Comments on: Indo-Pak friendship: The phoenix without wings

By: Naresh Sharma

Naresh Sharma — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:49:26 +0000

Haa Haaa…. Have you ever heard of war crime of Russian Army they raped every Berlin Woman from 8 to 80 during world war 2

By: Syed

Syed — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:15:58 +0000

Dear Abbas,
Very well said, i fully second you.
Further, I have seen extremely negative comments from apparently indian readers being posted on Dawn, while at several instances my comments just to defend our point of view
as a Pakistani were not posted. So i would say Dawn has to come clean as well on their policy of what they will post and what they won’t, and I still assume its a Pakistani Newspaper.
Lets see if this one goes through.

By: Syed

Syed — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:57:56 +0000

Sorry, nobody in Pakistan wants re-unification with India. Please stop day dreaming

By: Imran

Imran — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:40:42 +0000

The problem is that India has failed to uphold the UN resolutions on Kashmir.

By: Asim

Asim — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:39:07 +0000

@Faiza: I have seen some of the articles which clearly shows that you are inviting racist people to say whatever they want and non racist to calm/clarify/stop them. And you are doing so to get your good rating in the market. If not then you have carry on comments to bloggers…

By: Partha

Partha — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:29:20 +0000

good one mate.. mr abbas from pakistan(errr, sorry toronto) has just left the building

By: Rao

Rao — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:58:31 +0000

Many of them think that Allah will help them in defeating the infidels of India.

By: MKB

MKB — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:28:33 +0000

Dear Faiza, Thank you very much for your appearance in Dawn after long time.
The India Pakistan relation is very complex one. It is not confined at the boarder. A learned Professor of Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, Amitabh Mattoo has summed-up India Pakistan relation in a recent article in Hindustan Times. To quote Professor Mattoo, “The India-Pakistan relationship is — and has been — about everything that matters: history, memory, prejudice, territory, identity, religion, sovereignty, ideology, insecurity, trust, betrayal and much more.”
So it is futile to identify some ifs and butt & opinions of the few people to understand the relation between two countries. It is a well known fact that the division of these two countries were made on the notion of different nation and religious belief of the two major communities, Hindu and Muslims.
This deep rooted psychological division between the two will never be reconciled. If we want to live in peace we have to accept the reality of this psychological division and should made a chatter of understanding which will be the binding factor for both the countries.
As per as India is concerned, the only issue I can foresee is terrorism. Indian public, barring the few, are very much concerned about the growing Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and its continuous support to the separatist element in Kashmir & covert policy of influencing Indian Muslims.
Pakistan’s main concern is Kashmir and it is uncompromisable for India. So what is the best option?
I think the best options are the 5 principles laid down below.
1. Pakistan should stop all types of facilitation to terrorist groups who are fanning violence in
Kashmir & inside India
2. Let India deals with the separatist element in Kashmir & settle the issue as per constitution of India.
3. India should respect Pakistan’s demand on Siachen, Sir.Creek & different disputes relating to the river water of various rivers that flows to Pakistan from Indian.
4. Both India & Pakistan carefully & gradually maximize trade, cultural & human relation.
5. Both India & Pakistan must address the real problems of the minorities living either side
of the border and up lift them.Since India is much bigger country in respect of geography, population, economy & diversity, India must give some trade & economic concession to Pakistan.

By: Rao

Rao — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:28:49 +0000

Pakistanis are known to be hyperbolic about their achievements.

By: Anush Singh

Anush Singh — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:43:42 +0000

Jag:

I am an Indian and consider myself very patriotic. So please be civil and do not resort to foul and uncivilized language. This is a forum for educated and civilized people.

I feel for my fellow Indians and employe about 50 people in India and do my best to give back to my country. But I also believe in the Universal goodness of most civilized humans. I believe there are peace loving Pakistnis (the silent majority) and there are some lunatic fringe elements (the ones that make a lot of noise and trouble). The same holds true in India – Majority of Indians want peace and friendship but we have the hardliners. I suggest we build bridges with the peace loving pakistanis and sideline the lunatic fringe. The majority of pakistanis stand to loose the most and so do the majority of Indians if we keep fighting with each other.

We all agree that the killing of Indians by the Pak based militants is outrageous but thats all the more reason we do our best to sideline the loonies on both sides. We are one people separated by historical burden caused by Nehru and Jinnah with the connivance of the British. I live in the US and some of my best friends are Pakistanis. I can trust them with my life any day and so do they.

So wake up and smell the Coffee.. the world is not as bad as you think it is.. unless you are wearing colored glasses .. the number of soldiers killed due to sub standard clothing and equipment is a lot more than the soldiers killed in border skirmishes. And the number of people killed by mob violence and lack of medicines and food is many times more than the ones killed by the Terrorists.

Hope that helps put things in perspective. Jai Hind