy picture in the minds of gullible population that Pakistan can’t survive without having good relationship with India and we need their goods to survive which is absurdly destructive. Some of my friends in Pakistan would certainly not like this article but the fact is, we can’t even live without watching their films and TV soaps and we have become so insensitive that even movies like Border, Gadar, Phantom etc have not repealed our addiction.

The war has already started and those who chose to fool themselves by thinking that bilateral trade will change the situation, have every right to do so. It’s oppression against the determined Kashmiris, border skirmishes with our forces, funding and militarising our enemies within and using them to target innocent civilians are just few too many to open our eyes. We should learn our lessons sooner than later. If we think we can’t survive without India, take an example of Israel. It is one strong nation surrounded by its enemies on all sides but still is one of the strongest nations in the world today. Defiance is strength, compliance is weakness. It’s a war that everyone of us will have to fight, ideologically, socially and emotionally and leave the rest on our armed forces which are capable enough to tackle any hostility by our enemies.

Pakistan is a society that has lost its moral values. It’s a crowd of different nations that refuses to be united even against India. We are people who hate each other and thus do not need an enemy to destroy us. We are corrupt to the core but expect our rulers to be like Umar RA. Our self interests are bigger than the national interests. We are a Muslim majority country where every Muslim have a different Islam and yet we are not ready to consolidate. Our clerics and scholars have been busy in targeting each other’s sects but failed to deliver when it comes to creating a just, equal and accountable society.

It’s time for us to engage with each other and try to build a common ground where we all can put our feet on, putting out ethnic and sectarian associations behind before it’s too late.