Pakistan and India has a hate-and-love relationship. It stays cool and then it gets cold. In seemingly the past six and a half decades, both neighbors have tried endlessly to make peace but it gets destroyed every now and then. But as of late, it is seen that India likes to jump on the wagon on every issue related to Pakistan. Be it any issue of any importance, Indian media has a lot to reveal. Recently, Mohammed Hanif, the author of the novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, gave an interview to the Economic Times where he gave a piece of advice that India needs to take heed of. Here is an extract from the interview:
Express Tribune, a newspaper that amazes me with its loyalty, publishes a lot of Indian opinions. Most of the time, these opinions are downright mean especially the ones that are seen after a suicide bomb. Furthermore, they have a "holier-than-thou" attitude. It is reminded that we are "blood-sucking monsters" while Indians are mere "angles". For once, India needs to realize that it has immense problems of itself too. Not all the uprising in India is Pakistan-based. It needs to realize that their claim of being secular is a lot more lip-service than actual reality. They need to stop considering Pakistan a threat. The country itself is going through a lot and it does not have, and never had, the intentions to destroy or destabilize India.
The similar message goes to Afghanistan. The country needs to realize that it was Pakistan, not India, which gave them shelter and employment for years. Afghanistan needs to stop looking India in such high regard and should realize that it is about time that they let bygones be bygones.
It is about time that both the countries try to keep it low and work on the problems at their end.
ET: What should Pakistan's neighbours do to help?
MH: Learn to shut up at critical moments. Stop gloating ...Indeed. The undue tongue-lashing that has been going from India, for decades, needs to be curtailed. The kind of talk that Indian government and its media does, only fuels the fire between the two countries.
Express Tribune, a newspaper that amazes me with its loyalty, publishes a lot of Indian opinions. Most of the time, these opinions are downright mean especially the ones that are seen after a suicide bomb. Furthermore, they have a "holier-than-thou" attitude. It is reminded that we are "blood-sucking monsters" while Indians are mere "angles". For once, India needs to realize that it has immense problems of itself too. Not all the uprising in India is Pakistan-based. It needs to realize that their claim of being secular is a lot more lip-service than actual reality. They need to stop considering Pakistan a threat. The country itself is going through a lot and it does not have, and never had, the intentions to destroy or destabilize India.
The similar message goes to Afghanistan. The country needs to realize that it was Pakistan, not India, which gave them shelter and employment for years. Afghanistan needs to stop looking India in such high regard and should realize that it is about time that they let bygones be bygones.
It is about time that both the countries try to keep it low and work on the problems at their end.
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