The propaganda unleashed by Indian Hindu nationalist leaders has intensified (report headlined, 'India ready to wage war', Sunday Morning Post, January 23). Clearly, India has a dream to act as a policeman in the region.
Pakistan and India, despite their long differences over the core issue of Kashmir, their mutual enmity and strained relations have become nuclear powers. They have fought three wars and if the war-mongering leaders of India continue to inflame further the already tense situation and if the problem is not resolved through mediation by a third party (the UN or the US), the people in both these countries will suffer heavily.
India has increased its military spending while Pakistan reduced its arms budget by 15 per cent.
The UN and Washington must therefore, urge India's leaders to halt the propaganda against Pakistan and solve the Kashmir issue by peaceful negotiations. This is important, because Kashmir has already turned into a nuclear flash-point.
Indian leaders have always had expansionist ambitions, seeking to divide our country into smaller units so that they can deal easily with Pakistan. However, Pakistanis are united and can meet any challenge mounted by India.
India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has falsely accused Pakistan of 'fomenting insurgency in Kashmir and helping Kashmiri separatist militants with money, weapons and military training'. Kashmir has never been a part of India and Kashmiris have been engaged in a war of liberation for more than five decades. The war has intensified in recent years, because of Indian leaders' lies and the escalation of brutal acts perpetrated by Indian soldiers in occupied Kashmir. The people there have had to endure Indian atrocities in Indian-held Kashmir and they feel frustrated.
