I don't know for a fact, but once my "Maali Baba" told me something about the Indian Foreign Policy. My Maali Baba fought in WWII. So what he told me was that Nehru, after partition was called up by their big big big Guru and was told about the Foreign Policy of India that " Whoever shares a boundary with you, consider him your worst enemy and whoever shares a boundary with your neighbor, consider him your best friend, in this way, while working with your friends, you will be able to expand India by capturing the lands of your neighbors".We are playing in Indian hands by spewing vitriol against an average Afghan...
I don't know for a fact, but once my "Maali Baba" told me something about the Indian Foreign Policy. My Maali Baba fought in WWII. So what he told me was that Nehru, after partition was called up by their big big big Guru and was told about the Foreign Policy of India that " Whoever shares a boundary with you, consider him your worst enemy and whoever shares a boundary with your neighbor, consider him your best friend, in this way, while working with your friends, you will be able to expand India by capturing the lands of your neighbors".
Fuck that shit, ask any afghan outside of Pakistan what he thinks about India and then Pakistan you will know your answer. Or how an indian vs Pakistani is treated in Afghanistan, specially if he is non pashtoon.We are playing in Indian hands by spewing vitriol against an average Afghan...
I guess my "Maali Baba" (gardener) was really an intellectual ?India apparently has taken that advice to the heart...
All of the neighbors are weary of their big brother!!!
I guess my "Maali Baba" (gardener) was really an intellectual ?
But this policy has failed India, because of a lack of a proper appraisal of "values" and "bonds" between its neighbors and the neighbors of their neighbors. China is a natural ally of Russia. Likewise, though we have seen hostilities against Pakistan in Afghanistan and Iran, but at the end of the day, we are from the same fabric of Islam. Therefore, we never become an existential threat to each other.
Moreover, it is also the Modi Shareefs paradigmatic shift in the interior policies too, which has now started to yield results. The anti-Pakistan elements in Afghanistan, really once had a preference to emigrate to India in the past, but now, as they see the Butcher of Gujrat trying to welcome them in India, they now prefer to emigrate to Iran and/or Uzbekistan, if not to Pakistan.
Adding insult to the injuries is the shift in Pakistan's foreign policy under IK's rule. We have been successful in breaking ice with the Iranians and now we are heading in the right direction in case of Afghanistan as well. Trade volume with Afghanistan has almost been doubled and we have given our clear "Absolutely Not" statement, without a hint of a doubt or ambiguity to our resolve of not being part of anyone's war, anymore.
and both of them will smoke up half of their earnings on "defense".... rather than health, education, law enforcement, industry and environment etc.Small mentality of a big nation...
Instead of making $100 with the help of a neighbor who supposed to earn $50.
They are happy in making $50 as long as neighbor is not allowed to make more than $10!!!
and both of them will smoke up half of their earnings on "defense".... rather than health, education, law enforcement, industry and environment etc.
But, it is not the people in general. You see Pakistanis and Indians in a third country and they tend to get along quite well and call themselves collectively as "Desi" or "Apna".
It is something embedded in our power echelons back home. Perhaps the eternal conflicts were carved out in our maps in the form of unfair resource sharing, by the ones, who used to call this area "jewel of the crown".
USSR once tried to annihilate this "traditional" rivalry by locking in some economic interests of both the countries. Very few people know that in the original contract of PSM, the iron ore was to be provided by India. But that changed after a while, when Russians found that our divide is much deeper than that.