In the pre-independence India, the Muslim leaders had pressed for a separate country, consisting of Muslim majority provinces and districts. Under their pressure, the congress leaders like Gandhi, Pt Nehru and Patel accepted the division of the country. Even after getting their dreamland named Pakistan, they did not stop from continuing the enmity against India. Why? Did you ever think about this strange situation? Pakistan continues with its mischiefs for last nearly 47 years because it has to settle some scores.
The mother of problems is Kashmir. Just after the independence, Pak authorities wrongly decided to capture J&K forcefully. They hoped that the princely state being overwhelmingly Muslim majority, with whose sympathy, they would succeed in their mission. They attacked and before they could reach Srinagar airport, they were challenged by the Indian armed forces who pushed them back. However, they succeeded in retaining a portion, which is today known as Pak Occupied Kashmie (POK). Still they have not forgotten their defeat and are creating problems through militants to occupy the other part of the state as well.
On the heels of this adventure came the 1965 war in which Pakistan once again tasted a shameful discomfiture and was compelled by the international forces to join the bilateral talk at Tashkent. Then came the Bangladesh freedom struggle of 1971 in which Pakistan suffered the division of the country and nearly one lakh Pak soldiers had to surrender and they were brought to India as prisoners of war. Pakistan has not forgotten this humiliation and has always been on look out for opportunities to corner India. Even though it is almost half of Jinnah’s original Pakistan, it is determined to seek military parity with India. It is in the pursuit of this objective that copying India, they also joined the nuclear club at the cost of its pathetic economic condition.
The latest cause is the coming withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. Pakistan intends to grab this unfortunate country through the Talibans and denying India any opportunity to have a role there. Pakistan thinks that if the disturbances in India through militancy were aggravated, India will remain busy with domestic disturbances and the ground will be free for Pakistan. Who knows, even China at their instance has been repeatedly violating LAC in Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Perhaps in this dirty game too Islamabad will lick the dust as India is aware and making matching security efforts.
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