A debate is going on on whether India should go ahead and visit Pakistan for the forthcoming Cricket test series when the Country is seething in anger on the terrorist attacks mounted on India by terrorists trained in Pakistan and supported by various Government agencies.
In this context it is necessary to view this from a non-cricket perspective.
We all know that what is going on between Pakistan and India is a War. It is a war where Pakistan thinks of bleeding India through terrorist attacks from time to time so that vital financial resources of India is wasted in fighting terror risks. While the secuirty investments that India will have to do in the post 26/11 scenario are inevitable and would further bleed our economy, it is necessary for us to ensure a counter strategy which should weaken the forces that support the terrorists are getting in Pakistan.
The first step in this direction is to put an economic embargo on Pakistan. India should take all steps necessary to cut any economic benefit that Pakistan economy may get whether from Cricket or from Trade.
I therefore have no hesitation to agree with Mr Sunil Gavaskar and Mr Gill that the tour of the Indian Cricket team to Pakistan should be stopped forthwith. We also need to cancel all IPL and ICL contracts with Paksitan. Additionally, we need to move in the world arena including ICC to ban Pakistan from any cricket activities at least for the next year.
Yes this will upset the common man in Pakistan who is not a terrorist and it is meant to be so. Let the Pakistani aam aadmi (Common man) realize that they cannot coexist with terrorism from their soil. Let them bring pressure on the Government authorities and the Military to change the philosophy of Pakistan that their sole reason for existence is to destroy India.
Afterall it is from these common men that terrorist Qasab also came from. His father says that the boy was missing from last 4 years. What was he doing to find out where his son was during these 4 years? Is this not an indication that missing boys of a particular age group who leave their villages and abscond are likely to have been drated by the terrorists and are being trained? Does the Pakistan administration keep a tab on such “Missing Youth”? If not, is it not the failure of the common men in Paksitan who otherwise say they are peace loving ?
I think that the stoppage of Cricket and all other commercial relationships between India and Pakistan and further pressurisation of the international community to get Pakistan declared as a “Terrorist State” will help bring Pakistan to the civilized society.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackYour rant is unhelpful. There is no war between India and Pakistan – thank God. With both nations possessing Nuclear weapons the idea of war is unthinkable. What is clear is that Pakistan is a base for terrorist activity against India – but then Pakistan is a base for terrorist activity against many other countries as well. What is needed is for dialogue at the highest level between Indian and Pakistani politicians. The dialogue needs to be to develop the highest possible level of cooperation between the two countries to combat terrorism. This is a time for more contact not less.
As far as cricket is concerned the issue is solely one of security. If there can be guarantees of security then India should play Pakistan in the same way that England is now playing India. The Pakistani and Indian peoples share much – and cricket is one of the many things that unite them. If it is safe then cricket can be a force for good, as it has been in the past.
Let’s be clear here that pakistan is a “terrorist state” and never have any illusion that it is going to be any different.We have made a grave blunder by suggesting in the international fora that “Pakistan is also a victim of terror.” We should stop interviewing leaders from that country who mouth the same inanities that “you have not produced any proof.”Let us not fall into the trap of providing proof to the culprits. More than 100 acts/attempts of terror recorded in the world since 9/11 have had their roots in Pakistan. More than 40% of the prisoners in Guantanamo are Pakistanis.
We should categorically, unambiguously, unequivocally boycott Pakistan in all aspects for a decade or more. Pakistan is the only territory in the world where an army has a whole country under its control. The state policy of Pakistan is terrorism and their single-point programme of existence is to destroy India.
Robert
Your post is dangerous nonsense. Of course the “State Policy” of Pakistan is not terrorism - to suggest that it is is to throw petrol on the flames of prejudice. The move to a resolution in South Asia won’t come from the idiotic abuse that you and the originator of this thread deal in. It will come form a calm and considered approach in an international (UN) context. Your bile helps not one jot.
I’m unsure if an approach as draconian as suggested by this blogger will work. And I believe Islamic terrorism has become a complex, international issue. But I believe more than one or two terrorist organizations in Pakistan are complicit in it — to wit, the ISI and the Pakistani army. There is also an attitude either of denial of wrongdoing (which is the most gracious perspective on it) or of disregard for Indian welfare (which might be closer to the truth) on the part of the man on the street — which aids and abets the terrorist organizations in Pakistan. This makes it attractive to do something that would ostracize the country. I wouldn’t go so far as to wage war against it or even to stop trading with it, but banning it from all international cricket would be the kind of move that may make the masterminds of the Mumbai terror sit up and take notice.
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