Re: Pakistan initiated ALL wars against India: Air Marshal (r) Asghar Khan
Yes.
The historical context (i.e the time when the source was produced) and the motive behind the source always matter. If it was a brand new latest interview, it would’ve appeared as a way of fueling the most recent current of common military criticism, and consequently, the source would’ve been treated as a questionable piece of opinion by Historians.
Speaking of academics, I think it’s incredibly disappointing that History is an amply neglected subject in Pakistan. Despite all the controversies, popular myths and misinformation, the Pakistani academia has made no serious efforts to research the ultimate truth to defy all myths and expose propaganda. The academic fields in the country must undertake serious and widespread investigation into military history.
There’s so much war hysteria amongst the dangerous and over exposed pseudo intellectuals in the country, that I doubt this nation like the Western World ever develop a collective ‘never again’ attitude to home front wars.