Indian gibberish
Published in DAWN on May 31, 2025
THIS refers to the article `India`s failed
gambit` (May 18), which suggested that in the wake of aggression, the Indians
stood surprised by Pakistan. Indeed, this was not the first time that Indians
have been surprised. At the time of Independence, leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru
and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel fully expected Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah to
beg them for taking Pakistan back into the Indian fold within six months, as
they thought Pakistan would never survive.
Of course, this was due to what they had read
in school textbooks, which said that the climate in the areas comprising Sindh,
West Punjab and East Bengal was not suitable for industrialisation, even though
both cotton and jute were grown in those places. The textbooks did not say that
those were Muslim-majority areas.
Later, in 1965, India was surprised when
Pakistan successfully defended itself.
Indian tourists in Europe and other countries are
surprised when they see Pakistani tourists in those places. They have been
brainwashed by the Hindutva leaders into believing that Pakistan is a very poor
country where people are dying due to hunger and starvation.
Their television anchors confidently
proclaimed that major Pakistani cities had been bombed and that Indian troops
had taken over the country. No wonder they were hugely surprised at being cut
to size in the recent four-day war.
Shakir Lakhani
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