Pakistan must be wondering as to whether it was worth the trouble of having initiated the border skirmishes which have been going on for the past ten days.
What must have provoked them? The factors are abundantly clear, which are:-
(a) Winter will be setting in shortly and it's important that they smuggle in as many terrorists
into Jammu and Kashmir to foment trouble. They're running short of time and the pressure
from the terrorists within Pakistan must be overwhelming with the assembly elections in
J&K due anytime.
(b) The Indian Prime Minister had completely eclipsed their's, both at the UN General Assembly
and in the subsequent parleys in the US.
(c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barrack Obama seem to have struck a common
chord as gleaned from the joint statement made at the end of their discussions(The President
going out of his official programme and having accompanied the Indian PM to the monument
of Rev Martin Luther King Jr, is a case in point that must have caused a lot of heartburns!)
(d) In the joint statement, a case has been made to exchange information about terrorist camps
that work from foreign soil, detrimental to each other's interests, for annihilation.
(e) The wide endorsement of the Indian PM both by the Indian Americans and
a large cross section of the American politicians has again been the cause for bruised egos.
(f) The Pakistani Army, towards putting Nawaz Sharif into a tight corner for the points above
and continuing with its stooges Imran Khan-Qadri combination's shenanigans, opened up
the provocation on the borders with the fond thought that it would only encounter the usual
half hearted gestures and knee jerk reactions from the Indian side.
They're in for a rude shock at the fierce retaliation from the Indian armed forces and the fact that their High Commissioner has been rendered persona non grata with his earlier interaction with the Kashmiri separatists made matters worse. Otherwise, it would have been the efforts of an Ambassador/High Commissioner to connect up with the government, both at the formal and informal levels, to reduce tensions between the countries and bring them to the negotiating table for breaking the logjam.
Their defence minister playing the nuclear card, shows his immaturity and the confusion that prevails in the ranks of their armed forces. Hopefully, the security meet called for on Friday will help their PM, Nawaz Sharif, to gain the upper hand ultimately and bring about steps to descale tensions between the two countries!
Tailpiece.
Was saddened yet amused to hear a media specialist of their's saying on Times Now, earlier this week, that she'd be able to provide video clippings and photographs of damages caused to their civilian property by Indian shelling by Friday. An endorsement of three things:-
(a) She'd no clue as to what was happening on the borders and the manner in which the Pakistani
Army was being plastered. Stories about a media blackout enforced by their armed forces have
been in circulation and this statement sort of confirms it.
(b) Their ISI needs time to cook up stories and 'make evidences'.
(c) Their armed forces expect the civilian government to bail them out of the mess of their
own creation and are looking forward to the Security Meet called for by Nawaz Sharif
on Friday.
What must have provoked them? The factors are abundantly clear, which are:-
(a) Winter will be setting in shortly and it's important that they smuggle in as many terrorists
into Jammu and Kashmir to foment trouble. They're running short of time and the pressure
from the terrorists within Pakistan must be overwhelming with the assembly elections in
J&K due anytime.
(b) The Indian Prime Minister had completely eclipsed their's, both at the UN General Assembly
and in the subsequent parleys in the US.
(c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barrack Obama seem to have struck a common
chord as gleaned from the joint statement made at the end of their discussions(The President
going out of his official programme and having accompanied the Indian PM to the monument
of Rev Martin Luther King Jr, is a case in point that must have caused a lot of heartburns!)
(d) In the joint statement, a case has been made to exchange information about terrorist camps
that work from foreign soil, detrimental to each other's interests, for annihilation.
(e) The wide endorsement of the Indian PM both by the Indian Americans and
a large cross section of the American politicians has again been the cause for bruised egos.
(f) The Pakistani Army, towards putting Nawaz Sharif into a tight corner for the points above
and continuing with its stooges Imran Khan-Qadri combination's shenanigans, opened up
the provocation on the borders with the fond thought that it would only encounter the usual
half hearted gestures and knee jerk reactions from the Indian side.
They're in for a rude shock at the fierce retaliation from the Indian armed forces and the fact that their High Commissioner has been rendered persona non grata with his earlier interaction with the Kashmiri separatists made matters worse. Otherwise, it would have been the efforts of an Ambassador/High Commissioner to connect up with the government, both at the formal and informal levels, to reduce tensions between the countries and bring them to the negotiating table for breaking the logjam.
Their defence minister playing the nuclear card, shows his immaturity and the confusion that prevails in the ranks of their armed forces. Hopefully, the security meet called for on Friday will help their PM, Nawaz Sharif, to gain the upper hand ultimately and bring about steps to descale tensions between the two countries!
Tailpiece.
Was saddened yet amused to hear a media specialist of their's saying on Times Now, earlier this week, that she'd be able to provide video clippings and photographs of damages caused to their civilian property by Indian shelling by Friday. An endorsement of three things:-
(a) She'd no clue as to what was happening on the borders and the manner in which the Pakistani
Army was being plastered. Stories about a media blackout enforced by their armed forces have
been in circulation and this statement sort of confirms it.
(b) Their ISI needs time to cook up stories and 'make evidences'.
(c) Their armed forces expect the civilian government to bail them out of the mess of their
own creation and are looking forward to the Security Meet called for by Nawaz Sharif
on Friday.
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