We may call it
coincidence or destiny's cruel joke or poetic justice of nature, but whatever propaganda
Pakistan is spreading against India these days, it is coming back to hit it
only, be it geopolitical in nature or anything else.
Something on these
lines happened today in an interesting development. Pakistan's senate today
passed 'a resolution unanimously to felicitate the Pakistani cricket team on
becoming number one in the test cricket'. And today only Pakistan lost its
number one spot. And that, too, to India.
India today
defeated New Zealand to win the second consecutive test match of the three
match series and took an invincible lead of 2-0. And with it India regained its
top spot in the test cricket. India was the top test playing country before
Pakistan.
Pakistan had
become number one on August 22 after India-West Indies test series had ended in
a 2-2 draw - while to retain its top rank, India had to win the series by 3-0.
Perhaps, the
Pakistani ruling elite could not get time since then (or pulse for it). Anyway,
better late than never. Even if it took 40 days (since August 22)! But, see
what happened! And they chose this day!
While the
Pakistani Senate was passing the resolution honouring the Pakistani cricket
team for becoming number one, it slipped back. And that, too, to India!
And in times when
anti-India sentiments in Pakistan have peaked. This incident tells us that destiny
doesn't want to stay with Pakistan anymore. Naturally, if the Pakistani
senators would have realized that India could unseat Pakistan from the top spot
today, they would never have gone for it. True, misfortune spoils the mind!
Pakistani military
and its ruling elite have always adopted an anti-India stand and have always
practiced and fuelled anti-India propaganda. Fomenting and spreading terrorism
in India and showing India in a negative light on international platforms have
always been on the main agenda of every Pakistani ruling elite.
Now that India is
responding back (strongly) to this Pakistani agenda, both militarily and
diplomatically, the skewed balance that Pakistan was enjoying so far, has gone
to a toss. And in fact, is rightly tilting in India's favour, especially after
the Surgical Strike deep across Line of Control (LoC) in Pak-occupied-Kashmir. And
no one is taking Pakistan seriously even if it has scaled up its Kashmir rant
and is doing its every bit to convince the world that India did not carry any
surgical strike in PoK and it was mere a rumour.
A game should be
treated with sportsmanship and being number one or two or victory or defeat is an
inherent part of it. But timing is the devil here. This whole newsbreak has
nothing special about it but this coincidence, which, if we say in the style of
Paulo Coelho, says that the 'whole universe is conspiring against Pakistan' -
(even if its advantage goes to India or India somehow comes in the scene).
©SantoshChaubey
