Aman aur Nirasha !!!

Times of India (TOI). That's the name of the newspaper, the giant in Indian media. Now this giant , for a reason unknown to an average Indian, has started an initiative , "AMAN KI ASHA" in partnership with Pakistani newspaper "Jung"(even here they are at war),which involves artists from both India and Pakistan performing, other people increasing people to people contact and promoting bhaichara and all....bah !! Curious name, "aman ki asha" , considering we are pinning all our hopes on a nation, that has no meaning for the word AMAN and they dont even know the meaning of ASHA. TIMES of India..thats what they claim to call themselves, but with this initiative they just fail to recognize the mood of the nation and its people in the current times.

Lets see where TOI has failed. In last twenty years, Pakistan has raged a proxy war, killing people by thousands, displacing people by millions and knocking off our defences and mocked at us and we have done nothing but started useless peace initiatives like this. Then when proxy war was not enuf, they started a real war in kargil. We lost hundreds of the finest soldiers. Not content, they attack our parliament. What do we do ? We relent under American pressure after a massive border build up. And between all this we had a 26/11, a 11/7 and several other attacks in every major Indian city. And then our leading newspaper starts " AMAN ki ASHA" , when Pakistan even fails to bring the culprits of 26/11 attacks to the book.

What a tragedy !! I mean , doesnt this newspaper realize that an average reader , does not want anything to do with Pakistan or its citizens until Pakistan is held accountable for each and every Indian killed by it? Of course they are troubled by terror now, but hello? who created it ? Its their rot, they have to clean it up, by supporting them through such things by saying "oh ! poor pakis, they are the victims now" we cant let them go away.

Of course there are peace loving people there as well, but we are not going out of our way to kill innocent JUNG readers. No , we are not. We have lots of other things to worry about. We have a nation that is on a verge of achieving its dream, that all its population has been seeing through each day and night. Just imagine, without all Paki trouble what we could have achieved in last two decades. We are moving ahead and I think we should let Pak rot on its own unless it does not co-operate. We have fought for 60 years, we can fight for another 60. But we do not want peace with Pakis at the price of insulting all those brave soldiers who died in Kargil, all those police and NSG people who died in all our cities while protecting us. If Pakis want peace, let them come to us, we have had enough offering a handshake.

Gulzar sahab, amazing poet. He says "we should offer an olive branch to Pakis as this is a good time for peace" . Sir, you might be great at writing kajra re kajra re, but why should we extend an olive branch to them , when we dont have to. Why do you want to give Pakis another chance so that they can come back and do another 26/11 or Kargil ?

So all those people and TOI , who are supporting this initiative , let go of all the brotherly feelings you have for Pakis and stop this sham !! Start an initiative for people like Kashmiri Pandits, for families of those who were killed in Kargil and everywhere else, stop appeasing Pakis just to increase your readership !! Shame on You!!