Our government’s policy of restraint should not be viewed as an act of cowardice.
- pakistani information minister Sherry Rehman
The comments made by pakistani govt. officials reek of hypocrisy. Who has been excercising restraint and trying to bridge the divide all these years, India or pakistan?
Yesterday I saw part of a video of pakistani president saying something like
"...finally we have got this muslim nation and we will not give it up till the last drop of blood..."
I think it was just day before yesterday, when 3 terrorists were arrested in J&K - 2 were jaish-e-mohammed irregulars and one is a pakistani army regular. So irrespective of what pakistani govt. says, they will never stop promoting terrorism against India. J&K issue is only an excuse, not supporting terrorism goes against their true motives - disintegration of India. We shouldn't give them the luxury of that excuse.
We cannot even be sure pakistan has nuclear weapons which can be actually used in a war. Even if they do, today pakistan only has a first strike nuclear capability through their land based missiles and their F-16 fighter jets. These can be neutralized to a large extent(if not completely) by the IAF or through properly coordinated covert operations. Tomorrow when they acquire submarine launched ballistic missiles and maybe a nuclear submarine, it will give them a virtually guaranteed second strike capability. Then it will be too late for India to take absolutely any military action.
It may already be too late for India to do so. Just look at Israel, their airforce has already been reported to be preparing for air strikes to cripple Iran's nuclear programme. There is no way Israel would ever allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. If our politicians had any foresight, they would have destroyed pakistan's first nuclear reactor during the time china was helping to build it. Our politicians gave into the threat and fear of tit-for-tat pakistani air strikes on existing Indian nuclear reactors and ever since we are suffering because of that show of cowardice.
It's not as if India and pakistan have assembled their nukes and armed their missiles. If that happens, then you know that
mahavinaash(armageddon) is right around the corner.
Deploying Indian troops forward like last time, costs a lot of money and the GOI is not sure whether they want to pursue the military option or not. So atleast the GOI is saving some money if not face
. Let pakistan spend their money, flying F-16's over their own cities. If their fighters are to be flying anywhere then it should have been close to the border and not displaying acrobatic maneuvers over their own cities. From the video of those fighters its clear that they are only putting on a show for the people below and are not really training defensive missions. There was even a video of an F-16 from the cockpit of another jet, its wingman. Which fighter pilot carries a video camera and shoots videos, if on training missions?
I don't understand why the GOI says
"all options are on the table" and the next day they say
"we will not pursue the military option". pakistan's stance has changed considerably, going from being defensive to offensive, from the time India indicated that it is most likely to
not pursue the military option. Our news channels are equally bad if not worse. In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, they were calling for military action and now when pakistan has upped the ante, our news channels are focusing on why there is so much war hysteria in pakistan.
Only silver lining is the pakistani defense minister being even more foolish by saying that there won't be any use of nuclear weapons in the event of war. A case of India batting badly and the opposition batting even worse
.
pakistan did not even accept the bodies of soldiers of the pakistani army who were killed masqerading as kashmiri militants during the kargil conflict. There was no question of pakistan ever accepting the bodies of those 9 terrorists who were killed. The longer those bodies are in India, the more the chances of them being buried on India soil
. I say since we
must not allow them to be buried on Indian soil and if pakistan is not willing to accept those bodies, then the only alternative is to give them a burial at sea because that's where they came from. And NO! It does not have to be an honourable burial in any sense of the term. No need to prolong the decision on those terrorist's bodies and give a chance for pakistani propaganda to turn them into martyrs, like that terrorist involved in the attack on the Indian Parliament(who still has not been hanged).
