Once upon a time a merchant in
Baghdad during medieval times was murdered by the unknown assailant, the
merchant being an emissary of the neighboring country was quite a man whose
murder required the investigation.
The darogah (police chief) of city announced the reward and blood wit from the
state to anyone assisting in the apprehension of the culprit, but to no avail.
There lived a wood cutter on the banks of river Tigris, he while visiting the
city for routine provisions saw an open congregation of darogah of Baghdad,
asking help from people.
The wood cutter, though a pauper was a man of wits and instincts, he asked for
the clothes of the murdered merchant, after examining the same for a while he
said that the murderer is the minister ofgranary.
This created an uproar, the wood cutter said that all the pockets of merchant
have rye in them, so granary was last place which he visited, if merchant’s
fortune is found there than I may be rewarded, otherwise put me to the gallows.
The wood cutter was rewarded as every bit of his presumptions was found to be
true.
Presumptions are again taking over this part of the world, minus the wood
cutter, as all the banyans along the rivers are already cut and the rye is also
no more grown.
Indian policy makers have probably read this story and the related fables of
Mahabharata, it is not only the China-Pakistan economic corridor which has
disturbed the south bloc, it is actually the coming into prominence of Pakistan
into world arena which has perturbed the strategic elite of India.
The economic corridor is actually the culminating super highway of the new silk
route. How this recent posture of open manifestation of Indian hatred started?
India was planning the comprehensive paralysis of Pakistan since early 90s.
The Pakistan day parade of 2015 was the point in time which created a panic in
the Indian minds and they presumed that beyond this, Pakistan if allowed to
proceed then India will never have a role in the region to play.
The visit of Chinese premier has furthered their worries which are to be wedged.
This gyrated the need to upscale the threat perception of Pakistani strategic
elite by demonstrating something much beyond the conventional.
The news was leaked about an actual operation which was conducted as a trial of
KALI weapon system, through which 134 Pakistani soldiers were buried by an
artificially created snow blizzard and glacier break up. This was the
demonstration that India has mastered the use of microwave based DEW (direct
energy weapons).
The other area where Indian DRDO, Bhabha complex, RAW and other organizations
and scientific affiliates have reached is the excellence in the weaponised use
of laser technology. This can be used from thousands of mile to convert and
pulverize a mountain into mole. The cordial relations between India and
Lithuania since 1985 have something to do with it.
These are not small developments; the vector of arms race in sub-continent has
now changed. A new technological asymmetry is in the making. Compounded with
water aggression and a new secret programme to control monsoon so that the jet
streams of Pakistan are stolen and made to cause rain in India instead over
Pakistan.
Pakistan is left with no option but to take few deep breaths and stockpotthe
completesituation. The firing raids across LOC and working boundary is the
signaling to create a perception of inviolability of border from Pakistan to
Indian side but fairly assailable from Indian to Pakistani side.
Mr Modi’s recent assertions in Bangladesh is also not without a purpose, all
these admissions , leaks and blatant assertions are made to induce Pakistani
decision making elite into a response generated through fear.
The set pattern is upping the ante on the escalation ladder and buying the
indian war rhetoric. The prudent response could be, isolating india by
highlighting these shenanigans on all the world forums and platforms. The most
important is to adopt the counter measures.
Now as the Indians are caught red handed in granary with pockets full of rye,
let us not be shy of asking the darogha, whose principles of lofty human values
are at the altar. The strategic partnership if fostered further will be deemed
as the connivance in crimes of the saffron brigade.
From a waiver for NSG (nuclear supply group) to the role as asia pacific pivot
or a member of BRICS,what india wants to demonstrate to the world. If you are
low on ethics you cannot have your place in the comity of nations, what to talk
of the ghost eating rye or the leering eyes of the wood cutter.