Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke on Thursday (October 17) with Indian journalists in Islamabad, and stressed on improving relations with India. He said that Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar’s trip to Islamabad to take part in the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was a positive sign and hoped that this would be a stepping stone to better ties.
He also said that although Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not attend the SCO summit, it was a good thing that Jaishankar did.
He added “We would have liked Prime Minister Modi to come, but it was good that Jaishankar came. I have said before that we must pick up the threads of our conversation. We have spent 70 years in hostility with each other, and we should not let this go on for the next 70 years ,
Both sides should sit down and discuss how to go forward. We can’t change our neighbours – neither can Pakistan nor can India. We should live like good neighbours.”
When asked for the reasons for the disruption of talks on earlier occasions, he responded that this was not the time to dwell on the past.
“Don’t go into the past, both sides have complaints about each other. We should bury the past and look to the future and see the potential of our two nations.”
He also said “India, Pakistan and the neighbourhood should deal as India’s own states do with each other – trade, industry, electricity”.
“Maybe my thinking is different from others, but I believe we are a potential market for each other. Why should Indian and Pakistani farmers and manufacturers go outside to sell their products? Goods now go from Amritsar to Lahore via Dubai – what are we doing, who is benefiting from this? What should take two hours now takes two weeks,”
What should one think of Nawaz Shaif’s statements ? Apparently, they seem well intentioned and reasonable.
However, if one probes deeper, and considers the historical background, one will immediately realise they are dissembling. unctuous, duplicitous, delusive, and disingenuous.
Partition of India in 1947 and creation of Pakistan as an Islamic state was a British swindle, based on the bogus two nation theory ( that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations )
The very purpose of Partition was that there should not be good relations but continuous hostility between Hindus and Muslims, so that the people of the Indian subcontinent remain hostile, and keep fighting each other, so that united India does not emerge as a modern industrial giant, like China, but remains poor, backward, and semi-feudal.
If united India does emerge as a modern industrial giant, for which it has all the potential, with its huge pool of excellent scientists and engineers ( Indian IT engineers are largely manning Silicon Valley in California, and American Universities have numerous professors in mathematics, science, engineering, etc ), and immense natural resources, then western industry will not be able to face the competition, and will collapse, throwing millions out of employment, as explained in the videos below :
The secret, unwritten rule of all developed countries in the world, of which they will never speak about openly, but strongly follow, is that they will oppose tooth and nail underdeveloped countries like India from becoming developed countries.
This is because if underdeveloped countries become developed then with their cheap labour they will make the products of industries of the developed countries uncompetitive ( as they are too expensive because of the high cost of labour ), leading to collapse of the latter, and throwing millions out of employment. This has been explained below :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7DGP9thdw…
https://www.theweek.in/…/opinion-how-to-outwit…
https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2024/05/15/opinion-how-to-outwit-developed-countries.html
The basic fallacy in the averments of Nawaz Sharif is that if there are genuine good relations, and not hostiliy, between India and Pakistan, then the very raison d’etre of Pakistan’s existence will disappear, and it will reunite with India. Will the Western powers permit that ? Not at all. They will oppose tooth and nail the reunification of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, though we are really one country sharing the same culture, and were one since Mughal times.
Nawaz Sharif also spoke of removal of trade barriers between India and Pakistan. Because of such barriers, goods can travel from India to Pakistan, and vice versa, only via Dubai, thus increasing the transportation cost and time enormously. But if trade barriers are removed it will lead to economic unification of India and Pakistan, and economic unification is a precursor to political unification. Will the Western powers permit that ? Never.
Nawaz Sharif’s younger brother Shahbaz Sharif is the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and he is collaborating with the Pakistan army, whose generals hate India, and will never permit good relations between India and Pakistan.
So all this talk of improving Indo-Pak relations is a lot of empty rhetoric, dissimulation, claptrap, rhodomontade, bombast, and hot air
