It has been an amazing post Mumbai performance by the Indian government – but only for those Pakistanis who do not understand Indians and their politics. The rest of us Pakistanis retreated to our corners, waiting for the emotions to unwind – confident in the fact that India will not trifle with a nuclear Pakistan.Mean while the lunatics on both sides must be allowed to rail.

Consequently few Indians were interested in offering sane responses to my blogs highlighting the need for Indian public and government to remain sober and opt for a joint investigation of the Mumbai Mayhem with Pakistan. Even fewer liked my proposals for enlarging the scope of investigations to include the formation of a permanent body empowered to investigate the killing of Hemant Karkare,as well as all future terrorist activities in the sub-continent in which either side blames the other !

The atmosphere on this site reminded me of the time –more then a decade back- when India conducted its first nuclear weapons test.

Pokhran-The Indian Test
For four day’s there after, Pakistani’s world wide were confronted with a sustained barrage of choice invectives and slurs emanating from those Indians who owned a demented fascist mind (but India has plenty of these).While the rest of the world leaders–with the USA at the forefront - exerted pressure on Nawaz Sharif not to test Pakistan’s nukes!

Baluchistan-The Pakistani Response

Thank God Nawaz resisted the pressure and exploded almost twice the nukes India had in its own tests. The fascists were stunned, and peace returned immediately to our ‘eastern front’ – as well as over the internet!

This time too the play has been similar. At a time when Pakistan was in a full blown crisis of it’s own: with an anti- terrorist war was in full swing in FATA; the recent induction of a new and inexperienced civilian democratic government after decades of military rule; and in the grip of it’s worst ever economic crisis which India had already exacerbated by cutting of Pakistan’s share of the water supply; our neighbour choose to avail a golden opportunity to stab us in the back ,rather then co-operate with Pakistan in unearthing the villains.

Thus at the earliest opportunity and without any verification of it’s claimed evidence, it launched a world wide campaign aimed at slander and isolation of Pakistan-and Pakistanis - world wide. Even USA and UK joined in on this!

The JF-17 Thunder Fighter Jet: A Pak-China Joint Production.

India’s FM threatened Zardari with dire consequences-then denied he ever made the call. The Indian Air force threatened surgical strikes and violated Pakistan air space twice,but were driven off. A resolution was passed in the UN (Again without any evidence) declaring the JUI a terrorist organization. The Americans even advised Pakistan of an immanent Indian attack, and reportedly requested Pakistan not to react to any Indian surgical strike (friends indeed!). As a final baring of fangs the Indian Army moved to the borders, with India declaring it as just the normal winter maneuvers!

But as every one including their aunts know, in this region, winter collective training starts at the sub-unit levels by end October culminating in Corps /Army level maneuvers which end – and not commence - by second week of December! And so Pakistan was not fooled ,and this Sunday pulled out some forces from the fight against terrorists (to the North) and moved the bulk of it’s army to it’s borders against India .And presto all the tensions start to diminish , and peace starts to make a come back!

Three separate reports on Monday from different parts of India indicate the recent deafening anti-Pakistan hysteria is hopefully abating. In Shimla, India’s Junior Foreign Minister Anand Sharma stated that New Delhi was not fixing a timeframe for Pakistan but it expected the leadership to act demonstratively against the attackers of Mumbai. In Kolkata, Foreign Minister Mr. Mukherjee who was holding forth about some ominous-sounding unilateral actions till recently, actually made a strong defense of Islam, even accusing its unnamed detractors of misrepresenting it. And in Amritsar, a short drive from Lahore, police were preparing to repatriate on Tuesday 65 Pakistanis languishing in Indian jails.
Demanding a release of Relatives held in India:A prayer answered?
So while wondering if Pakistan and Indian peoples as well as their governments - or even their so called allies - have learned any lessons from Mumbai- a subject I intend perusing in another blog ; I console myself with the fact that at least for 65 Pakistanis, including three women who were lodged in different jails across India, this crisis may yet herald the end of an ordeal.