I'm just going to leave this here.
More than 30 years of supporting Kashmir separatist insurgency, including the Kargil misadventure, and this video...this youtube video is the best you got? Really?
khoda pahad nikli chuhiya
Believe me, I understand that there is an issue in Kashmir. And I do NOT trivialize the suffering of the people of Kashmir. Every person should have the right to live with dignity. No doubt about that at all.
What I am pointing to is a more fundamental question. Something that more and more Pakistanis should be asking of their Army and ISI. And that is ... where have all the billions spent on ISI's policy for getting back Indian occupied Kashmir gone? What has Pakistan got to show for it?
All said and done, I do have some respect for General Pervez Musharraf, former Chief Executive of Pakistan. What this Chief Executive of Pakistan told openly to jouranlists on camera, once was that...'Ofcourse we support separatists and terrorists in Indian Kashmir. What other options do we have? The world doesnt care about Indian Kashmir and what is happening there. So this is our last resort'.
Musharraf, with all his inadequacies, was the last Pakistani general and politician to try and get one inch of Indian Kashmir. He tried it through the ill conceived, ill planned, ill executed misadventure at Kargil. However, I give full marks to this man for sincerely trying to get something that has been the elusive dream of every Pakistani since independence. He also tried it through peaceful means when he visited India for talks with Indian PM Vajpayee. I mean there is no doubt that this man tried his darnest best to get that coveted prize for all Pakistanis.
But other than him, I don't think any Pakistani politician or General has the will and commitment to get the job done.
Unfortunately what Musharraf had in jazba, he lacked in zahanat/ intelligence. That is what happens when you make a less deserving General the Army Chief after superceding eight other more senior and capable Generals. But then again, I doubt those eight other Generals had Musharraf's jazba or junoon.
Looking back, I feel it was India's good luck that Musharraf planned out the Kargil misadventure, keeping most of his Army generals (and all Navy/AirForce leadership) in the dark about the planned Kargil attack to liberate Indian Kashmir. Had he taken inputs from more intelligent Generals, Admirals, Air Marshals, and executed the plan with more military brainpower and planning, who knows how that Kargil war would have ended.
Today this is what Wikipedia states about the Kargil war for the whole world to see:
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Result: Decisive Indian victory. India regains possession of Kargil.
Territorial changes: None'
Also from Wikipedia on Kargil war, this:
'The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC, which serves as the de facto border between the two states. During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces, led by General Ashraf Rashid'
So not only did Pakistan lose the war to win back Indian Kashmir. Pakistan also lost the perception war in the court of global public opinion. Meanwhile, India strengthens its grip on Indian Kashmir by the day.
Sadly such youtube videos is all that Pakistanis are left with to comfort themselves.
Thank God for letting us live in the world of youtube. At the click of a button we can all enter such a nice feel good world of make believe.
Isn't youtube fantastic?
On a more factual note, in my opinion the ONLY way forward is for India and Pakistan to talk as sensible and emerging strong nations and resolve their differences through dialogue. And then enter a world where these two large nations cooperate and build an enormous economic powerhouse that dazzles the world.
If Germany, UK, France can do it, so can India and Pakistan. There is simply no reason that Pakistan and India cannot coexist and cooperate like Canada and the US do.
That would be a win win for Pakistan and India. And also all the people of Kashmir as well.
Prosperity for all.