"India and Pakistan are not like China, which puts primacy on creating a peaceful environment in which meaningful growth becomes possible."
And all this while we were thinking that democracy provides the best way to balance development and equity. And then along comes Bhadrakumar, lumps you in the same category as Pakistan and then tells you that it is China that is "creating a peaceful environment" in which growth becomes possible. Surely, he couldnt be recommending that India follow the Chinese model when it comes to "putting primacy on creating a peaceful environment"?
I admire the clarity of the writer's perspectives. It is indeed a pipedream to predict the balkanisation of Pakistan just as yet. While the writer diplomatically stresses only on NATO's future, the real fact is that the US is as yet unwilling to let go of a powerful bulwark against India in the shape of a strong Pakistan. It makes sense to reign in India through Pakistan for both the US and china, though they have visibly competing interests most notably in Gwadar. Therefore barring a few stray elements of the erstwhile Nothern allaince in Afghanistan, Iran's Baloch minorities and a small Hindu population in Balochistan, there is little if any logistical support for any potential Indian design. I also feel that the Bangladesh parallel is insignificant since for one, Balochistan is geographically contiguous with rest of Pakistan and secondly its wealth of natural resources makes it extremely indispensable to Pakistan.
Of course India and Afghanistan should help long-suffering Baluchis get their freedom. Not only should they help, but even the West should help, rather than letting Musharraf slowly slip back into the Taliban embrace, while he also builds a Chinese naval base on the Baluchi coast, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. I don't see Bhadrakumar offering any solutions against Pak terrorism - perhaps he's waiting for Mumbai to be bombed again.
RE:Support Baluchistan
by Majid on Sep 07, 2006 02:58 PM Permalink
Great. The responses are similar to what the writer of the article is referring to. Spineless and logicless. The writer has said in open words that its not possible for balochistan to be seperated from Pakistan and its just an Indian dream. But, still Indians seem like dreaming like ever. Pity on you. Better watch out your own back yard. Kashmir movement needs half of Indian army to be only controlled and not stopped. Balochistan needed only a few hundred army soldiers. The intensity of insurgency can be well claculated by this simple fact.
This is with reference to the article. What ever is presently taking place in Balochistan, it is Pakistan's internal matter. Indians should not poke their nose in such a things especially at a time when they are facing atleast 27 separatist movements in North East and other parts. Like Bangladesh factor, any misadventure will haunt Indians for ever.
" we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are". This ties into the fact that you put red colored glasses world around us turn red, changing of colors merely would change the preception. I have feel that we beat the rhetoric of what we want the things to be, not actually what they are. More so often, we pat ourselves on the back and lie to ourselves. We should shy away this dangerous path and not hide the bitter truth
