Safar-e'-Pakistan

Have bought the copy-rights of the title from Sir. Saw that the previous blog invoked much criticism. But, a ‘feeble’ attempt last time made me at least realize that there are a few readers of this blog and I should not let them down. So, I installed Extreme tracker to keep track of ppl visiting my blog. I would really appreciate if ppl did comment on my blogs. Acutally, I was quite skeptical about putting up this new blog. Quite an old story for all of us. And the worst being no lessons learnt at the end of it.

Neways, last week I had a talk with a Paki girl – Hira (reminiscent of Zhara from the latest hindi flick :-) ). I had a couple of Muslim friends back in school. But, the interaction with her was totally different. Its still stupid that we really remain confused about our feelings with the fellow Pakis. Maybe its just not anyone’s fault or maybe it is? Do we really know the social life and political structure in our neighboring country? To be frank, I was totally clueless!!

Well, she is doing her MS in Economics and Political Science (or something like that) I thought there could be no better person to ask. And to put it really straight. It is no different from our own. I find absolutely no difference in our democracy, only that their government seems to be more militant. Or thatz what is always potrayed – thankx to our media run for political interests. Right since childhood we are bombarded with images of enmity with Pakistan and as you guessed they too are. And maybe in a few generations it will be rightfully enter the school history books too and would become a part of a curriculum. Thanks to our ‘so-called’ ‘selfless’ and self-proclaimed leaders whom a bunch of goons ‘n illiterate people respect ‘n are ready to do anything on their command – be it ruining pitches to disrupt cricket matches, ransacking theaters stating that the movie is immoral, even when the censor board has cleared it and then the list goes on.

And there its no different!!! As she says, only that there are self-proclaimed religious leaders called Mullahs present at every nook ‘n corner of the streets. People abusing the world in the name of religion. And its because of these handful people, the country’s image is at stake. And then there are so many problems flooding both the countries, that its just limitless even to mention them

And do we all really want this. In this so-called ‘modern hi-tech’ age, do we really care if the person in the adjacent seat or cubicle is a Pakistani or an Indian. Does it really matter?? Soon, it will be that soldiers on either side will not know what they are actually fighting for. A soldier will only abuse and kill his opponent only because his great-grandfather, who was also a soldier and did the same.

India wants Kashmir maybe as much as Pakistan does. But, what the common man here wants is peace!! He is surely not bothered if Kashmir is in India or in Pakistan. As long as its residents are living peacefully and not witnessing their brethren die in bloodshed each day. I’m not trying to draw any conclusion nor propose any solutions. I believe its beyond anyone’s will and imagination. No one knows when and where the dispute of Kashmir will ever end. Why are we in this state today??? I believe Hira is just confused like many of us….

But, doesn’t the whole scene disturb you??