STABLE PAKISTAN IS NOT IN INDIA’S INTEREST!

By
Bharat Verma !
Pakistanis, Who Think India is Our Friend, Please Once Read
It!
Indians pose the biggest threat to the union of India. The reason is simple. An average Indian does
not constitute a nation but is merely an individual. His personal well-being overrides all other
considerations including the national interests.

Therefore, many have begun to propagate parting of Kashmir in their write-ups, since it does not
belong individually to them. However, imagine the hue and cry if their personal property and family
is held hostage by the terrorists. They will sing a different tune!

The blame lies with New Delhi. For the past sixty years, instead of consolidating the Union, leaders
encouraged divisiveness on the basis of religion and caste for sheer vote bank politics. Instead of
unifying its citizenry with good governance and increasing their stakes through prosperity, so that
they may serve the cause of the nation with honor, it has treated its citizens with unprecedented
shabbiness. The result is groups of citizens have risen against the state, mostly for lack of economic
progress and denial of justice. Such disgruntled groups are being taken advantage of by the external
forces inimical to India.

There can never be unity in diversity. Unity requires a fair amount of uniformity in laws throughout
the Union.

That New Delhi is its own enemy became obvious, when it permitted the creation of a pure Islamic
State on its borders. This nation-state contradicts every democratic and multi-cultural values dear to
India.

Therefore, if New Delhi has not slept a wink since the creation of Pakistan, it has no one except itself
to blame!

Islamabad, besides the wars it imposed on New Delhi, extended its so-called Islamic purity to the
Kashmir Valley by instigating the locals to carry out ethnic cleansing of the minority communities.

Hence, first we created a state with inbuilt characteristic of fundamentalism, and extreme
philosophy contrary to our professed beliefs; then the monster in it started ethnic cleansing in the
Valley; and engineered demographic changes through Bangladesh in West Bengal, Assam and the
Northeast. Saudi Arabia and other Islamic oil-rich countries pitched in with the petro-dollars in
support. All in the cause of the illusion called Ummah and establishing the Caliphate!

The Indian leadership for its personal vote-bank gains helped these inimical forces by bringing the
IMDT in Assam. Later, it was slammed as illegal by the Supreme Court. Too late - the damage was
done, as the Union’s overburdened security forces, grapple with 15 million illegal Bangladesh
infiltrators creating mayhem in the society.

Islamabad, Dhaka, and now Kathmandu, spurred on by Beijing, have united with the singular agenda
to unhook the Valley and the Northeast from the Union. In addition, they are instigating the Maoists
who control almost forty percent of the Union’s territory, to set up a parallel government, and
ultimately, like the Maoists in Nepal, win the elections in pockets of their influence, and impose a
regressive authoritarian governments in tune with their own regime. Simple. Brilliant. And yet, New
Delhi, instead of consolidating and unifying the Union, continues to divide its citizenry in religious or
caste denominations.

In the past sixty years, New Delhi’s muddle-headed policies encouraged separatism.

Instead of ensuring diffusion of secular pan-Indian culture, and integration of the society by
encouraging Indians from all over to buy and develop land and industry in the Valley and the
Northeast, it imposed restrictions on such settlements. Meanwhile, Pakistan and Bangladesh
exported their fundamentalist populations to change the demographic hues in their interest. The
ugly separatist face of the agitation in the Valley today is the consequence of the dereliction of the
fundamental duty by the Union.
The trend needs to be reversed forcibly by integrating the Valley firmly into the Indian mainstream
by creating a secular mix of population through industrialisation.

Many conveniently propose the myth that a stable Pakistan is in India’s interest. This is a false
proposition.

The truth is that Pakistan is bad news for the Indian Union since 1947-stable or otherwise.

It is factually correct that Islamabad has enjoyed brief periods of stability in the span of sixty years
of its existence. However, during these phases of stability, it continued to export terrorism, fake
currency, narcotics, and indulged in attempts to change demographics on our borders, cultivated
sleeper cells and armed groups inside our territory to create an uprising at an appropriate time.
Also, it aligned with Beijing and other powers, in a mutually beneficial scheme, to tie-down and
ultimately cause a territorial split of the Union.

With Pakistan on the brink of collapse due to massive internal as well as international contradictions,
it is matter of time before it ceases to exist.

Multiple benefits will accrue to the Union of India on such demise.

If ever the national interests are defined with clarity and prioritised, the foremost threat to the Union
(and for centuries before) materialised on the western periphery, continuously. To defend this key
threat to the Union, New Delhi should extend its influence through export of both, soft and hard
power towards Central Asia from where invasions have been mounted over centuries. Cessation of
Pakistan as a state facilitates furtherance of this pivotal national objective.

The self-destructive path that Islamabad chose will either splinter the state into many parts or it will
wither away-a case of natural progression to its logical conclusion. In either case Baluchistan will
achieve independence. For New Delhi this opens a window of opportunity to ensure that the Gwadar
port does not fall into the hands of the Chinese. In this, there is synergy between the political
objectives of the Americans and the Indians. Our existing goodwill in Baluchistan requires intelligent
leveraging.

Sindh and most of the non-Punjabi areas of Pakistan will be our new friends.

Pakistan’s breakup will be a major setback to the Jihad Factory, as the core of this is located in
Pakistan, and functions with the help of its army and the ISI. This in turn will ease pressures on India
and the international community.

With China’s one arm, i.e. Pakistan disabled, its expansionist plans will receive a severe jolt. Beijing
continues to pose primary threat to New Delhi. Even as we continue to engage with it as
constructively as possible, we must strive to remove the proxy. At the same time, it is prudent to
extend moral support to the people of Tibet to sink Chinese expansionism in the morass of
insurgency.

For a change, let us do to them what they do to us!

The chances of Central Asia getting infected with the Jihadi fervour will recede. Afghanistan will gain
fair amount of stability. India’s access to Central Asian energy routes will open up. With
disintegration of ISI’s inimical activities of infiltration and pushing of fake currency into India, from
Nepal and Bangladesh will cease. Within the Union social harmony will improve enormously. Export
of Islamic fundamentalism, with its 360-degree sweep from Islamabad, will vanish. Even a country
like Thailand will heave a sigh of relief!

Above all, the gathering storm of threat from a united group of authoritarian regimes along our
14,000 km borders, orchestrated and synchronised by Pakistan will dissolve.

At the height of the recent disturbances in the Valley, when a general asked me for a suggestion to
resolve the issue, I said: “Remove Pakistan. The threat will disappear permanently.” Today the
collapse of Pakistan as a state is almost certain. All the King’s men cannot save it from itself.

Looking ahead, New Delhi should formulate an appropriate strategy for ‘post-Pakistan scenario’ to
secure India’s interests in Central Asia.
It is intriguing, therefore, to hear New Delhi mouthing the falsehood that stable Pakistan is in India’s
interest. Perpetuation of such illogic for vote-bank politics is harming consolidation and integration
of the Union. Short-sighted politicians as usual are overlooking the national interest for the short-
term personal gains of few votes! . . .. .