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Well how about Bharat drowning in Pakistan's love?
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Why do you have to be so frightened of our Eastern neighbor? They are non 10 foot tall like Iraqi insurgents. We can handle Bharatis. They know it. Do you?
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Dear antiobl,
I have read some of your other posts and I know you are, like me, a patriotic Pakistani and we have a lot in common. Nevertheless, I have to disagree with your above quotes! I don't think Bharat is drowning in Pakistan's love! Bharat has become a very calculative country that hires American based PR firms to have a spotless image for its government. Your quotes smack of more emotion than logic: if we could "handle" Bhartis, then 99% of us would not be avid hindi movie fans despite Bhartis test-firing nuclear-capable missiles on a regular basis and degrading our country in their movies and ads!! (with us in mind and not Chinese or Nepalese or Sri Lankans!), if we could handle Bhartis, then we would have lived like brothers with our Bengali Muslims instead of falling for silly things like language in Dhaka university (please tell me you know about the steady and calculative divisive plots Bharat hatched in the then East Pakistan). Don't get me wrong, I primarily blame us (Pakistanis) for our debacles and problems but I also would not like to live in a fool's paradise and think that everything is alright as far as the Eastern neighbour is concerned.
There is a reason why Bharat churns out rubbish movie plots that show that "cultural love" is above our Islamic identity (note I don't watch them but then I have to hear about it from emotional brothers like you who were recently lamenting "Veer-Zara").
You are familiar with Indian Muslims from UP to Kerala and how they love Bharat, loathe Pakistan, - do you think we are also immune from being brainwashed? There is a reason why Bharat's so called "people-to-people contact increases" are confined to "mushaira gatherings", "ghazal croning", "star galaxy nights", etc. you will never see Bhartis sending IIT computer experts to Pakistan to teach Pakistanis about computer engineering, etc. We need more patriotic people like you for Pakistan but please do realize that Bharat has its share of diabolic designs!: try to catch Bharat-based Sindhi radio stations which regularly transmit programmes like "Sindhu-desh", etc. which are beamed to rural Sindh in Pakistan to ignite feelings of further disension!: I have heard the program friend and they have collections of plays that show how Sindhi rurals are being exploited by the rich Karachites!!! and the solution is a "Sindhu Desh with Karachi as its capital" (lol!)
Sure we have problems but let's try to analyse Bharat's intentions!
If you are still not convinced, please bear in mind that "secular" Congress politicians like Sonia Ghandi have commented with disdain about how silly Pakistan is pursuing defensive military capabilities because "we (Bhartis) already control Pakistan"!!
Incidentally it was our same "emotional cultural attachment" and blind love for saris, spicy food and "mujras" (yeah, yeah I know you hate mullas! but I am just telling you the way it is) that led to the downfall of our rule!
We are falling in the same hole again! And if you think all this is emotional from my part, I invite you to read another "secular" Indian's comments when Bangladesh was born: Today we have taken our revenge for the 1,000 years (yes Indira Ghandi said this on the birth of Bangladesh) and the 1,000 years she is referring to is the Muslim rule! - this is how bitter "secularist" Bhartis are of Pakistan (let's not even go to the likes of Shiv Sena and BJP - one visit to their website is enough to realize their contempt for Muslims! not just Pakistanis!!!).
I think its silly if we think that we need India's attention label to progress and prosper! We have other neighbours like Iran, China, Afghanistan, Gulf and I want to see a more balanced foreign policy that aligns our strategic interests and fosters potential long-term benefits. There is no point in being obsessed by one alien neighbour. They have seduced a lot of Muslims of UP to Kerala and I for one don't want to be Indian as a matter of choice - I am Pakistani because I wanted to live in a country free from alien cultural pressures and domination and not because of some whacky "gora conspiracy" that divided British India or because of some "power-hungry" Mulsim politician like Jinnah!
By the way, try watching Ghandi (the movie made possible by Indian propganda) - watch how they show Jinnah a villian and Ghandi and Maulana Azad as pious souls which decried violence! (this was back in 1983) - do you really think Indians have changed in their outlook. They need Pakistan now (ie peaceful relations with Pakistan) for oil and gas (you can NEVER have a gas or oil pipeline from Iran supplying India's growing economy with the much needed oil which is cheaper by land pipelines if the pipeline crosses 1,500 kms of a hostile Pakistan), trade routes, etc.
Let's wake up and smell the coffee! I doubt that India is considering "peace" with Pakistan due to hindi movies or the popularity of other alien influences like "antakshari" in Pakistan!
This is not insecurity, this is intelligence - something we need lots of to protect our precious country whose foundation rests on the blood, toil, tears, sweat of gallant Muslim men, women and children who knew what would happen if we were dominated by an alien culture!
I am not going to undermine my identity on account of silly cricket matches, mushaira evenings and hindi movies! I wasn't born yesterday!
If we are not careful, we will end up in a situation where every shop, restaurant, TV and radio station in Pakistan will be owned Bhartis (and I include Bharti Muslims who are Indian and secular before they are Muslims!).
Neither do I want war with India. But I must warn you that Bharti govt. and majority of Bhartis (including Muslims from UP to Kerala) NEVER want to see a strong Muslim country on the Western border. I hope we don't need another "Bangladesh" to realize this! That's all.
I have learnt a lot from your postings and I hope I can contribute to your knowledge as well. We don't another country to progress and prosper. We need a strong leadership that bases poilicies on intelligence rather than emotion.