Pakistan is not only a rogue state; she is more a vicious state. A state that has no respect for bilateral agreements and commitments and has no respect for itself and its existence. It is becoming increasingly difficult to handle this neighbour because Pakistan is hell bent on finding one or the other pretext to strain relations with India. For anything and everything, she seeks a pretext to do something on the border like infiltration or firing and shelling or excavating tunnels or destroying structures and installations, whatever she can with ease and speed, so that bilateral peace is not given any chance to stabilize. Feeling that in case of frontal attack, it would only meet with its imminent collapse, Pakistani ideologue coined the slogan of “hundred cuts” meaning a proxy war and fomenting of internal disorder and dissension in India. The sum and substance of Pakistan’s philosophy of life is nothing but to work anything that would damage India. Generation after generation of Pakistanis is brought up in the vicious and poisonous atmosphere of hate India. Nehru once said that even if we offer Kashmir to Pakistan on a platter, they will still try to find a pretext to step up anti-India tirade in their country.
For three days the Directors General of Border Force of two countries held deliberations in New Delhi, and at the end, came out with a joint statement that they would ensure peace and tranquility on the LoC and IB. It is hardly a month that the document was scripted and signed. Pakistani Rangers opened unprovoked firing on the labourers engaged by the BSF to repair the wire fence on the IB. The firing was directed on the civilian labourers who were undertaking repair work. What is the fun of attacking unarmed and non-provocative civilians? In the agreement reached at by the two border security chiefs in their talks, it was agreed that no side will be the first to fire. But the Pakistani side has violated the sanctity of cease fire agreement, the joint statement of the Directors General and the international law when civilians have been attacked. If they had any problem with Indian labourers mending the fence, they could have, under the provision of the recent joint statement of the two Directors General of border force, used the hotline and talked to each other to resolve the issue. Previously also, Rangers have been disrupting fencing activity by our border forces. This event confirms the inference that our security forces should always keep their powder dry and retaliate with equal force, if not more, when Pakistan violates the agreement. She cannot fire on civilian population and escape unscathed. Why the Hurriyatis, separatists and others of their ilk in Kashmir, who raise hue and cry on the smallest security related untoward act, have chosen to seal their lips on the killing of an innocent civilian and injuring civilians by Pakistani Rangers?
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