To know who the real enemy is, all we need is simple arithmetic.
KARACHI: To know who the real enemy is, all we need is simple arithmetic. For instance, how many Pakistani troops have died fighting the Indian army in recent years? And how many have died fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda? The answer is pretty straightforward and should tell us whom we should really be fighting.
Another question: From 1948 to Kargil in 1999, who provoked a military confrontation between India and Pakistan? Whose actions, or lack thereof, caused the catastrophic events of 1971? Who, unconditionally released 93,000 prisoners of war, which included a general and several senior officers and vacated territory it had ‘conquered’ during the 1971 war? And who, instead of being grateful, repaid these acts of magnanimity with a threat of a thousand-year war and more hostile attacks?
I am no Indian but history shows that India has no designs to unfurl the tricolour on the Lahore Fort. But it is Pakistan that talks of unfurling its flag on the Red Fort.
SG Jilanee
Published in The Express Tribune, June 8th, 2011.
