It is equally a myth that Pakistan will shed its hostility to India even if Kashmir issue is resolved on Islamabad’s terms. Even if Kashmir joins Pakistan, Islamabad will find out another issue to trouble India. Because, Pakistan’s antipathy towards India is deep-rooted. Ask any Pakistani diplomat working in Delhi and he will not hesitate for a moment in saying that India is an “enemy country”. In fact, Pakistan’s very existence as an entity depends on hostility towards India. Take India away and Pakistan’s justification as a separate country in the map of the world will hold no water. And this explains why the Pakistan Army promotes fundamentalist Mullahs in the country and uses them in tirades against India. LeT and other terrorist organisations have prospered only because the Pakistan Army finds them useful in indulging in anti-India activities.
Oblivious of India’s size, population and potentials, Pakistan’s obsession right since its inception has been seeking “parity with India”. And how to seek parity? One is to do everything that India does. If India has nuclear weapons and missiles, Pakistan must have them even if in the process, as late Z a Bhutto said, “the Pakistanis have to eat grass (to survive)”. The other thing to do is to work towards the disintegration of India so that India comes down to the size of Pakistan. This policy, as Bhutto said, was “essential for Pakistan’s national survival and unity”. Therefore, he further elaborated, Pakistan’s policies against India should be closely coordinated with China.
“¦ erosion of Indian power, dismemberment of its territories and consolidation of an anti-India geostrategic nexus are Pakistans predominant foreign policy goals. Pakistans war against India is no longer confined to Kashmir.
In other words, erosion of Indian power, dismemberment of its territories and consolidation of an anti-India geostrategic nexus are Pakistan’s predominant foreign policy goals. Pakistan’s war against India is no longer confined to Kashmir. Pakistan wants to balkanize India by cutting off the country’s northern, eastern (North-East) and southern (Kerala) wings. Simultaneously, Pakistan’s ISI machinery will concentrate on widening the Hindu-Muslim divide, spreading hatred and destroying India’s inherent ethos of communal harmony.
This being the case, one sympathises with Pillai that he has become the wrong target of a frustrated establishment that is managing India’s foreign policy these days. This establishment is hoodwinking the entire nation in the process. Nothing concrete will emerge out of any India-Pakistan official level talks, given the very nature of the Pakistani State. The best these talks could do is to keep a hot-war between the two countries at a distance. But then, as we have argued, the “Cold Affront” ( I am deliberately avoiding using “Cold War” since a War involves two sides, but in this case it is one party that is drawn in) of Pakistan against India goes and will go unabated.
It is high time, therefore, India devised some out- of- box ideas vis-à-vis Pakistan. We must formulate ways to reach directly and more frequently the Pakistani people. We must try to know how much do they share the India-thoughts of their ruling establishment. And accordingly we should revaluate our stated policy of seeing “a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan”.
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