Love Pakistan- Aman ki Asha - thats how we started 2010 when TOI arrived in the morning !I am happy but quite apprehensive about Aman ki Asha project by Times of India. My mind in is true turmoil. In one hand my mind boils over the dead of 26/11 and many other blows which India faced from Pakistan and one hand marvels at the idea of peace between the countries. Now love has always preceded and won over hate and yes, I would also love to see the two countries united.
But my apprehension is - will it be successful? When there are political pressure on cricket , so much so that Pakistani players are not even bidded for in IPL and hasn't played with India for quite some time now, how far these cultural drama will cement the pit boil of hate for over 60 years?
Are we truly ready to forgive and forget and move on? How many of us want to see Pakistan defeated by India and how many of us want to see both the countries shaking hand ? Indeed, if Pakistan and India comes together, then a major political force will created which will have the potential to thwart USA monopoly in the world. And probably thats why US will keep supplying F-16s to Pakistan and fail to capture the worlds most wanted man in spite of boasting of CIA !After all if India and Pakistan becomes friends , who will buy their ammunition?
There has been many people-to-people initiatives in the past and each one of them has been a futile effort. I do not blame me for pessimistic now as we are many times bitten and many times shy.
India has been patient with Pakistan for a long time. I also understand that its the terrorists and not the country who has blown India multiple times. But seeing Pakistan's inner turmoil and shaking's, I but wonder , are they getting a taste of their own medicine?
We could have been in best of terms, we speak the same language, eat same chicken tikka, wear same kind of clothes and have very similar culture and thousands of families spread across India and Pakistan.
I loved the front page of TOI, but also want to know whether the first page of the Jang newspaper read LOVE HINDUSTAN on its first page to be analytical and unbiased.
