Why we can never have FRIENDSHIP with Pakistan

• 28^th May, 1999: IAF MI-17 shot down by Pakistan; four air crew dead, leading to Kargil War
• 26^th November 2008: 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
• 2^nd January 2016: In a pre-dawn attack, a group of heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists, suspected to belong to Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit, struck at an Air Force base in Pathankot in Punjab, leading to a fierce gunbattle

All the above attacks were started by Pakistan but ended by India. The irony is that on 20^th February 1999, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India – Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, accompanied by 22 eminent Indians, visited Pakistan with a message of friendship through the Wagah Border and in the same year, Pakistan attacked India which led to Kargil War. This didn’t stop here. The same message was further carried by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India – Shri Narendra Modi while he was returning from Kabul visited Lahore on the Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s invitation on 25^th December 2015 to wish him (Nawaz Sharif) on his birthday. Pakistan accepted the visit but backstabbed by attacking at Pathankot at pre-dawn time on 2^nd January 2016.

Such heinous incidents lead to a situation where people are forced to believe that Pakistan has become a habitual backstabber. Every time there are talks and Pakistan agrees that terrorist attacks will be stopped from their side but what India sees is every time there is a breach of trust from their end. It was sad to know that in October 2010, former Pakistan President and former head of the Pakistan Army, Pervez Musharraf revealed that Pakistani armed forces trained militant groups to fight Indian forces in Kashmir. He confessed that the government ‘turned a blind eye’ because it wanted to force India to enter negotiations besides raising the issue internationally.

The facts are even more astonishing. The US Secretary of State included Pakistan on the 1993 list of countries which repeatedly provide support for acts of international terrorism. It would not be incorrect in saying that that Pakistan has been playing both sides in the fight against terror, on the one hand, pretending to help curtail terrorist activities while on the other, stoking it.

We have given many chances to our neighbour but now their intentions are loud and clear. Enough has been said on friendship, peace and trust. These words do not feature anywhere in their dictionary. The country has lost many sons and daughters who became a victim to their heinous crimes – some were the innocent lives while others got martyred while defending the country. It’s time to arise, awake and stop not, to understand and send them a message that India is not ready for any FRIENSHIP. First mistake from their side can be forgiven, second mistake can be ignored but if they repeat mistakes, they need to be punished.

Jai Hind..!