If any nation has the courage or considers themselve “man” enough, then welcome, come and attack Pakistan.

We are here and we are waiting !!!

We are concerned about the welfare of Pakistan since we know that it is in the interest of prosperous India that Pakistan is liberated from the clutches of Taliban.

We feel that the common people of Pakistan at this point of time are unable to control the developments which threaten to give Taliban a new home with sea route access as against their ealier abode in Afghanistan.

Hence this appeal to the Global peace makers to act decisively.

The concept of Muslim nation under which Pakistan was created is the fundamental problem not only for this region but also for the whole world.

THE KASHMIR PROBLEM STUPID!

The sooner India, the world’s biggest democracy, shakes off it’s positive allergy to discussing this democratic issue (remember the democratically held Kashmiri plebisite?) the sooner the that WHOLE region and by extension, the West can feel safer. Cosmetic CBM’s with the real hope that the issue will be swept under the rug by the passage of time are a waste of time and money. HELLO???? Indian friends, is your government listening?

I agree that I am speculating based on the media interviews and information which we have seen in the last few days about Taliban. If this is a joke and Pakistan is not in danger of falling into Taliban hands, I would be happy.

But we need to factor in such possibilities in working out a solution between the Pakistan Government and the rest of the world/

The talkers in each country clamoring for war will not be fighting themselves. The young soldiers on either side who’ll get killed and wounded won’t be from the families of these talkers. They will be youngsters from poor families. Who will take the responsibility in either country for the families of those killed in war? No one.

Let us say that there is a nuclear war. Has anyone in media written about the devastation that is likely to follow? What happens if Delhi and Islamabad get hit? There will be chaos, a long period of anarchy. Ordinary citizens who survive will chase every politician, every bureaucrat, every media person and beat them to death. Then what? With command and control destroyed it will likely be goonda raj or anarchy. It will be goodbye democracy. Goodbye freedom. Goodbye independence. Some foreigners - most likely Chinese - will come in with superior fire power and take over. We will be slaves again for another thousand years. Is this what the talkers want?

Let us say that there will be only conventional war. Do we have any idea what it will cost? It may benefit some manufacturers of steel, chemicals, tires, trucks and arms. But what will Indian and Pakistani societies loose? After a long, long time at least India’s economy is moving. Do we want to halt the movement? War will cause the stock market to crash. War will cause prices to go up. War will cause funds to be diverted from infrastructure.

So what should we do in India?

1. Draft people like former President Abdul to hold public hearings of what went wrong in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Jaipur, Gawhati, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.

2. Raise an Internal Security Army (ISA). Maybe it is another million people. Let the police chase criminals. We are a country of 1.3 billion. There’s a lot of policing work that needs to be done. Our police may not be as good as we’d like them to be but they aren’t as bad as they are so often portrayed. Let our regular Fauj take care of protecting our borders. Let ISA take care of terrorism. Maybe this is where our retired Short Service Commission Officers and Faujis need to be placed.

3. The families of terrorists who attacked Mumbai were said to be paid some 4000 dollars. If we do not wage a war on poverty in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, this sort of mercenary killings will only increase. Religion and ideology will be the convenient platforms. Then it is only a matter of time before we become like Rawanda, Liberia and Dafur. We can and must expand trade. Millions of youngsters are coming into the labor force each year. We must give them at least jobs that will keep them occupied and paid.

No right thinking Indian would want India to end up as a slave country again. The British pulled out 2.5 billion pounds a year according to Harvard alumnus Adams. India’s share of the world manufactured output fell from 23 per cent to 1 per cent. India’s literacy fell to a low of 6 per cent. India’s life expectancy at birth during the British Occupation was 25 years. 50 million Indians lost their lives in 34 famines. There were 20 universities that the British left behind. Our parents and grandparents left us the gift of a ballot based freedom. Let us not lose it.

Our rich and our intelligentsia had better wake up and get involved. You will loose the families that you have created and the properties that you own if you sit on your behinds. Please form discussion groups. Join with others and discuss costs of war. Vote out politicians who advocate war. Tune off journalists who propagate war. Avoid academics advancing war.

Encourage people to think, talk and work on peace. This is the only way. War will only lead our great country to destruction and slavery.