The other news item relates to the secret high security around
the house of Osama bin Ladin in Abbottabad (Pakistan). On May 3,
2011 America had Osama bin Ladin killed in a targeted attack. Now,
according to the news published in the
Times of India
, dated February
27, 2012 (p. 18) the Pakistani government itself had the residential
complex of Osama bin Ladin demolished on 25 Feb 2012. The
remains of this demolished house were taken to some distant place.
Both the news items show that the violent movement started in
Kashmir in the name of Jihad has reached its natural end. In news
item, the words ‘for the time being’ are purely diplomatic. In the true
sense, they only mean that Pakistan has permanently abandoned
this futile issue. It has finally decided that even the signs of violent
struggle have to be obliterated from Pakistan. A case in point is the
demolition of the residence of Osama bin Ladin in Pakistan.
The so-called Kashmir war was not the voice of the Kashmiri
people: it was a war which was totally exported from Pakistan. Now
Pakistan, under the compulsion of the situation, states that it has
ceased its Kashmir agenda. In such a situation, there is neither
any justification for nor any possibility of continuing the so-called
Kashmir war. Now the Kashmiris do not have a number of options
before them. Now there is only one course for them to follow and
that is to put an end to the use of weapons and the continuance of
militant politics and to build their future through a peaceful struggle.
It has been conceded that the war of Kashmir waged by Pakistan
has been entirely counterproductive. In this war Pakistan has lost
much but has failed to achieve its goal. For Pakistan to disengage
from the destructive war, a decision based on realism shall have to be
taken. What Pakistan most urgently needs is a change in thinking;
that is, to abandonnegative thinking andopt for positive thinking.As
such it is amust for Pakistan to openly declare that waging war on the
Kashmir front was a fatal misadventure. Without openly admitting
this, Pakistan is not going to benefit in any real sense. Admission
of one’s mistake would start off positive thinking in Pakistan. The
people of Pakistan had become the victims of unrealistic thinking
due to their negative psychology. A declaration of this kind would
give them a new lead. They would start experiencing the benefits of
positive thinking. Their national policy, which has so far been based
on unrealistic thinking, would then be based on realistic thinking
.
If
this could happen, it would without doubt be a revolutionary event
for Pakistan as well as for its allies.
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