If you
have been out of touch with some world reality, you would have not noticed that
the two nuclear armed nations came close to a war which lasted hardly two to
three days with casualties counted on your fingers. It all started by a suicide
attack on a paramilitary convoy on the Indian side of Kashmir killing more than
40 people. It was claimed by a member of a group based in Pakistan fighting for
Kashmir autonomy or independence from India. India immediately blamed Pakistan
for the suicide attack and decided to send in its fighter planes on the
Pakistani side of Kashmir. Naturally Pakistan had to reply and downed two of
the Indian planes and captured on one of its pilot, who was released quickly.
Although the escalation of war was prevented and some sense of uneasy calm has
prevailed but the threat remains of some skirmishes between the two nuclear
armed neighboring nations.
Despite
both governments threatening to use nuclear weapons (like it is a toy) on each
other if war escalates, this war and the rest of their history wars have shown
that both the countries are very ill equipped to wage a war for more than a few
days and thinks come to their senses as both of them scramble behind closed
doors to desperately reach out to world powers (namely U.S., Russia and China)
to help them defuse the tension. As long as the Kashmir issue is there which
has been unresolved since the bloody separation between the two countries, the
threat of war will be there but even after the issue is resolved (unlikely to
anybody’s complete satisfaction) these two nations whose population has been
brainwashed to hate each other since their independence in 1947, the nuclear
armed neighbors will be ready to decimate their populations by millions and
tens of millions more by radiation by itching to have to trigger the button on
the nuclear device. This will only set the two countries back to pre-war
independence stage but will never recover from it and also will destroy what is
left of the neighboring countries.
