Is it difficult to understand the script or we don’t want to understand? When Pakistani soldiers are kidnapped and beheaded in the country’s northern areas, not once but repeatedly, to whom Pakistan shall take the complaint to? In this backdrop, if same type of gruesome incident takes place inside Indian-held Kashmir by soldiers wearing Pakistan army’s uniform, then how much it’s credible that it were Pakistani soldiers who did this?
Who is the beneficiary of having a tense LoC (Line of Control) across the volatile Kashmir valley? Pakistani hockey players who were packed back home from the Indian Hockey League, Pakistani music and film artists who are being threatened in India, or the senior citizens of both countries who were promised on-arrival visa at the border? If these non-political people are not the beneficiary of this low in Pak-India relationship, then who else could be? Yes, it was a boost for BJP to seize the opportunity to lash the central government, it’s a great moment for Indian army to assert it and issue threatening warnings to Pakistan. Similarly, Pakistan army has a cause to defend its Kashmir policy and demand for additional funds.
Have we got any real leaders in the subcontinent — leader who can lead the people, not the one who is led by public opinion, opposition parties, and narrow-minded military and rating-hungry media? It’s high time not only for India, being a big player in the region, to play a positive role, but also for Pakistan that there are enemies dressed as friends who will try to avail every opportunity to kill and maim whether the opponent is a Pakistani or an Indian.
Let India accept Pakistan’s offer to go for impartial investigation of these allegations under the auspices of the UN. Unless truth is brought to light, non state actors will continue to keep hijacking the peace process while these countries will play blind in the face of a common enemy. Choice is in our hands.
