The Threat from the Terrorist State
Pakistan is again playing its nuclear card!
US officials have recently threatened of NATO forces attacking Pakistan to eliminate the terrorist elements living inside the tribal areas of Pakistan where it is also suspected that Osama is still living.
But look at the Indian angle here. Having a crazy neighbor like Pakistan ensures that every time Pakistan does something stupid, India is automatically pulled into the game.
About an year back in an interview, General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan’s former army chief, had clearly said that Pakistan has a very clear defense policy that if any other country attacks Pakistan, Pakistan in turn will attack India! Can it get any more mad, insane, foolish, I am not getting proper words..
General Mirza had said that and I quote “We told India frankly that this is the threat we perceive and this is the action we are taking and the action we will take. It was a real deterrent”
He also says that he gave a similar suggestion to Iran also! That no matter which country attacks Iran, Iran should make it clear that it will attack Israel! He says that he told Iran to “make it clear that if anything happens to Iran, if anyone attacks it it doesn’t matter who it is or how it is attacked that Iran’s answer will be to hit Israel, the only target will be Israel”
What is Pakistan trying to do here?
Well, it very well knows that it is at risk due to its state sponsored terrorism that has now spiraled out of its control. It is at a greater risk of being attacked by the western nations who desperately want to eliminate terrorist elements since Pakistan is a haven for terrorists.
So it is using its nuclear card with India saying, no matter what happens to Pakistan, India will be at risk, so India please ensure that nothing happens to Pakistan!
In the first place, it was very stupid of India to have allowed Pakistan to become a nuclear power.
In 1981, when Iraq had acquired a nuclear reactor from the french and was about to start processing the nuclear fuel to manufacture nukes which it planned to use against Israel, Israel had reacted by bombing the nuclear reactor and completely destroying it even before it became operational ! Today, even for the Iranian threat, Israel has similar plans.
But what has the Indian government done to get rid of a Pakistani nuclear threat to India? Why doesnt India address the problems at its root like Israel, than to wait till it gets blown out of proportions? Everybody knows that Nukes are no joke, and any insane person who comes to power in Pakistan can act crazy with assets like these.
India should revoke its ‘No First Strike’ nuclear policy, we don’t need to have such stupid policies to please international community in the name of a peace loving nation. Even US has no such policy because US very clearly knows what its national priorities are, unlike India, which only tries to please international communities always. The very meaning of ‘No First Strike’ policy means that India will never use its nukes TILL INDIA ITSELF IS NUKED! In other words, it’s like telling a suicide bomber, I wont shoot you before you blow yourself up in front of me!
Even during the Kargil war, by deciding not to cross the line of control (which was a stupid decision) we sacrificed more than 600 soldiers! The casualty would have been much less if India had crossed the LOC to push out the intruders.
India should make it absolutely clear to Pakistan that ‘If Pakistan has a stupid policy of attacking India if any other country attacks Pakistan, then, India will definitely have a policy of coordinating with any other country that plans to attack Pakistan and in any such event India will attack Pakistan even before any other country attacks Pakistan and will do so with full might which includes all options’
Like Gandhi once said “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind”, hence we should ensure that we do ‘action’ instead of ‘reaction’, so that we could at least save our eye, given the fact that the other is determined to lose his eye anyway.