Attiya Munawer
India has long been creating a war zone at the Line of Control (LoC). The Indian Army starts shelling from across the borders every day and Pakistani forces are responding to the Indian provocations befittingly. India is using conspiratorial and subversive tactics in its hostility towards Pakistan. Modi government has carried out terrorism in Pakistan and inhumane atrocities in occupied Kashmir, narrowing the land to all minorities including Muslims and violating the LoC on a daily basis. With this alarming situation, peace in South Asia is at stake. The world must pay immediate attention to this and stop India’s cruel hand and sow the seeds of peace in the region, before any flame ignites and destroys peace of the whole world, including the South Asian region.
All the minorities in India are protesting against the cruel policies of the Indian government, while the Modi extremist government is using the anti-Pakistan card to cover up its failures and divert the attention of the people from the real issues. Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear to India that if any action is taken against Pakistan to divert attention from its internal turmoil, then Pakistan will have no choice but to retaliate. The Indian aggression on the LoC has always been met with a cautious response, so that tension on the border do not force the two nuclear powers in the region to go to the battlefield. Pakistan has always spoken of resolving disputes with India at the bilateral and multilateral levels through dialogue.
Pakistan has been reiterating its position at meetings of the United Nations, the European Union, the International Court of Justice, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SAARC and the Commonwealth, with the aim at convincing the international community that Pakistan wants peace and order in the region. Whenever India misbehaves, Pakistan draws the attention of the international community to its actions, which are aimed at normalizing the situation in the region. The United States itself is taking advantage of Pakistan’s policy towards peace and peaceful withdrawal in Afghanistan.
The interests of the United States and India are intertwined. On the one hand, the United States is working with Pakistan to achieve common goals in Afghanistan, while on the other hand, the policy of making India a regional force is maintained. In this context, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership has rightly reconsidered its national policy in accordance with the requirements of security of the country and full solidarity for the defence of the homeland.
At present, the country is surrounded by internal and external threats; India is provoking on the external front, while the political confrontation within the country has reached its climax. In this political confrontation, conspiracies are being hatched to create misunderstandings between the state institutions. It is tantamount to giving the enemy an opportunity to openly carry out its conspiracies against the security of the country. If India is planning to declare a surgical strike on us, then the concrete answer is to be given on basis of national unity.
For this, we have to make a solid plan to make our security invincible which is possible only in the atmosphere of national unity and solidarity, so instead of clashing with each other, the national political leadership should sit together and strengthen the hands of Pak Army to fulfil the demands of defending the homeland, the political leadership must ensure the defence of the country because if there is a country, the market of politics will continue to flourish.
—The writer is a regular columnist, based in Lahore.
