Skirmishes between Pakistan and Indian forces on Sunday took another deadly turn when Indian Army resorted to intermittent shelling on villages in Nakyal sector, some 200 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad that left a woman dead and several others injured. Panic triggered amongst the civil population that evoked evacuation of over 50,000 from the areas. The woman is 5th Pakistani reported to have been killed in unprovoked Indian firing across the Line of Control since five Indian troops were killed nearly five kilometres deep in side the Indian occupied territory on August 5. Thereafter once again Indian media started building up war hysteria.
Having failed to deliver to their masses, the Indian political parties joined the chorus to cash in on the opportunity to build up their election campaign. Thus the Indian adventurism is continuously inflicting loss of lives and properties. Riding on Hindu frenzy aiming at Pakistan bashing, the Indian political parties are camouflaging their weakness in managing their internal affairs. Despite the fact, the previous accusation on Pakistan, with passage time, had been retracted one way the other. Yet the Indian government had not learnt any lesson from the humiliation it faced in the process. Even now it has engineered fresh accusation of Pakistan’s involvement killing five Indian troops despite repeated denials by the Pakistan army and the Foreign Office. Notwithstanding what Pakistan says even the circumstantial evidence described by the Indian Defense Minister does not substantiate the Indian claims of Pakistan’s involvement in the fresh saga of deaths. Yet for last many days the two forces are engaged in tit-for-tat shelling that has huge potential to enflame the region in war. The two countries had already experienced wars that engulfed vast resources that otherwise were meant for the welfare of the ailing humanity. In a country where there is a sizable population is living below extreme poverty line, crimes against women are continuously on the rise; even the foreign female visitors and students are neither being spared nor are they given protection and justice; her second largest majority—the Muslims are frequently falling victims to communal hatred. How it can impose another war on her immediate neighbour. Knowingly that her investment on war will hardly extract any advantage for her, sanity never prevails upon her military establishment. Because of freakish nature of the Indian military establishment, India is least popular states amongst its neighbours that are relatively small in size and militarily weak. Over the years, the Pak-India bilateral relations were sour to the effect that the two countries lost their talking terms. After transition of power in Pakistan, the two governments initiated contacts that generated a ray of hope to break the ice with a direct contact between the two Prime Ministers on the sidelines of the UN general assembly session but the on-going military escalation on the LoC has dashed that hope. It warrants a sense of urgency amongst political leadership of the two states to grab the opportunity to ward off ulterior motives of the distracters of the peace in the region.
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