Oh No! Not again!!

Okay, so let me think when is the last time Indian politicians, diplomats or foreign policy experts behaved rationally and responsibly. Umm…..naah…..can’t remember nothing. Let’s try to understand history with real life examples. First, our beloved Mr. Nehru – he was so infatuated with Chinese friendship that he went into shock when China attacked us. I wonder why! I mean, India was under foreign rule for 900 year before 1961. But that shouldn’t be the reason behind his surprise over Chinese aggression. Then comes bungling after 1971 victory. Admittedly, before and during the war Indian diplomacy (along with Indian Armed forces) defined excellence in foreign relations but after we won for some weird reason and I don’t know why we didn’t ask Pakistan to hand back part of Kashmir these buggers are hogging. I wish we could ask what was going through Mrs. Gandhi’s mind. Then comes the moronic behavior during the Kargil war. Well, to be precise just before the Kargil war. Okey, to be really really precise our moronic behavior lead to Kargil war where we lost 1000 of our bravest soldiers. See, we were having peace dialogue with our ‘friend’ Pakistan. We thought we will live happily ever after this pact. So, our Army in fact scaled back the military forces in Kashmir. Speldid behavior indeed because taking advantage of this Pakistan captured the mountain peaks in the winter and surprise, surprise, bullets started raining over Indian forces in the spring!

Fool me once shame on you and fool me twice, well you can’t fool me twice because fool can’t be fooled again. I have used this expression (this is Georgi boy’s quote actually) few times in my prior blogs. And, for some meteor blasting reason I find this expression very apt for Indian political diplomacy. Because even after loosing 1000 young soldiers in Kargil, we again had peace dialogue with our neighbors. That resulted into attack on our parliament. Then bomb blasts in Mumbai, Delhi, Varanasi, Hydrabad, Ahamadabad, Mumbai again, Jaipur and Banglore. Yet we continued to believe in the fallacy of having peaceful and cordial relation with Pakistan. I think I am taking too long of run-up, so, let me come to the crux.

The recent controversy in Jammu and Kashmir is another example of how inept our politicians are and how regressive their mindset is. This is what happened. And in hindsight it all seems very well planned. The Jammu and Kashmir government currently headed by PDP – notorious for starting militancy in 1989 along with Congress party decided to grant 100 acres of unused and unusable (i.e. for agriculture) to land to Amarnath Temple Trust. (Amarnath Temple is one of the holiest shrines for Hindus and lakhs of people throng to the temple every year) That land was to be used by the temple trust to build temporary servicing facility for the pilgrims. This land transfer procedure was started couple of years ago. Suddenly, some Muslims in Kashmir decided to protest against it. The reason being that they feared that land will be used to relocate Hindus in Kashmir and that in turn will change the demography of the Kashmir. (in short, they don’t want no Hindus in Kashmir) Now land was given to the trust strictly for building temporary facilities for Hindu pilgrims. And, thinking sanely it’s all but improbable that 100 acres of land will demography of the state. But sanity is indeed a rare commodity. Like an orchestra this tiny protest was enough for PDP (the same political party that allotted the land at first place) decided to withdraw support from the state government. This prompted Congress Party Chief Minister to take the land back from the temple board. This was obviously to anger Hindu population. And they achieved their goal.

Hindus across the countries arose against this gross injustice and minority appeasement. Widespread protest was held in Jammu (there are very few Hindus left in Kashmir) against government decision. But the state government stuck with its guns. This was enough for JKLF - Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front, an separatist organization to start violence in Kashmir. And this leads to the climax - Pakistan is lodging complain against India in United Nations, in Organization of Islamic Committee (of which India is not a member) and various Human Rights group. Oh actually no! This is not the climax. . The climax is the statement issued by Indian government (and I quote from Indian Express) “such statements amount to "clear interference" in its internal affairs and will undermine the composite dialogue process.

Wow, so Pakistan has more say in Kashmir than India. They are creating anti-India activities in India and to that all that Indian government has to say is that it may affect the composite dialogue. I got no words on this! Bravo!!! Way to go.

But this is all fault of RSS,and BJP. Remember Pakistani’s are good, it’s just their army and politicians are bad. Hold on, I was under impression that Pakistani army recruits from general Pakistani population and recent government in Pakistan is democratically elected. Now this mystery I can’t solve.