The Pakistani military establishment refuses to learn.

For the past few days, ever since Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif, while at the Russian town of Ufa, shook hands and agreed to holding NSA level talks between the two countries, the Pakistani military establishment had begun its age old machinations. Before any such meeting, through the course of the meeting and after its outcome - also in this case before the Indian PM's slated visit to Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow - the Pakistani armed forces have resorted to unprovoked firing inflicting casualties on the civilian population who stay near the border areas. Firing, this time, has been concentrated at Akhnoor, Poonch and RS Pura.

Their motive is very clear and have been tabulated many times but shall be repeated yet again:-

   (a) No civilian ruler can take decisions for the country except for the defence forces.
   (b) Reiterating the supremacy of the armed forces, who can only survive on an anti-India bias
         without which their existence might be questioned by their common man.
   (c) The mistaken hope to keep the Kashmir issue alive at the international level.
   (d) This time, however, they seem to be mulling over the use of nuclear weapons, under their
         charge, completely forgetting that the idea of 'a limited nuclear exchange' cannot alter the
         ground situation where the Indian Army would give them a crushing defeat at a place and
         time of its choosing!

This time they'd made an another grave error. They'd splashed through their captive media - mainly for international consumption - that the skirmishes were brought about by the violation of their airspace by an Indian UAV which they'd shot down. The videos of the destroyed drone were publicised with much hue and cry, without realising the futility of it all because:-

    (a) It had Chinese markings and it's a known fact that India doesn't have any Chinese stuff in its
          arsenal.
    (b) The particular variety was available commercially and could be bought off the shelf.
    (c) The Indian Army has confirmed that it hasn't lost any of its drones in the past few days!

Why doesn't the Paki military establishment give up its tiresome, cliche worn antics? Why don't they go back to their barracks, train to be better and efficient, while leaving their civilians to rule the country and save it from an economic as well as existential crisis? Or do they want to see their country's dismemberment by the uprisings within?

It shan't take long as gleaned  from the ground realities in Baluchistan and Sind, which incidentally is not what we want! We would any day like to have Pakistan - intact as a buffer - to the Al Qaida and maybe, the ISIS!


Tailpiece.

Here's a story of an interesting deviation of nature....... At Puthoor, a small hamlet in the nearby area, Suresh Kumar's rooster has been laying eggs for the past five days. The following information make it all the more interesting:-

       (a) The 'hero' is one among the five birds received from the Panchayat at reduced rates.
       (b) He has the usual trappings of a traditional rooster like:-

             (i) Gets excited by the hens around.
            (ii) Wakes up people right at the break of dawn by the customary call.
       (c) He has, however, been different from his female counterparts in the following manner:-

             (i) Lays eggs at the sight of a human being after reaching his/her proximity.
            (ii) Tremendous pressure is brought to bear that the first of the lot had broken due to impact
                  on the ground and always lays them standing.

A case of a genetic disorder, says the veterinarian.