Ever since the Mumbai Blasts, the Indian government has literally taken to blasting Pakistan and repeatedly urging on the internationally community to declare Pakistan as a terrorist state. It is fairly clear that the Mumbai tragedy, which was grieved by countless caring Pakistanis too, has become just the right pretext for the Indian government to arouse international action against Pakistan by regarding it as a terrorist state; purporting later to aggression on Pakistani land. Do the people of India also feel the same? Do they want Pakistan’s destruction? It is time to ask these questions and to collect public opinion on war and if the people of either country do not want war, none of the governments has any right to plan war or aggression on each others territories.

India’s latest appeal to the international community, for declaring Pakistan a terrorist state, comes in reaction to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan’s release despite the fact that Dr. Khan had confessed his involvement in selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Dr. Khan was released by the Islamabad High Court and, responding to external reaction, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has refuted the claim of government’s alleged pressure on the court for releasing Dr. Khan. On a political level, it is quiet unwarranted for the Indian government to attempt at provoking the international community against Pakistan.

While it looks like the Indian government is anxiously waiting to see Pakistan’s destruction, the Indian National Congress in particular is bent on politically alienating Pakistan and, for reasons best known to the party, pressing on the world to target Pakistan. What good will it do to India is something beyond immediate comprehension. Will victimizing Pakistan make the political/economic/social life in India any better? I think not.

Instead, a never-ending game of machination and conspiracies on all sides will make the life of the layman miserable. I believe that war will not prove any good to Pakistan, India, or the world. It’s good to talk about curbing terrorism in Pakistan but not fair to think of Pakistan’s destruction. Hopefully, the Indian government will somehow manage to harness its aggressive impulse and start speaking like a responsible and caring group of people.