As some of the ill-fated fathers do sometimes sire demonic sons, Lord Mountbatten too had fathered one: Pakistan. Rawalpindi continues to indulge in border terrorism against New Delhi - its twin.

A stone for the last Viceroy of undivided India! He was instrumental in the birth of the twins at the pangs of slaughtering of millions of peoples. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 when India was vivisected, it was expected that Islamic Pakistan would behave like a good child. But Rawalpindi attacked in India’s Kashmir that very year. With this, Lord Mountbatten’s fight-prone boy continued to attack India.

Pakistan has fought again……again it has flexed its muscles against India! Again Islamabad has escalated its hostilities in the Line of Control (LoC)!! Pakistani soldiers, always brutal to the degree of satanic forces of the dark ages, have beheaded one of the soldiers besides killing another one. This proves that Pakistan, an Islamic state and the dream-child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, does not deserve a “Samjhauta”.

The attitude of Pakistan towards organized terrorism against India practically remained unchanged since 1948, except occasional lull in their warmongering. Signaling of Pakistan’s message that it is deaf on this vital most issue plaguing the two nations for 66 long years show Muhammed Ali Jinnah’s nation really made a “tryst” with terror directed towards India at the stroke of midnight. And the legacy continues.
 
Age-wise, Pakistan is little older to India for it was born on August 14, 1947. India’s birth took place the following day: 15th August. But Pakistan’s reluctance to stop violence against India showed Islamabad is yet to mature mentally. Islamabad continues to push militants to India, increasing its nuclear hardware and stepped up its anti-India activities globally.
 
Can you imagine, ISI, the spying agency of a nation indulges full-fledged in pushing fake currencies to another country to harm it economically? Do not know how spymaster Kim Philby would have reacted to it had he been alive, but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence is doing it. It is pushing fake currencies of India to this country through Nepal and Bangladesh. Notorious ISI is also smuggling Indian uranium to fuel its nuclear warheads. In short, nefarious Islamabad is doing all that is needed to harm India.

Remember what the Pakistanis hummed when their nation was just born 66 years ago? “Ladke liye Pakistan, Hanske lenge Hindustan” (we fought to take Pakistan, but shall take India with comfortable ease)……… they chanted this in the streets of Rawalpindi, Quetta, Lahore, Karachi and elsewhere in that newly born country. No!! A passage of 66 years, most of which traumatic in the case of Islamabad, cannot just change Pakistan’s anti-India psychosis. In fact, a nation that could indulge in a war against India just 73-days after it’s birth, is not likely to change. Just imagine, Pakistan gained independence on August 14, 1947 and it invaded India on October 27, 1947.

It had not only alarmed Mountbatten but created solemn surprise to the British Monarch too. Mind you, the Dominion Status was applicable both to India and Pakistan when the twins of Mountbatten locked their horns over Kashmir. The pushing of tribesmen into Kashmir and volleys of bullets fired by Pakistanis drew the international attention in such colossal ways that even the UN Security Council had to step in to order for a ceasefire in Kashmir. The ceasefire took place on a cold New Year’s Day in 1949.

On monitoring trail of events since the birth of Pakistan up till the killing of two Indian soldiers in the LoC in January, 2013, we find that Islamabad had traditionally been more concerned to de-stabilize India than to stabilize itself. If the Shimla Accord of 1972 is taken as the cut off event of efforts towards bringing the two warring nations towards peace, we find there had been four major abortive occasions aiming at burying the hatchets. But they all flopped. Those events were:

1988: Indo-Pak agreement signed on December 31 not to attack each other’s nuclear installations

1999: Lahore Declaration signed on February 21 to establish peace, end hostilities

2001: Three days long Indo-Pak Summit began in Agra on July 14

2003: Indo-Pak meeting held in August in Islamabad.

These talks were all abortive, just like the Shimla Accord (first major step since 1947 to establish peace in the Indian sub-continent). Signed by Indira Gandhi and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the Shimla Accord failed to bring lasting peace. In fact, the Pakistani leadership hardly inclined towards the well being of its populace as it directed all its energies more to harm India than to salvage its people from poverty, illiteracy and webs of dogmas.

To documentarily establish it, let us take the help of “Daughter of The East” autobiography of ex-Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto. Giving a day-to-day graphic account of the Shimla Accord, Benazir wrote in her autobiography that the agreement was signed at 12.40 a.m.: again in the “midnight”. Both the nations had also attained freedom at the stroke of midnight. Is midnight a jinxed thing for both Islamabad and New Delhi?

In Benazir’s own admission, her father Zulfi opted for 5000 square miles of territory in lieu of 93,000 Pakistani Prisoners of War (POW’s) whereas anyone loving his fellow being would have opted for the second point. Mind you, Zulfi opted for land rather than for men at a very crucial juncture because Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in Bangladesh was threatening that he would try the POW’s.

Benazir’s father felt no qualms to pawn even his own soldiers who lost to India. “Daughter of The East” says even Benazir told her father: “The people of Pakistan would have been much happier if the prisoners had been freed”.

Islamabad was so prompt to offer counter-threat perception to New Delhi that it waited only for 15-days to conduct its nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 to reply the sounds of five India-conducted blasts in Pokharan for three days beginning on May 11 in the same year. In 1974 when India first conducted the Pokharan-blasts, Islamabad immediately raised the issue of Islamic Bomb to gain helps from the liquid-gold rich Arabian countries to go nuclear. At that time, Islamabad’s economy was in virtual ruins due to the colossal loss it suffered in the War of 1971 and cutting asunder of its break basket East Pakistan that turned Bangladesh.

Yes. Mountbatten’s bad boy Pakistan went nuclear very hurriedly. But it had no uranium of its own. Without this radioactive element, no nuclear weapon can be produced. Where do uranium come from, but? Believe it or not, Pakistan started smuggling this radioactive element through Nepal from India’s Jaduguda Uranium Fields located in Jharkhand. From Kathmandu, the consignments of uranium even used to be sent to Pakistan to power its 15 nuclear installations through diplomatic bags. The misuse of diplomatic bags is not allowed under the Geneva Convention.

Scholars, diplomats, academicians, military strategists and rulers always learn from the past mistakes. But India never followed this axiomatic rule that was even followed by Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. But who cares Socrates in India?

India should have insisted on taking up Kashmir issue and militancy-factor. After Bhutanese crack down on ULFA militants, what barred India from demanding a similar action by Pakistan to flush out Jehadis from Kashmir? Socrates is dead. Long live Socrates. In fact, when the situation wanted  India to blow hot, it blew cold. When time ripened New Delhi to blow cold, it blew very hot. Truly, this boy of Mountbatten is a very bad student of history. Let us justify it.

In October, 2001, ex-premier Atal Behari Vajpayee justifiably entered into history by refusing very boldly to meet Musharraf at the UN General Assembly’s meet in New York as he held Islamabad responsible for the car bomb tragedy that killed 40 in Srinagar the same year. Vajpayee was appreciated for his firmness. Now it is the turn of Premier Manmohan Singh to show his government’s diplomatic sagacity in solving the Kashmir tangle at the coming meeting.

If you want to know Vajpayeeji “ko gussa kyun ata hai”, you must consult the back issues of newspapers to stop on December 13, 2001 when five militants raided the Indian Parliament. Vajpayee said they were all Pakistanis. This attack resulted New Delhi and Islamabad to mobilize troops along the borders. Naturally tension prevailed and 18 days later, India and Pakistan stopped their rail, road and air connections. Let us hope, after this meeting, we would not ask “Manmohan Singh ko gussa kyun Nahi ata hai”?

“Subhan Allah”, would not Mountbatten’s naughty boy Pakistan change?

By Amlan Home Chouwdhury