Beheading people is barbaric...

Ah...you come to a point where I think I have to be much too honest. There is a section of the society that does not ...I repeat does not like to kill instantaneously. It likes to see others in pain, crying...choking on blood...they do it to chickens, they do it to goats, and ...so on. So doing it to humans must come easily to them, especially when they hate the person ideologically, and based on religion, or other differences.

Sad..but people in India believe that Pakistanis are forcibly converting Hindus or killing them. If that were so, we had the reign of Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb...and subsequent kings till Bahadur Shah Jafar. How come Hinduism survived - each one of them must have reigned at least 20 years, right? And how come our numbers did not become negligible. They are religiously tolerant, and react only when they feel insecure or ridiculed. Its time we start looking at things differently.

Strangely, we Indians have problems with all our neighbors. There must be something wrong with our attitude.

I agree with you that religion should not be taken as an excuse to fight. If all the monies and lives that were spent on arms and war was to be used on infrastructure projects that benefit the people directly, how much good would that have been! Electricity and water are basic needs that we could not do without to live a 'normal' life in today's world. When we still have to worry about those basic needs everyday, it shows that there is a lot to do for the government. I feel sorry for the soldiers on both sides of the LOC. I feel sorry for the families of the soldiers who lost their lives. We need to remain calm to think logically to defuse the present explosive situation instead of falling into the trap of frenzy and thoughtless patriotism. We don't need to have more tragedies.

Actually, I dont think it was like that. Jinnah wanted separate Pakistan to rule. He knew he wouldnt have majority support as majority of people were Hindus. So he asked for a separate state. You would agree with me that Jawaharlal Nehru was not the easiest persons to get along with. And it had nothing to do with hating Hindus. If it was like that, they would have named Pakistan as Islamistan or Muslimistan but it was us Indians who identified our nation with a religion and not them. Part of this hate propaganda gets to the next generation, and the next and then then next. People dont think like logically. :( They dont want to accept that the beliefs of the previous generations could have been wrong. And...we did go wrong in interfering with Pak's sovereignty when we assisted Bangladesh (East Pakistan) in getting its independence under Mujib Ur Rahman. Its natural that the country would hold it against us. We should have minded our own business. It is actually Pak army that is smarting under the defeats, be it at Kargil or even before. They are unfortunately taking help of terrorists, who are eventually harming their nationals like Malala. So yes...something is wrong with Pak's policy, but we are not exactly without any faults.

If it was not Hindu-hate,then why the Hindu population in Pakistan went on decresing continuously?I agree with you that Nehru had a desire to be the Prime Minister of India,but Jinnah too had the same desire.The name of our country is Bharat.It is not a name that identifies the Hindu religion.It was Jinnah who provoked Muslims to launch a violent agitation demanding a separate country for them lest they would have to live as slaves of Hindus after the departure of the British rule.It is our country,Bharat,that chose to decare itself as a secular state and not as a theological Hindu state as Pakistan did.Now Muslim population in India has grown up whereas the Hindu population in Pakistan has been reduced from some 15 or 20 percent to 1 or 2 per cent. If we have been wrong somewhere,it is our knee-jerk policy towards Pakistan.We won wars,but lost everything on table. So far as the construction of Bangladesh is concerned,Mujib was denied to rule the country even after registerring victory in general election.Martial law was declared in East Bengal.And then began the slaughter of Bengali Muslims.They started infiltrating into our country to save themselves.We warned Pakistan and asked to check infiltration.They reacted by launching air strike on Amritsar and then we no option other than declaring war against Pakistan.The war broke Pakistan and Bangladesh emerged as a free nation. Jinnah was a nationalist leader.How he emerged as a separatist is a different story,but he too was not easy to go along with.Even Lord Mountbettan has underlined the fact in 'Freedom at midnight'.I have read the book. You must have known Mohammad Karim Chhagla,one of our cabinate ministers in Nehru's cabinate.He too was a Muslim.Hindus loved him and most Hindus liked him to succeed Nehru as the Prime Minister of the country. I agree with you that war is not in our interest,nor Pakistan's,but putting up with terrorism and disrespecting the LOC by the Pakistan army is even more harmful for us. Now Muslims in India are not living as slaves of the Hindus who are still the majority.On the other hand,Hindus in Pakistan are living a life worse than slaves'.

Yes, the Pakistan army is still smarting from those defeats and will continue to harbor desires of defeating India somehow. with or without terrorism. Since they don't have the confidence to fight it out they will resort to terrorism.

War creates victories and defeats, and ego hassles. Every victory is temporary, as we should have realized by now. Some people advocate trampling. That would be like defeating a tuberculosis bacterium. It would wait somewhere within the body till we become weak to show what it can do. So any war is bad...always.

Germans were not wiped out, nor the French, or the British or Vietnamese, or Chinese, or Japanese...why we as a race are hell bent on wiping ourselves out?

Hi vandana aunty. War has permanent outcome only when you wipe out the entire opponent from existence. Or else it becomes like recession which is inevitable and comes in cycles over a period of time. In these cases wars are just transition period never reaching to the final state. Have a nice day !!!

How optimistic you are...dollar touching 65..lol My surmise...if Taliban has indeed infiltrated Pakistan's armed forces, then it is likely that the armed forces is divided. Remember the Malala incident? No Pakistani is going to appreciate that. The US is doing the right thing by exiting Afghanistan. It was not its war in the first place to enter and create such a lot of antagonism. You cant kill many innocents, for getting hold of one terrorist. You cant disrupt the lives of so many and not expect some brickbats. In any event, the skin and language of the US soldier makes them stand out amongst other locals. Therefore, the US is better off taking the help of Pakistanis in their war against terrorism. We Indians should as a symbol of peace...refuse to buy arms in the forthcoming budget session. That will put the ball in the courts of Pakistan, and Pakistan cant afford to stand out as a traunt nation either. Considering that it would go slow with the idea of eliminating other leaders or going on war.