The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Thursday, 10 September 2015

INDIA SHEDDING ITS 'PAKISTAN OBSESSION': PAKISTAN DESPERATELY TRYING TO PROVOKE INDIA

"Narendra Modi contested elections on anti-Pakistan platform and now wants to dictate terms for the dialogue with Pakistan but we will never accept this and we have already conveyed it to New Delhi." He said Kashmir will be part and parcel of any agenda of talks with India and that the international community has accepted Pakistan’s point of view in this regard. Aziz said that no one could dare to launch any attack inside Pakistan and if anyone did so, he would get a befitting response. He said that Pakistan would not be pressured by Indian threats of an attack at any time, adding that if India even thought of attacking, Pakistan would provide a befitting response.

Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's National Security Advisor, Dawn, September 8, 2014

"If the enemy (read India) ever resorts to any misadventure, regardless of its size and scale - short or long - it will have to pay an unbearable cost."

"Enduring peace is not possible without a just resolution of Kashmir. The issue can no longer be put on the backburner."

Raheel Sharif, Pakistan's Army Chief, September 6, 2015

"Undoubtedly Pakistan is a responsible and peaceful nuclear power. Though, we are fully aware of the conspiracies and tactics of the enemies (read India), we desire to have good and peaceful relations with all our neighbours on the basis of sovereign equality. I wish to make it clear that we will protect the sovereignty and security of Pakistan at all cost."

"Today we are celebrating the golden jubilee of those memorable events, when our brave armed forces not only successfully defended its frontiers but also thwarted the nefarious designs of the enemy (read India)."

Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister, while speaking on 50th anniversary  of 1965 war between India and Pakistan - September 6, 2015

"September 6 is the day of aggression for India and the Day of Defence for Pakistan and with the Grace of Allah, it became the day of victory for Pakistan and the day of defeat for India."

Pervaiz Rashid, Pakistan's Information Minister, September 6

These loud claims cap the prevailing sentiments in Pakistan's ruling establishment, that is, it's all powerful military, and a political regime that depends on this military for its survival.

As India is finally shedding its 'Pakistan obsession', Pakistan's ruling elite are getting ever more desperate to look for fodders that words of Indian establishment used to provide to lubricate (incite) the ordinary Pakistani mindsets - an anti-India atmosphere that the Pakistan's ruling class has exploited since the days of partition. 

Irrespective of what Ajit Doval, India's National Security Advisor meant, India, for decades, practiced the policy of getting engaged in 'below the belt' verbal wars with Pakistan. In fact, Pakistan outdid India many times on international platforms while spreading falsities and propaganda about Kashmir - not because Pakistan could do it efficiently - but because India's sluggishness allowed it do so.

India and Pakistan began their sovereign, independent journeys together. But the similarity ended there. Pakistan is no match for India today. India is a global player while Pakistan is not even a regional power. And it has not happened in a year.

But the realization on Indian part, in the ruling establishment of India, came late.

India should (and should have) dismiss (dismissed) Pakistan as a disturbed nation that is (was) trying to divert attention from its internal problems by targeting India - through words - through wars - and proxy war activities like militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and support to terrorism in other parts of India.

Well, Pakistan has been at it for decades. And has failed to make any significant dent - even after waging many wars - that it all lost - including this one in 1965.

India knows it. The world knows it. Pakistan knows it but doesn't accept it back home.

India was giving undue attention to Pakistan so far. The time is now to realize and move ahead. The time is now to remain silent and act whenever there is any provocation, as is the policy now - inflicting heavy damage whenever Pakistan violates ceasefire (that it does in routine). Destabilizing India and taking J&K from it are beyond Pakistan's reach. And a growing global stature of India has made things even more difficult for Pakistan.

As India is shedding its 'Pakistan obsession', not rushing to react on war-mongering rhetoric by Pakistan's leaders while replying Pakistan's armed provocations with twice the force, Pakistan is finding hard to explain back home the failures that are piling up by the day.

Everyone in Pakistan's ruling establishment is trying hard to provoke India - but India, it seems, is not going to buy the verbal bravado now - or is not going to be trapped there - in a 'below the belt' war of words. For Pakistan's support to armed militancy in J&K and other parts of India - our internal apparatus is strong enough to mitigate hostile developments.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/